Remove wingtip, inspection of a few key areas (metal structures tend to transfer loads to other areas) and back in service with one winglet missing very quickly. Dispatch in accordance with the MEL with a very minor performance penalty but no big deal really.

Great stuff Deano. Makes some great reading. You’ve got to admit it’s way more fun than CPL and IR training as now this is specific stuff you are actually going to use.

Below is a picture showing a set of manuals for the A320 on the left compared to the equivalent set of manuals for the B737.

Only just seen this thread. Great news, well done Dean. I know there’s a part of you that might be thinking I wish it was a jet but I really, really think that the 2 years I did on turboprops were the best bit of learning I did. Not only that, it is by a mile the best turboprop in existence. Anyone that has never flown a commercial aircraft with propellers has no idea of what icing really is. You’ll find bigger aircraft easy after the turboprops. A bit of time in this aircraft and you will be in a prime position to hop to the bigger carriers. Great stuff.

But Steve, you’re old enough and wise enough to know when you’re doing the equivalent of making pork jokes in a synagogue so I guess it’s kind of surprising to see you doing that here.

To all you guys who even think there is any kind of issue here:
Bloke A (heterosexual) goes to work in his factory, etc Monday to Friday and saves for ages to have a holiday away from the UK once or twice a year where he pays through the nose for the privelege.
Bloke B (also heterosexual) work IS the holiday (albeit with a fair amount of hard work to get to that position and to get to that destination) but now he is being paid to be there in the company of many other young, attractive people (if that is his/her thing).

The cabin crew scene is littered with straight guys who you’d think would never do this job who initially took loads of stick from their mates when they joined. The interesting thing is that it never takes long before the guys who get left at home realise that their mate actually got it right.

You know how if you leave your mobile phone near a speaker you will frequently get a signal hunting noise emitting from the speaker…well that comes through our headsets if a mobile phone is in use. I’ve never experienced navigational problems but it’s irritating having the headset noise when you’re trying to decipher Russian (etc) ATC.

AFAIK Air New Zealand’s primary route to/from the UK has been via LA for years.