Gimme back the days of a performance manual, manual calculations and.cross checked and ticked and then stuck where everybody can see it!

(Written on 2015年11月20日)(Permalink)

Wow! Now that was impressive! Wonder what a paint job like that costs, including delivery/return flight costs? $150,000 at a guess? Anybody know?

(Written on 2015年02月13日)(Permalink)

That may be true but people pay for SAFETY and Qantas, having NEVER lost an aircraft or a passenger are NO 1 in the world will always be assured of passengers willing to pay a few more bucks to ensure they arrive safe and sound instead of in a twisted ball of burnt out metal and rubber!

(Written on 2014年10月24日)(Permalink)

Dear oh dear, you poor.misguided fool! Your lack of knowledge of the aviation industry is truly astounding! I assume you have been a laid off staff member and are now using your non existent knowledge of Qantas finances to have a bit of a grizzle! Trust me, Qantas will be here forever and come out of its present problems in the Ne t year or two?

(Written on 2014年10月24日)(Permalink)

Guys, forget OZAIR! Be surprised if he is even a pilot, maybe private at best, but his in depth knowledge of the COMMERCIAL aviation is ZERO! Just a typical WANNABE who likes to play with the professionals with his crazy, unsubstantiated and dumb posts! I have just under 25,000 hours ALL in Boeings and Airbus aircraft plus 5,000 as a simulator instructor, not big noting myself but guys like OZAIR are in every forum, just ignore him and he'll go away? I hope!

(Written on 2014年03月14日)(Permalink)

OZAIR, a Pilot you ain't! Like ummm, maybe there are MORE Boeings flying than other types and hence a higher % of crashes? In any case, SERIOUS accidents involving major loss of life is won hands down by AIRBUS, read the stats Mate, and stop posting rubbish! Suspect you are a typical "wannabe" pilot!

(Written on 2014年03月14日)(Permalink)

....... And in hundreds, possibly thousands of square miles of ocean, currents, winds etc. how long do you think the colour dye would last? 95% of aircraft crashes are ON LAND, not much good there! And where do you place it to ensure it goes off by itself after impact? That means that tens and tens of thousands of aircraft would have to be retrofitted with the "device" at huge expense and what size aircraft would have them? Big, bigger, biggest, middle sized, littler, little and what if a company's aircraft don't fly over water as many don't? Would they have to have them? Sorry, a logistical nightmare that would have no significant benefit whatsoever! The already ELT fitted to EVERY passenger carry aircraft is far superior than a blob of dye? Oh yeh, I've got 26,000 hours on heavy jets!

(Written on 2014年03月14日)(Permalink)

That's a video?

(Written on 2013年12月27日)(Permalink)

Well said, and the same in Australia with CASA, It is just a bloated police force with most of the Flight Examiners being either has-beens out of GA with minimal recent experience in the vast majority of light single and twins yet happily expound on the failings of usually experienced pilots under licence renewals with far better skills than the CASA examiner himself. Red tape is horrific and it is an absolute nightmare for GA operators to meet the ridiculously high expectations imposed on them by CASA. Before our infamous Dick Smith took over the reins with "affordable safety", the industry was gutted when Smith shut down many, many essential FSU's (flight service units) across the country and see and be seen was now the safety criteria. Smith himself had a reputation of being a cowboy with many transgressions of controlled airspace and other misdemeanours! CASA is now joke in Australia and those of us who were round in the good old days when safety and policing was a prio

(Written on 2013年10月04日)(Permalink)

Yes but the rumour mill is churning out the fact that the aircraft ran out of fuel, hence the surging noise witnesses on the ground heard before the forced landing. If such is the case, some of the gloss of a well executed landing may be somewhat tarnished!

(Written on 2013年09月06日)(Permalink)