Page 136 – Key Publishing

wysiwyg

Forum Replies Created

Viewing 15 posts - 2,026 through 2,040 (of 3,331 total)

← 1 2 3 … 135 136 137 … 221 222 223 →

Author

Posts
June 22, 2003 at 12:27 pm in reply to: Dumping Fuel #650253

wysiwyg
Participant

Couldn’t have put it better myself!

June 22, 2003 at 12:17 pm in reply to: Fao Saab2000 #650385

wysiwyg
Participant

I believe the reason for operating 2 Sheds is to avoid either becoming really tatty inside by constantly having to reconfigure them.

June 22, 2003 at 12:13 pm in reply to: need the loo on a long flight? #402957

wysiwyg
Participant

2 is my personal minimum although at the moment we operate with 5…and I do need at least one to be right outside the flightdeck door!

June 21, 2003 at 4:47 pm in reply to: Fao Saab2000 #650967

wysiwyg
Participant

Is OY-MUG doing the mail while the ex-Loganair one does the passenger work?

June 21, 2003 at 4:45 pm in reply to: stalling!! #402974

wysiwyg
Participant

…or the commercial version –

‘whatsit doing now?’

June 21, 2003 at 4:43 pm in reply to: need the loo on a long flight? #402975

wysiwyg
Participant

I have a personal rule these days – if it hasn’t got at least 2 toilets I won’t fly it. I think it’s an age thing!

June 21, 2003 at 3:52 pm in reply to: What is your favourite airline livery? #651119

wysiwyg
Participant

Likes – Sabena, Excalibur, previous bmi, new EAL, Jet2, easyJet, MYT (after a while to get used to it), Monarch, Excel, Aurigny (Saab scheme)

Dislikes – Air Scandic, Ryanair, Astraeus (Astras’r’us!?!), old EAL, DHL, Airtours, KLMuk, old Manx scheme (sorry Mongu!), Eastern Airways, Caledonian(!), Flying Colours(!), Britannia, Air 2000

June 21, 2003 at 3:39 pm in reply to: Sorry #651132

wysiwyg
Participant

Martin, that’s a mighty humble post to make. I did a night CFU last night and was discussing the thread with the skipper and trying to work out the right way to word my reply. The thing about living in the right seat of any commercial airliner that no one can ever teach you is how to learn to be ‘copilot chameleon’. No matter what CRM training aircrews are put through when it comes to the crunch the guy on the left will always be right or you can enjoy a miserable time for the rest of the day/night! It shouldn’t be the case but it is and probably always will be. You’ll end up changing the way you fly from one day to the next to accomodate a different guy seated to your left. The bonus is that one day you get to be the grumpy old whinger on the left and everyone else adjusts to you! While the other thread was going on I was worried that despite your magnificent enthusiasm to succeed (which I wholeheartedly support) you might not have had the tactical skill to be ‘copilot chameleon’ but perhaps with this thread you have proved me wrong.

We may have differing opinions of certain things but you make great input to the forum. Cheers.

June 21, 2003 at 3:30 pm in reply to: Great Flight – Flown By A FEMALE CAPTAIN!! #651136

wysiwyg
Participant

The taxi ‘limit’ in the uk is also just a recommendation not a ‘legal’ thing. God forbid if they start putting Gatso cameras on rapid exit turnoffs!

Matthew M – You mention about riding the brakes. There are 2 types of brake pads used on commercial aircraft, steel and carbon. The wear on a steel pad is proportional to its amount of use whereas the wear on a carbon pad is proportional to the number of applications. Therefore if the aircraft you were on had carbon brakes the flightcrew would have been dragging the brakes through the entire taxi so that there was only one application made and thus reduced brake wear. QED.

June 21, 2003 at 3:16 pm in reply to: Anybody got a good memory? #651145

wysiwyg
Participant

Originally posted by EGNM
a great feat of airmanship once he had been left in the powerless situation, the tyres fared a bit rough tho!

I agree that they did well to get it on the ground on a runway BUT you have got to ask how they got themselves into the situation in the first place. Possible inadequate attention to conducting proper fuel checks which would have shown a leak much earlier into a long transatlantic flight? Would love to know what remedial training/’please close the door behind you’ was offered to the crew!

June 21, 2003 at 3:11 pm in reply to: EL AL at JFK picture #651150

wysiwyg
Participant

Is it Cat 2 on the ERJ, WD, or can you do Cat 3?

June 21, 2003 at 3:09 pm in reply to: Fao Saab2000 #651153

wysiwyg
Participant

So is the OY registered Shed the permanent second aircraft or just temporary until the possible ex-BAC Express one comes?

June 21, 2003 at 3:05 pm in reply to: To EAL KING #651159

wysiwyg
Participant

Mongu – wysiwyg is the acronym for ‘what you see is what you get’ as I like to pride myself on the thought that I try to be fairly plain speaking. I used to go by this monicker on several forums but have recently been using pondlife on other forums instead as it better reflects my position as low down in the food chain!

June 21, 2003 at 2:57 pm in reply to: Aer Lingus Quit LGW/LCY #651162

wysiwyg
Participant

I was told recently that the glideslope at LCY is now down to 4.5 degrees. I have no figures to work with but my gut feeling is that with the current runway length (1200m?) I can’t see an A318 getting close to making it. Mind you, I didn’t think an ERJ135 would have been a candidate either but it looks like they are about to prove me wrong!

June 21, 2003 at 2:48 pm in reply to: What was your favorite flight? #651165

wysiwyg
Participant

Mongu – yes it is an Aztec. I flew one once but I seem to remember it was a 6 seater (including pilot) rather than 7. Can’t help you with the routing for your flight though as I have no local knowledge of the area.
Author

Posts

Viewing 15 posts - 2,026 through 2,040 (of 3,331 total)

← 1 2 3 … 135 136 137 … 221 222 223 →