Handling The Big Jets
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From: Far and Height
Handling The Big Jets
HELLO... COULD SOMEONE HELP ME TO PURCHASE THAT D.P DAVIES REFERENCE BOOK " HANDLING THE BIG JETS" BY GIVING ME DOWNHERE SOME INTERNET ADRESS WHERE I CAN BUY IT ON LINE?
THANKS FOR YOUR HELP!
THANKS FOR YOUR HELP!
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From: UK
http://shop.pilotwarehouse.co.uk or just type Handling the Big Jets into Google and there will be your answer.
Now:
1- it's unpleasant to have to read capitals like that- why do it?
2- there is a Questions forum where you should have posted this. It is etiquette to learn how to use a forum before posting on it.
Now:
1- it's unpleasant to have to read capitals like that- why do it?
2- there is a Questions forum where you should have posted this. It is etiquette to learn how to use a forum before posting on it.
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From: All Over
Notso,
Surely you could have been more gentle with a brand new poster ?
I respect a lot of what you say, its a shame you let yourself down now and then with such strong views, especially with the new chaps on prune.
Surely you could have been more gentle with a brand new poster ?
I respect a lot of what you say, its a shame you let yourself down now and then with such strong views, especially with the new chaps on prune.
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Hi QCM
Got my copy from www.transair.co.uk excellent service and excellent book. They will send to France if that is where you are.
hi5
Got my copy from www.transair.co.uk excellent service and excellent book. They will send to France if that is where you are.
hi5
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From: UK
What was unpleasant or 'not nice'? I just pointed out in simple language so a furriner can understand that it is manners to get to know a forum before posting to prevent posting in the wrong place, and capitals ain't nice. I answered his query which took 0.24 seconds on Google. Sometimes people have a duty to educate themselves on how to use the internet, and if they are going to venture into forums, they should take the trouble to learn how to use them-it's only manners. That was my nice face!
FRENCH THING..
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From: wherever
For a first or second post I have no problems at all. My mother has just discovered the "interweb" as she calls it and I wouldn't expect her to know the etiquette of forum posting before she started but she will learn quickly like most other people.
QCM could be anyone so why not encourage and assist.
I remember BA being pretty big on CRM have things changed that much?
QCM could be anyone so why not encourage and assist.
I remember BA being pretty big on CRM have things changed that much?
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From: Far and Height
Hello all of you and Notso F. ...Thank's to all of you for book references...my purpose was not to put such a nice forum on fire, it's not worth the polemic! In fact some din't seem to appreciate my way of... HANDLING THE BIG LETTERS!
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From: Blighty - On secondment
So many threads on this forum turn into discussions on the correctness where and how a post was put up. If you take offence to the way something is posted, click on the x up on the right hand of the window.
Address the question or move on. Attacks on new comers and deviations of the topic lessen the usefulness of this great website. I hate to do this because I am in a way posting here and not addressing the original question.
Don't like the reference to 'furriner' very much either. I believe this forum was started by an Aussie so Not so might be considered a furriner round those parts. In short I find your contribution NOT SO FANTASTIC and I capitalise to say this because I feel like shouting.
Enjoy HTBJs..great book and welcome to the site!
Address the question or move on. Attacks on new comers and deviations of the topic lessen the usefulness of this great website. I hate to do this because I am in a way posting here and not addressing the original question.
Don't like the reference to 'furriner' very much either. I believe this forum was started by an Aussie so Not so might be considered a furriner round those parts. In short I find your contribution NOT SO FANTASTIC and I capitalise to say this because I feel like shouting.
Enjoy HTBJs..great book and welcome to the site!
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From: Scotland
Are you saying that NotSo has too much time on his hands because he's been stuck in a French jail for 20 years, reading HTBJ?
How do you know?
He should have finished it by now, so he could take it round to QCM himself when he gets out...
What was he in for??
How do you know?
He should have finished it by now, so he could take it round to QCM himself when he gets out...
What was he in for??
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From: HON121º/14 NM
Aside from the petty squabbling, does anyone who handles big jets, especially someone who has recently converted to one, have an opinion about how relevant HTBJ is in the first decade of the 21st century. I ask the question bearing in mind that it was written at about the time the 747 was coming into service, but in it's -200, analogue cockpit guise, rather than the FBW, EFIS/EICAM/FADEC Airbus and newer Boeing products of today. I am a 3000 hour turbo-prop guy who wants to move on: I think I can pick the useful matterial out of HTBJ, but would appreciate anyone elses views. And jet job offers.
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Goodness me don't we have some prima donnas on this board? What a waste of data throwing tantrums against someone gently showing a complete newbie how to correctly post, in the right place, without needing to use capitals, and moreover, how to answer his own question! Dare I say I have been rather busy flying to Australia and now, I have a small window to catch up on pprune from a sunny (and cold) Ozland? What's this crud about French jails? They're worse than a bunch of gossiping 20 year old stewardesses! When I see 'censored' on someone's post here, it makes me think perhaps Clogmeister had better clue himself up on the latest firm rules of Pprune, and precisely what is your qualification Clogmeister) to pontificate so? (Decency please!)
So, to stop wasting bandwidth and get back to the subject:
no job offers, but after 17 years flying 747s of 3 models, I can say that the book is enthralling. I believe it is almost completely relevant to modern day aircraft- instrumentation doesn't change what the book is about. It is written so a well educated layman or a flyer of smaller aeroplanes can follow and appreciate the differences. I think you will enjoy his inspired writing and see why people are still talking about the book after over 30 years.
So, to stop wasting bandwidth and get back to the subject:
no job offers, but after 17 years flying 747s of 3 models, I can say that the book is enthralling. I believe it is almost completely relevant to modern day aircraft- instrumentation doesn't change what the book is about. It is written so a well educated layman or a flyer of smaller aeroplanes can follow and appreciate the differences. I think you will enjoy his inspired writing and see why people are still talking about the book after over 30 years.
