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Got one once from a hire mob in Melbourne. The annoying bit was that it was run up by one of their staff bringing the car over from another depot, and before I got it. They reversed it, but it was a pain getting them to admit that it can’t have been me as it was 30 minutes or so before they...

All sounds real to me.

I'd have a very good read of all of the paperwork for any airport that I hadn't been to before. Beyond that though, you read it off as you need it. Never action them from memory (though you do end up remembering the details of places you go to often enough).

Better to tell ATC. I expect they’d just get the 320 to roll forward a bit. UK ATC are helpful, in exactly the same way that JFK’s aren’t. His clearance would have been predicated on it, so I wouldn’t think so. It’s the normal clearance from that spot…

London, Heathrow. It’s normal to be cleared to line up behind the departing traffic, and there can be multiple taxiways all feeding on to the runway at the same time. There’s no hurry for arriving traffic. You just juggle your speed so that you don’t actually enter the runway before the other...

Stupid. Way too close.

Your example is pretty reasonable. It would require an assessment from engineers, the manufacturer, the regulator. Not something that happens quickly.

It won't be an MEL in that case. There is another level though. Called an "authority to proceed". It's something that's approved on a one off basis, and needs input from a number of areas, not just the local engineer. And the Captain is still has the final say. And they're very rare. I can...

You don't generally go straight to security. You speak to the local company agent. They'll have all of the necessary contacts. Very rare for things to elevate to this sort of level though. Perhaps certain nationalities, and football fans, are the most prone to it.....

Being unable to climb would result in a greater fuel burn, though it would be partially offset by a slower speed (automatically calculated by the FMC). At first glance I'd have expected enough fat in the fuel plan to cover this...perhaps not. The aircraft would have two airconditioning packs...

The US will always do their own thing, irrespective of the rest of the world.

Interesting flight path. It has descended from F350 early in the flight, and then maintained F310 for the vast majority of the remainder. It's generally not hard to get a climb in that part of the world, so that would imply that they didn't want it. It's not an emergency, as they had a number of...

Sensationalism, much. Or just ignorance. Flight with one or both winglets removed is allowed on pretty much everything that has them installed. There is a very slight fuel burn penalty.

As AV has answered, it was pretty rare, and I've certainly never had anything as bad as some of the situations that are shown on youtube (mostly from the USA). In my experience, about 99% of the time, the cabin crew would be successful in managing a problem passenger. I recall having people...

Which I suspect means that they found pilots in Brisbane, but not cabin crew.

Well obviously the wifi made it too heavy/large to fit on the bay. To be really honest, it's an aircraft I don't care for, and avoid.

Many. Cabin. Toilets. Holds. Unusual. No plumbing, or some sort of issue and it's not working. There probably aren't all that many gates that are 380 capable, so any issue might not offer easy solutions. About 220,000 kgs. True, assuming they had a choice. Anyway, it's not something airline...

I expect they get a load of meals that they can cook up themselves. Believe it or not, tossing a meal in the oven and setting a timer isn't beyond most pilots. On long haul ferry flights we'd have one or two cabin crew. Whilst part of their job was to look after the coughpit, they were mainly...

The boss decided to sell our (her) Range Rover Sport a couple of months ago, and replaced it with a Golf GTI. I’m now considering selling the Jaguar XE, and getting a VW T-Roc R. TBA on that at the moment.

Not very fast. 300 KIAS perhaps. It looks like a terrible bit of flying though. He shouldn’t have generated that downhill vector.