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Were there extra aircraft? Given that there were many diversions, the chances are that the complete complement aircraft was not present, so the later flight may well have been done by the aircraft scheduled for the earlier. On nights like this, you cannot just look at one flight and say, "they...

I'll bet there wasn't.

Did it affect VH's bonus? If not, nothing to see here.

Yes, it has a Cat II approach. I looked at that.

Gate staff virtually never know the actual reason for any delay, nor are they likely to understand it if told. Same as cabin crew. The fact that VA were departing is somewhat irrelevant. If you were still in the terminal, then you're at least 30 minutes from departure. If you look at last...

As a general rule, fog affects arrivals more than departures. That’s simply because the visibility requirements to take off are less than they are to land. Obviously, in the take off case you’re starting on the runway, whereas in the other not only do you have to find it, but you then need...

So what other use does the USB port have then?

A bit foggy? At the time you wrote the above, the airport weather has the visibility at 150 metres. The limit for takeoff is most likely 550 metres.

I guess that might be noticeable from a lower coughpit, but the aircraft I flew were probably high enough to not notice. On the other hand Darwin and Manchester.....

There’s a hill?

The trouble with all of these aviation odds, is that they're generally just extrapolations of wishful thinking. Interestingly, the takeoff seems (!) to be normal up until around the point that it gets airborne, i.e. where the ground/air logic changes states. Presumably, these are all just...

PRM is not a feature. Pilots never liked it. You have to have another frequency dialed up, and someone has to listen to it. The procedure is not a normal go around, but something invented in an office. Go arounds are procedural, and that's what makes them safe. This wasn't. It existed because...

That just means that the wind had swung a bit more to the north.

Because even with the headwind, 250 would be too short for the operation. Because wind isn’t the only issue with the weather. Looking at the videos, the approaches are all in ‘actual’ IMC, which means that you’ll need greater separation between aircraft, and you’ll need to be careful of...

Well, she isn’t alone there. It is FADEC…. Anyway the two terms overlap. Full authority digital engine control, and electronic engine control. I doubt that you could buy an airliner now without FADEC. People have locked in on TCMA, but I suspect that it isn’t the only thing that’s capable of...

Presumably, you keep the diesel and batteries right next to each other.

Oxygen bottles have been in service forever. As far as the ATSB were able to discover, only one has ever decided to go bang whilst sitting and minding it's own business. You just need the holes to line up in the right way, or in the case of software, the right sequence of events, which may be...

Not an expert on aviation, but not just any lawyer either.

“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” Assuming the engines have shut down, which seems reasonable given the outcome, and what can be seen and heard, then you’re left with a Sherlock Holmes problem. Engines are reliable, and they’re...

Funny coincidence. My nephew sent me a refererence on Carsales, for a HSV GTS. I was the original owner of the car, and sold it 29 years ago. So, then I had a look around the site, and found another car that looked pretty familiar. A bit of research and found that it too was mine. VW R32 that I...