nJayMHelp!
Heres my story.
I have in the last few years had a masssive increase in people flying low level over my house in proplanes. Every half our hour it seems and they circle over my town and causing a constamt drone and just being generally irritating.
I got so frustrated i even contempated launching some huge fireworks to blast at them (not that I would as that would be a crime/ terrorism which i deplore but I damn well fell like it sometimes through sheer ANGER!)
Can i compain to the civil avaiatiion authorities about this this and would action be take? I dont’ mind miititary flights as the have operpose but flying over and over again for silly pleasure by these civilian floghts iare simply pointiless and a nuisance.
I counted circling 16 seemingly aimlessly flights today 🙁
MOVE HOME – we all love aircraft that’s why we are part of this forum (props, jets, noisy, very noisy and astoundingly noisy).
My sympathies but triple glazing is another possibility although the best will be to up and move.
No fireworks mind you as it may see you charged with an offence if proven.
Jay
nJayMThe main three are Kinloss and Lossiemouth in the North, up near Forres/Elgin, and Leuchars, near St Andrews. Kinloss is home to the Nimrod fleet, while Lossie is home to part of the Tornado GR-4 fleet, while Leuchars is home to the dwindling Tornado F-3 fleet.
Leuchars has generally held airshows most years, though in recent years there was a gap, due to the runway resurfacing efforts, but this year, it should be on. It is due to be held this year on Saturday 12th September. There should be a Typhoon demo on, along with the usual Red Arrows and Battle of Britain demos, plus sundry static displays (Tornado F3 & GR-4, and hopefully the F-4Fs of the Luftwaffe). It is worth a look, but it can be very windy, and has sometimes been pretty disappointing.
Leuchars last year (2008) was very wet but the crowds were there. Two years ago (2006 – no airshow in 2007 due to runway re-surfacing) was a fantastic day – great weather.
Here’s hoping for a good one on September 12th.
nJayM[QUOTE=SEMAE;1431550]Thank you for your kind comments. Some more pcs from me.
Thanks
Martin
Great pics as usual Martin, please keep up the excellent work.
Thanks
Jay
nJayMGetting back into the area of commercial aviation I did a quick google search on Ryanair accounts
http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/incomeStatement?stmtType=INC&perType=ANN&symbol=RYAAY.O
It’s interesting looking at their income statement both on an annual basis and an interim quarterly basis (click the appropriate tabs). What is clear that were it not for a very good quarter in 2008 their financial position would be a lot worse…
All these recent nonsensical ‘shenanigans’ from MO’L (toilets, luggage, standing/stools, etc )are simply publicity stunts.
Since the Republic of Ireland Financial Reporting systems/standards aren’t all the same as the UK’s it may be difficult to compare directly without seeing a full financial audit report, plus impartial comments from the IASB.
All I can say is that Deano in his post http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?p=1436112#post1436112 correctly says that, putting bums in seats at ‘peanuts’ prices or ‘free’ is not indicative of good “cash flow”.
An organisation’s “Cash Flow” is the only yardstick for stability and not purely quarterly or end of year profits.
Profits are there on paper on one day and by the next day could see the organisation in heavy debt/overdraft since in reality it is up to it’s eyeballs in payments due to it’s debtors.
Profit declarations can be and often are ‘gloss’ to attract non discerning investors.
nJayMagincourt
What exactly are you trying to get across here? I don’t get your message. That it’s good that Ryanair’s passenger numbers are up? Great, you think that’s great for Ryanair? Sorry but the Pikey himself knows all too well that filling every aircraft every flight is irrelevant if the passengers are paying peanuts for their tickets. Ryanair is still losing millions of pounds (ok Euros for the pedants) and will continue to do so.
Here, here – down to brass tacks.
All these recent nonsensical ‘shenanigans’ from MO’L are simply publicity stunts.
Someone in one of the recent threads showed a ‘peak’ at the recent RyanAir company accounts reported in the public domain. http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=92035&page=2. Since the Republic of Ireland Financial Reporting systems/standards aren’t all the same as the UK’s it may be difficult to compare directly without seeing a full financial audit report.
All I can say is that as you say very correctly Deano, putting bums in seats at ‘peanuts’ prices or ‘free’ is not indicative of good “cash flow”.
An organisation’s “Cash Flow” is the only yardstick for stability and not purely quarterly or end of year profits.
Profits are there on paper on one day and by the next day could see the organisation in heavy debt/overdraft since in reality it is up to it’s eyeballs in payments due to it’s debtors.
Profit declarations can be and often are ‘gloss’ to attract non discerning investors.
nJayMMaybe one of the moderators would consider merging this thread titled
“Emirates A345 tail strike Captain breaks his silence!!! “
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=92421
with
“Emirates A345 tail strike at Melbourne “
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/sho…+strike&page=3
In the Boeing and Airbus world of modern airliners I would have thought that load/weight distribution infomation could be automated with simple load sensors at strategic points.
Laptops manually keyed in with values of the load isn’t a very risk reducing measure.
Pilot fatigue or no fatigue it simply is a primitive manual system.
This is a definite case of automation which if necessary can be cross checked by pilots before take off with data provided by airline/airport ground crew cargo weight records.
nJayMI think I might have preferred standing to the small seat pitch on Easyjet. 😀
Being 6’4″, walking up and down the isle would have been more comfortable than sitting in their fetal position…
What about take off and landing. What would you advocate as emergency drill for standing passengers or as MO’L is advocating now “Stools” (similar to the leaning kind on the London Underground).
The man is taking leave of any sense he ever had.
Has he worked out the risks to standing pasengers and more-so to other passengers in seats if standing passengers were catapulted forward in an emergency. Human projectiles with the near velocity of the aircraft would be lethal.
Has anyone told him this is the EU and not China.
He had better find out if EU insurers will take on this risk, and will passengers flying in conventional seats have valid insurance cover if injured by a flying projectile of a standing passenger?
I think the whole thing is completely ‘balmy’ and should remain across the sea in Southern Ireland and not be allowed anywhere near the EU airports.
Also I think UK NHS hospitals have a valid case to say that although they will treat all injured passengers in an emergency but that the complete bill will be chargeable at private hospital rates to RyanAir or MO’L’s personal account ideally.
This is where the medical fraternity (Aviation Medical experts) should give him a complete bashing for all the nonsense including planned reducing of toilet facilities on board.
The man is a complete “head case”.
nJayMCorruption is a way of life in these parts.
If these “back door entry” pilots end up crewing flights in and out of western/developed airspace then we are all in danger.
Will it happen ? – Yes and is already happening.
The aircraft may meet safety requirements to enter EU and US airspace but are the pilots totally competetnt – who knows?
nJayMDumb question maybe…? But if ACARS messages can routinely be transmitted and received at maintenance headquarters, then shouldn’t the very data that now lies deep within the ocean in the flight data recorders also be transmitted live in a similar fashion ? Perhaps especially when aircraft are heading out over huge expanses of water ?
You have a winner here but not just when airliners are over large oceans but also in all areas where radar coverage does not overlap.
Actually no reason why at the cost of current data storage, data compression techniques and communications technology advances, all useful data from all aircraft in the sky shouldn’t be getting transmitted to central storage in real time and archived for an agreed period even after safe completion of flights.
By archiving this in flight data, manufacturers and operators can achieve huge advances in research and reduce development time scales and thereby costs of beneficial enhancements.
Alas it will cost money and in this economic recession it will inevitably get deffered – pity though.
nJayMMany of you Kev35, lucas, Ren Frew and others are echoing similar thoughts I reflected in my post of 30th June 2009, 23:47
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?p=1431464&posted=1#post1431464
It is a ‘stringbag’ operation with money making sharks behind it. They don’t care about the passengers, their comfort or their deaths or grieving relatives and will only be interested in recovering their insurance claim on the aircraft and writing it off their financial books at a low residual value (which was in fact reality as it was probably a flying death trap)
There is nothing the Western/Developed world can do but to ban these ‘dodgy’ operations from it’s airspaces and avoid knowingly flying on them.
Complaining to ‘sharks’ is a waste of breath as lives to them are expendable, just simply avoid using them.
nJayMIt wasn’t in EU airspace. One plane flew from Paris to Sana. Passengers from that flight transferred to another plane at Sana for the flight to the Comores.
I stand corrected – thanks
nJayMLeave the sensational press to Thomas Cook’s lawyers, yet give them their due – “crap headlines” but at least they included the most important aspect –
“A spokeswoman for Thomas Cook said the company followed strict procedures to ensure the man was qualified to work on the aircraft, a Boeing 757-200, during the incident on Saturday.”
A happy ending.
Similarities in “Is there a doctor on board ?” on board in flight announcement – where in a human/medical emergency usually the expectation is of the skill of a non acdemic (not PhD), medically/clinically qualified and registered medical practitioner to render an urgent service.
nJayMIt’s “Stools” now !!!
http://news.uk.msn.com/uk/article.aspx?cp-documentid=148386770
According to the above he is really in to “STOOLS” – the seating kind and as we already know the chargeable faecal kind (toilet mania).
Please see my post URL below as I think he is either being badly misquoted or is in steady decline due to badly degenerating neurones.
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?p=1431450&posted=1#post1431450
nJayMQuoting the report above “However, French and EU authorities confirmed that the plane, which had been flying since 1990, had been banned from European airspace because of a series of faults found in 2007”.
A tragedy that could have been avoided but cost cutting/extreme profiteering makes this stink, that some peoples lives are considered expendable.
What isn’t clear is if the aircraft was unsafe in 2007 what was it doing in EU airspace and had all the issues been corrected ?
From other aspects in the above news report it doesn’t appear to have been safe and if so was it cleared as safe to be in EU airspace while still being in reality in a bad state of maintenance?
This tragedy cannot be blamed on Airbus but solely on the operator and hopefully this tragedy should ensure they are banned from EU and American airspace until they clean up their operation.
The recession will sadly see a lot more of these cost cutting exercises resulting in near misses and tragedies.
The main manufacturers Boeing and Airbus cannot carry the ‘can’ for operator cost cutting.
nJayMRyanAir M’OL will be getting ideas from the Chinese, and in places like the Soviet Union of old lives were two a penny.
Anyone want to conceive of the correct way to adopt ‘brace’ position when standing in the event of an emergency.
In the interest of more economies I guess there will be no emergency drill anyway along with no life jackets and no seat belts so why should I be worrying about the ‘brace’ position.
To think people complain bitterly about some of the regular airlines but they are heaven compared to some of these ghastly operations described in the posts above.
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