Unfortunately I have no LCA’s or PFO’s on my May roster but that may well change as our rosters seem to be quite unstable at the moment. For example, I am supposed to be on my way to TFS right now but got called out yesterday to bring an aircraft back to LGW from Lasham. Because of operational reasons we ran late which meant that I couldn’t have my minimum rest period before the TFS so they have put me on standby instead. Now if they call me out today it will interfere with my minimum rest period before my LPA tomorrow. The knock on effects can be catastrophic to your home life!

That’s a very kind offer by the way and I hope to be able to take you up on it at some time.

regards
wys

PS – Good luck with the planned trip to Rhodes. I shall be next door in Kos on Tuesday (if my roster doesn’t get disturbed!).

Originally posted by Moondance
but anecdotally I would suggest that LBA probably has more weather diversions than most UK airports

I would say that phrase is correct if you stick the word ‘mainland’ between ‘UK’ and ‘airports’.

regards
wys

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No problem with any UK mainland airport, including LHR. The challenging UK airports are the Channel Islands and the islands up in Scotland. These are generally short, with lower capabilty approach aids and horrendous weather which are flown into by small regional aircraft.

In my opinion Boeing were 10 years too late with their developments of both the 757 and 767.

You would think so but most A300 operators are now including training on rudder misuse as part of twice yearly sim checks.

The 767 is automatically put on your license when you qualify for the 757 (and vice versa) but you need to do a couple of days ground school and a couple of sim details before then doing a few sectors of line training before getting out on the line with it.

Well my brother (the BA pilot) has just moved to Bergerac.