Dear RedTBar,
Why do I need to explain the "cargo price fixing rort"? Anyone with more than a passing interest in things airlines would know that QANTAS -
along with a number of other carriers - was prosecuted for that. It was widely reported in the media, and indeed acknowledged by the company in the Annual Report.
Do you think that they are going to do it again? Hardly. So perhaps they have learnt their lesson. And I bet they didn't need to read "The Men who killed QANTAS' to adjust their behaviour.
I am rather certain that my head remains clear of the sand. QANTAS will still be here after OhSpareMe and RedTBar are long gone. QANTAS will still be doing a good job - not a perfect job - but a good one.
BTW are you Tech Crew?
As for:
This is a perfect example of the pot calling the kettle black.
I think you need a better idiom. I don't think I am hypocritical when I say that the release of the book was strategically timed, just that it was opportunistic. With 35000 employees it was probably guaranteed a few thousand in the Christmas stockings.
On the number of book sales (provided by Teresa Green) I rest my case.
For Christmas I got three copies, yes three, my relatives so kindly thinking of my interests
For TeresaGreen - I acknowledge your opinion but when I was on the -400 I don't recall too many Captains complaining about using Flap 25. In fact I think I heard of - yes heard of - one complaining directly to the Chief Pilot. Up until QF1 (and for sometime after) the Flap 25/Idle Reverse was used, in my opinion, in the majority of landings including during cyclic renewals. It remains a valid landing technique to be used in the appropriate circumstances. The greatest criticism of that procedure was in that it was not properly risk analysed before being implemented.
I don't wish to drag this thread back to over analysing QF1 as over the years that has been done to death. But I wish to say that the major cause of that accident was not due to the crew intention of using the Flap25/Idle Reverse landing technique. That is, of course, my own humble opinion, having digested the ATSB report and spoken with the acutal crew members involved.
Also I am not sure having a pilot consulting to the board would have made any difference in this case as the implementation and awareness of the Flap25/Idle Reverse technique never made it up the hierachy past Flight Ops. In any case when required (or if requested) the Board has specialist advice on flying aircraft from the Chief Pilot.