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Pay yourself $2,000, and if you have to cancel, you’ll be perfectly positioned to pay yourself the $8,000 or so the ticket cost.

More short term (shareholder value?) thinking.

Pointing the camera at the sky recently. Aurora and comet.

I don't have the MEL available, so I can't say whether you'd even be able to get relief for a cracked outer pane. Any inner would definitely be a no go. No work would have been done in an hour, but obviously it could be given a proper going over, which is somewhat difficult in the cruise...

Non-ETOPS is one hour of flight time, and it does look like that flight path would given them that using Norfolk Island. Previous flights of the same aircraft have had normal tracks. U/S APU perhaps?

Are you sure about that flight number? According to FR24, that ties to AF7320, which is a Paris to Nice flight, and didn't happen on the 16th. First thought would be that a window cracked. There are multiple layers to coughpit windows, and cracking of the outer layer is a non event. But, any...

Which is disgraceful behaviour from the passenger, and very poor procedures from the airline. Sometimes you did just wish you could nudge a bit of real turbulence, just to teach a few lessons. Of course it would never work out like that.....

November 24, Tasmania. February NSW south coast. March South Island NZ. August NSW north coast October Italy.

Does QF have anything much in the way of orders with Boeing? I don’t see how firing 10% of their workers sets them up to succeed post strikes. Unless they’re planning on delivering 10% less than their current rate. Of course, I can’t see NASA wanting any more Starliners, and I’ll bet the USAF...

I'll bet this is just the normal bully boy industrial relations. Basically sign here, or you're fired.

The only country that was a problem was the USA. Every 5 years we had to send our passports off, and hope they'd come back before our next trip. Other places had agreements in place with the airlines, but they were totally transparent to us. We'd even pax in and out on duty, and generally an ID...

Sounds like the sort of terms that would be used in the crew planning departments, but there's no reason for them to appear beyond that. The terms appear airline specific. But, yes there was data on how many people were actually at work/sick/days off/not assigned anything, but assignable, etc...

I wouldn't even land on liquid water.

Flight crew limitations can be quite difficult to calculate. In the case of a 3 man crew, rostered to Bangalore (and I’m so glad I never had to fly there), you’d be looking at a planned duty period (not flight time) of 14 hours, extendable to 16. To get to 20 hours you need a 4 man crew. I have...

Not really. Interesting event. Any checklist that contains a line like this is pretty scary.... At ANY TIME of the procedure, if situation becomes UNMANAGEABLE: IMMEDIATE LANDING.................................................................................................CONSIDER Depending...

The lower part of the speed scale wouldn't have even been on display. Lots of red bricks at the top end though. We weren't all that high when we did this. FL370 perhaps, so the speed range would have been reasonably wide. We just happened to be at the top end of it.

There wasn’t a nominated Mcrit that I know of. But, the mach limit for the 747 was .92, and in the days before RVSM (which reduced the max to .90) I tried it out. Max continuous thrust slowly pushed the speed up, and it stabilised at about .915. I’m pretty certain that we already had some level...

They've been able to get up there, forever. It's just that's it's very rarely worthwhile. The basic rule of thumb that you apply for any climb toward the end of a flight is to ask whether you'll actually get back the fuel used to climb in the first place. So, you'll need that higher altitude to...

Way back when I first joined QF, I did some research on reverse thrust. The upshot was that the big turbo fan engines produce far less of it than people expect. On a large engine, the vast majority of the thrust is produced by the fan, with the core of the engine (the bit that burns the fuel)...

I wonder if she was even a QF employee. AJ outsourced just about everything, except, sadly, management.