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Forum: Rumours & News
7th Oct 2018, 13:26
Replies: 27
Views: 14,290
Posted By interpreter

Have re-checked with my source and it was...

Have re-checked with my source and it was believed to have a been a Norwegian aircraft but cannot tell if it was a 787 or 737
Forum: Rumours & News
7th Oct 2018, 09:18
Replies: 27
Views: 14,290
Posted By interpreter

GATWICK northern runway

There is a rumour that a twin engined jet took off as cleared using the northern runway recently at Gatwick and only just cleared hardware at the eastern end. Does anybody know anything about this?
Forum: Military Aviation
7th Oct 2018, 09:08
Replies: 53
Views: 14,564
Posted By interpreter

Sadly, in this world it does not always end with...

Sadly, in this world it does not always end with the funeral. In the late 1950s I was a 20 year old Photographic Interpreter Intelligence Officer based at Royal Air Force Episkopi but travelled...
Forum: ATC Issues
24th Apr 2015, 15:07
Replies: 79
Views: 16,743
Posted By interpreter

Gatwick ATC

NIMMER. clearly I have touched a sensitive point with you. Gatwick will just have to handle what it can. As a totally foreign owned tax avoidance company operating the so called "Eurobond scandal"...
Forum: ATC Issues
22nd Apr 2015, 13:32
Replies: 79
Views: 16,743
Posted By interpreter

Gatwick ATC

ZOOMER

Been there; done that, am old stick and yoker.

The principle feeling on noise is that those that should be exposed to noise are those who have purchased properties very close to the...
Forum: ATC Issues
19th Apr 2015, 07:15
Replies: 79
Views: 16,743
Posted By interpreter

GATWICK Arrivals

Nimmer. I appreciate your blunt response and if I was a controller, which I am not, but a pilot I also would be concerned at the way ATC is likely to develop. Noise has taken second place or even...
Forum: ATC Issues
18th Apr 2015, 12:45
Replies: 79
Views: 16,743
Posted By interpreter

Gatwick Approach and Departure

This whole discussion is based around changes made in 2014 for departures and arrivals at Gatwick without consultation - or without proper consultation. NATS is a private company with profits as its...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
8th Nov 2014, 22:00
Replies: 3,499
Views: 1,337,782
Posted By interpreter

No new runway for Gatwick

A second runway for Gatwick is most unlikely. Its affairs are in a complete mess and is possibly going to be a victim of corporate anti-tax avoidance legislation. The recent flight path trial was an...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
3rd May 2014, 20:59
Replies: 3,499
Views: 1,337,782
Posted By interpreter

Thumbs down Gatwick is a financial excercise

The new owners indicated they will consider selling pretty soon after the second runway is built. It is all hidden behind a screen of Guernsey, Cayman and Luxembourg companies with the major...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
1st May 2014, 08:13
Replies: 3,499
Views: 1,337,782
Posted By interpreter

Thumbs down Gatwick 2nd runway - I doubt it

I suggest this is read by all who are so convinced about the 2nd runway

http://www.aef.org.uk/uploads/Who_would_pay_for_a_new_runway_1_2_3.pdf

GIP have admitted it is just a financial exercise...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
28th Apr 2014, 08:51
Replies: 3,499
Views: 1,337,782
Posted By interpreter

Next runway Gatwick?

Don't be so sure. Heathrow with an extended runway to twice its length is looking a much more attractive option. (as is the case in Madrid I believe)

All the infrastructure is there whereas at...
Forum: Rumours & News
6th Dec 2010, 15:59
Replies: 550
Views: 129,101
Posted By interpreter

More to come..........

Continental's response suggests that there is much more to come on this issue. I find it extremely difficult to believe that if there had been a fire in one of the engines prior to take off nobody in...
Forum: Rumours & News
6th Nov 2010, 21:00
Replies: 1,964
Views: 1,341,295
Posted By interpreter

Castings in the debris

The images of the debris found shows engine castings do they not? Not just cowling pieces. This indicates to my mind enormous centrifugal force at the time of the failure and that they occurred in an...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
30th May 2010, 16:50
Replies: 2,265
Views: 355,837
Posted By interpreter

Unite are in a daydream!

Listening to Simpson on BBC at lunchtime today I thought what bad luck for the striking BA CC to have joined such a dumb union. Simpson was absolutely convinced that BA had called the strike! Mr...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
27th May 2010, 22:03
Replies: 2,265
Views: 355,837
Posted By interpreter

Quality CC?

Final 3 Greens (you must be ex-RAF)

Glad to see you appreciated the quality of the striking CC. I can only confess to seeing them on TV and wouldn't employ them to run a pig farm based on...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
24th May 2010, 19:38
Replies: 2,265
Views: 355,837
Posted By interpreter

Identity please

Joking apart, Oneye has the situation well summed up but he did say several messages ago that he was off! Tempted back eh? Nothing like a good chance to air ones grievances at a mob of dsireputable...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
24th May 2010, 10:35
Replies: 2,747
Views: 826,144
Posted By interpreter

Cabin Crew - what a farce!

Watching the performance of the striking cabin crew on TV makes me wince. Where on earth did BA find these loutish, grim looking bunch of morons. I must say that WW needs to give his HR people a good...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
23rd May 2010, 21:43
Replies: 2,265
Views: 355,837
Posted By interpreter

It is the strikers that should be cold-shouldered now

Call100. The amount of messaging going on is exactly in proprtion to the disgust felt by most normal passengers to the absurdity of the BASSA point of view. The BBC - bless them - is filled with...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
23rd May 2010, 13:04
Replies: 2,265
Views: 355,837
Posted By interpreter

Strike is ON - good news ultimately for BA

This strike could well be the downfall of BASSA - let's hope so. WW has displayed extreme tolerance of totally unprofessional conduct by Simpson and a mass of ill-considered protestations from...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
21st May 2010, 20:53
Replies: 2,265
Views: 355,837
Posted By interpreter

Unhappy When all this is over

There are going to be a great number of unhappy CC when this dispute ends - and of course the only "happy" ones still on full pay and benefits are messrs Woodley and Simpson. However, seeing the...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
17th May 2010, 20:29
Replies: 2,265
Views: 355,837
Posted By interpreter

What is the downside for Heathrow Cabin Crew?

I understand all the frustration of the Unions and BA but exactly what are the "awful" terms being offered to Heathrow CC compared to those at GatwicK? Why should the older staff have any objection...
Forum: Rumours & News
11th Apr 2010, 12:24
Replies: 1,004
Views: 515,267
Posted By interpreter

Military Authority

Looking at my log book I notice that almost 51 years ago to the day I was flying in a Hastings from Nicosia to Luqa (5.5 hrs in those days) as a passenger (rearward facing seats) when the aircraft...
Forum: Cabin Crew
18th Jan 2010, 16:24
Replies: 3,879
Views: 579,716
Posted By interpreter

BA to go into administration?

What odds would you give if a strike takes place that BA closes down and then reforms as a new airline with every - yes every - employee having to re-apply under new T & Cs? It could solve a lot of...
Forum: Cabin Crew
18th Jan 2010, 16:14
Replies: 56
Views: 16,749
Posted By interpreter

Moving males!

What absurd rubbish! How come there was a single male child on his own anyway? Where were his parent/s? If I had been the passenger I would have flatly refused - whatever the circumstances. Yes -...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
6th Jan 2010, 12:50
Replies: 58
Views: 9,490
Posted By interpreter

Profiling

As one of my flying colleagues said " You dont look for dogs in a cattery"

Yes. that makes sense
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
5th Jan 2010, 22:32
Replies: 58
Views: 9,490
Posted By interpreter

Follow the Israeli pattern

The airline that has been most successful in thwarting aerial hi-jacking or bombing is the Isreali national airline - and why are they so successfuL
Profiling, profiling and more profiling. Until we...
Forum: Cabin Crew
21st Dec 2009, 10:34
Replies: 3,879
Views: 579,716
Posted By interpreter

Another strike in prospect?

Most who contribute to this forum seem to have voted against the strike but with another threatened you are going to have to face a possibly embittered “for” voter who will not be open to discussion....
Forum: Cabin Crew
15th Dec 2009, 22:15
Replies: 6,533
Views: 1,120,632
Posted By interpreter

This is getting nasty!

There are some pretty heated and ill-considered expressions of views and emotions developing on this site. This major - and I do mean major - episode in the company's history is rapidly heading for a...
Forum: Cabin Crew
15th Dec 2009, 14:38
Replies: 6,533
Views: 1,120,632
Posted By interpreter

Where will everyone be in 6 months time?

Reading all the press, emails and texts from friends in BA (FC and CC) and listening to passengers I think the Unions have mislead their members apallingly. It is all going to end in tears. I have...
Forum: Cabin Crew
15th Dec 2009, 08:20
Replies: 6,533
Views: 1,120,632
Posted By interpreter

What are you trying to achieve/

Further to my recent posting I have just had a text from a CC employee of BA to say that she and several of her colleagues are going to work on the first strike day despite voting for the strike....
Forum: Cabin Crew
15th Dec 2009, 08:03
Replies: 6,533
Views: 1,120,632
Posted By interpreter

What are you trying to achieve?

There is a great deal of ill considered and ill though out comment flying around on the strike situation. Strikes benefit nobody – least of all the group who pay BA wages – the passengers. Leaving...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
24th Jun 2009, 07:10
Replies: 23
Views: 5,272
Posted By interpreter

Angel Balance My Aircraft

Where the aircraft is far from fully laden this is usually facilitated by seat allocation so that on take off the balace is within limits. However before take-off an announcment is made requesting...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
27th Feb 2009, 09:05
Replies: 124
Views: 32,392
Posted By interpreter

Devil Choice of arrival methods

Shortly the Irish maniac is to introduce a Choice of Arrival Method - CAMs for short. At the beginning of the descent passengers will be asked if they wish to land with the aircarft for a £10 fee or...
Forum: Rumours & News
27th Feb 2009, 07:20
Replies: 2,906
Views: 1,451,714
Posted By interpreter

Engines stalled on finals

A report in the Times of London - link below - states that one of the Netherlands aviation authorities suggests that both engines stalled on finals.

Engines stalled before Turkish Boeing plunged...
Forum: Rumours & News
26th Feb 2009, 07:40
Replies: 2,906
Views: 1,451,714
Posted By interpreter

Speculation

I read these comments with some interest but having been with a GAPAN group to the UK Air Accident Investigation Branch unit I know the enormous detail they go into to determine the real cause or...
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