Europe, however, has implemented 8.33 kHz spacing (which effectively triples the number of channels available) because 720 channels wasn't enough for them. While there was some grumbling here and there, the switch from 25 kHz to 8.33 kHz went relatively smoothly and wasn't that costly (at least for...
Jump to postI just thought of something. A friend of mine in Germany, who has his private license told me that night flying in Germany requires an instrument rating and VFR at night is not possible. So if night VFR is not possible in Germany I could see why a night visual is prohibited. Flying VFR is completel...
Jump to postI just thought of something. A friend of mine in Germany, who has his private license told me that night flying in Germany requires an instrument rating and VFR at night is not possible. So if night VFR is not possible in Germany I could see why a night visual is prohibited. Your friend is misinfor...
Jump to postI can’t comment on how it will go in the UK, but in the US there would be no possibility of getting his job back, and he could be facing prosecution, and jail time. This is not so clear cut, he did not operate and then test positive, he was a passenger. There are steps that could have been taken. U...
Jump to postMax Q wrote:Spinning back from the gate was not authorized, it only had to go wrong once..
Many of you need to calm down here, if you honestly believe a captain or anyone else for that matter “forced” them to sit in those seats. First off, they (the pax) should’ve been given a heads up about their seats and given and option or rebooked straight away. Secondly, I doubt the crew members “f...
Jump to postMany of you need to calm down here, if you honestly believe a captain or anyone else for that matter “forced” them to sit in those seats. First off, they (the pax) should’ve been given a heads up about their seats and given and option or rebooked straight away. Secondly, I doubt the crew members “f...
Jump to postRegarding whether the engine from which the fuel appears to be coming was running at the time I saw it, can we make a deduction? If this engine had been shut down already when I pictured it very roughly 5 minutes after takeoff, wouldn't that have created an automatic emergency? The flight continued...
Jump to postWhat??? Causing this diversion, delay, and expense and NO consequences? Over a meal? The dude needs to man up and grow a pair. Your sense of entitlement is EXACTLY WHY we have these problems. A permanent NO FLY list, massive fine, and jail time is 100% appropriate. I think the sense of entitlement ...
Jump to postHere’s the current advice on travel to South Africa: https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/south-africa/safety-and-security I have no doubts that South Africa is probably more dangerous than the US, but I also would suggest that the travel advice is a bit on the exceedingly cautious side. For ex...
Jump to postIt's seems incredible to me to pay several thousands for a seat and not expecting at least some good food. The bar is very low (for US airlines at least). (Not a reason to put his name on the no-flight list though) What??? Causing this diversion, delay, and expense and NO consequences? Over a meal?...
Jump to postSpiderguy252 wrote:Will SAA ever get their A350s back?
Tapes from LiveATC are up on YouTube. Local controller had a SCX with a flow time taxiing down 30L to make A3 exit, puts the DAL BCS3 in position but there's just not enough time. DAL starts rolling, controller sends AAL around with "go around, right side, runway 30L," and then seems conf...
Jump to postLH2481 from Heathrow to Munich for diverted to Vienna yesterday 9th May. Is the curfew in Munich quite strict? We flew from KIX a few days ago and the captain said we needed to wait on the ground for 20 mins or we will arrive before 0500 when we cannot land. The curfews are strict. However there is...
Jump to postThat was Mode C data Mode C data is just the altitude returned when interrogated by a Mode S antenna. Mode A is 4 digit code and Mode C is the altitude. They require interrogation to be sent out. Or are you talking about ADS-C? That's different, and isn't a broadcast either. No. Once an aircraft is...
Jump to postWhen every drop counts a full power take off followed by max climb power gets you to cruise altitude quickest where you start burning the least fuel When operating flights at the range limit this was my standard procedure in the 757 Another oft-overlooked strategy involves performing a reduced-thru...
Jump to postFR24 and FA are definitely not relying on data that is 5 minutes old, as they show accurate positions for ADS-B out equipped aircraft in most situations. They used to, a couple of years ago. Back in the days, when ADSB was not so popular, both in terms of plane equipment and receivers. Cheers, Adam...
Jump to postLufthansa has started cancelling and rescheduling many flights for summer. Mostly domestic and medium haul routes, up to 34.000 planned flights, which is around 10% of the summer capacity, are affected. Officially they call it "bottlenecks and staff shortages". Aero.de is reporting, that ...
Jump to postentdoc wrote:How are FL calculated at these airports?
At JFK one could climb out for 4000 since it is close to sea level
What happens at say DEN?
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Guys, I get it. I'm just saying that it's a little strange that they are always lower and significantly louder departing after 10 pm in an area that has one of the highest noise complaint rates in the country. I understand weights, derated takeoffs, climb profile efficiencies, fuel cost, etc. One o...
Jump to postHere you go... Back home a Jetstream 41 hit a big assed bird on final approach and shed a prop into the cabin...
http://avherald.com/h?article=4f2a35e6&opt=256
The FAA has been monitoring the MAX since recertification, and would not allow operation to continue in the presence of a safety of flight issue . yeahhh.... Yet they pigheadedly did allow operations until they were the last nation on earth to admit that they'd screwed pooch and grounded it. Oh wai...
Jump to posthttps://www.aerotime.aero/articles/31423-us-regulators-to-examine-boeing-737-max-production "According to the investigation, Boeing 737 MAX aircraft were involved in at least 22 cases of flight control system failures, including autopilot malfunction, and at least 42 cases of malfunctions of o...
Jump to postIt still doesn't make any sense to me (what exactly QR have done) / (what has happened to their planes to cause this) remove what you want. I have seen countless A350 (LH/SQ/ET/TG/CX) rather up close and personal and absolutely nothing looks like that. I cannot honestly believe this is all AIB's fa...
Jump to postIt still doesn't make any sense to me (what exactly QR have done) / (what has happened to their planes to cause this) remove what you want. I have seen countless A350 (LH/SQ/ET/TG/CX) rather up close and personal and absolutely nothing looks like that. I cannot honestly believe this is all AIB's fau...
Jump to postNo, the majority either speak afrikaans as 1st or 2nd language. Maybe several decades ago. Last census in 2011 (2022 census results should be available soon) puts it as 13.5% of the population as first language Afrikaans speakers. There are varying estimates on the numbers that speak it as a second...
Jump to postI'm still confused as to how these people are getting UK Visas. I would think all this is something the British Embassy staff would be checking out before they issue a visa. If the Embassy staff, with all the resources available to them, can't tell a fake South African how in the world is a low wag...
Jump to postBut this whole thing is circling all around the main issue that is being avoided: since when do the verbal capabilities of a person indicate the validity of their passport? There is a reason why passports are quite expensive and distributed though obscure government channels: it’s because they’re s...
Jump to postSince when is it the airlines' responsibility to verify passport validity? Isn't that what Customs & Immigration is for? No. The country Ryanair is verifying the passport for is the country of arrival, not departure so there are NO C&I in the country of departure [bilateral pre clearance ar...
Jump to postSure, but in this case there is no one language of the country, and Afrikaans is spoken by a (almost exclusively white) minority of the population. . That actually isnt true. The largest block of Afrikaans speaking people are the Coloureds. Way more of them speak Afrikaans than white South Africans...
Jump to postBut I don't think Ryanair has set this "test" if there hadn't been multiple issues previously. Yeah, there had to be an impetus for this to become a thing. Honestly, I don't think there is any issue that there is some form of test. But choosing to do it by having people answer questions i...
Jump to postWhen does British Airways continue to throw their (somewhat) valuable brand after this zombie airline?? Comair has been around a long time, since the early 90's if not earlier. I always remember their BA and later Kulula services as being very well run, the business was well run, certainly one of t...
Jump to postAirbus will most likely happily welcome QR back as a customer... provided AAB is gone and/or not allowed to speak publicly. Airbus cannot refuse to sell their planes to QR if QR is willing to pay the price: I believe this is simply illegal, and in any case it would against their duty to the shareho...
Jump to postA deal should be doable, something along the lines of “we’ll reinstate the A321 order, and you’ll cancel the 777XF order in place of an order for the same amount of A350F’s as a sign of, you know, your unwavering support of the aircraft." I think you underestimate how fed up Airbus are with QR...
Jump to postI agree with you there but I beliebe the source of this lack is in the top levels of BCA. It is the job of BCA to convince the CEO, so he can bring the proposed design to the board. In a first instance the CEO will decide which design he thinks is the most valuable and then its his job to get the b...
Jump to postI'm fascinated by some posters constant reference to the German police having machine guns- as if this is some traumatic provocation. Do airport security in TLV have guns- or is that perfectly OK because the affected pax are Jewish? The German police generally carry weapons - this is nothing specia...
Jump to postGuess they can skip the part of the checklist where they mention shutting down the engines...
Jump to postI guess playing time will be over soon. Qatar wants the best aircraft around, A350s & A321NEO's, Airbus wants to sell aircraft. Fire all lawyers, fix the aircraft at Airbus costs & move on. I disagree - if QR are responsible for some of the damage then they should be man enough to solve the...
Jump to postEvery article I've seen says that ATC "talked him down". Most ATC know very little about flying an aircraft, so unless they just happen to have an ATC person familiar with the Caravan, I suspect they got someone in there who knew how to operate it. In any case - a great job by all! Let's ...
Jump to postI, for one, think Boeing is doing just fine. Manufacturers are not immune from setbacks (see: Airbus pitot incidents (AF 447), fuel tank woes, etc.). The media also had a hand in sensationalizing the MCAS incidents, undermining the public's confidence and manufacturing fear. Boeing is certainly not...
Jump to postWayexTDI wrote:Photo has been uploaded in the database; identified as a Go-145L (CASA1145L), which I think is erroneous.
I did notice that MS had 8 parked at one point. Also been wondering why no follow up orders from Delta even though it is the perfect a319/717 replacement. You hear anything about Delta or Korean or airbaltic? DL has topped off it's original order of 75 with 15 more and converted a majority of the o...
Jump to postwjcandee wrote:Give it a rest, guys. There was a go-round. Probably fighting the automation. Likely pilot error. Plane landed safely. Who cares?
Exactly changing maintenance intervals and processes based on experience is a basic tenant of modern safety management. They may get relaxed or even tightened based on what is found. I would expect that the judge appointed to this hearing has a background in similar engineering or even better aeron...
Jump to postI’ll say again, have you ever been in SA and have you traveled on all our domestic airlines? If you have and you still believe this lot is on the same level as the others I can’t help you. Yes. I have been to SA LOL I lived there - I have the green book. I even worked at ORTIA. I flew on everything...
Jump to postYes. I have been to SA LOL I lived there - I have the green book. I even worked at ORTIA. I flew on everything from Phoenix, FliteStar, SunAir, 1time, Nationwide, Airlink to SAX. Including Kulula and Comair/BA. You *can* help me with stating facts, of incidents or accidents, that lead you to state ...
Jump to postOf course I realize all airlines have problems. But in this market none more so than Kulula and Comair. They have way more issues than anyone else. Comair’s aicraft can be really dodgy some times, I say that from personal experience when I still travelled with them. I have never come across aircraf...
Jump to postKulula and Comair are both super dodgy. I had a Comair frequent flyer card but stopped using them years ago. I found their flights were very often late and sometimes their aircraft were really poor. We are just lucky there was no accident over the years. The CAA let them fly a few days ago and then...
Jump to postDidn't Mango have a shutdown last year due to similar mx issues? Kulula and Comair are both super dodgy. I had a Comair frequent flyer card but stopped using them years ago. I found their flights were very often late and sometimes their aircraft were really poor. We are just lucky there was no acci...
Jump to postAnother point of interest is Gidon Novick. He is part of the consortium. that is supposed to be 'privatising SAA'. In addition, he runs a competitive recently started up the low-cost carrier, Lift. SAA has just started flights to Durban again. Perhaps it is a coincidence that the SACAA banned BA/Co...
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