Eastern airways won't pay for cat 2
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Sorry another thing we (I) missed here, along the cost lines?
could they afford the engineer(s) to maintain. Avionics is the big earner at the mo. Any other J41 operators to share the cost.
BACX in any guise had a big bag of 'grubbies' all flavours to maintain all a/c.
Good luck Eastern, at least they are picking up the route of all travel within the UK. Keep it cheap and reward will follow, with that comes fleet upgrades. The J41 is a good beast.
Pax, the J41, as any a/c (as I am sure you know bud) once lapsed from AWOPS costs a fortune to restore. Therefore I agree with you, pure cost, validation a/c and crew.
The merits of the first AWOPS certificate for an Airline can be minimal and may negate the outlay.
Perhaps any CAA type pips will correct me here, and please do.
If (as Eastern) I certify my a/c and crew CATII, at great cost, what minima could I expect at, say BHX.
Or, put another way, at BHX what minima do Eastern operate to as CATI.
If I spend mega bucks and get 250m RVR with a DH of 1000ft to start, is it worth it.
It is the DH (pilots rip me to bits here)
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Sorry another thing we (I) missed here, along the cost lines?
could they afford the engineer(s) to maintain. Avionics is the big earner at the mo. Any other J41 operators to share the cost.
BACX in any guise had a big bag of 'grubbies' all flavours to maintain all a/c.
Good luck Eastern, at least they are picking up the route of all travel within the UK. Keep it cheap and reward will follow, with that comes fleet upgrades. The J41 is a good beast.
Pax, the J41, as any a/c (as I am sure you know bud) once lapsed from AWOPS costs a fortune to restore. Therefore I agree with you, pure cost, validation a/c and crew.
The merits of the first AWOPS certificate for an Airline can be minimal and may negate the outlay.
Perhaps any CAA type pips will correct me here, and please do.
If (as Eastern) I certify my a/c and crew CATII, at great cost, what minima could I expect at, say BHX.
Or, put another way, at BHX what minima do Eastern operate to as CATI.
If I spend mega bucks and get 250m RVR with a DH of 1000ft to start, is it worth it.
It is the DH (pilots rip me to bits here)
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I think you about right there.
Eastern would have to have sim prog, or live flying ex to qualify.
Please correct me here, (I do support the Eatern trend), but that would be very GBP rich? Then the odd practice CATII instead of 'Finals over the keys' to catch up time.
Even if the costs of maintaining 8 (?) CATII a/c are as low as GBP100000 per year, without crew costs, could Eastern justify them? It is a hell of a lot of diverts.
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Eastern would have to have sim prog, or live flying ex to qualify.
Please correct me here, (I do support the Eatern trend), but that would be very GBP rich? Then the odd practice CATII instead of 'Finals over the keys' to catch up time.
Even if the costs of maintaining 8 (?) CATII a/c are as low as GBP100000 per year, without crew costs, could Eastern justify them? It is a hell of a lot of diverts.
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