Arthur

I think we are getting our wires crossed on what “non event” means to each other.
A lightning strike to aircrew, and to engineers etc is a big deal, I am talking about the reporting of such an event by the media.

“Terrifying Moment”
“Amazingly, it landed minutes later”.

etc etc etc.

This is nonsense, lightning strikes happen all the time, and probably every day to aircraft around the world, you will be familiar with the “Faraday Cage” that is the fuselage. This aircraft landed without incident and with barely a mark on her. Hardly worth reporting to be honest, but most certainly not in the vain the DM reported it.

Of course they would report it, they have to. Any potential damage or anything that could affect the airworthyness has to go into the tech log.
So you are saying the 3 times you were hit you had control problems with damaged controls? That’s fine, but that’s extremely unlucky to have had damaged controls on all 3 occasions. Blackened fuselage and blown static wicks also is not an event, you can’t dress up your lightning strikes with this because this would happen as a given, it’s just the by-product of such a strike.

We are actually talking here about the EK 380 that had a lightning strike on approach into LHR, as you can see it was reported that the Emirates 380 landed without a scratch and without harm to the 500 passengers on board. Is that an event? It absolutely is not an event. There was no damage to flight controls, no electrical problems, no systems failures. Infact the plane landed normally without a glitch, it’s a complete non event. On post flight inspection they might find a bit of blackened fuselage & a static wick blown off but so what? It’s a complete non event.

A complete and utter non event. Amazing how the Daily Mail says “Amazingly, the Emirates service from Dubai landed safely minutes later, with not even a scratch and its 500 passengers and crew unscathed.”

Our commercial team are some of the best people in the business, you can bet your life they would have already looked at all possibilities of routes to London etc from the IOM. You can bet your life they are already watching this “start up” airline.
It’s also a perfectly valid conversation to be talking about the viability (or lack of) of their plans to operate to Cambridge etc 😉

Look at the ‘news’ left hand side! 😉

That’s not destinations though, it’s hubs.

Could an E190 operate from IOM with a useful payload? I have my doubts, but will see what happens, when it happens.

Flybe operate, or have operated 195’s there 🙂

Not at all BumbleBee.

They are set to randomly check people even if they haven’t got anything on them, so it could be set to set off the alarm every 3 people. Your husband was just unlucky. I get a rub down from security every day, if only they were female hey? 😉

Do I detect a small degree of logbook-licence snobbery, Deano?

Don’t judge me VeeOne

180hrs is nothing, nadda. This is not logbook snobbery as you most kindly put it, but talking from experience. I still teach people to fly and I see allsorts of experience levels and skill levels come through the system to do revalidations etc and some of it isn’t pretty. When I had 180hrs I had just completed my CPL, I knew nothing. This isn’t License snobbery as you so kindly put it, this is reality. I am rational and level headed enough to know that 180hrs is nothing. You may have seen a book called “The Killing Zone”. I suggest you have a read of it.