I've just finished reading QF32, a very interesting book. - I look forward to your book to JB747. - I hope you are well progressed in writing it .
I, most definitely, will not be writing a book about QF30. It was an interesting day in the office, and makes for a good bar story, but that's about it. RdC is much more the entrepreneur than I am, as evidenced by the quite successful IT business that he owns.
One question remains, at the very end of the book, he states that Dave failed him, What in all of that whole saga of getting that plane on the ground was the trigger for that failure? Was it the desire to climb to 10,000? or was it a series of other actions?
I must ask Harry/Dave what they think about that comment. The reality is that he didn't fail. But, because the checkers made some input, that invalidates the check. If it had been a normal operation, and input was needed, then yes, that would most likely be a fail, but in this instance it was anything but normal, and making use of the extra pilots simply good management.
I recall, that about a decade ago, someone was being checked out of Cairns in a classic. They took multiple bird strikes after take off, had to shut down an engine, and very quickly landed. Apparently it was an absolutely text book example of how to do it, but the flight time was less than the minimum required, so it too, couldn't be signed off.
