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Forum: Rumours & News
2nd Jun 2011, 00:21
Replies: 113
Views: 64,400
Posted By xrba

PD, see my post 15!

PD, see my post 15!
Forum: Terms and Endearment
23rd May 2011, 23:09
Replies: 90
Views: 19,372
Posted By xrba

Started flying 1966, seen all the FUN gradually...

Started flying 1966, seen all the FUN gradually go out of it as well as the usual complaints, pay/workload/conditions etc, glad to be retired leaving it to the starstruck.
Forum: Rumours & News
27th Apr 2011, 01:30
Replies: 40
Views: 13,999
Posted By xrba

Actually flying the a/c is pretty stress free for...

Actually flying the a/c is pretty stress free for those who know what they are doing. The received stress is a byproduct of other factors, ie staggeringly long or multiple sectors at appalling times...
Forum: Rumours & News
15th Apr 2011, 12:15
Replies: 113
Views: 64,400
Posted By xrba

Many things may well be the duty of any...

Many things may well be the duty of any responsible airline management, but in the real world how many of them would wish to wash their company’s dirty linen in public, as well as voluntarily giving...
Forum: Rumours & News
15th Apr 2011, 00:10
Replies: 113
Views: 64,400
Posted By xrba

onb et al, a correction. On second thoughts,...

onb et al, a correction.

On second thoughts, I can’t remember the full details as the incident was decades ago, but probably the miscreant falsified the company forms only, making legal action...
Forum: Rumours & News
12th Apr 2011, 01:31
Replies: 113
Views: 64,400
Posted By xrba

How many, faced with a company hours requirement,...

How many, faced with a company hours requirement, have sharp pencilled their logbooks? I know of one who was discovered, and demoted back to F/O when he was found out, lucky not to have been sacked,...
Forum: Military Aviation
28th Jan 2011, 23:41
Replies: 19
Views: 17,422
Posted By xrba

The Vixen Pilot's Notes read as follows :- ...

The Vixen Pilot's Notes read as follows :-

Red Top Carriage 610 kts 5.5G Subsonic 4.5G Supersonic
Release .6 to .99M 5G -
...
Forum: Military Aviation
26th Oct 2010, 01:35
Replies: 154
Views: 66,409
Posted By xrba

Martyn Dean's first rate web site is now back and...

Martyn Dean's first rate web site is now back and running, if not yet complete, here. Sea Vixen. Royal Navy. Carrier Jet. - Home (http://www.seavixen.org//)
Forum: Military Aviation
12th Oct 2010, 00:10
Replies: 154
Views: 66,409
Posted By xrba

I can not be certain, but didn't Keith Jones...

I can not be certain, but didn't Keith Jones achieve the only successful night ditching of an AEW3 Gannet? A staggering piece of skill/luck by all accounts!!! Please correct my ageing memory if I am...
Forum: Rumours & News
27th Mar 2010, 10:38
Replies: 315
Views: 73,410
Posted By xrba

My point, LNAV VNAV, is that the SJ30 is a...

My point, LNAV VNAV, is that the SJ30 is a modern, high performance, jet aircraft, with most of the same characteristics as a 737/320 et al, a Seminole patently is not. There used to be a weight...
Forum: Rumours & News
27th Mar 2010, 00:08
Replies: 315
Views: 73,410
Posted By xrba

So LNAV VNAV, why have the FAA approved the SJ30...

So LNAV VNAV, why have the FAA approved the SJ30 then?

Agreed Nigd3. It's slowly creeping along, which is not to say I approve of it.

Where is the weight/pax limit now, is it 10 tons, 20 tons...
Forum: Rumours & News
24th Mar 2010, 08:52
Replies: 315
Views: 73,410
Posted By xrba

We've all flown pilot incapacitation drills in...

We've all flown pilot incapacitation drills in the sim, and had F/Os that have proved to be more of a hindrance than an asset, so when is the pilot community going to be halved?
Forum: Rumours & News
24th Mar 2010, 01:30
Replies: 315
Views: 73,410
Posted By xrba

Whilst UAVs, no crew, submarines et al, are all...

Whilst UAVs, no crew, submarines et al, are all riveting stuff in another context, would someone like to RTFQ, as I was taught in pilot training, and tell me how different/ more difficult it is to...
Forum: Rumours & News
23rd Mar 2010, 00:35
Replies: 315
Views: 73,410
Posted By xrba

The thin edge of the wedge is already appearing....

The thin edge of the wedge is already appearing. A Swearingen SJ-30, and perhaps other types, are already flying with one pilot above the old weight limit for single crew, 12,500lbs I seem to...
Forum: Military Aviation
11th Jan 2010, 23:55
Replies: 27
Views: 13,493
Posted By xrba

Schiller, the Vixen looker skipped across the sea...

Schiller, the Vixen looker skipped across the sea in his seat, late ejection at launch.

N.B. had 2 faulty seats, 1st, Vixen underwater mechanism triggered on recovery snagging sear wires, 2nd,...
Forum: Military Aviation
11th Jan 2010, 03:42
Replies: 27
Views: 13,493
Posted By xrba

Of course there was dear old N.B. who banged out...

Of course there was dear old N.B. who banged out when he didn't want to, and didn't when he did, if you follow my drift! Way outside any parameters both times. Perhaps he will tell his tale here?
Forum: Military Aviation
7th Jan 2010, 11:04
Replies: 27
Views: 13,493
Posted By xrba

Enough tales here for most. Sea Vixen. Royal...

Enough tales here for most.

Sea Vixen. Royal Navy. Carrier Jet. - Home (http://www.seavixen.org/)
Forum: Terms and Endearment
22nd Nov 2009, 01:44
Replies: 69
Views: 11,501
Posted By xrba

What does BALPA actually do? BALPA protects...

What does BALPA actually do?

BALPA protects the rights, terms and conditions of BA mainline members at all costs, employees of other airlines, irrespective of the pro-rata numbers involved, get a...
Forum: Military Aviation
22nd Jul 2009, 01:55
Replies: 30
Views: 10,885
Posted By xrba

Beaten [% wise] by the dreaded Skymeter, 39 out...

Beaten [% wise] by the dreaded Skymeter, 39 out of 76 [51.3%]!!
Forum: Military Aviation
2nd Jun 2009, 00:28
Replies: 28
Views: 5,649
Posted By xrba

There is, of course, a surefire way of increasing...

There is, of course, a surefire way of increasing your G tolerance but it's a teeny bit drastic. It worked extremely well, although I only know of one pilot who did it........ Douglas Bader!!
Forum: Terms and Endearment
7th May 2009, 11:15
Replies: 40
Views: 4,837
Posted By xrba

Well, somewhere , over the rainboe, there are...

Well, somewhere , over the rainboe, there are people that think that BALPA “over the DANAIR affair trod an incredibly fair and equitable path considering the circumstances”. Says it all really.
Forum: Terms and Endearment
7th May 2009, 00:04
Replies: 40
Views: 4,837
Posted By xrba

The purpose of this thread is not to dissect the...

The purpose of this thread is not to dissect the parlous financial state of DANAIR, or the unsurprising rapacity of BA during the take-over, [you don’t get a book published about you called ‘Dirty...
Forum: Terms and Endearment
6th May 2009, 02:42
Replies: 40
Views: 4,837
Posted By xrba

“The Dan Air case was interesting, BALPA's...

“The Dan Air case was interesting, BALPA's evidently called the wrong shot there, as lawyers sometimes do. The law is a performing art remember, not an exact science.”

No, Agaricus bisporus,...
Forum: Rumours & News
17th Dec 2008, 23:39
Replies: 69
Views: 23,845
Posted By xrba

Swordsman, as I said in my previous post, whether...

Swordsman, as I said in my previous post, whether DANAIR's BALPA membership was around 90% or not is irrelevant, unless of course you are claiming that it was below 50%, a fact that BALPA would of...
Forum: Rumours & News
16th Dec 2008, 01:34
Replies: 69
Views: 23,845
Posted By xrba

For SR71, BA took over DANAIR, [laughing called a...

For SR71, BA took over DANAIR, [laughing called a merger!] and promptly sacked all the staff [about 2000], with the exception of about a quarter of the pilots and cabin crew,[about 200]. In the CC's...
Forum: Rumours & News
15th Dec 2008, 00:02
Replies: 69
Views: 23,845
Posted By xrba

And the magistrate decided that although DAPAG...

And the magistrate decided that although DAPAG won the case, and BA had broken the agreements, they were not required to do anything about it, a decision my DAPAG colleagues and I found deeply...
Forum: Rumours & News
13th Dec 2008, 01:34
Replies: 69
Views: 23,845
Posted By xrba

If anyone wishes to discover what support they...

If anyone wishes to discover what support they will get from BALPA over this issue, or indeed from the famous British legal system, simply ask a Dan Air Action group pilot. Might be best to wear a...
Forum: Military Aviation
12th Nov 2008, 23:45
Replies: 73
Views: 21,533
Posted By xrba

As there appears to be some interest in the...

As there appears to be some interest in the tight landing intervals we had on recovery, they were achieved thus. When the leader slotted and turned downwind, [500ft circuit] the no. 2 timed 17...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
26th Jun 2008, 00:47
Replies: 83
Views: 51,050
Posted By xrba

Anna, Dino's excellent site, Sea Vixen. Royal...

Anna, Dino's excellent site, Sea Vixen. Royal Navy. Carrier Jet. - Home (http://www.seavixen.org/) has details of this incident from the outside, and much else. Tony Buttler's first rate book, "The...
Forum: Military Aviation
13th Jun 2008, 07:18
Replies: 61
Views: 14,993
Posted By xrba

Some 40 years ago a US Navy Lt Cdr ops guy came...

Some 40 years ago a US Navy Lt Cdr ops guy came across to our carrier at sea for a short visit, [I forget the reason]. He was preceded by a signal telling us we were NOT to remove his mustache [sic]....
Forum: South Asia and the Far East
2nd May 2008, 00:22
Replies: 493
Views: 169,571
Posted By xrba

No offence taken,smokehaze. It must be a very...

No offence taken,smokehaze. It must be a very worrying time at the moment for all expats, and some junior locals in RBA. Even those who purport never to condescend to look at Pprune must be rattled,...
Forum: South Asia and the Far East
1st May 2008, 01:25
Replies: 493
Views: 169,571
Posted By xrba

Oh dear. It appears that there are those who...

Oh dear. It appears that there are those who would rather have facts/opinions about RBA kept under the carpet. That is not likely to occur these days. Let us hope that when the insults have ceased...
Forum: South Asia and the Far East
28th Apr 2008, 02:01
Replies: 493
Views: 169,571
Posted By xrba

Obviously RBA management have been investigating...

Obviously RBA management have been investigating the solution to all their problems that I detailed in post 110, and have at last come to their senses. I dally await the arrival of my large...
Forum: Military Aviation
12th Apr 2008, 04:51
Replies: 1,075
Views: 779,901
Posted By xrba

An old chestnut, but I was fortunate to have been...

An old chestnut, but I was fortunate to have been able to say it myself.

At Chivenor, about 35 years ago, a senior officer was in the bar on Friday night, surrounded by acolytes, who were fawning...
Forum: Terms and Endearment
24th Mar 2008, 00:51
Replies: 197
Views: 19,992
Posted By xrba

No, the BA pilots do not DESERVE any support,...

No, the BA pilots do not DESERVE any support, they certainly haven't supported anyone else in the past, and are very unlikely to do so in the future.
Their chosen mouthpiece, BALPA, is the most...
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