Another day, another QF incident
now on many Bight routes we have all the EDTO palaver for circa 5 mins of EDTO.
Forrest is usually nominated as a suitable alternate so that ETOPs is not required. No one in their right mind would divert there but it ticks the boxes. Possibly FRT was not available on that day and the crew simply overlooked that the ETOPs entry was required.
Plus, even if the A330 could land at Forrest, EDTO rules stipulate that you can’t just park on the runway and close the airport.
They're certainly on a roll!
Qantas flight from Sydney to Coffs Harbour is forced to turn back (msn.com)
Qantas flight from Sydney to Coffs Harbour is forced to turn back (msn.com)
Those are my favourite kind of turn-back: the ones done “dramatically”.
Last edited by Lead Balloon; 29th Jan 2023 at 10:26.
Wouldn’t it be great if the Pilot Unions approached the media and offered an insight into why these turn backs occur (and have occurred for the entirety of commercial aviations existence) by appearing on the Tele/radio interviews and talked up the professionalism, skills and safety first approach that is regularly displayed by Australia’s Professional Pilots.
The need for continued respect and support for Pilots many of whom suffered significant financial strain over the past few years due to ‘Covid’ and overly and unnecessary aggressive cost cutting by the large airlines stagnating a Pilots wage yet they continue to strive to be the safest ensuring Aussie families are safe whilst on an Aussie airline.
The need for continued respect and support for Pilots many of whom suffered significant financial strain over the past few years due to ‘Covid’ and overly and unnecessary aggressive cost cutting by the large airlines stagnating a Pilots wage yet they continue to strive to be the safest ensuring Aussie families are safe whilst on an Aussie airline.
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You’d be taken out of context and selectively edited. Explaining nuanced things to the general public with the attention span of a gnat will never work.
those with long enough memories will remember when the media of the day chose one airline and reported everything like this and the other got none. It was QF for a while, then AN. then back to QF.
This spotlight will fade. Hopefully soon.
those with long enough memories will remember when the media of the day chose one airline and reported everything like this and the other got none. It was QF for a while, then AN. then back to QF.
This spotlight will fade. Hopefully soon.
You’d be taken out of context and selectively edited. Explaining nuanced things to the general public with the attention span of a gnat will never work.
those with long enough memories will remember when the media of the day chose one airline and reported everything like this and the other got none. It was QF for a while, then AN. then back to QF.
This spotlight will fade. Hopefully soon.
those with long enough memories will remember when the media of the day chose one airline and reported everything like this and the other got none. It was QF for a while, then AN. then back to QF.
This spotlight will fade. Hopefully soon.
It's not just the mindless reporting of insignificant BS though, would the media please buy some f--king dictionaries or at least Roget's Thesaurus - EVERY article or report starting with the boilerplate weasel words of "Was FORCED to turn back...." "It COMES AFTER..." and "The Pilot MANAGED to land the aircraft safely...."
It sounds moronic. I can handle the idiocy of the reporting but these catchphrases that are trotted out makes it seem as though the entire media establishment couldn't manage a brain between them or at the very least, a vocabulary.
It's not just aviation though. The media is equally moronic with other reporting - one politician never attacks another they 'slam' them, an upcoming stint of bad weather apparently has the entire population of the affected area "BRACING" for the weather. While we're on that subject, it used to be called 'weather', we never needed to add 'event' on the end of everything. Like I've said before, it's like the moronic use of the word 'space'. It isn't the aviation industry anymore, it's the 'aviation space'. If that is a valid use of the word, why don't they, when talking about NASA or Space-X say 'the space space'??
Don't know what is taught in English classes now but it isn't the English Language I remember. Order a coffee at Maccas and the response or direction to 'park to the left' is almost unrecognisable as English and is more of a continuous grumbling drawl.
It's no longer English. It's more focused on learning about human experiences, or figuring out what authors meant when they wrote a sentence in a particular page, or analysing a bunch of Shakespeare plays, or writing an essay about some random movie. The 'English' in English classes is virtually non-existent. They don't teach how to have correct grammar, punctuation, or how to sound more advanced when you are writing or speaking, all in an effort to avoid offending someone. It's one of the many things that make the education system a disgrace.
Last edited by VHOED191006; 30th Jan 2023 at 04:03.
It's no longer English. It's more focused on learning about human experiences, or figuring out what authors meant when they wrote a sentence in a particular page, or analysing a bunch of Shakespeare plays, or writing an essay about some random movie. The 'English' in English classes is virtually non-existent. They don't teach how to have correct grammar, punctuation, or how to sound more advanced when you are writing or speaking, all in an effort to avoid offending someone. It's one of the many things that make the education system a disgrace.
My daughter was doing a Year 10 assignment related to a book she had to read. She found the questions confusing and working out what the task was - her mother and I (although separated for 11 years) always placed a priority with the kids on reading and comprehension and spent time telling them about words and their meaning, both of the kids in tests when they were in primary school came back with reading ages 4-6 years beyond their age. At 14 my eldest was reading the Memoirs of Ulysses S Grant and had also read Colin McLaren's excellent book about the JFK Assassination 'the fatal shot' I think it is called.
Anyway, I read the bloody instructions 4 times and couldn't make any sense out of what they were asking, sounded like a lot of weasel words strung together with bad grammar and spelling to me - I consider myself reasonably well read and it helps I have a pretty good memory for things I'm interested in, such as reciting speeches made by famous people from beginning to end and this was just not logical. I'd almost go as far as saying the report questions were written by a moron who shouldn't be teaching anything. Earlier in High School when I'd help the kids with their homework, I'd sometimes, just for sh-ts and giggles, send the homework assignment instructions back with all the teacher's spelling errors corrected and grammar as well.
People will say "Oh, what does it matter if you know what they meant". Well, it DOES matter because in many industries and dare I say it in critical places like a war zone and even diplomacy, understanding and precision MATTERS. Anyone remember "Four Greens" being misheard as "All Greens"?? Minor example but I often think of that example "Last night I had my parents for dinner" to illustrate why grammar matters.
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an upcoming stint of bad weather apparently has the entire population of the affected area "BRACING" for the weather. While we're on that subject, it used to be called 'weather', we never needed to add 'event' on the end of everything.
(Part of the problem with the English syllabus seems to be that pretty much everything is now a text, and has to be deconstructed. The poor kids are so busy deconstructing Simpsons episodes and the backs of chip packets that they don’t get much of a chance to learn about spelling and punctuation.)
Apologies for continuing the thread drift; but I struggle to understand why, just after an ‘unprecedented weather event’, people are being, or have been ‘evacuated’. What is the fascination with having enemas after such an event?
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She found the questions confusing and working out what the task was - her mother and I (although separated for 11 years) always placed a priority with the kids on reading and comprehension and spent time telling them about words and their meaning, both of the kids in tests when they were in primary school came back with reading ages 4-6 years beyond their age.
At 14 my eldest was reading the Memoirs of Ulysses S Grant and had also read Colin McLaren's excellent book about the JFK Assassination 'the fatal shot' I think it is called.
Anyway, I read the bloody instructions 4 times and couldn't make any sense out of what they were asking, sounded like a lot of weasel words strung together with bad grammar and spelling to me - I consider myself reasonably well read and it helps I have a pretty good memory for things I'm interested in, such as reciting speeches made by famous people from beginning to end and this was just not logical.
At 14 my eldest was reading the Memoirs of Ulysses S Grant and had also read Colin McLaren's excellent book about the JFK Assassination 'the fatal shot' I think it is called.
Anyway, I read the bloody instructions 4 times and couldn't make any sense out of what they were asking, sounded like a lot of weasel words strung together with bad grammar and spelling to me - I consider myself reasonably well read and it helps I have a pretty good memory for things I'm interested in, such as reciting speeches made by famous people from beginning to end and this was just not logical.
I strongly agree with the point of your very last statement: grammar does matter.
When I read Aerial's post I noted a number of the points you mentioned. However I decided that as it was conversational English, as opposed to instructional English, it mattered little. In this case his or her point was well made and, compared to some other posts I've seen grace the pages of PPRuNe, their transgressions were minor.
I get your humour, it certainly raised a chuckle here, but the thrust of various posts relating to education and the confusion that can arise from poor sentence construction should not be lost.
That said I don't especially agree with VHOED191006's inference that comprehension is unimportant. As students we analyse Shakespeare's prose in order to learn the subtleties of the language, and how to interpret what people are saying. To my mind without this we'd be in a worse mess when it comes to deciphering the intent of written instruction, and we might as well give up on funny repartee such as that of twentyelevens, itsnotthatbloodyhard, and yours.
FP.