RE: Wearing a wire

ye oldie worldie wireless aerial, as found in old crocks of sh1t and…yes, you’ve guessed it the 146 that everyone round here thinks is so great!!!

RE: Short-haul turboprops

Yes and the same company also license built the Aeronca Chief light aircraft which they called the Pushpak. Kabir should be impressed with us!

RE: Airport codes

The P as the third letter of a UK ICAO code means Scottish civilian while the Q means either Scottish or Northern Ireland military.

RE: Pic of the evening — Pilot’s nightmare

4 blade prop was on the 200 series. 6 blade on the 500.

RE: Airport codes

Pilots, controllers, ops personnel, etc use ICAO.
Travel agents, groundstaff, etc use IATA.

Flight plans are file using ICAO with airports using 4 letter codes and enroute navaids using 3 letter codes for VOR/DME/TACAN and 2 letter codes for NDB. Enroute waypoints not based on a ground beacon use 5 letter codes.

The 4 letter ICAO codes are broken down into 2 parts, the first 2 indicate the country and the second 2 the airfield. Main airports (in the UK) tend to have the last 2 letters the same to show their importance. e.g. EGKK-Gatwick, EGAA-Belfast International, EGSS-Stansted. Smaller airfields nearby generally use the same third letter and then their own final letter e.g. EGKR-Redhill, which is near Gatwick and EGSX-North Weald, which is near Stansted. (Please don’t anybody ask me why Newcastle isn’t EGNN, I don’t know!).

Because 4 letter ICAO codes aren’t always immediately identifiable a simpler system is used by IATA. Unfortunately this is still sometimes not as simple as it should be. E.g. is LAS Las Palmas or Las Vegas? (Question is for example purposes, I’m not looking for an answer).

Hope this helps
wys

RE: Pic of the evening — Pilot’s nightmare

That makes a lot of sense. Malta is a big stop off point on the migration routes.

RE: Short-haul turboprops

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 05-02-03 AT 02:04 PM (GMT)]Saab paid dearly for that lack of backward compatibility. They also, like Dornier, took a bite of the Fairchild poison apple.

The Dash 8-400 did have some problems at the start but most aircraft do at the beginning. The A320 was initally referred to as the ‘John Wayne Plane’ in the early days because it was attracted to mountains, felled trees and killed Indians! Unfortunately the Dash’s problems became very public because everyone expected it to integrate perfectly from the very start.

RE: sunrise over atlantic

misread an earlier post, I thought it was jeuneturc that said it was a 330.