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Forum: Rumours & News
23rd Apr 2024, 12:48
Replies: 157
Views: 98,303
Posted By Roller Merlin

Commonly seeing this starlink flaring behaviour...

Commonly seeing this starlink flaring behaviour across Australia, a few hours before sunrise.

Captured this shot recently of a chain traversing the sky - visible with naked eye....
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
20th Mar 2024, 04:27
Replies: 1,532
Views: 518,639
Posted By Roller Merlin

Even Nobel laureate economists have realised...

Even Nobel laureate economists have realised their traditional approach no longer works.

https://amp.abc.net.au/article/103582032
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
23rd Apr 2023, 08:57
Replies: 166
Views: 41,316
Posted By Roller Merlin

It’s bollocks

Flew in there the other evening - 3 am Eastern time so we really all should be in bed, but no here we are with six jets all arriving or departing or pushing back and trying to establish what the...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
28th Oct 2022, 02:55
Replies: 1,071
Views: 677,528
Posted By Roller Merlin

Paxed on duty recently after nil hotel booking...

Paxed on duty recently after nil hotel booking nor transport booked for me on arrival. Been allocated a middle seat in row of four. Min rest then operated again early next morning. These are the...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
28th Oct 2022, 02:43
Replies: 74
Views: 46,272
Posted By Roller Merlin

Proposal is for ILS on R34L and R and consequent...

Proposal is for ILS on R34L and R and consequent lowering of airspace over the bay from LL4500 to LL2500 to facilitate.
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
13th Sep 2022, 08:47
Replies: 172
Views: 39,802
Posted By Roller Merlin

https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/09/13/qantas-flight...

https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/09/13/qantas-flights-delayed-devaluing-staff/
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
14th Aug 2022, 13:10
Replies: 147
Views: 34,879
Posted By Roller Merlin

Two reasons why pilots will always be on flight...

Two reasons why pilots will always be on flight decks of RPT aircraft:

1. The public need someone to trust for their safely and to keep them informed and secure in an environment they don’t...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
11th Jun 2022, 03:53
Replies: 36
Views: 12,960
Posted By Roller Merlin

Wait for it…

I’ve had a bit part in early consultation for the parallel runway in MEL. An overriding consideration is noise with a proposal for most approaches from south over the bay. 34L/R to have ILS...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
2nd Mar 2021, 11:14
Replies: 386
Views: 90,158
Posted By Roller Merlin

Portable and cheap ADSB traffic systems for VFR...

Portable and cheap ADSB traffic systems for VFR were approved in July 2020, so the game has changed. A Sky Echo ADSB in/out VFR box is the size of a fag packet, mounts on the window of any lighty and...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
23rd Jan 2019, 01:19
Replies: 130
Views: 74,299
Posted By Roller Merlin

This thread should be renamed “Beavers and Camels...

This thread should be renamed “Beavers and Camels go Rogue”.
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
31st Oct 2018, 13:35
Replies: 9
Views: 4,146
Posted By Roller Merlin

mccPILOTLOG is great. Converted from...

mccPILOTLOG is great. Converted from Log10ripoffmerchants last year. It even goes into my airline's system and downloads the flight times!
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
29th Sep 2018, 00:59
Replies: 613
Views: 189,823
Posted By Roller Merlin

The essential issue is that the structure and...

The essential issue is that the structure and function of the ADF is built around a training sausage machine that must contine operating, with a finite staffing establishment for each service arm....
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
25th Sep 2018, 01:48
Replies: 78
Views: 28,967
Posted By Roller Merlin

And don't forget the $270 fee just to be hopeful...

And don't forget the $270 fee just to be hopeful of the pineapple!
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
21st Jul 2018, 21:50
Replies: 1,212
Views: 816,786
Posted By Roller Merlin

rapacious plundering

ABC news story clearly held over to a quiet- news Sunday. The old chestnuts of pillaging, poaching and even rapacious plundering of “their pilots”.

Global pilot shortage hits Australia, with...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
21st Jul 2018, 12:12
Replies: 134
Views: 20,926
Posted By Roller Merlin

Look at the last Red Flag results. F35 knocked...

Look at the last Red Flag results. F35 knocked down almost all their adversaries, before they were seen/encountered....then ran away. That’s how it is designed.
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
14th Jul 2018, 08:05
Replies: 1,212
Views: 816,786
Posted By Roller Merlin

Sully nailed it. In addition, young people...

Sully nailed it. In addition, young people nowadays have so many more options, don't want hardships, and don't get the stimulus of previous generations.

In the 70s and 80's, 10,000+ people would...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
18th May 2018, 10:28
Replies: 32
Views: 6,346
Posted By Roller Merlin

Not your average traveller

This clown had apparently been ejected for aggressive behaviour inside the terminal but then he managed to get back inside! Proceeded to a gate where he pushed over a staff member to get on the...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
27th Apr 2018, 03:02
Replies: 161
Views: 89,652
Posted By Roller Merlin

Their job is simply to run interference...

Their job is simply to run interference operations and thread diversions. Best to simply ignore and laugh at their attention getters.
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
19th Apr 2018, 07:41
Replies: 120
Views: 30,806
Posted By Roller Merlin

Wren - I think you are on the money - and this...

Wren - I think you are on the money - and this being an election year could be utilised to an advantage - the issue would need a cause to bubble towards the top of an already crowded political...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
10th Apr 2018, 01:45
Replies: 120
Views: 30,806
Posted By Roller Merlin

On this one I agree with the thrust of Dick's...

On this one I agree with the thrust of Dick's strategy. A top-down amendment the Aviation Act is the only avenue that could change CASA from the statute-law-building behemoth it has become. The...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
30th Mar 2018, 22:31
Replies: 41
Views: 8,819
Posted By Roller Merlin

A previous CEO of CASA lamented to me some years...

A previous CEO of CASA lamented to me some years ago that "...everything now has to go through "Legal"..he was simply not allowed by Government to create plain english orders. It seems that our...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
7th Apr 2017, 06:48
Replies: 21
Views: 10,684
Posted By Roller Merlin

Both the trees and the street lights along the...

Both the trees and the street lights along the road in front of the church are taller than the church spire!
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
12th Oct 2016, 03:33
Replies: 24
Views: 9,222
Posted By Roller Merlin

What the public and corporate managers do not...

What the public and corporate managers do not see, and what we as pilots see commonly is the reality of fatigue inside the cockpit. Recently I flew into an Australian city. On descent the captain had...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
31st May 2016, 09:45
Replies: 49
Views: 18,153
Posted By Roller Merlin

I understand said cabin crew was suffering from...

I understand said cabin crew was suffering from heavily fatiguing rostering.
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
3rd May 2016, 02:18
Replies: 30
Views: 19,518
Posted By Roller Merlin

Cash for comment.

Cash for comment.
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
23rd Mar 2016, 23:51
Replies: 92
Views: 39,346
Posted By Roller Merlin

Qantas pilot's light plane suicide crash -...

Qantas pilot's light plane suicide crash - 9news.com.au (http://www.9news.com.au/national/2016/03/24/07/16/qantas-pilots-light-plane-suicidal-crash)

very sad news
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
8th Dec 2015, 23:42
Replies: 50
Views: 21,129
Posted By Roller Merlin

I would not be surprised to see managers jumping...

I would not be surprised to see managers jumping ship. With the FRMS rules threatening to reduce their margins they will jump from the crest of the wave.
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
20th Nov 2015, 12:43
Replies: 65
Views: 23,634
Posted By Roller Merlin

This technique and variations of it has been...

This technique and variations of it has been taught in RAAF pilot training since Dicky Williams first lapped a box kite around the flagpole. Perhaps if he had thought it to name it the 'Dick Flare',...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
19th Aug 2015, 08:27
Replies: 149
Views: 81,176
Posted By Roller Merlin

Shortly JQ will be offering cadets SO 787, and...

Shortly JQ will be offering cadets SO 787, and A320 JFO (NZ) and FO (AU)
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
20th May 2015, 11:04
Replies: 21
Views: 6,907
Posted By Roller Merlin

Imran it is likely that JQ will recruit...

Imran

it is likely that JQ will recruit second officers in the not too distant future. These would be for the longer B787 international sectors such as Sydney or Melbourne to Hawaii and Japan....
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
5th May 2015, 13:05
Replies: 20
Views: 11,771
Posted By Roller Merlin

According to Wiki, Wuhan has a population of >10...

According to Wiki, Wuhan has a population of >10 million and is to be China's fourth international hub airport after Beijing Capital International Airport, Shanghai-Pudong and Guangzhou Baiyun.
...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
25th Mar 2015, 22:47
Replies: 22
Views: 14,478
Posted By Roller Merlin

And a mentality of "blame the LAST LINE OF...

And a mentality of "blame the LAST LINE OF DEFENCE - the PILOT", when an increasing volume of latent causes are thrown at them by management - fatigue, aircraft carrying broken systems, poor rosters,...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
29th Dec 2014, 03:49
Replies: 3
Views: 4,902
Posted By Roller Merlin

China Eastern and the Qantas Group

Chinese aviation tiger wants more of Australian market

Read more: Chinese aviation tiger wants more of Australian market...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
9th Dec 2014, 01:20
Replies: 5,414
Views: 3,715,569
Posted By Roller Merlin

What Troo Believer said.... Regardless, this...

What Troo Believer said....

Regardless, this mob is likely to apply the next JQ EBA 787 T&C as a negotiating scale for all future 787 ops. 95% NO to their initial offer was a reasonable start to...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
28th Nov 2014, 03:47
Replies: 5,414
Views: 3,715,569
Posted By Roller Merlin

FIn Review today:

FIn Review today:
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