Below FL295 (or above and in RVSM) I would say c as 2 degrees per thousand feet is almost exactly International Standard Atmosphere. At the surface you would be looking at doing an altimeter correction to a DA due to the low temperatures, I wonder if they are implying something similar occurs in the separation scenario?

Well I have just got back from taking McFly to Tokyo and back to do the concert over there.

I always mentally picture what I expect the aircraft to do on a hold entry but then the FMC does it just fine! Airbus and Boeing types don’tactually fly technically correct holds (eg they don’t actually do rate 1 turns) but the resultant they achieve through the FMC is way better than I could achieve in raw data and frankly at the end of a 15 hour sector I’m quite grateful!

Non-standard holds can be entered into a Boeing or Airbus FMC in about 10 seconds (with practice) so it’s not too much of a worry.

Well if things go right (eg Al Qaida, etc don’t make any more big shows) I have been told that things could be looking good for an A346/A380 command inside 4 years! An interesting thought, however, is that staying at Thomas Cook now looks like command could take up to 10 years or maybe even redundancy if the planned sale doesn’t work out well!

That reminds me…

In my first outfit we had a Shorts 360. The guys that flew that always used to touch down one wheel first even when the wing was straight down the runway. When I asked why the response was that the flat underside of the fuselage created a pocket of air that made the thing float for ever so by adding a bit of bank they could spill the air pocket out the side and touch down where they wanted. That’s my useless contribution for today!

Brymon did operate both types together for a while. The 7 is a specialist short field performer with not enough airfields in the UK requiring its performance to warrant the cost of running 4 engines when the modern day competition perform so well on 2.