wannabe pilot,

pure simplicity at its best! 😀

Mine is pretty obvious and straight-forward! – a bit too much really. I wish I had chose something a bit more imaginative but I was keen to start on the forum and it was one of the fisrt ideas as a username.

I chose Britannia 767 as G-BRIF (BY 767-200) from LGW-VCE was my first ever flight and I think it was quite special. From then on I was into aviation like mad!

I was really sad to see the tri-stars go

Speedbird 12T,

I think I can answer your questions from what I’ve heard. It’s a mixture to what a friends who works for NATS has told me and the tv.

1) The actual computor system that went down was the one that handles the data/info of the aircraft, eg: the reg, the a/c type etc.
It went down when it wouldn’t restart for some reason. The reason it had been switched off was because they were testing some new software on it that they are wanting to install later this year.

2) I think the a/c would still be able to fly, bearing in mind that the computor system that went down wasn’t a absolute Vital piece of equipment but it would have been quite dangerous to keep planes flying as normal with it not working. Understandably they didn’t want to take any chances of an accident so they closed the airspace for a while.

3) The aircraft already flying into the UK (many of them being transatlatic services) were intructed to land like normal but a bit slower to be safer with not everything working as well. All UK departures were cancalled at one point, again just to be careful.

I don’t know why you didn’t put “why I don’t trust the french Aviation officials” insted of just the “The French” – you may get some people’s backs up on here perhaps. hopefully not anyway!

I think the incident with the A320 crash was the fault of the aircraft not the pilot. A very large part of all Airbus aircraft desingns are done in the UK and other Countrys too, so it’s not just all the French as the a/c happen to be assembled there. Although the fly-by-wire is great in many ways, I don’t think it’s a good idea to have a computor always in charge of everything.

The concorde issue has always been contraversial. I feel I dont know enough to make a valid comment yet.

Hehe, Great work Peter!
Thanks BY and MAN, yes we have had our ups and downs, but im prepared to forgive and forget 🙂

I didn’t realise we had?? 😮

that’s just ugly!! (avove a/c!)

Well done LBARULES! congraulations on your 2000th post!

I also envy you for flying on the tristar

As you can see I still have a long way to go as I’m quite new round here…