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Forum: Safety, CRM, QA & Emergency Response Planning
2nd Aug 2006, 20:30
Replies: 27
Views: 5,960
Posted By phd

Time for change?

CAA has fundamental flaw. Conflict between its safety regulatory role and its raison d'etre which is to promote and develop the interests of commercial aviation. There have been a number of issues...
Forum: Medical & Health
23rd May 2006, 15:53
Replies: 13
Views: 1,847
Posted By phd

Highly pathogenic influenzavirus A (H5N1)

Although H5N1 has not yet developed the ability to spread easily from human to human - the health 'experts' tell us that this probably will occur at sometime within the foreseeable future and that a...
Forum: Tech Log
25th Dec 2005, 21:37
Replies: 10
Views: 6,761
Posted By phd

The company I work for is currently considering...

The company I work for is currently considering single engine taxi-ing for fuel saving reasons. The savings per sector are small but cumulatively over an entire fleet become substantial - amounting...
Forum: Cabin Crew
6th Oct 2005, 12:40
Replies: 56
Views: 11,485
Posted By phd

This hazard is addressed in CAP 642 'Airside...

This hazard is addressed in CAP 642 'Airside Safety Management' and should be covered in the operator's turnround plan required under HSE document HSG209.

There have been enough injuries and...
Forum: Rumours & News
16th Dec 2003, 04:58
Replies: 35
Views: 6,254
Posted By phd

Runways .v. our environment

There is a lot of nonsense being talked at present re the Governments long term plans for commercial aviation in the UK. Too many vested interests on both sides of the debate seem to be clouding...
Forum: Safety, CRM, QA & Emergency Response Planning
18th Oct 2003, 05:38
Replies: 33
Views: 3,621
Posted By phd

Frangible - you are correct. All of the...

Frangible - you are correct. All of the risk/cost/benefit data that I have ever read makes it quite clear that for all the lives that have been saved in survivable aircraft crashes by lifejackets...
Forum: Safety, CRM, QA & Emergency Response Planning
18th Oct 2003, 05:15
Replies: 3
Views: 789
Posted By phd

Not an expert - hopefully Genghis the Engineer...

Not an expert - hopefully Genghis the Engineer might chip in at some point - but Reliability Engineers usually work within the Technical Services or Quality Assurance Dept. of a JAR 145 maintenance...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
18th Oct 2003, 05:00
Replies: 9
Views: 2,033
Posted By phd

baby is to start operating from Teesside to...

baby is to start operating from Teesside to several European destinations so will have a total of 4 operating bases - the others being East Midlands, Cardiff, and Manchester. Quite an expansion rate...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
17th Jun 2003, 05:00
Replies: 2
Views: 435
Posted By phd

Found the Pooleys tapes by John Fenton moderately...

Found the Pooleys tapes by John Fenton moderately useful. Learnt Morse Code in the car on the way to work and back over a period of a few weeks. Now I can't stop myself dit dah ditting all the car...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
8th Jun 2003, 06:06
Replies: 6
Views: 753
Posted By phd

Babcock Groundschool

I have heard ATPL groundschool and commercial flight training is now offered at Barkston Heath by military contract services company Babcock. Anyone know anymore?
Forum: Military Aviation
8th Jun 2003, 06:00
Replies: 29
Views: 2,798
Posted By phd

The Willerby Arms at Leadenham - good beer and...

The Willerby Arms at Leadenham - good beer and wholesome food.

The Brownlow Arms is no longer a pub - more is the pity. The managament changed a couple of years ago and it is now a...
Forum: Rumours & News
14th May 2003, 04:46
Replies: 4
Views: 2,733
Posted By phd

If 'pilot error' is the attributed 'cause' of...

If 'pilot error' is the attributed 'cause' of this tragedy then I presume it had nothing whatsoever to do with the latent design fault in the Fokker 50, the meteorological conditions at the time or...
Forum: Computer/Internet Issues & Troubleshooting
30th Mar 2003, 03:22
Replies: 8
Views: 1,008
Posted By phd

Howski I use mine with FS98 and I seem to...

Howski
I use mine with FS98 and I seem to remember it was a bit of a challenge to get it working properly.

Have you set up the yoke on your PC as new hardware via your Control Panel and the...
Forum: Rumours & News
18th Feb 2003, 20:14
Replies: 9
Views: 1,342
Posted By phd

Airbubba The UK does not currently have in...

Airbubba

The UK does not currently have in place any Regulations such as those stipulated by the FAA for monitoring drug/alcohol misuse within aviation, or for that matter for crews of ships at...
Forum: Rumours & News
18th Feb 2003, 11:10
Replies: 9
Views: 1,342
Posted By phd

Proposed Law on Drugs/Alcohol in Aviation

Railways and Transport Bill

The Department for Transport has issued a press release regarding this Bill, which was laid before Parliament on 14 February. The paragraph I have extracted below may...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
12th Feb 2003, 14:48
Replies: 62
Views: 8,779
Posted By phd

Here...here - totally agree with you Awyrennwr....

Here...here - totally agree with you Awyrennwr. Why have you got such a difficult name to pronounce though?
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
8th Feb 2003, 12:00
Replies: 62
Views: 8,779
Posted By phd

Solidarity

I am one of those students affected, and have no intention of doing anything other than offering PAC my full support. I want what PAC has to offer just as much as they clearly want to provide a high...
Forum: Rumours & News
2nd Feb 2003, 19:58
Replies: 48
Views: 9,109
Posted By phd

pilots are still human beings

Gentlemen
while you are all so busy shooting the messenger you seem to have forgotten the message - unpalatable as it may be to you.

The message from this recent incident, and the arrests last...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
7th Oct 2002, 20:59
Replies: 16
Views: 2,380
Posted By phd

Jump Complete Thanks for filling us in on...

Jump Complete

Thanks for filling us in on the detail of your hour building. This kind of information and advice is invaluable and inspirational to myself and probably to other aspiring commercial...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
4th Oct 2002, 20:39
Replies: 16
Views: 2,380
Posted By phd

Jump Complete Well done - it must be a...

Jump Complete

Well done - it must be a great feeling to crack the first 1000 hours.

For the benefit of those of us who are a long way behind in the hour building stakes, could you give a...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
1st Oct 2002, 19:52
Replies: 6
Views: 640
Posted By phd

chancha You are not alone - but then you...

chancha

You are not alone - but then you already know that, since this is a forum for 'wannabes' or perhaps more correctly 'wannados'.

I am at the same crossroads as yourself, but have arrived...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
21st Sep 2002, 19:55
Replies: 2
Views: 634
Posted By phd

twm 737 Yes you can self fund all the way to...

twm 737

Yes you can self fund all the way to a fATPL with IR, FI, multi, and FIC rating etc. plus several thousand hours as did my spouse. It took several years, lots of hard work and cash and a...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
19th Jul 2002, 21:16
Replies: 5
Views: 837
Posted By phd

no smoke no fire Not sure of your motives...

no smoke no fire

Not sure of your motives for this posting. I am a potential student of PAC and am looking at them as well as all the other training providers before making a decision on who to...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
19th Jul 2002, 20:52
Replies: 32
Views: 7,748
Posted By phd

Joe Curry I was not aware that bmi had a...

Joe Curry

I was not aware that bmi had a Scottish 'base' or that it was at Glasgow. If you are referring to bmi regional, which is indeed the Scottish part of the bmi empire, then its base is in...
Forum: Questions
11th Jul 2002, 21:27
Replies: 6
Views: 796
Posted By phd

I agree with the view that PPLs should be the...

I agree with the view that PPLs should be the least of our worries airside. Every airport I have ever been to is accessible by unauthorised 'baddies' - and I have been airside both as a PPL and as a...
Forum: Medical & Health
9th Jul 2002, 15:45
Replies: 6
Views: 711
Posted By phd

The Workplace (Health, Safety & Welfare)...

The Workplace (Health, Safety & Welfare) Regulations 1992, enacted under the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 state:-

"An adequate supply of wholesome drinking water shall be provided for all...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
4th Jul 2002, 21:51
Replies: 5
Views: 745
Posted By phd

1013.25 I am also seriously considering...

1013.25

I am also seriously considering going down this route even though just about everyone you speak to on this subject will try and persuade you to go for the ATPLs and forget the CPL.

The...
Forum: Private Flying
23rd Jun 2002, 22:22
Replies: 24
Views: 2,812
Posted By phd

Icom IR2 digital scanner with lots of...

Icom IR2 digital scanner with lots of programmable memories is the dogs doo-daas at about £149 quid.

phd
Forum: Private Flying
23rd Jun 2002, 22:16
Replies: 1
Views: 989
Posted By phd

You could try RAF College Cranwell Flying Club,...

You could try RAF College Cranwell Flying Club, which is not too far away, and if you are serving in the RAF you can benefit from reduced rates. They also accept civilian members, such as myself, and...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
21st Jun 2002, 12:05
Replies: 10
Views: 1,391
Posted By phd

FFF You appear to be following a similar...

FFF

You appear to be following a similar path to that which I am considering. I am trying to decide which training organisation to do the ATPL distance learning course with and have obtained...
Forum: Safety, CRM, QA & Emergency Response Planning
29th May 2002, 19:53
Replies: 40
Views: 6,085
Posted By phd

Excellent thread on a superb new forum, and...

Excellent thread on a superb new forum, and already generating extremely high quality posts. Congratulations Danny for having the foresight to add this forum to pprune.

As a safety manager for an...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
26th May 2002, 20:27
Replies: 4
Views: 951
Posted By phd

CPL or ATPL - how do I decide?

I am a PPL holder with 100 hours and a Class 1 medical. My ambitions in commercial aviation are initially to instruct for which I need at least a CPL and FI rating. I may ultimately want to move into...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
24th May 2002, 21:43
Replies: 21
Views: 3,216
Posted By phd

DeeTee Great posting - just what wannabees need...

DeeTee
Great posting - just what wannabees need to read.

Quidditch Captain and gdnhalley - good to hear from you both - I am just on the lower side of 40 and working towards an ATPL by the time I...
Forum: Private Flying
24th May 2002, 14:51
Replies: 14
Views: 1,871
Posted By phd

I concur with above suggestions having flown with...

I concur with above suggestions having flown with children at ages from 12 months to 4 years of age in B777s, BAe146s and other large commercial aircraft as well as in the back of Cessna 172s and...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
20th May 2002, 12:15
Replies: 12
Views: 1,244
Posted By phd

Thanks BillyFish2.

Thanks BillyFish2.
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