No higherplane im NOT a tosser, and thanks very much for that abuse.
I used to work in the industry for a brief time, have a pilots licence and do still have an interest in aviation.
Yes i do work at cloudbreak in a management position.
Now, for your interest a miners time at home is precious to him/her, and when they have to remain back at camp overnight because an aircraft goes tech, or gets delayed by hours, then it starts to take its toll, and questions start getting asked.
Not once in the year and a half working here have i been delayed by technical reasons when flying the Fokker, yet the poor bastards on that Airbus have been delayed or held overnight more than a few times. It would not surprise me one iota if it had already overtaken the Fokkers in tech issues.
I understand that aircraft go tech, and am in no way blaming the pilots for doing so, but im asking the question as to why this aircraft appears to go tech a heck of a lot more than the Fokkers do.
And yes Chadzat it is and old aircraft, 20 years with 22 operators, does that sound right?