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Forum: Rotorheads
20th Jun 2022, 09:37
Replies: 2
Views: 1,145
Posted By pappabagge

Landing area AW169

Hi people!
I have a life-threatening allergy to wasp stings and live in a fairly remote area on the western Swedish coast, where in an emergency a land ambulance can take up to an hour to get to me....
Forum: Tech Log
26th Nov 2020, 16:05
Replies: 32
Views: 7,125
Posted By pappabagge

Tool name for wire-locking wheel nuts (B737)

Possibly completely off the grid but back in the halcyon days of BA Out-Station Engineering when we had to wire-lock each individual wheel nut after the odd nosewheel change in the driving snow and...
Forum: Rumours & News
2nd Nov 2018, 21:08
Replies: 12
Views: 6,148
Posted By pappabagge

So whatever happened to the option for an...

So whatever happened to the option for an aircraft in flight to re-file in the air... ??
Forum: Rumours & News
14th Aug 2015, 10:14
Replies: 126
Views: 63,615
Posted By pappabagge

Who wrote this ?

The document issued by Heathrow [http://www.heathrow.com/file_source/HeathrowNoise/Static/Steeper_Approach_trial.pdf] is a very poorly-scribed piece of work indeed, peppered with errors in both...
Forum: Rumours & News
24th Sep 2012, 20:56
Replies: 67
Views: 32,871
Posted By pappabagge

Harry...

I think this might be your man... The Guy Who Flew Thousands of Passengers As a Fake Pilot (http://gizmodo.com/5540789/the-guy-who-flew-thousands-of-passengers-as-a-fake-pilot)
Forum: Military Aviation
16th Mar 2012, 08:24
Replies: 132
Views: 75,423
Posted By pappabagge

Three of the four SAR helicopters available in...

Three of the four SAR helicopters available in the area grounded due inclement weather. It's been foul up there overnight, but land-based patrols in teams of four have been making progress, in...
Forum: Military Aviation
15th Mar 2012, 22:34
Replies: 132
Views: 75,423
Posted By pappabagge

"Faint heat traces"

Swedish media reporting that a Royal Norwegian Air Force F-16 had picked up faint heat traces at three different points in the presumed area. A Danish SAR helicopter also reports having picked up a...
Forum: Safety, CRM, QA & Emergency Response Planning
1st Nov 2011, 16:32
Replies: 415
Views: 292,713
Posted By pappabagge

By The Book

Capt Wrona taking a leaf out of Sully's book there. First class arrival. Re foaming of runways, I know from experience that Geneva will do it. There's always going to be the Occam's Razor debate...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
14th Sep 2010, 07:17
Replies: 32
Views: 10,172
Posted By pappabagge

The concept of a "legal" entity in charter operations

For the record the "legal" entity in the last sentence refers in this case to the commercially and contractually responsible legal entity whose capacity has been / is oversold. The onus is on the...
Forum: Rumours & News
9th Sep 2010, 11:16
Replies: 731
Views: 548,472
Posted By pappabagge

EVAS - for real, or a gimmick that just might work ?

I'm still a skeptic regarding the actual usability of the EVAS system. From the outset I must freely admit it's a new concept to me. Apart from the - quite naturally - self-serving sales footage on...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
17th Aug 2010, 17:53
Replies: 502
Views: 200,977
Posted By pappabagge

Viking Beware

The Powers That Were behind Viking are to be avoided at all costs. They have plagued and tarnished the industry image in Sweden for many years now, popping up at irregular intervals as a...
Forum: Rumours & News
17th Apr 2010, 22:15
Replies: 3,110
Views: 1,588,812
Posted By pappabagge

Iceland volcano

An anagram of "Iceland volcano" is "cancel void loan". Well, well.
Forum: Tech Log
6th Jun 2009, 10:50
Replies: 4,593
Views: 3,284,420
Posted By pappabagge

Some thoughts about the scale of any recovery operation

I think it's worth putting some sort of perspective into the logical next step of the operation: that of locating the wreck and the FDR & CVR.
We don't have to go further back in time than a dark...
Forum: Rumours & News
20th Jan 2009, 11:52
Replies: 2,015
Views: 1,058,627
Posted By pappabagge

How corny can it get?

BBC Radio 2 online playing an oldie "January" by..... "Pilot".

Time for a valium methinks
Forum: Rumours & News
16th Jan 2009, 10:28
Replies: 2,015
Views: 1,058,627
Posted By pappabagge

SULLY!

For those fellow Gentlemen Of The Air, who know their inspirational literature, in particular that written by that aviator and writer extraordinaire. Richard Bach.

Blow the dust off your...
Forum: Rumours & News
15th Oct 2008, 13:04
Replies: 402
Views: 147,757
Posted By pappabagge

"then a "mid value" is chosen (not "average", as...

"then a "mid value" is chosen (not "average", as a wildly erroneous value would affect the data too much"

Well, if the stats have been properly configured the sampled range should be examined,...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
28th Aug 2008, 11:06
Replies: 34
Views: 5,565
Posted By pappabagge

- methinks he meaneth The Brown Army - a.k.a the...

- methinks he meaneth The Brown Army - a.k.a the "touchy-feely brigade"
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
28th Aug 2008, 09:42
Replies: 34
Views: 5,565
Posted By pappabagge

Ryanair in Mushroom Soup shock horror drama

News is just reaching us of a serious incident involving a Ryanair aircraft and an SLF's tin of Mushroom Soup stored in an overhead bin. According to the London Evening Standard (only quality...
Forum: Rumours & News
27th Aug 2008, 19:26
Replies: 410
Views: 84,254
Posted By pappabagge

His real name..

Just found out our intrepid explorer's real name is.. (drum roll)

Rupert Nigel Pendrill Hadow

if that wasn't enough, an anagram is.. (another drum roll)

Nerd Pulling Tripe Ad Howler

Funny...
Forum: Rumours & News
27th Aug 2008, 19:14
Replies: 410
Views: 84,254
Posted By pappabagge

Out of interest..a Concorde "what-if..?"

Can any of you Wise Old Owls out there advise what the parameters were for rapid and/or explosive decompression on the Concorde? I can imagine that cruising along admiring the curvature of the Earth...
Forum: Rumours & News
24th Aug 2008, 22:06
Replies: 2,686
Views: 1,138,631
Posted By pappabagge

The Canadian Lesson

The Canadian Lesson, or "Lex Canada" post the SWR111 disaster; despite Canada having - at least on the statute books - a total capping of public CVR and/or ATC R/T disclosure, it only took a matter...
Forum: Rumours & News
27th Jul 2008, 15:34
Replies: 1,109
Views: 379,042
Posted By pappabagge

The words "hit", "nail" and "head" come to mind...

"...the system, which also by its very failure, possibly caused the decompression which the system was there to protect against!"

Nicely put!:D
Forum: Rumours & News
27th Jul 2008, 10:04
Replies: 1,109
Views: 379,042
Posted By pappabagge

Gleanings from Sydney's Sunday Morning Herald...

An oxygen cylinder is missing from the Qantas 747 jumbo that was forced to make an emergency landing after a mid-air explosion punched a hole in its fuselage, an Australian investigator said in...
Forum: Rumours & News
25th Jul 2008, 15:35
Replies: 1,109
Views: 379,042
Posted By pappabagge

The flow of destruction..

- now having had the opportunity of perusing the okay-quality close-up I'm seeing what to me is an obvious "from the inside-out" blow, seemingly outwards from the upper portion where the torn-away...
Forum: Rumours & News
25th Jul 2008, 10:23
Replies: 1,109
Views: 379,042
Posted By pappabagge

Bonding?

Can't remember the exact type of material used for the forward wing-box fairing, but a little bell is ringing back there whispering it's a carbon-carbon reinforced, or carbon-reinforced fibreglass...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
31st Mar 2008, 08:15
Replies: 1,172
Views: 264,830
Posted By pappabagge

He's Back !!

We all thought the former Iraqi Minister of Information Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaaf (remember him??) went to ground after escaping with his life.

What wasn't so well-known was his association with a...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
28th Mar 2008, 07:59
Replies: 1,172
Views: 264,830
Posted By pappabagge

A319 + Uld

I was responsible for introducing the A319 for SWR in the Nordics in the late 1990s, based at GOT/ESGG. SWR had in the interests of commonality actively opted for the ULD version with the Dinky Toy...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
27th Mar 2008, 23:06
Replies: 1,172
Views: 264,830
Posted By pappabagge

Hot Water ?

Pray tell, how can one be "burned" by Hot Water?

Call me picky, but I thought one was scalded by HW.

WW however gets scolded - bring out the Scold's Bridle (ancient medieval torture device) and...
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