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Quoting marosbts (Thread starter): TF-MOM |
Quoting bgm (Reply 9): KEF-BOS and KEF-BWI |
Quoting marosbts (Thread starter): TF-MOM and TF-DAD |
Quoting KarelXWB (Reply 17): Quoting marosbts (Thread starter): TF-MOM and TF-DAD Gotta love those registrations. |
Quoting Natflyer (Reply 25): Did you pause to think about the average winds on this route before you wrote this? |
Quoting Natflyer (Reply 25): Quoting mjoelnir (Reply 22): Did you pause to think about the average winds on this route before you wrote this? |
Quoting gkirk (Reply 24): TF-DAD is at MAN in the usual livery |
Quoting mjoelnir (Reply 27): |
Quoting Natflyer (Reply 31): Quoting mjoelnir (Reply 27): TXL-EWR is 3458nm Great Circle distance. Not 4550. Call it 3550 airways distance, and with 85% winds another 350 or so to make an ESAD of about 3900nm. If the weather is above so and so, UA will not use an alternate, and land with pretty little fuel. I have ferried a 757 westbound a sector of 3750nm in about average -35 wind component and landed with min fuel after a 9:40 flight. In an empty airplane. If you are not either a pilot or a dispatcher and don't understand the above so be it. With winds like they have been on the North-Atlantic and eastern North-America this winter, they will run into issues going to BWI. KEF-BWI is 2400nm gc dist, add min 75 for airways distance, and the ESAD with 85% winds will be about 2800nm. Add EASA fuel requirements, holding, contingency and alternate, about an hours worth of fuel and suddenly it is not that easy with one ACT. Not even in summer. The first bad TATL winds I saw in late summer 2014 happened around August 20th. And don't believe any OEM's quoted range. [Edited 2015-03-06 14:30:32] |
Quoting KarelXWB (Reply 34): Quoting Kelvin933 (Reply 18): Makes me wonder about what registrations they will use when the 2016 additional planes arrive. TF-BOY TF-KID TF-GRL ? That would be funny |
Quoting vasu (Reply 32): So TF-MOM is just a one off livery? |
Quoting Birdwatching (Reply 39): Looks like the Icelandic flag is painted the wrong way around on this plane: |
Quoting GBerg (Reply 40): According to the Icelandic Prime minister´s office it is not wrong. |
Quoting yowza (Reply 41): Quoting GBerg (Reply 40): According to the Icelandic Prime minister´s office it is not wrong. I think Soren's point was that because that is the starboard side of the plane the flag should be flipped as is the convention. For example: |
Quoting winterlight (Reply 37): |