ETOPS 330
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ETOPS 330
Did CASA finally approve ETOPS 330 on the 787? Very interesting what the future of QF International will look like once international travel bounces back. Any ideas on what routes QF would be looking at as soon as international travel resumes?
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Will they need that for the Antarctic charters?
It's about 4 hours from Melbourne to the ice and they usually spend 4 hours over the ice and 4 hour's back.
Obviously using Hobart, or perhaps even Dunedin if they go well east, would be even closer too meaning 240 would probably suffice.
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Originally Posted by f1yhigh
Did CASA finally approve ETOPS 330 on the 787? Very interesting what the future of QF International will look like once international travel bounces back. Any ideas on what routes QF would be looking at as soon as international travel resumes?
Anything that turns a profit.
Originally the 330 ETOPS was required to take over Johannesburg and Santiago on the 787.
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Don't think you'll find any Polar Bears in Antarctica unless they are very lost, Ursus Maritimus is a northern hemisphere mammal The North Pole ar Bear.
My old geography teacher said there are no polar bears at the south pole otherwise they'd have eaten all the penguins. That's why they live mainly on seals.
My old geography teacher said there are no polar bears at the south pole otherwise they'd have eaten all the penguins. That's why they live mainly on seals.
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Originally Posted by C441
Doubt it.
It's about 4 hours from Melbourne to the ice and they usually spend 4 hours over the ice and 4 hour's back.
Obviously using Hobart, or perhaps even Dunedin if they go well east, would be even closer to meaning 240 would probably suffice.
It's about 4 hours from Melbourne to the ice and they usually spend 4 hours over the ice and 4 hour's back.
Obviously using Hobart, or perhaps even Dunedin if they go well east, would be even closer to meaning 240 would probably suffice.
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The issue with flying over Antarctica is communications. There is no satellite coverage below about 80S and HF has similar issues - since the land based antennas in NZ and SA all point north /east/west not south. McMurdo isn't set up to handle routine airline communications.
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Originally Posted by Ex747
The issue with flying over Antarctica is communications. There is no satellite coverage below about 80S and HF has similar issues - since the land based antennas in NZ and SA all point north /east/west not south. McMurdo isn't set up to handle routine airline communications.
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Originally Posted by Ex747
The issue with flying over Antarctica is communications. There is no satellite coverage below about 80S
Originally Posted by Ex747
HF has similar issues - since the land based antennas in NZ and SA all point north /east/west not south.
Originally Posted by Ex747
McMurdo isn't set up to handle routine airline communications.
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Except that Qantas a/c are not equipped with Iridium (as you say, would they care to spend the $$ ?). Inmarsat coverage does not extend below about 80S. McMurdo is not (as I understand it) a designated ATC facility. Could be done but would they bother for limited operations ?
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Originally Posted by Ex747
Could be done but would they bother for limited operations ?
