And much loved by ATC as well - "It's a 76, it will win!"

Farewell.

Showa Cho.

I was pretty happy with my last one. We were chockas so had 2 on the jump- a JQ 787 Captain and former head of AN 767 training as well as one of our long time gun F/Os. The F/O took a nice vid out the side window on approach.

The comment I make it at the end of the landing roll was due to the boys geeing me up all the way about 'planting' my last 767 landing. I was pretty chuffed when it greased on in 20 knots x-wind.

Enjoy.

Nice of the QLink crew to almost ruin the moment with the sticky mike :D

We were sitting in the garden in Paddington and 'er indoors said "that big plane is a bit low!", but my view was obstructed and I missed it.

I was rewarded 10 minutes later when QF767 came back round as part of it's harbour tour!

They are one of my favourite planes and I shall miss sitting up the back between Sydney and Melbourne - the A330 doesn't feel anything like as strong and powerful as a passenger ... when the weather is nasty I used to get a lot of comfort from boarding a 767.

Thanks to the Captains who have flown me in them!

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Lol. Spoken by someone who has never landed a 767 Captain Fathom? :ok: :}

She was a dog like that. Just when you thought you were in a middle of a string of great landings, she'd bite you on the backside with a series of ordinary landings for no reason at all. :mad: :O :confused: :ok:

Keg, you told us you were a 767 Capt!

I think I've missed something?

In response to my 'I hope he doesn't dump it on' you made the comment 'surely after 29 years...'. I was pointing out that only someone who hasn't flown a 767 would say that after 29 years you should be able to get a good landing. Even when you're having a 'good day' at the office, you can still dump the 767 on and that I hope Mike Galvin wasn't having one of 'those' days!

Anyway, by all reports he did pretty well. 10/10 but that was 'factored' due to the additional 'pressure' of 5 (yep 5) gopros running and the final landing. So deduct 0.5 for each go pro and 1 for the final landing and it's at best a 6.5/10 landing! :E :} :ok:

So what will the 767 crew now fly? The 787-900 when it comes?

Oh no, this thread will definitely now continue onto a 2nd page for all the wrong reasons! :rolleyes:

Some people are just so unkind. :suspect:

And the news service I watched said that the Dreamliner was replacing the 767.

As if...

Well if the landing shown on SBS tonight was the actual touchdown of the last pax flight, whoever was flying did a great job. :ok: It was spot on in the middle of the runway markers and appeared to be a greaser. :D The crew must of learnt something after all these years on them. :}

Of the last 70 Captains in June, about half are getting demoted to F/O due to no Sydney commands available. The other half are spread between the A380 as captains (the very senior captains), the A330 (mostly in Perth though a few others in sydney and Melbourne) and the 737 ADL base.

Similarly with the F/Os, most demoted to S/O A380 with a smattering off to the A330 and 737.

The 787-900 is supposedly still 2+ years away. 2017 is the current plan.

I think you will see the B787-900's go to Jetstar and the B787-800's returned to mainline Qantas starting sometime in 2017 , still a long time in the future.

Hey Jonno, let's screw with the final 767 flight, get the sticky mic out & plug it in, will ya. :rolleyes:

Hey cynphil!

The 787-8s were never ever with Mainline to be returned. Let's get the record straight! :=

Grammatically, you are correct Ken, however the original plan when the massive B787 order was placed was for the first 15 B787-8's to be fitted with a QF Domestic interior and go to Jetstar initially then when the B787-9's started arriving, they would go to Jetstar with the -8's transferring to QF Domestic on a hull for hull basis.

No one outside Joyce's inner sanctum has any idea what the current plan is. As far as I know the 50 Purchase Rights that remain from the initial order (apart from the 11 JQ B788's) are yet to get a position on the production line so I'm not expecting any more in service with any part of the group until 2018.

I guess this is where they're all going ..

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The final approach and landing.

Fourteen other images here: Rod Andrewartha Photography | QF767

There's two already in the airpark up in Alice.

As recently as the 767 farewell bash on 6 December AJ mentioned that we retain 'flexibility' on these and have the ability to get them with 18 months or so lead time. Certainly 2017 is still the 'planned' data that keeps getting thrown around.

Well done to one and all for the final journey and indeed for a faultless career. So what diverse places has the QF 767 been to? Did it ever operate QF1 for example? What's the furthest it's flown to?

Toronto was the furthest scheduled destination. It may have gone further on a Captains Choice tour.

Farewell B767
 

Having been Fleet manager of the B767 from 2005 to 2009 I can safely say the aircraft and the crew were fantastic - good luck to all and safe flying on whatever fleet you fly. :D

Fleet Manager, you sure?

Sydney / Colombo
Pope Paul IV

The 767 was my favourite civil aircraft. It was the best mix of automation and being able to fly manually.

Now that the B767 has been retired from Australian skies maybe CASA will finally go ahead and change the ATPL flight planning exam from the 72 to the 76 like the rumours suggested....

Gotta keep it irrelevant....

believe that a 767 is still ripping up the skies although you will have to send yourself as freight to get on it!

Or learn how to handle horses... :ok:

It did fly QFA767 sometimes, which will now be an A330 I guess.

Last QF 767 passenger revenue flights December 27, 2014
 

When were they pulled off SYD-MNL? And SYD-HNL?

From seat 47A the landing was indeed very good - little hard on the brakes in order to make the second high speed exit off 16R (B7). The water cannon salute at both ends made a fitting farewell.
A short summary:
* Gift bags and a t-shirt (though the t-shirt I got was a ladies size 12)
* Countless rounds of applause throughout the flight
* A QF engineer proposing to his girlfriend on the PA (she said "yes" of course)
* A 2,000ft orbit of the Sydney CBD on either side.* Water Cannons in Sydney - about 50 QF hangar crew on either side of the plane taxiing in - Kirrily gave permission for DEF pax to get out of their seats to watch the cannons.

Generally a much better vibe than I initially expected - a very well done farewell. I am looking forward to seeing what Qantas releases in terms of footage of the event.

Here is an album of a number of photos I took on the flight.

Cheers:ok:

Haven't done MNL since at least September 2008. I don't think we were going there when I checked out in command. We still had CGK at that time- I went there on the first leg of my final command check- and held onto it until perhaps early 2009 from memory? That date may be a bit fuzzy but it would be within 12 months or so! :ok:

We were doing HNLs until mid September 2014.

Had Manila till at least late 2010, and Jakarta, Narita and Auckland till at least early 2011.

Would be great to see a full route history of the aircraft! :ok:

Wow. I must have been really junior those first 2 years to not have even gotten close to a MNL! I did score a couple of PER-NRTs though!

^^^ Yep. Thanks DC, hope the new career is going well for you too! :)

OnceBitten, I'm not sure he was the Fleet Manager. Probably more apt to call him the Fleet Admin. Fleet Manager was a Captain. Just sayin. :E

Lump in the throat stuff to see these no longer in the fleet. Can remember them joining the organisation. And a special thanks to Wayne Kearns a few years ago for several invites to the flight deck to get an appreciation of the capability of the crews and the aircraft on both DEP and ARR. That was in the days when management were not at war with the staff and communication engendered respect for the role that each had to play in the 'firm'.

Recall a VERY lumpy arrival one particular night into AKL with the weather absolute crap. Showed just what an animal it could be to land (kangaroo on the tail was apt!) - a sentiment an old acquaintance on the AirNZ 767 fleet (BF) endorsed.

Boeing wanted the 767 to go way longer, next to 330 for efficiency and cost it's junk. Last western designed aircraft using a flight engineer, no wonder Aussies think it's still modern.

Anotherday soo wrong no flight engineer fitted until ansett asked for one