Originally Posted by
aeromech3
4 runner:-Try 1980's for ETOPS during which I was part of a team to introduce B767ER's on an Australian route that required ETOPS procedures/rules; some in the airline management at the time thought that as it was an ER it could just start the service, sorry, wrong again!
Aeromech3,
I don't know who you might be referring to, but it certainly wasn't Flight Operations or Engineering at QF.
Indeed, at the time, there were no hard and fast rules for EROPS/ETOPS/EDTO in Australia, ( and a lot of resistance elsewhere, particularly JAA/UK CAA, with FAA sitting on the fence, ALPA was hugely anti) and the negotiated answers all worked out rather well, not something that would happen with the present CASA AU. Indeed, CASA AU risk aversion is now so extreme, I doubt such a project would get off the ground in AU, unless it was already done somewhere else.
Tootle pip!!