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Nice bloke and very interesting to chat to. He said he'd had quite a few people through with large amounts of experience. Certainly when I said 25,000 hours, his ears pricked up. Probably not fair. I just had a fly around in the F18, and took off and landed in the F4. I am very familiar with...

An interesting find in Thames, NZ. Pulled in to this town looking for a coffee, and how could I resist a cafe called "The Aviator". I thought it might have some pictures, but it was way better than that.

I thought I'd give a travel agent a go when I was looking to fly to Europe a year or two back. I was really shocked at how poorly they compared with just doing it myself. Much more expensive, and wanted to channel me to airlines that I told them I wasn't interested in. So, I guess that's where...

Probably not. I always wondered about the RAAF involvement a couple of years ago. It didn't strike me as something that was likely to last. I guess HARS is the only other group capable of operating the entire collection, though their plate is pretty full these days.

I guess that's the last we'll see of the Meteor, Vampire and Canberra flying.

The google AI answers this pretty well...Porpoising a dangerous, pilot-induced oscillation (PIO) where the nose repeatedly rises and falls during landing, often caused by over-controlling, improper speed/trim, or excessive flare. It often results from the pilot trying to "force" the aircraft...

It's a case that is built on wishful thinking, and likes.

The emergency access code had to be actively denied. About as intentional as you get.

And if you do taxi out like that, the checklist should either not start, or be held at flaps. You can't go past something and come back.

How utterly horrifying. As a passenger I don’t see that there is much you could do at the time.

The standard pre takeoff briefing starts along the lines of “below 80 knots we will abort for ANY ECAM message”. The upshot is that there are many things that are transient or minor, but it’s much better to sort them out on the taxiway, rather than in the middle of a take off. So, I cannot even...

Given that they’d have the internet, I suspect they’d already know. I’d say the minimum.

You might get some sort of information from the company, via the datalink or satphone. If they were on top of it to that extent, they’d probably also have some idea of where they’d like you to go. Otherwise info would come from the ATC unit you’re currently with. I’m not too sure that you’d...

There’s no specific procedures. Operations into war zones isn’t something the airlines really should be doing, so the normal best defence is simply to be somewhere else. The procedure you allude to, descending rapidly in close, and departing with a steepish, climb, would normally relate to...

In the grand scheme of things, the race isn't all that important at the moment.

“Friendly fire” will be a huge issue. Knocking down an F15 or two is one thing, but an airliner….. I would see it as an almost inevitable outcome of any attempt to return to any form of normal at the moment.

Dunno. Perhaps they surgically remove something from the company chief pilot. There will be issues. Congestion on remaining routes will mean that aircraft won't get levels that they need/want. Some aircraft don't have huge range margins, so you need to lower the payload, or consider fuelling...

Adding to AV, there was a limit of 15 knots in parts of Dubai, and there were actually people there with radar guns. Never got a ticket. It’s also 20 knots over the bridge at Changi.

I've never taken much notice of the 787 flights out of Perth, as they aren't something I'd want to travel on. But the biggest issue will be for the west bound flights. The winds are generally more favourable heading east. The 380s via Singapore generally had a fair bit of weight margin in either...

Badly. It makes routes longer, and they've already been affected by the Ukraine/Russia war. The spillover will be both to the north and south, so no routes will be unaffected. Airways become clogged, so you can literally run out of slots. Optimum altitudes will become harder to get. Ask me in...