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22nd Mar 2018, 16:55
Replies: 81
Views: 34,417
Posted By SLFandProud

Indeed. They are also an appalling advert for...

Indeed. They are also an appalling advert for Boeing build quality; I don't know if Boeing manufacture their own passenger cabins or outsource it, but I've never been on a 737 which didn't show...
21st Oct 2017, 07:29
Replies: 18
Views: 8,444
Posted By SLFandProud

Someone who never wants to see it again, if they...

Someone who never wants to see it again, if they travel through certain airports I use regularly.

(You definitely don't put anything of value in a bag going through Kyiv Borispyl, for example.)
17th Oct 2017, 07:50
Replies: 50
Views: 29,827
Posted By SLFandProud

I'm sure that many do, and they probably expect...

I'm sure that many do, and they probably expect the bag to immediately inflate and presume there's no flow if it doesn't.

At least some airline safety briefings do specifically call out words to...
6th Oct 2017, 17:32
Replies: 1,195
Views: 1,000,291
Posted By SLFandProud

So you're suggesting 95% is a small minority? ...

So you're suggesting 95% is a small minority?
What's an insurance card?

I think you mean credit card.
And if the government doesn't, the consumer will. Hence the CAA asking people to sign...
3rd Oct 2017, 18:03
Replies: 1,195
Views: 1,000,291
Posted By SLFandProud

As much as I admire your certainty, and as much...

As much as I admire your certainty, and as much as I doubt mine... ATOL covered about 5% of Monarch's business, I understand - being the "package holiday" type stuff. The other 95% has nothing to...
2nd Oct 2017, 17:38
Replies: 1,195
Views: 1,000,291
Posted By SLFandProud

Sigh; this is a depressing read. As a senior...

Sigh; this is a depressing read. As a senior manager in a totally unrelated industry, I'm often called in to turn failing business units around, and without tooting my own horn too much, I usually...
18th Jul 2017, 07:30
Replies: 0
Views: 1,525
Posted By SLFandProud

KLM446 emergency landing in Bucuresti

According to this: https://www.agerpres.ro/economie/2017/07/18/cnab-o-aeronava-klm-cu-298-de-pasageri-a-aterizat-de-urgenta-pe-aeroportul-henri-coanda-pasagerii-urmeaza-sa-fie-debarcati-10-24-48

A...
10th May 2017, 18:25
Replies: 46
Views: 27,190
Posted By SLFandProud

Nonsense. There's nothing special about airline...

Nonsense. There's nothing special about airline pilots - you're no different to bus drivers. Your job is to get the vehicle from A to B safely.

It's not a passenger's job to judge when they book...
28th Dec 2016, 08:39
Replies: 48
Views: 40,523
Posted By SLFandProud

Glad to hear it. As a passenger, it's one of my...

Glad to hear it. As a passenger, it's one of my favourite aircraft to fly on.
27th Dec 2016, 11:12
Replies: 484
Views: 590,257
Posted By SLFandProud

I live in Bucharest, other side of the Black Sea...

I live in Bucharest, other side of the Black Sea and only a little bit further north than Sochi. It's been a remarkably mild winter so far, very little precipitation (a day or two of snow at most...
6th Mar 2016, 08:55
Replies: 78
Views: 41,480
Posted By SLFandProud

No-flaps takeoff

Unrelated (but it's been bugging me for a couple of weeks anyway, so what the hell.)

I was mildly perturbed that my Austrian Airlines flight a couple of weeks ago took off without any flaps; but...
17th Feb 2015, 08:58
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,393,609
Posted By SLFandProud

@right engine

Oh absolutely, I quite agree; the point I was trying to make is that this is a completely normal and natural evolution, and as depressing as it may be if you were once a 'sky god' there's no point...
16th Feb 2015, 23:06
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,393,609
Posted By SLFandProud

@rideforever

And yet... Flying now is indisputably safer than when pilots were 'worshipped'. Would you like a few more deaths from avoidable accidents just so the self loading freight down the back could be...
1st Feb 2015, 09:34
Replies: 3,923
Views: 4,393,609
Posted By SLFandProud

@silverstrata

Here's a thought - maybe they read PPRuNe?

After any accident involving an Airbus, there are always lengthy threads populated by old timers writing with the Star Spangled Banner proudly playing in...
12th Jul 2013, 19:50
Replies: 1,150
Views: 716,604
Posted By SLFandProud

@ILS27LEFT

It's my belief that many aircraft spend a lot of time parked on airfields in places a lot warmer than Heathrow in even the balmiest of British summers.

It's also my suspicion that laptops or...
4th Jun 2013, 07:32
Replies: 992
Views: 1,008,741
Posted By SLFandProud

Hmmm

Ye Olde Pilot wrote...


...I believe you've discovered a previously overlooked and far more important safety issue, here.

If the PF could see that and still decided to fly over central London,...
30th May 2013, 15:45
Replies: 992
Views: 1,008,741
Posted By SLFandProud

@Leftofcentre

Just as a point of order, no that is not 'fail safe'. It is belt and braces, which is no bad thing.

A 'fail safe' is a situation whereby the failure of the mechanism 'naturally' fails in a safe...
20th Feb 2013, 19:05
Replies: 2,185
Views: 1,028,322
Posted By SLFandProud

This is how the brakes on trains* have been...

This is how the brakes on trains* have been designed for decades.

The brakes on every coach are held on (by springs, for example) and released by the action of a round-train circuit, in early days...
23rd Jan 2013, 15:05
Replies: 601
Views: 271,093
Posted By SLFandProud

Pace wrote, Hmm. Reading from the...

Pace wrote,


Hmm. Reading from the AAIB...


and, damningly...


It would seem you need to adjust your motto somewhat. "There are those who choose to, those who have to, and those who...
18th Jan 2013, 21:55
Replies: 601
Views: 271,093
Posted By SLFandProud

I'm not sure the quotes you've posted actually...

I'm not sure the quotes you've posted actually make that point.

For one, they specify in great detail what lights should look like. They're rather vague on what should be lit.

Lighting a small...
18th Jan 2013, 17:25
Replies: 601
Views: 271,093
Posted By SLFandProud

Isn't that rather the point? If the only...

Isn't that rather the point?

If the only things that can penetrate the gloom are high intensity beacons, then you cannot 'see' by any practical definition of the word, and you shouldn't be up...
18th Jan 2013, 12:40
Replies: 601
Views: 271,093
Posted By SLFandProud

The problem with this in my view, and with active...

The problem with this in my view, and with active transponders bolted to cranes and any similar suggestion, is this: they don't fail safe.

So what happens when the extra hole in the cheese lines...
17th Jan 2013, 20:53
Replies: 263
Views: 105,878
Posted By SLFandProud

1.45MW! :eek:

1.45MW!

:eek:
17th Jan 2013, 20:43
Replies: 601
Views: 271,093
Posted By SLFandProud

I am sensing an utterly absurd undercurrent here...

I am sensing an utterly absurd undercurrent here that the problem that needs to be solved is development in London providing an obstacle to general aviation.

That carthorse you see over there? ...
Forum: Tech Log
30th Dec 2012, 22:06
Replies: 183
Views: 73,709
Posted By SLFandProud

Absolutely; experience of all relatively complex...

Absolutely; experience of all relatively complex machines is invaluable for an operator to know its own quirks/peculiarities/'tendencies'. But when the tendency you are dependent on is that it...
Forum: Tech Log
30th Dec 2012, 21:08
Replies: 183
Views: 73,709
Posted By SLFandProud

To be honest, that was so incoherent it's...

To be honest, that was so incoherent it's difficult to see what your point is, let alone determine contradictions; I presume English is your second language though, so I shall soldier on regardless...
Forum: Tech Log
29th Dec 2012, 20:59
Replies: 183
Views: 73,709
Posted By SLFandProud

Well that's deeply concerning; may I ask who you...

Well that's deeply concerning; may I ask who you fly for so I can avoid them?

If you're only qualified for a mythical type that suffers no equipment failures or malfunctions whatsoever, on which...
18th Dec 2012, 15:24
Replies: 97
Views: 45,448
Posted By SLFandProud

@King on a Wing

What a fantastic rant. Let's try decoding it...


OK, so among your sockpuppets, you have found the time to post at least 30k posts, by your own admission.


But by your 'guess', having just...
9th Dec 2012, 12:59
Replies: 4,932
Views: 1,719,722
Posted By SLFandProud

Such a charitable view of other professions. ...

Such a charitable view of other professions.

I didn't see "Ryanair Pilot" in his byline, though.


(Perhaps you can see what I did there; I suspect it will whoosh over your head though...)
7th Dec 2012, 10:39
Replies: 91
Views: 32,355
Posted By SLFandProud

@TwoOneFour

(Obligatory disclaimer - this is not legal advice, you should use a qualified lawyer for that, this is merely commentary)


[re. moderating user comments]


The website you work for may wish to...
6th Dec 2012, 10:25
Replies: 87
Views: 30,563
Posted By SLFandProud

Incidentally, anyone hoping the insurance industry will save their jobs...

...what are you smoking?

I've been to Lloyds of London, and have had the pleasure of dealing with insurance underwriters, and in my experience they tend to be a decidedly unromantic bunch. If...
6th Dec 2012, 10:18
Replies: 87
Views: 30,563
Posted By SLFandProud

On reflection, I'm sure you're right :-). The...

On reflection, I'm sure you're right :-). The pilot-steward idea probably isn't practical - the pilot on the ground option is much more feasible. The idea of having someone on board trained for...
5th Dec 2012, 18:43
Replies: 87
Views: 30,563
Posted By SLFandProud

Do you? Or do you practice in the sim, for...

Do you?

Or do you practice in the sim, for the bad days?

My assumption is sims will still be available...
5th Dec 2012, 18:17
Replies: 87
Views: 30,563
Posted By SLFandProud

I would. I offer this as proof that your...

I would.

I offer this as proof that your statement is false.


In other news, the public would once have never stepped on board a vehicle moving faster than a horse, would once have never...
5th Dec 2012, 18:01
Replies: 87
Views: 30,563
Posted By SLFandProud

@slf4life

The Victoria Line in London has been computer operated, without drivers, since the 1970s. (That bloke at the front who pretends to drive is only responsible for opening the doors on the correct...
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