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RE: Ultimate Authority Always With Captain?

Its not that we think that the world operates around <acronym title="Mexicana Airlines (Mexico)">MX</acronym> What you dont seem to realize is that the world doesn't operate around the Captain any more and I think that your having a hard time getting used to this. Anybody can be a pilot these days, ...

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RE: Ultimate Authority Always With Captain?

411A I would love to have you as a Captain and have this discussion with you about an AOG aircraft with a defect that is no-go. You maybe a Captain on the ground but until I or another qualified engineer signs the release that aircraft will not be going anywhere, Fullstop no if or buts! I have only ...

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RE: If You Were To Glue A Toolbox To A Hangar Floor.

Just fill his toolbox with expanding foam that is used for insulating walls, he will be chipping it out for weeks <img src="http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/graphics/smilies/biggrin.gif" width="15" height="15" border="0"/> We did this to a rather annoying apprentice <img src="...

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RE: Spike Check - RB211-535

Is this the check where you get a 50 ft flame out the back of the engine??
If it is we always put an apprentice on the headset to see there reaction

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RE: Leaving Flaps Down On Stand

The flaps are left extended (leading edge) mainly in the summer months at hot airports, so that the bleed air ducts in the leading edges dont get too hot and set off the bleed overheat msgs. you mainly see this on Airbuses

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RE: Polar Route (pre-clearance Checklist?)

The fuel freeze point has to be considered as at some airports in the USA they only have JET A (-40 C)
and not JET A1 (-47 C)
So the fuel freeze point is checked before flight to establish the freeze point of the day

You don't want the fuel freezing in the wings in flight

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RE: Richard Branson Lies!

Ok lets get some facts straight VA is 25% foreign owned and 75% owned by investors in the USA which makes it an American carrier. Would the DOT have let VA fly if this wasn't so..............No so no more bitching about it being foreign! Richard Branson is the Chairman of the Virgin Group of compani...

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RE: WSJ: Virgin America Expects DOT Rejection

Why is there all this fuss over Virgin America? Its an American airline, for American people, giving jobs to american people? So its owned 25% by foreign ownership, you only have to look at american companies that are owned and run by americans throughout the majority of the worlds countries, are co...

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RE: God Vs Science

If God created the earth in 6 days and on the 7th had a day of rest Why is it that all the God botherers and bible bashers then go and annoy him on his day off? Science can be explained Religion can't In this day and age Religion is the cause of pain and suffering throughout the world and will event...

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RE: Do You Believe In God?

Its a big No from me I believe people should live life how they want to live it and not be told how they should live it More wars through out the ages have been caused by religion, because one side thinks there better than the others. it will always go on until the people of this world learn to real...

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RE: Virgin America Aircraft

Wow i really can't believe that there are so many people on A Net that are so bitter about a start up airline. Virgin America is an American airline, the same as Virgin Blue is Australian and Virgin Atlantic is British, Virgin Nigeria is Nigerian. The common thing in all of these companies is Richar...

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RE: B747-400 Ground 2 Cockpit Chime...

If he actually took the time to look in chapter 34 he would find this info for himself bloody idiot

Also before you have a go about me calling him an idiot "we have to work with him"

[Edited 2006-04-04 06:10:09]

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RE: Virgin 46--Whatever Happened Last Night?

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RE: Virgin 46--Whatever Happened Last Night?

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RE: Virgin 46--Whatever Happened Last Night?

VS 46 went out Monday 13/2 night with the same crew and pax as sunday night 12/2 All pax and crew in good humour. The problem on sunday night was the VS46 taxied off stand with normal fuel and type 1 deicing, due to the great backlog of aircraft due to single runway operation, <acronym title="Virgin...

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RE: British Caledonian And The Bae 146

Yes a lot of BCAL employee's were taken on by <acronym title="British Airways">BA</acronym> but they were all shafted on there contracts, if you asked any ex BCAL employee about that time they shudder at the way they were treated But then <acronym title="British Airways">BA</acronym> just wanted to ...

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RE: Why Always The Old Buses To DEL

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RE: Why Always The Old Buses To DEL

Ok lets get one thing straight virgin does not discriminate against indian passengers as 1 or 2 people on here seem to think Virgins aircraft get allocated to certain routes due to capacity, at the moment Delhi etc are new routes so load factors can be low on some days, so you put the most economica...

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RE: Concorde Flying Again?

It does make me laugh when you think a few batteries, slide bottles or some hydraulic pipes not being filled with fluid would ever stop an aircraft being recommissioned!!!. Concorde is and always was a machine, that men built from drawings, parts were produced and built, those drawings still exist. ...

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RE: Concorde Flying Again?

GDB I have full respect for your Knowledge on the subject of Concorde as you have been involved with the aircraft for a long time now. But unless any part of concorde has been removed or damaged, then you can "never say never" that it will not fly again. I have been involved in aircraft maintenance ...

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RE: How Do You Cope With The Summer Heat?

I have to agree with G-KIRK in times of hot weather drinking more cold beer is the way to go as you soon forget its hot

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RE: Assembly Starts On World's Longest Range Aircraft

Its all well flying non-stop <acronym title="London - Heathrow (LHR / EGLL), United Kingdom">LHR</acronym>-<acronym title="Sydney - Kingsford Smith International (Mascot) (SYD / YSSY), Australia - New South Wales">SYD</acronym> or vice versa, yes the aircraft can fly it but has anyone considered the...

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RE: My Flight On Virgin Atlantic This Sunday.

At the moment G-VHOT is due to fly the VS19 on Sunday, but this is subject to aircraft swops etc

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Only In New York

Just walking home from work with my girlfriend through central park yesterday and we saw this big group of people and lots of police etc, so we thought we would have a quick look to see what was going on <img border=0 src="/discussions/graphics/giggles.gif" ALT="Laugh out loud"> Naked people i...

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RE: Last Virgin A/c In Old Colours.....

It might have taken 4 years for the fleet to be painted, but after 9/11 a lot of airlines were lucky to survive. So it was a cost saving measure to help the airline in a troubled period. Also for a period of time some of the 343's were due to leave the fleet so they weren't required to be painted. T...

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RE: Airlines You Wish Were Still Around

My pick of the airlines i would like to see around still are:- 1 Laker Airways 2 Dan Air 3 Air Europe 4 British Caledonian 5 Ansett But the airline i would like not to be around, would be British Airways as they caused the demise of 3 maybe even 4 of the 5 airlines on my list. The worlds favourite a...

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RE: JFK To Manhattan...for The Uninitiated

The Airtrain is a great way to go now and is only $7 i use that most of the time, even at 9pm you should be fine as the subway part is an express and doesn't stop much until you get to manhattan The Bus is about $19 and goes to the central station its a cheap way of going but can take some time Supe...

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Working In The US

I'm considering moving to the US from the UK sometime in the near future and i'm wondering if anybody on here has attemped this, successfully or unsuccessfully! How easy is it to get a work permit or green card/ I have been working for airlines all my working life so i would like to continue this. B...

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RE: Are You Proud To Be An European Citizen?

I'm British and proud of it

You can shove the E.U. where the sun don't shine!!!!!

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RE: New Slogan On G-VFOX For Biggin Hill

The great Concorde debate again!!!!!!! On a question which I asked in a previous post and was completely ignored by everyone is Why Have Air France or <acronym title="British Airways">BA</acronym> not tried to take on the Design Authority for the aircraft. Through my contacts with BAe in Filton most...

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RE: Virgin To Acquire Concorde...what Happened?

"If you lived in the UK, you'd realise how much people dislike Branson and his tacky band-wagon hopping tactics...believe me <acronym title="British Airways">BA</acronym> is doing us all a favour by not letting them have concorde, he'd turn a dignified and beautiful institution into a tacky circus a...

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RE: Virgin Flies Into Basra, Iraq

Carduelis You seem to have a habit of knocking anything that Virgin does or says. Why do you always do this? What Virgin has put together in the last few weeks can only be a good thing for the people of Iraq. The flight to Basra was not just a Virgin <acronym title="Philippine Airlines">PR</acronym>...

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RE: Airbags In Airliners?

Virgin already have lap belt airbags on the A340-600 they are fitted to the bulkhead seats. They open up just in front of the pax to stop them going into the bulkhead.

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RE: Virgin Was To Buy Two AF Concordes

LEASING? Who said anything about having to buy them anyway plenty of airlines don't own there own aircraft/train crews/have maintence facilities etc. You don't have to own an aircraft to operate it. As i remember <acronym title="Air France">AF</acronym> looked on the project of Virgin taking out a L...

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RE: Virgin Was To Buy Two AF Concordes

So what is wrong with Virgin leasing and flying concorde? Virgin over the years have been a revolution in air travel, if it was'nt for there innovative approach to the airline industry where would it be today? it certainly woke <acronym title="British Airways">BA</acronym> and others up and about ti...

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RE: UA Pilot Trust Fund

If United had been a UK or EU airline they would have gone bust now and wouldn't be flying!!!! Its about time that that Chapter 11 is taken away from the airlines. All an airline in the US has to do is mismanage itself for 10 years like United, abusing staff and pax then file for Chapter 11. While U...

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RE: VS15 LGW-MCO

VS15 went out yesterday as 747-400 and will go out today as a 747-400
Virgin only use Air Atlanta 747-200 based at LHR and MAN

Your software must have had a glitch!!!!!!!!!!!

VS15 is a Virgin flight no and not a codeshare flight no

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RE: SAA Stand-by Flight: What Chance Do I Have!?

If you hold a ticket with money on it you could get SAA to endorse it to be used on other Airlines and try standby with them as well.
Virgin and BA fly to joberg as well as SAA from LHR

Good Luck

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RE: Virgin V:port

2 aircraft have it fitted at the moment a 744 and the A340-600 Another 744 is being refitted at the moment. If your going to Las Vegas the chances of getting it are slim as the aircraft at LGW have a different system fitted. The LGW aircraft have the Thales system fitted, this system is not video on...

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RE: 747-200 Formerly Known As V-RUM

I would be glad to see G-VCAT and G-VRUM turned into bean cans as
in service they were nothing but trouble!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(got renamed cr*p and scum very quickly)

They are in mojave at the moment and will be returned to the lessor shortly

They gave us lots of wonderful times though!?!?!

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RE: Virgin LGW-SVO-MOS Service

PhilB Were you talking about the incident on 27 March 1977 at Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain "Did you know, for instance that the Teneriffe 747s accident was between a Pan Am and a TWA 747? That FACT appeared in an edition of Trivial Pursuit and has been replicated in Pub Quiz books and even two T...

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RE: Purpose Of DC-8 Air Scoops?

The purpose of the scoops on the nose of the DC8, are they are air inlet scoops for the air cycle machines, which are in the nose. These are the old versions of air conditioning packs hope this helps.

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RE: A340-642 To Visit Hong Kong And Narita.

Airbus are doing route proving flights for VS with the A346 that's why they will be goin to HKG and NRT the schedule also involves LAX as well. As stated above they will be doing these flights in April.
The final flight schedule for the VS flights haven't been confirmed yet.

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VS New Route Applications

VS Have applied for new routes to the following destinations from LHR :- Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide and Baltimore US. Maybe the time is right for VS to team up with there Oz cousins? or it could be part of the singerpore deal. What aircraft would they use the 744's or A340-600's Anybody have...

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RE: Virgin To Orlando

Man - Mco is going to be Air Atlanta using ex VS 747-200 with virgin crew and Mas IFE which has PTV's for each seat.

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