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Re: Will Airbus reduce sub-contracting work to British companies following BREXIT?

The easy answer is yes, but, and theres always a big but in this. It all depends on many different factors. As some have said before me the willingness to invest will be much lower and while they will keep the current manufacturing there future project will likely be sourced elsewhere. It's quite ea...

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Re: SAS considering A321LR or 737MAX for US-Europe

Some things to consider, and much the reason why SAS retains the current composition of their fleet. Historically OSL and ARN only had 737 maintenance and Pilot base which means that this will have to be changed if/when they weigh in new fleet additions. All of SAS Airbus fleet is maintained and ba...

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Re: SAS considering A321LR or 737MAX for US-Europe

Some things to consider, and much the reason why SAS retains the current composition of their fleet. Historically OSL and ARN only had 737 maintenance and Pilot base which means that this will have to be changed if/when they weigh in new fleet additions. All of SAS Airbus fleet is maintained and bas...

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RE: BA 777-236ER Reaches 745 MPH!

Funny that the shorter flight times and fast speeds become news. I'd be more interested in the opposite since that headwind would be quite bothersome on a westbound flight. Also interesting to see that the 31st Dec flight was 4:46 but got less press. Must be a slow news day. <table border="0" align=...

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RE: Mystery Aircraft At 500ft Below EY Flight Near BOM

Something doesn't add up. If the <acronym title="Etihad Airways (United Arab Emirates)">EY</acronym> plane had the TCAS go off that means that the other plane had a working transponder, and if that's the case it should also have shown up on the radar of the DGCA. If the picture in the article is a p...

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RE: Boeing: Street To Front Seat Training Program

This seems to be made primary for countries outside the US since there's talk of ATPL (FAA call it ATP). It's a lucrative market to provide training for the Asian and ME3 up and coming airlines.

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RE: MH Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 60

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Pihero" class="quote" target="_blank">Pihero</a> (<a href="#189" class="quote">Reply 189</a>):<br/><i>4/- What are the procedures for cockpit fi...

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RE: MH370 Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 49

I have to clarify, I didn't mention Diego Garcia as part of a conspiracy theory. I have learned that unless definitely proven otherwise all clues/theories need to be examined before unanimously ruled out. Maybe the hijacker, if there was such a person, directed the plane towards a country to seek as...

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RE: MH370 Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 49

I'm starting to miss rcairs 'sanity checks'.. So many questions and so few answers and keeping track of these threads is a full time job. I have two questions that I can't seem to find answers for. 1 What happened with the debris washed up in the maldives? Did it get identified? How would a track to...

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RE: MH370 Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 39

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/77west" class="quote" target="_blank">77west</a> (<a href="#76" class="quote">Reply 76</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> Maybe not 16h but...

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RE: MH370 Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 35

Isn't CoCo islands in the area that are being searched? Or at least in the general direction. The Airport there seemed quite desolate and no immediate military installations around. Could be able to go in and out. Diego Garcia would only happen if the US was well in on it, and in that case we're tal...

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RE: MH370 Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 30

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/uta999" class="quote" target="_blank">uta999</a> (<a href="#160" class="quote">Reply 160</a>):<br/><i> I asked this in a previous thread. How mu...

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RE: MH370 Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 30

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/EA+CO+AS" class="quote" target="_blank">EA CO AS</a> (<a href="#150" class="quote">Reply 150</a>):<br/><i> Quoting <acronym title="Honolulu - In...

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RE: MH370 Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 22

Is there anyone here that have knowledge regarding the ACARS and SATCOM functionality? Since <acronym title="Malaysia Airlines">MH</acronym> doesn't subscribe to the ACARS for airframe but for the engines how much of the system is 'live'? For the engine reports that were made were there location dat...

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RE: MH370 Malaysia Airlines B772 Missing Enroute KUL-PEK Part 20

Right, I have sifted through the last 10 or so threads. I baffled as to the copious amount of duplicate questions and lack of understanding of given answers. I have a question though that sort of is a theory. If the ACARS installed in <acronym title="Malaysia Airlines">MH</acronym> fleet is of the '...

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RE: Ryanair Flights To US For 10 Euro

In terms of <acronym title="Air Canada">AC</acronym> there's two ways to look at it IMHO. Either <acronym title="Molde - Aro (MOL / ENML), Norway">MOL</acronym> takes on less capital intensive used planes and pay the fuel premium (the fuel vector does get different on <acronym title="Lufthansa (Germ...

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RE: Swedish Newspaper Reveals "the Truth About QR"

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/ZOROS" class="quote" target="_blank">ZOROS</a> (<a href="#134" class="quote">Reply 134</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> That is not true....

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RE: Swedish Newspaper Reveals "the Truth About QR"

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/EBGflyer" class="quote" target="_blank">EBGflyer</a> (<a href="#116" class="quote">Reply 116</a>):<br/><i>This is basically what human trafficki...

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RE: Swedish Newspaper Reveals "the Truth About QR"

I lived in Dubai for 1,5 years. I don't regret it and I can honestly say I enjoyed my time there. There are however quite a few issues. Yes, Dubai/UAE has a law that says that workers are not allowed to work during the hottest hours of the day. I can assure you that this law is not enforced. I have ...

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RE: Heathrow Runway Debate, A New Web Site Launched.

There are already airports with immediate turn on G/A.. Usually at 4-500ft or so, given that a G/A generally happens early in or before the touch down phase you will quite easily be at 4-500ft before the end of the runway and are quite safe to turn away from the centerline. Operation wise I think it...

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RE: Ryanair Changes Customer Service

Flew marseille-malta last Monday and they dimmed the lights and had no annoying announcements before we were well in the cruise (flight took off 7.40). A lot of smiling faces among the crew and I even heard one say sorry to a passenger that had to change seats twice. I definitely welcome this new at...

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RE: Stockholm Bromma Airport Questions

I've seen A318 ACJ landing in <acronym title="Stockholm - Bromma (BMA / ESSB), Sweden">BMA</acronym>.. Given it's not a common occurrence there are quite a few bizjet operations with medium size planes like <acronym title="Riga Airlines (Latvia)">GV</acronym>, GLEX and the odd falcon.. There used to...

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RE: A350 Flight Tests Official Thread Part 4

Obviously the information might not be in the public domain but I was wondering if anyone knows when we might see the Racoon in Istres. I'm fairly close so I was considering going over there. It is a 1,5h drive so one need some heads up.. <img src="http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/...

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RE: FR Pilots Group Wants Safety Inquiry

And now they're gonna sue Channel 4.. <a href="http://www.thejournal.ie/dispatches-channel-4-ryanair-1034150-Aug2013/" target="_blank">http://www.thejournal.ie/dispatches-channel-4-ryanair-1034150-Aug2013/</a> I think this is looking more and more desperate from Ryanairs side. This cant be spun in a...

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RE: FR Pilots Group Wants Safety Inquiry

They only asked a third (actually 1000 of an approximate of 2400 pilots) for the research. That doesn't mean the other 1400 doesn't agree. Just that the wasn't asked. It's the same with all polls, you can't ask everyone so you ask a good portion that will be a comparitative representation of the tot...

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RE: Iranian Aircraft Orders, "If Sanctions End".

Why not ship some of those A330/A340 that <acronym title="Emirates (United Arab Emirates)">EK</acronym> wants to get rid of? I mean, they ship everything else from Dubai. Cars, Refrigerators, <acronym title="Air Canada">AC</acronym>-units, Computers and all other stuff the UN and US have had embargo...

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RE: UK Television Documentary: Ryanair & Fuel

Only one other company I know of use similar employment terms as <acronym title="Ryanair (Ireland)">FR</acronym> and that's <acronym title="Norwegian Air Shuttle AND Air Djibouti">DY</acronym>. I'm not talking about paying for a type. That's basically common practice. But not being employed directly...

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RE: UK Television Documentary: Ryanair & Fuel

I think the fuel history has been beaten to death at this time. <acronym title="Ryanair (Ireland)">FR</acronym> were not worse than others on that day. Avianca had a 340(?) land with less than required fuel on the same occasion. However, I do agree that there should be more talk about the manner in ...

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RE: ET 787 On Fire At Heathrow Part 4

If the <acronym title="China General Aviation">GP</acronym> was connected wouldn't that provide charging to batteries and thus current to the wires? IIRC there are 4 <acronym title="China General Aviation">GP</acronym> connections on the 787 two in the front and two in the vicinity of the wings (I m...

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RE: OZ 777 Crash At SFO Part 6

Posted this in previous thread: With my extremely limited jet time the things I've gathered are; * 737 engines take in the order of 20 seconds to spool up from idle to give <acronym title="President Airlines (Cambodia)">TO</acronym>/GA thrust (thus a 777 would be even slower I guess) * anything lowe...

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RE: OZ 777 Crash At SFO Part 5

With my extremely limited jet time the things I've gathered are; * 737 engines take in the order of 20 seconds to spool up from idle to give <acronym title="President Airlines (Cambodia)">TO</acronym>/GA thrust (thus a 777 would be even slower I guess) * anything lower than a stable 50% N1 below 500...

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RE: How Much Quieter Is 350 Compared To 787?

I was at PAS and saw both the A350 and the 787 and I can't really tell much difference between the two. They're both amazingly quiet. Being the first aircraft to make a pass I was astounded by the lack of noise of the A350 but the 787 was equally quiet on the low speed passes. I'm guessing this was ...

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RE: PAS: A350 XWB Flying Over Le Bourget - Live Stream

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/starbucks" class="quote" target="_blank">starbucks</a> (<a href="#21" class="quote">Reply 21</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> lol... I li...

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RE: A350 Prototypes Production Thread Part 12

Now that flight testing is well on the way and she's been to Paris for her first public outing whats next? How's <acronym title="Madison - Dane County Regional / Truax Field (MSN / KMSN), USA - Wisconsin">MSN</acronym> 3 progressing? And what's cooking on the static test frame? I would be very inter...

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RE: PAS: A350 XWB Flying Over Le Bourget - Live Stream

<center><table align="center" border="0" width="650" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><a href="/uf/view.file?id=104430&filename=phpRq3mTW.jpeg" target="_blank"><img src="http://cdn-www.airliners.net/uf/104430/middle/phpRq3mTW.jpeg" width="648" height="432" border="0"/></a></td></tr></tabl...

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RE: A350 First Flight Official Thread - Part 3

Definitely stalls now.. 117kt.. Maybe landing config..

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RE: A350 First Flight Official Thread - Part 3

Seems they're doing steep turns too.. FR24 have a hard time following.. the track indication is going nuts..

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RE: A350 First Flight Official Thread - Part 3

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/NAV20" class="quote" target="_blank">NAV20</a> (<a href="#63" class="quote">Reply 63</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> There is no hour re...

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RE: A350 First Flight Official Thread - Part 3

Seems like stalls is on the menu. 130kt and briefly a decent rate of 3840ft/min before accelerating back to 170kt and a 700ft/min climb..

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RE: A350 At PAS13: Flying Or Not?

Given the weather forecast in the Toulouse area for the week I believe a second flight before PAS will be difficult.

But, stranger things have happened.

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Paris Air Show 2013 Airbus - EADS Orders Part 1

Ordering 20 a380 with delivery during a timeframe between 2017 and 2021 is also an intelligent move to block delivery slots. It will undoubtedly fall in the timeframe when operators will be looking to replace their frames. If Doric has the slots booked if someone wants delivery during that timeframe...

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RE: A350 Prototypes Production Thread Part 11

Ok, considering joining you in Toulouse. But its a 5h drive so I need to know approximately when one would expect to fly. With the media and all would they try to do it in the morning or in the afternoon? Would there be any way to get access to anything or is it only viewing from the surrounding hil...

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RE: A350 Prototypes Production Thread Part 10

ER3 was the last one I saw.. Taxying around Blagnac (literally, if you look at Flightradar24)

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RE: Report The Bugs Here (Part 4)

Are you currently doing heavy maintenance on your forums? I'm not able to post nor do I get the complete topics. A350 Production thread reads 221 replies while I get only 197, with an additional 11 showing up if I hit "check for new replies". However, when I check back in on the same topic there's s...

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RE: A350 Prototypes Production Thread Part 10

With the current timeframe a direct link to Toulouse for the first flight during the show seems more likely than a flyby. But I'm still keeping my hopes up.

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RE: BA Retime BA902/903 And Extend Turnaround... 380?

I don't think the announced aircraft will change from the 763. However there may be a substitute for the training flights. But seats sold will not exceed those of th 763. I they would announce the A380 as the type and sell the seats on the A380 they could end up in a lot of trouble since you never k...

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RE: A350 Prototypes Production Thread Part 10

Thanks aviaponcho.. I speak french too and did manage to decode what you were actually hinting to..

//A-firm

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RE: Bizjet @ FL470!

From what I gather there are many good reasons to go above FL420. In most of the world its outside RVSM airspace and the commercial guys never get up there. If you get up to FL420+ you'd get "own navigation" by atc and fly the shortest route to your destination. Over the continental US and the atlan...

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RE: US Pilot Flight In UK Questions

If you go talk to the guys at Pilot Flight Training at Oxford Airport they know. I've flown with them on my FAA license. Basically you're allowed day VFR. However, atc is quite different from the US when it comes to VFR reporting and flight following is basically not used. Converting my FAA to EASA ...

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RE: A350 Prototypes Production Thread Part 10

it's been very quiet the last couple of days.. No news on APU run or engine run? Things need to come together if we're gonna see her in the skies over Paris. Not that I want them to rush but I would love to see her flexing her wings on Friday the 21st..

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