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June 26, 2004 at 4:06 am in reply to: What things in aviation….. #661126

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[QUOTE=Whiskey Delta]
6. Everyone assuming that every pilot is making $200,000 a year and work 10 days a month.
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OH, I thought we all are. Only kidding. 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀

June 26, 2004 at 3:58 am in reply to: Emirates blames pilot for A340 JNB accident #661130

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The B777 has the same auto checklist.

June 24, 2004 at 1:57 pm in reply to: Best And Worst Airport Facilities i.e terminal etc #663035

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Best, Hong Kong.

June 24, 2004 at 3:49 am in reply to: Airplane Lands At Wrong Airport #663773

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In my company, all visual approaches should be backed up with an ILS etc as a form of identification. With the correct arrival and approach plates in front of them and the correct NAV aids tuned I find it a little lax that this happened. But hey, we are all human and mistakes do happen.

What about the security at the air force bases?? A plane makes an approach and landing without permission. Some heads will roll.
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June 20, 2004 at 6:48 am in reply to: A question for the flyers: Worst airport you've operated to.? #669904

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I though Jersey was quite nice for a small airport.

June 20, 2004 at 6:47 am in reply to: Best And Worst Airport Facilities i.e terminal etc #669906

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LAX, it’s a zoo. So over crowded and the security and bag screening is a nightmare. You have to queue up to get your bags x-rayed then wait to identify them before queuing up to check in.

June 20, 2004 at 6:44 am in reply to: Emirates blames pilot for A340 JNB accident #670113

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Wysiwyg,

Just repeating what I’ve been told by alot of my friends who are flying the 320..They say it doesn’t take long to figure it out, but personally I don’t understand what the advantage of designing the flight controls to do that are…why not just design them to act like normal flight controls? too many engineers in the mix, and not enough pilot input. I see it alot with avionics and “switchology” I sometimes wonder why things are designed in such a way…its obvious a pilot was not consulted…Keep it simple!
Good luck on your training.
TTP

TTP,
I have to agree with you. In my company we operate A340/330 and B744 and B777. I talk a lot with the guys who have flown both Airbus and Boeing and just about all of them say the like both types but the airbus is too much like flying a computer where as they can feel part of the Boeings. To many people think that the Airbus is more technically advanced than Boeings….I feel people don’t know too much about the B777 then. It has all the gizmos of Airbus but it’s still a pilot’s aircraft and boy does it perform.

June 20, 2004 at 12:56 am in reply to: A question for the flyers: Worst airport you've operated to.? #670176

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LAX….not fun.

June 16, 2004 at 4:14 am in reply to: Emirates blames pilot for A340 JNB accident #678692

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Well if he was supposed to rely on outside visual clues….what do they do if it’s a low visibility departure????????????Make no sense to me at all.

June 15, 2004 at 1:21 pm in reply to: Commercial Avitation Forum Concerns #680587

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Well the forum has become a lot better than a couple of months ago….but as you say, some pointless threads still around. I don’t see the need for polls such as “what is your busiest terminal at you local airport” and the signatures which tell us which flights you have been on, a complete waste of bandwidth.

But we are going in the right direction.

June 15, 2004 at 10:47 am in reply to: Shocker:Airbus calls B7e7 'Unsafe' #681009

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Hmm

Airbus: A spoiled child having a tantrum because things aren’t going the way it wants them to go.

The thing about the weight is utter crap. Boeing have a long long history of exceeding their targets. They were doing so 30 years before Airbus was established, they continue doing so and will go on doing so.

Airbus are the opposite, they have a history of barely meeting and sometimes failing the targets they set out in regards to weights and performance. Airbus know this, they know that the A380 is already overweight and are probably worried.

Yes, definately a strop by airbus. Expect a counter claim by Boeing soon

spot on B55.

June 15, 2004 at 4:22 am in reply to: Qantas 737 skipper charged over reckless takeoff #681185

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But surely the tower controller would have know the plane was there, calling for clearance taxi etc, any morse code clickity messages or whatever would not be neccessary?

Quite simple…the tower might have been closed. This is the reason we have pilot activated lights.

In the USA you can fly where you want and at what ever time you want…It’s excellent. No worries about trying to get back before the airfield closes.

June 14, 2004 at 2:09 pm in reply to: F-BVFA photos and a few others fresh from the USA #682224

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yep, great shots.

June 14, 2004 at 12:20 pm in reply to: Qantas 737 skipper charged over reckless takeoff #682432

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Thats new, since when have pilots been able to switch on runway lights?

In many parts of the world like USA and Aus the pilot can activate the runway lights by clicking the R/T button a certain number of times. You also can control the light intensity.

When I used to fly in the USA we would fly over a known airfield, dial up the tower freq and click away….and suddenly the whole airfield was light up. It was quite a cool sight. 😀

June 10, 2004 at 4:15 am in reply to: Something old, something new and a quiz. #691734

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great again WD, nice seeing the E 170 .
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