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Forum: Rumours & News
9th Aug 2011, 03:12
Replies: 102
Views: 58,860
Posted By altonacrude

Australians who want to be adventurous don't...

Australians who want to be adventurous don't become airline pilots. They become ambulance drivers:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4011/4289608148_a6e261bbb1_z.jpg?zz=1

This ambulance is...
Forum: Rumours & News
25th Mar 2010, 08:17
Replies: 66
Views: 27,924
Posted By altonacrude

Some of the comment in this thread carries the...

Some of the comment in this thread carries the implication of "I don't know what is wrong with pilots now: these things did not happen in my young days."

Well, they did.

James Reason, who was...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
2nd Feb 2010, 22:04
Replies: 46
Views: 13,138
Posted By altonacrude

This kind of problem didn't occur with DC3s. Has...

This kind of problem didn't occur with DC3s. Has aircraft design gone backwards?
Forum: Rumours & News
2nd Jun 2009, 02:41
Replies: 947
Views: 1,116,242
Posted By altonacrude

In-flight upset A330-303 VH-QPA, 7 October 2008

Thousands of feet? Absolutely not. From the Australian Transport Safety Bureau Interim Factual Report...
Forum: Rumours & News
14th Oct 2008, 23:05
Replies: 402
Views: 148,259
Posted By altonacrude

It's an eerie coincidence that the incident...

It's an eerie coincidence that the incident involving the MAS B777 and the QF A330 both occurred on the same route (although the aircraft were travelling in opposite directions to one another) and...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
17th Jul 2008, 10:05
Replies: 20
Views: 2,292
Posted By altonacrude

Might pilots be better off driving trains?

Sydney's Cityrail has 21-month training courses to train new recruits as train drivers and trainees are paid full (although modest) wages during that period. When they graduate they are assigned on a...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
17th Jul 2008, 09:15
Replies: 36
Views: 1,971
Posted By altonacrude

:rolleyes:

:rolleyes:
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
16th Jul 2008, 12:47
Replies: 36
Views: 1,971
Posted By altonacrude

Happy to explain, Chimbu and important for you to...

Happy to explain, Chimbu and important for you to remember, especially if your regular flights take you over the sea. The vast majority of humanity lives on land and has trouble living in water. Land...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
16th Jul 2008, 08:48
Replies: 36
Views: 1,971
Posted By altonacrude

From the UK Met Office Hadley Centre for Climate...

From the UK Met Office Hadley Centre for Climate Chang (http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadcrut3/diagnostics/comparison.html)e:

http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadcrut3/diagnostics/CRUTEM3_bar.png
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
16th Jul 2008, 03:26
Replies: 36
Views: 1,971
Posted By altonacrude

Has global warming turned to cooling?

Chimbu, if that's right you really ought to set the Australian Bureau of Meteorology straight.

A paper on the subject (http://www.aussmc.org.au/documents/waiting-for-global-cooling.pdf) that it...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
22nd May 2008, 22:48
Replies: 99
Views: 12,299
Posted By altonacrude

...and expensive... very very expensive. ...

...and expensive... very very expensive.

Nobody has yet ever decommissioned a nuclear power plant and permanently disposed of its radioactive components and waste. Until that occurs there is no...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
22nd May 2008, 10:57
Replies: 99
Views: 12,299
Posted By altonacrude

Inexhaustibility of aviation fuel

Aviation fuel will not run out in the lifetime of anyone currently considering flying as a career, although it may get rather more expensive.

Besides the tar sand reserves already mentioned by a...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
22nd May 2008, 10:23
Replies: 99
Views: 12,299
Posted By altonacrude

The most efficient form of transport?

If we are talking about consumption of fossil fuel, nothing beats riding a bicycle. However according to this report (http://www.atac.ca/en/files/Jacobs_Enviro_Oct_25.pdf), the A380 and B787 are...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
4th May 2008, 12:11
Replies: 35
Views: 5,961
Posted By altonacrude

Suspicious package industry publicity stunt?

The Onion News Network reports that the suspicious package industry has been doing it hard in recent times when everything, not just packages, has become suspicious. Suspicious package retailers are...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
23rd Apr 2008, 13:12
Replies: 48
Views: 6,001
Posted By altonacrude

"A common fallacy" spreads

I previously posted that:



BombsAway responded:



His cry against common fallacy has not been heard loudly enough around the world. The New York Times reports that US Defense Secretary...
Forum: Computer/Internet Issues & Troubleshooting
3rd Apr 2008, 01:02
Replies: 10
Views: 913
Posted By altonacrude

IBM sold its Personal Computing Division to...

IBM sold its Personal Computing Division to Chinese firm, Lenovo, in 2005 and no longer makes desktop or notebook personal computers.

Planecrazy, have there been no Windows security software or...
Forum: Tech Log
23rd Mar 2008, 10:57
Replies: 24
Views: 9,991
Posted By altonacrude

It happens in all the tech industries. I saw it...

It happens in all the tech industries. I saw it for years in information technology. Salesman's pitch to the customer, "What you want is ambitious but achievable. We can help you to do that."
...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
23rd Mar 2008, 09:57
Replies: 48
Views: 6,001
Posted By altonacrude

Parkinson's Law

Major C Northcote Parkinson predicted in his 1958 book, Parkinson's Law, that the Royal Navy would eventually have more admirals than ships. Which raises the question as to whether the RAAF will...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
4th Mar 2008, 07:54
Replies: 28
Views: 3,297
Posted By altonacrude

For more than 40 years CHC has been a main...

For more than 40 years CHC has been a main staging post for USAF flights to Antarctic bases and managed to take any aircraft that the USAF flung at it. As NZScion noted, this includes the C5, whose...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
21st Feb 2008, 20:49
Replies: 58
Views: 8,065
Posted By altonacrude

Wrongly accused 9/11 case pilot can claim damages

Interesting thread here (http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=313479) about how if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear.

Yeah, right.
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
21st Feb 2008, 10:59
Replies: 58
Views: 8,065
Posted By altonacrude

Snivel libertarians

I agree that if I have nothing to hide - and indeed I have not - I need not fear customs, state police, federal police or ASIO checking me out.

But wait a minute...

What if I have nothing...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
8th Feb 2008, 23:15
Replies: 260
Views: 33,929
Posted By altonacrude

Dick, TenderSearch isn't "doing the tender"...

Dick,

TenderSearch isn't "doing the tender" - at least that's not what the Fin report says:



This timetable strikes me as impossibly fast unless there is a firm already lined up and...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
7th Feb 2008, 10:42
Replies: 8
Views: 2,456
Posted By altonacrude

No he isn't. Since Federation in 1901 there has...

No he isn't. Since Federation in 1901 there has only ever been one Australian prime minister who claimed Kirribilli House as his primary residence. There is unlikely to ever be another one.
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
7th Feb 2008, 10:31
Replies: 22
Views: 3,352
Posted By altonacrude

ollie, As Cypher observes, hydrogen is an...

ollie,

As Cypher observes, hydrogen is an energy transfer medium rather than a fuel in its own right, as pure hydrogen occurs nowhere in nature. To produce it by electrolysis of water requires...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
6th Feb 2008, 10:45
Replies: 22
Views: 3,352
Posted By altonacrude

Nitrogen oxide gas is nasty environment-wise, but...

Nitrogen oxide gas is nasty environment-wise, but the amount produced in a hydrogen-air jet engine is likely to be only a few parts per million in the combustion gas, unlike the substantial...
Forum: Rumours & News
17th Jan 2008, 23:12
Replies: 949
Views: 426,462
Posted By altonacrude

"Small incident, not many hurt"

Perhaps as a quiet send-up of the more sensationalist media, the London-based weekly newspaper The Economist reported last...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
10th Jan 2008, 09:47
Replies: 44
Views: 5,983
Posted By altonacrude

Quite right, Cap'n Arrr. Many here don't...

Quite right, Cap'n Arrr.

Many here don't appreciate the gravity of the situation. Airport security personnel must be on guard against the most fiendishly cunning suicidal terrorists the world has...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
10th Jan 2008, 09:02
Replies: 3
Views: 1,546
Posted By altonacrude

Pilot shortage is global

On Dec 7 in his Salon column, "Ask the Pilot", US pilot Patrick Smith wrote (http://www.salon.com/tech/col/smith/2007/12/07/askthepilot256/print.html) that:

... carriers struggle to fill positions...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
10th Jan 2008, 08:40
Replies: 14
Views: 1,650
Posted By altonacrude

That site's explanation is sort of half right. If...

That site's explanation is sort of half right. If the company buys back and cancels 20,000 of its 100,000 outstanding shares then one of the 80,000 that still exist now owns 0.00125% of the company,...
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