That is outrageous! An acceptance flight too. Next week that aeroplane will/could be full of pax. Are there 7 passengers that won’t be able to have access?

What a ridiculous question, of course there won’t be seven passengers with no access to emergency oxygen, no aircraft would be allowed to – legally – perform a revenue flight with seats not served by emergency oxygen masks, if some masks were not operative they would be inhibited and the seats taped off to stop them being used i would have thought. According to another forum the passengers were most likely hurt due to not being in their seats when the crew performed an emergency descent, possibly they were hurt/knocked unconscious and could not access the deployed oxygen masks in time, there is no mention anywhere of there being NO emergency oxygen available.

-Dazza

There used to be a well known car manufacturer in the U.K. named Reliant -they produced fibre glass three-wheelers called the ‘Robin’ and ‘Rialto’ – maybe Boeing should have sought advice from the former design staff of said manufacturer before embarking on the 787 program, after all they were experts at building plastic monstrosities!:diablo:

-Dazza;)

TOM383A diverted to EMA after bursting the port inner rear tyre on take-off from DSA, trundled around a holding pattern for an hour or so to burn off fuel before landing at EMA, firecrews waiting for the aircraft on arrival, gave the port main gear a good hosing as well as the surrounding taxi-way after the skipper mentioned a possible fuel leak, damage to the burst tyre was clearly visible during the landing roll out.

-Dazza

Does this mean what I take it to mean?

You see the Mode S trace of an aircraft on your computer, dash into the garden, see a tiny point of light at the end of a contrail and then tick it off in a book as ‘seen’?

Not quite that simple, personally i have to be able to positively indentify the particular airline/aircraft represented on the screen with my binoculars, for me a tiny unrecognisable dot at the end of a contrail does not represent a positive i.d.
If the aircraft is easily indentified then i mark it in my log book as an overflight. In my fleet listing book regs/serials gained using sbs1 are marked in green until i see the reg myself where upon it then gets marked in black like all the regs i’ve read off in the more usual manner.

-Dazza

One of the funniest Bernard Manning moments i ever saw was a repeat of an appearance on Parkinson(?), Esther Rantzen was appalled by his brand of humour and let him know, quick as a flash he came out with a risque joke, watching Parkinson(?) struggle manfully try not to erupt in to laughter was hilarious!!!

-Dazza