2 jetways for the doors before the wing on the left side

Thanks.

So it’s just like when they board first/business and economy.

When in it’s charter config, it will take ages to get all those people settled in and belted up.

DME

Night rating cropped up in discussion last week. My instructor was saying I could do a night qualification at the same time as the JAR PPL, with times counting towards the PPL requirements. Can anyone confirm this?

Ken

I know the night rating is not factored into the PPL’s 45 hours, but you could probably tag it onto the end.

I don’t see any reason why you could not do it during your PPL though. As long as your picking the info up, you could possibly start doing the circuits at night as well as day.

I don’t know how far into your PPL you are, but I don’t imagine there would be any problems doing your dual night flying and circuits later in the course, after your VFR solo x/c (i.e. working towards your night rating) I don’t know if you’d be allowed to fly your solo night x/c if you’ve not got your PPL.

DME

Nice pics,

I flew on RJXA during the summer, nice little a/c, although it was dirtier than RJXF.

DME

For this the airports need new jetways and this would not be faster

Sorry, I must have got your message wrong.

You said two jetways for the front doors on the main deck, how do you mean?

Will they have a jetway at the Port front door and the Starboard front door?

:confused: :confused: :confused:

DME

i read it few months in the “flug revue”

Two jetways for the front doors on the main deck. Not more

So they will be loading pax into the top and bottom floors simultaneously? I guess that will work quicker.

DME

DME — Special VFR is something different, and has nothing to do with night flying. (I’m talking about UK regs here, it means something different in the USA.) Here, Special VFR is what you ask for if you want to transit class A control zones, which are IFR only. (Aside — places like Fairoaks that are inside a class A CTR generally have blanket permissions that allow transit of parts of the CTR to reach the airfield, such information will be part of the entries in the AIP and flight guides.)

The CAA regard all night flying as being done under IFR. I don’t want to think about how they make that work with a Special VFR clearance at night. But if the nice man at Heathrow gave me such a clearance at night I wouldn’t argue with him!

met24,

I sort of understand it as, VFR flight at night is not permitted in the UK and consequently all night flying is IFR.

However, during daylight, in some circumstances permission can be obtained to fly Special VFR in conditions where only IFR is permitted, such as class A airspace and therefore IFR only. However, the controllers have discretion to allow Special VFR flight within the zone and do so as a matter of course, weather conditions permitting. I’ve never had to do it though.

Night is another instance and all UK visual night flights are carried out under Special VFR. The practical consequences of this are:

1. Special VFR aircraft must comply with ATC directions at all times.

2. Controllers must provide separation.

3. Subject to ATC requirements, aircraft should cruise at quadrantal heights and above Minimum Safety Altitiude where IFR rules so require.

So if you wanted to transit Heathrow, would the controller not give you a Special VFR? Even though it should be IFR!

Who makes these rules 😮
DME