RE: Should Alan Shearer be called into the England squad?

Shearer should only be allowed back if he promises to stop running around after scoring with one arm in the air. It drives me nuts…

RE: Sirocco Aerospace orders TU 204s!!

Crossing over with another thread here but the 535E4 shows that this is the E model RB211.
Well done Tupolev, a few more and they will overtake Boeing!!!

RE: My thoughts on security

Actually Kabir I think it’s quite relevant that you raise the pilot suicide thing because we have now had 2 significant pilot suicides (that I can think of) in the last few years. Both of them (the other being the EgyptAir 767 near Long Island) involved the selfish individual taking the entire crew and passenger compliment with them. I wanted to post that this is something that is less likely to happen on a western airliner but then I remembered the situation of the Fedex(?) DC10 where the positioning Flight Engineer beat up all the flightdeck crew with a crow bar so he could take over the aircraft and fly it into the Fedex HQ.

RE: Blugh!!!!

No real difference in range as we aren’t doing full chat in the cruise. There is almost negligable difference in the fuel burn, in fact the E model is actually slightly more efficient. As far as I’m aware the thrust increase was a fortunate by-product of an attempt to improve the efficiency by modifying the way in which the engine burnt the fuel.
Although already overpowered with the C engine the E engine is favoured by the charters as we carry much higher payload and fuel than scheduled carriers like BA do with theirs.
From an operating point of view there is not much to have to think about between operating the different engine types as the 757 has an early type of FADEC (full authority digital engine control) called EEC (electronic engine control). This monitors the ambient conditions and calculates the maximum and minimum thrust each engine can produce within its limits and then makes the maximum occur at the fully forward position of the thrust levers and the minimum at the rearward position. This means that if you want full power you can firewall the thrust levers without worrying about exceeding limitations.

RE: Blugh!!!!

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 10-12-02 AT 10:13 AM (GMT)]No difference between freighter and passenger licensing. The only difference is that you don’t have to make PA’s to freight and you can throw it round a bit more! 🙂
Kev – your description was absolutely spot on. I apologise it might have made more sense if I had said cowling rather than nacelle.
Kabir – totally with you on that.

Compare A330Crazy’s picture with Mongu’s. The different tail pipe was the giveaway that this is an older RB211, although P&W engines have a nearly similar tail pipe design (but BA don’t have any P&W 757’s). The C engine produces 37,000 lbs of thrust compared to the E engines 40,000 when installed in a 757. I have flown them both (although we only have the E engine at JMC) and there is a big difference in how they perform.

RE: My thoughts on security

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 10-12-02 AT 09:59 AM (GMT)]Kab – do you mean the Silk Air crash? Silk Air 185 was a 10 year old 737 going from Jakarta to Singapore in 1997 when the Captain dived it into the sea from over 19000′.

RE: Blugh!!!!

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 09-12-02 AT 10:06 PM (GMT)]Yep, absolutely gross…but if it stopped me being part of a midair I’d wear it! Seems strange that the nacelles aren’t painted.

In fact looking closer at the picture the nacelle shape shows that it is an older 757 with C type RB211’s as opposed to the newer and more common E type.