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Be aware of it, and look out as far as you can. Or, preferably, do an auto land. You can’t flare on the instruments, though it may be possible with a HUD.

So, QF continues to fly old aircraft, whilst various subsidiaries get the new. You'd think that AJ had never left.

All the paperwork you could possibly need was carried on the aircraft. You just need to stop, pull the books out, and prove it one way or the other. Sadly some people aren't even prepared to be proven right, or wrong. In visual condtions, you're both looking ahead much of the time. The flare...

I know of this event, but time has taken the details, if I ever knew them. From what I do remember, the FO failed to step up, and the SO was actually correct. The captain concerned was quite unpleasant. When I was an SO, I once told a Captain that I thought what he’d briefed was incorrect. He...

I never followed up on anything with the 787, as I felt I was safely ensconced over in the big AB. As I remember it, one the iterations of the design was a box with burn through more or less allowed on the side attached to the outer skin of the aircraft. I guess that would stop it getting into...

I don't know that I'd call it fire proof. Resistant for sure, but that's a stop gap after the original unprotected installation. And the loss of the battery would probably present a number of unknowns. There are other lithium batteries that are smaller, but without the same protection. This...

Here's some food for thought. Last night, a house about a block away burnt down. I just so happens that it's in the field of view of one my cameras. From the first puff of smoke, to the fire brigade having water on the house was an impressive 10 minutes. Nevertheless, it's a complete loss. The...

Right at the top of my list of airlines.... Notice how the controller slows down his speech after things start to go wrong. Such a pity they don't speak like that all the time. And Asiana never confirmed they were for the left when asked.

It has nothing to do with reducing numbers. I wouldn’t expect it to have any effect on numbers until it’s well into the hundreds. But it will swell local coffers, be they official ones or someone’s pocket.

Pilots rarely report anything to each other. Well, other than Americans, and they just yabber over any frequency. Most of the time, aircraft radios will be tuned to ATC, and their frequency is not for general chat. Nor, is the most common other frequency, which is for SAR and emergencies...

Which has no relevance to what you may experience. Climing or descending, you can run into some quite extreme turbulence, with zero warning. But, having said that, neither place is particularly subject to jet streams, so not really likely. Used to see this a lot on some US airlines. But, then...

I’m going to Christchurch in a couple of weeks. I’ll have to get out to Wigram.

No. There is no differential lift. You’re crabbing, not sideslipping. There is a crosswind technique that uses sideslipping instead of crabbing, but it isn’t generally used, especially on airliners. The aircraft will want to roll when you put in rudder to push it straight for the landing. In...

This sort of s**t makes me quite angry. I've flown with numerous female pilots over the years, and as a group they were just fine. Some outstanding, some not, but overall zero difference to their male counterparts. I would have no problem flying on an 'unmanned' aircraft. And all FOs have to...

Very true. But, any blame will stop before it attaches to the regulators or management. Pilots are convenient for that. It's back to school for you. Perpendicular means it would be at 90º, so that would need a direction of 140º or 320º. Here it's roughly 40º off so the crosswind component would...

That's just going around a small bit of closed airspace, and similar happens every day. The EK flight that the OP asked about took a very unusual route, that added about 1,000nm to the flight. Quite a difference.

None really. They would have been completely visual at that point, and the only thing they'd be looking at inside would be the ASI. Literally saying over and over...airspeed, line up, aim point, power. Depending on just what the vis was like (and it doesn't look bad), there can be a tendency to...

Well, I used to run a camera reasonably regularly, though mine was more a case of setting it up, and then forgetting about it. I’m not convinced that adding to the list of what you aren’t allowed to do makes the operation any safer, though it does give management another chance to deflect blame...

ETOPs isn’t a thing with the quads. The route they’ve chosen would be very close to 60 minutes ETOPs, though I’m not sure that the airports they’re close to are usable for a 380. The QF example for the 330 within Oz, would have been a mix of Adelaide curfew, and most likely, an APU issue. I...

That seems to be the way that the pilot members of pprune are tending too. Very hard, with some bank, puts the load on to one oleo. If that failed, and broke the spar, then nothing would stop the other wing just rolling the aircraft over.