CX382 ZRH-HKG intercepted over Hungary today
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Why did the airforce not make a phone call to CX Ops, arrange an ACARS message and solve the problem in 60-90 seconds? Too high tech to find a phone number or just not nearly as much fun as blasting around supersonic and making the headlines?
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Why did the airforce not make a phone call to CX Ops, arrange an ACARS message and solve the problem in 60-90 seconds?
Get your hand off it.
all HK based crew so midnight body clock or later...not surprising getting 90 hours jammed down their throats even in a 'leave days' month...
can't continue without more of this happening..
and IOC ?? really? anybody?
can't continue without more of this happening..
and IOC ?? really? anybody?
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"all HK based crew so midnight body clock or later..."
A lunchtime departure from ZRH puts them into Hungary 45 minutes later, so it's barely evening body clock time. No chance they were "controlled resting".
A lunchtime departure from ZRH puts them into Hungary 45 minutes later, so it's barely evening body clock time. No chance they were "controlled resting".
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I think BA was intercepted over Hungary a few months ago as well. The 121.5 volume can get set low by accident. I have started making sure to check it along with the radar(yes, I have found it off) as one of the first things when coming back from crew rest.
You're a legend in your own lunchtime jammed stab. I've taken to ensuring the frigging thing is turned right down whenever possible. Primarily so I don't have to listen to all that ping pong ball In the mouth ****e over China.
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Cheers. Literally !!
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Well, perhaps that was you then over Hungary. If there is a problem with excessive chatter on 121.5, I just turn it down so that it is hardly audible and won't interfere with ATC. But if it is really quiet on ATC such as a screwup by being on the wrong frequency, I can hear them calling me on 121.5. A Hungarian pilot I know told me that their fighter pilots get so little flight time that they are extremely keen to get a chance to fly in formation with any Cathay or BA guy that likes to turn 121.5 down to inaudible.
Sadly I haven't seen Hungarian airspace in a coons' age. So, no, it wasn't me over Hungary. That would be our illustrious senior fleet leading by example. Again. And again.
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In my opinion incidents like these are inevitable and will increase as CX continue to lower the experience level on the flight deck and also fly those lesser experienced crews to the legal limits of fatigue.
In most parts of the world that's part of PPL training, not sure how it's done in HK though....
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In most parts of the world that's part of PPL training, not sure how it's done in HK though....
We all make errors, even the multi thousand hours pilot. It's how we catch and correct those errors that count. That's where experience comes in.
