A380 Incident
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From: AUSTRALIA - CHINA STHN
A380
Of course only rumours but an engineer told me that as earlier posts indicate that there was some sort of overload on the electrical circuits - maybe due to to the shower system but unsure of that. Apparently the loads on the generation system are really high ( durrrr) and that may be what caused the problem.
All I know is that my wife who went over to the 380 as crew in June has yet to fly the aircraft - and from the likely delay ( I heard a month down time to sort out) she might not fly it for some time!!!..
The funny thing is that there are heaps of these things floating around singapore at the moment and we - the largest customer cant get another one to replace it!!
Also - does any one notice the irony of the 'good water - bad water' that is going on at the moment.
All this talk to save fuel by carrying less potable ( read 'bad' water) so that another jet in the fleet can carry more 'good' shower water - which seems to be the culprit behind the fault??
Bit like good weight (duty free ) versus bad weight ( such as life jackets) that carriers are moving off their jets to save gas...
FYI. Woodj
All I know is that my wife who went over to the 380 as crew in June has yet to fly the aircraft - and from the likely delay ( I heard a month down time to sort out) she might not fly it for some time!!!..
The funny thing is that there are heaps of these things floating around singapore at the moment and we - the largest customer cant get another one to replace it!!
Also - does any one notice the irony of the 'good water - bad water' that is going on at the moment.
All this talk to save fuel by carrying less potable ( read 'bad' water) so that another jet in the fleet can carry more 'good' shower water - which seems to be the culprit behind the fault??
Bit like good weight (duty free ) versus bad weight ( such as life jackets) that carriers are moving off their jets to save gas...
FYI. Woodj
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From: UK
Being on a day off, I hurried into the Office this morning along with the usual squadron of First Officer 5IC Senior Deputy Assistant Chief Manager's Attache's Secretary pilots, First Officer instructors and First Officer Inserters of Amendments as well as various other sundry FO boot-lickers, brown-nosers, arse-kissers and pursuers of grandeur, in the hopes, as is the fashion, of furthering my own position by performing such mundane tasks as may disdainfully be handed my way. Whilst re-loading a photocopier, I overheard a comment from a knowledgeable source who claims the current crisis with the leaking A380 Arse-Washing cubicles has been traced back to the same contractor (awarded through "Procurements" at the lowest possible price) who, armed with a tube of Silastic, was responsible for such acts and mis-deeds as:
- The plastering at "Envy" villas in Garhoud,
- The filtration of the Silicon Oasis swimming pool,
- The sound-proofing at "DK" villas, also in Garhoud,
- Road water-drainage city-wide,
- The rain-proofing of the Mall of the Emirates,
- The tech-training of the Oasis Shopping Centre welding team,
- The foundations of the Palm Island, and
- The lean in the Burj Dubai.
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More please, Mullah. Have you ever considered doing an update to the Caravan scroll (and of course, sharing it with us here)? The sheik's current cameleer boss would probably an Expurt Expat ex-donkey driver by the name of Teak Ass. (Think about it.) Along with many others, I await your additions/modifications to the now outdated original.
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From: Planet Earth
The problem is quite serious for what I hear, word on the street has it that it landed off a training flight when the two engines with trust rev would not cancel so the shut them down, started the APU on taxi in then at the gate shut the other two engine down, instead of the APU picking up the elect load it all went rather dark and quiet.
Engineers then found one of the boxes in the E&E bay happily burning away.
Unable to fly it stays here for repair.
Great start for the ugly bus:
Engineers then found one of the boxes in the E&E bay happily burning away.
Unable to fly it stays here for repair.
Great start for the ugly bus:
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From: uae
Thats about the size of it. Has Swissair written all over it. Some serious answers needed here. No ecam warnings in the cockpit at all. Apparantly the malfunction took them out along the way.
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From: The Palm
Having just one acft of the type and size is a big risk on its own: Being it EK, is even bigger news because of the publicity given to the different events and to the acft herself.
New aircraft go unserviceable more often than not. It happened with all the types I dealt with. Even moving them from one area to another on our own Globe sometimes causes a lot of problems caused mainly by weather factors.
It's really a massive airplane with loads to prove. Time will tell. They love it in the air and that's where they make money.
New aircraft go unserviceable more often than not. It happened with all the types I dealt with. Even moving them from one area to another on our own Globe sometimes causes a lot of problems caused mainly by weather factors.
It's really a massive airplane with loads to prove. Time will tell. They love it in the air and that's where they make money.
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... thinking that I was left to believe, that with all longhaul aircraft the deeper meaning was to move them from one aera to another on our own globe (reminds me of our own Indian High School) ...
... but with the A380 we all learn new things, like that weather might cause a lot of problems ...
... or that they make money with it in the air. Wasn't that what it was designed for? ...
Hallowed are the A380s, to enlighten us about aviation!
... but with the A380 we all learn new things, like that weather might cause a lot of problems ...
... or that they make money with it in the air. Wasn't that what it was designed for? ...
Hallowed are the A380s, to enlighten us about aviation!
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From: Europe
wizard, 
i heard the same about the scairbus...
It seems that we (and mainly Scairbus) were VERY VERY lucky last week that things did not get out of control completely!!! Most of us have the Swiss MD11 still in fresh memory.....
Several engineers confirm the whale is a nightmare with all the open maintenance issues but the damage they discovered in the E&E compartment was beyond belief...
i heard the same about the scairbus...
It seems that we (and mainly Scairbus) were VERY VERY lucky last week that things did not get out of control completely!!! Most of us have the Swiss MD11 still in fresh memory.....
Several engineers confirm the whale is a nightmare with all the open maintenance issues but the damage they discovered in the E&E compartment was beyond belief...
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From: Europe
They gotta be joking at TLS. Apparently they have already changed ALL 6 generators in the last month or so. Rubbish quality....
Imagine this happened at 30W.
I'm sure eventually AB will get their act together but if I'm not mistaken this thing had its first flight in april 2005.... Plenty of time to get things sorted out I would say...
I'm sure T.C. talked the purchase price of the whales further down this week....Good for the bonus next year.
Imagine this happened at 30W.
I'm sure eventually AB will get their act together but if I'm not mistaken this thing had its first flight in april 2005.... Plenty of time to get things sorted out I would say...
I'm sure T.C. talked the purchase price of the whales further down this week....Good for the bonus next year.