Originally posted by wysiwyg
I have never heard of this sort of sponsoring before. Was it difficult to get? Did you have the idea or did they?

Gaurav, can you give us a bit more info in response to these questions as it might help someone else on here get started.

Regards
wys

Wow, that’s pretty good getting 3/4 of the costs sponsored by non-aviation bodies (by the way what does BOA stand for?). I have never heard of this sort of sponsoring before. Was it difficult to get? Did you have the idea or did they? This is a pretty interesting concept for some of the other guys round here to look into.

Make sure you keep giving us updates on how you are doing.

Regards
wys

Welcome back Hand. Now what have you done with Mongu? We haven’t heard him for weeks either!

Re: September 11th. Litigation?

Originally posted by kev35
I see no way in which Boeing could be sued, the aircraft were not at fault.

In the late 80’s and early 90’s the US GA manufacturing scene was literally brought to it’s knees by a ruling known as ‘Product Liability’. Armed with this ruling many bereaved families sued manufacturers for having built the aircraft in which their relatives died. Almost all of these occurances weree the result of gross incompetence by the pilots themselves and yet the aircraft manufacturers were sued (and lost) because they had provided the tool for the incompetence to occur!!! At the same time gun manufacturers were being sued in similar circumstances for making the weapons that were subsequently being used in crimes.

The last few years have seen a small amount of common sense being applied to these rulings but if they still stood it would have pretty certainly been the end of Boeing.

This is a bit like WD’s flightdeck at night photo in that it’s really great to see aviation photos which aren’t the classic framed portrait type shot. I’ve been really enjoying the ‘up close and personal’ style of Ren’s (and others) photography so can we really expand on this alternative style of aviation photography and see a lot more please.

When I worked for Virgin there were many ex-RAF bods there who said exactly the same thing as SteveYoung.

Ye gods, I never expected to stand corrected on this one!

No. nothing to do with me! I have to admit I too thought it was rather funny that an airline spokesperson said that the pilots were on drop down oxygen! We don’t have drop down masks in the flightdeck. In fact I wonder if the airline spokesmans comments were just misrepresented by the media?

wrt the TCX 757, it’s amazing how the media don’t want to accept the difference between a precautionary landing and an emergency landing. Of course a precautionary landing (as Moondance correctly states at a maintenance base) doesn’t sell papers so perhaps they’d better jazz it up a bit! Funny how you never see the headline in the paper saying ‘shock horror, number 73 bus returns to depot with rattling exhaust!!!’