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The great thing about doing the I pads is a lot of information can be updated and you don't even realise it has happened.
I wonder how QF IT will handle pilots' natural urges to "fiddle" with the ipads...
Yes.Do pilots \ cabin crew have a checked \ carry on bag weight limit?
No, generally duty free is very restrictive. Many countries don't allow crew to buy/import anything at all. Australia used to allow one passenger allowance per year, though that changed a few years ago. Mostly the whole concept of duty free is pretty much discredited anyway...apart from alcohol, most things are cheaper in the shopping centres.Also can pilots \ cabin crew buy duty free on each entry \ exit to \ from countries? If so are the limits the same as what us mere mortals are entitled to?
assuming, of course, that auto background sync actually works. None of the apps on my iPad do a very good job of this. In particular the Herald-Sun and Age newspapers apps are supposed to do it, but don't.
I wonder how QF IT will handle pilots' natural urges to "fiddle" with the ipads...
apart from alcohol, most things are cheaper in the shopping centres.
The Age manually synchs perfectly. I've never heard any mention of it being automatic.
Keeping IT people away from anything operational seems like a generally good idea.
That's odd. I'd have thought that most pilots would be eager to adopt new technologies, gadgets and so on.As for fiddling, they'll actually have to overcome a quite large group of people who want nothing to do with them.
Hopefully QF IT will have nothing to do with it, and it will be run by flight ops. A group of the pilots have already set up their own system that works perfectly, so it can't be that hard. Just need to keep IT and media people away from it. Keeping IT people away from anything operational seems like a generally good idea.
Couldn't agree more. I'm constantly reminding our IT Dept that they are a service provider to the rest of the business. Qantas doesn't fly planes around to keep the IT people busy. I once heard a bit of wisdom from a management consultant (possibly the first time ever) that when IT starts determining how your business should function... head for the hills.
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Not sure about other entry points, but in SYD, alcohol is cheaper from Dan Murphy, thereby making the entire duty free shop in SYD completely and utterly useless and a waste of space.
Can you request certain crews or First Officer's or is this done automatically? A friend of mine is a CSM for Qantas and she can request who she works with, so just wondered if it was the same with pilots (as I'm sure after so many years there are people you would/wouldn't prefer to work alongside for a long period of time in such a confined space)
Boeing have got a video of a 747-8F at maximum takeoff weight doing a rejected takeoff with warn brakes at 320km/h and with no reverse thrust. It was done as part of the certification for the plane.
Boeing 747-8 performs ultimate rejected takeoff (Video)
Granted it is an very extreme example. But the brakes got to an estimated 2500 degrees C. The brakes and tires were damaged.
For that type of temperature they would certainly have to be some form of carbon composite. A few years ago I was involved a project upgrading M113 armoured personnel carriers which included a brake system upgrade that wasn't quite effective (initially) as it should have been.
Watching brake discs glowing red hot at 680c and starting to throw off bits of molten steel is pretty impressive, and that's only trying to stop an 18 tonne vehicle...
Yeah, you only have to watch the V8s in low light conditions under heavy braking to see that, too (albeit without the molten metal)...Watching brake discs glowing red hot at 680c and starting to throw off bits of molten steel is pretty impressive, and that's only trying to stop an 18 tonne vehicle...
I know that there are carefully controlled slots sold by airports do retake of and landing but is there control over who has access to flight paths. I do no mean whilst in the air but more from a scheduling perspective. I was at a sustainability presentation and as a side topic they talked about to fly from hamburg to Majorca twice in one day you needed to take off at 6AM and it started me thinking about who controls access the flight paths.
I guess I was just wondering who controls access to flight paths in advance. If BA wanted to fly LHR-SYD over DXB and Emirates wanted to fly DXB-SYD they could be using the same general flight path (actual flight paths specified here are obviously not the right places where this could happen - they are just for illustrative purposes) - multiply that across many carriers and potentially (in theory) it is only once you're in the air that you find out there is a problem.