Change of undies required in Melb TWR today after John Travolta's missed approach?
Interestingly, in this pic he has the Qantas emblem on his hat.
For the current trip down under, he seems to have been stripped of the hat emblem.
Dr
PS: Does that represent an upgrade or downgrade in ****** (insert word which seems to be banned here - starts with "W" and rhymes with "anchor") status?
For the current trip down under, he seems to have been stripped of the hat emblem.
Dr
PS: Does that represent an upgrade or downgrade in ****** (insert word which seems to be banned here - starts with "W" and rhymes with "anchor") status?
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JT flew the first, and the FO flew the second I bet.
Four bars on SIC? Rates highly on the anchor scale..
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Well post it up here for us all to see, we are simple folk who like pretty pictures.
J
PS as for the hat and wings, was that not part of his "employment" for the tour he did for QF about 5 years back?
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PS as for the hat and wings, was that not part of his "employment" for the tour he did for QF about 5 years back?
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At 11:24 a smaller plane on final rwy16 is caught by the following plane and had to turn away. That webtracker is pretty cool.
Anyway, on Friday afternoon a qantas 767 (I think) on short final rwy 27 went around. Was in the backyard and heard the loudest jet noise since the airshow, never seen a jet climb that high with gear down. I'll attempt to find it, was about 6pm.
Anybody else hear/see it?
Anyway, on Friday afternoon a qantas 767 (I think) on short final rwy 27 went around. Was in the backyard and heard the loudest jet noise since the airshow, never seen a jet climb that high with gear down. I'll attempt to find it, was about 6pm.
Anybody else hear/see it?
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Is it just me or does anyone else find this Flying Ambassador thing a bit weird?
I really don't see what it achieves and wonder at the cost of paying him to do this as well as the cost of flying the old 707 around the world - I assume it comes from the USA or is it based in Australia?
The Australian Flag Carrier using an American - now that really is outsourcing!
I really don't see what it achieves and wonder at the cost of paying him to do this as well as the cost of flying the old 707 around the world - I assume it comes from the USA or is it based in Australia?
The Australian Flag Carrier using an American - now that really is outsourcing!
I wonder at the value of it all
. Good onya, JTPS Is that thing noise compliant these days
Must have good hush kits on it ...PPS
For the current trip down under, he seems to have been stripped of the hat emblem.
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Half scale......... lucky he keeps his 4 bars!
Actually discussing this off line here and I would like to know from some of the tech heads here if the departing 777 going through the LOC beam at the time the 707 was on the LOC close in could this affect the signal, and assume the AP was engaged the old 707 followed it?
this was raised by Capt Fathom on the previous page and nobody has said boo about it.
Of course you can exclude LOC bending due dragging an A340's arse through the antennae!
Actually discussing this off line here and I would like to know from some of the tech heads here if the departing 777 going through the LOC beam at the time the 707 was on the LOC close in could this affect the signal, and assume the AP was engaged the old 707 followed it?
this was raised by Capt Fathom on the previous page and nobody has said boo about it.
Of course you can exclude LOC bending due dragging an A340's arse through the antennae!
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Actually discussing this off line here and I would like to know from some of the tech heads here if the departing 777 going through the LOC beam at the time the 707 was on the LOC close in could this affect the signal, and assume the AP was engaged the old 707 followed it?
Actually discussing this off line here and I would like to know from some of the tech heads here if the departing 777 going through the LOC beam at the time the 707 was on the LOC close in could this affect the signal, and assume the AP was engaged the old 707 followed it?
Could be quite possible that he left the HSI in backcourse LLZ mode and reversed the LLZ indication then didn't realise and couldn't figure out what was going on. Won't be the first time
......Alternatively the dude just can't fly.