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On Friday QF37 (A330) was cancelled and 120 pax were moved onto EK405 (A380). How many extra pax added to your flight after you load fuel would trigger you to order more fuel?
On Friday QF37 (A330) was cancelled and 120 pax were moved onto EK405 (A380). How many extra pax added to your flight after you load fuel would trigger you to order more fuel?
Hi jb. For a A380 what is the smallest amount of fuel you would request for a top up?
Can and do fuel trucks ever remove fuel from aircraft?
If not, how is fuel removed (I'm assuming that this is a real scenario)?
I have certainly used defuelling a number of times in the military on the Herc - generally when the task has changed after filling up to the gunnels on long legs - you might need to defuel due to the destination being closer than planned and the landing at that destination being therefore over max landing weight. Alternatively, the cargo load changes (ie they add cargo) and you have to defuel to make sure you don't exceed max takeoff weight. This just eats into your available holding time at destination.Can and do fuel trucks ever remove fuel from aircraft?
If not, how is fuel removed (I'm assuming that this is a real scenario)?
Do not forget that due to the fuel pipe break at Auckland we saw Qantas fly some aircraft to AKL to transfer fuel to the Jetconnect and Jetstar narrowbodies. There are a couple of photos showing the defuel/transfer process from the QF 747-438ER just using gravity to transfer the fuel not a truck's pump.
What's the quickest you can land after a go-around assuming no ATC or traffic restrictions?
A visual circuit would take about 4-5 minutes.
To us un-initiated people, it would be: gain some altitude, turn left, turn left, then for the down wind leg a little bit of level flight, turn left, turn left and land. Is it really that simple. Could you please run through some of the 1000's of thing you would have to do
p.s I intentionally over simplified things
....Conduct the best landing ever and have everyone clapping.
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JB, Qantas has a piece on Facebook about its new B787 and an FO who's talking about it. He says that he's involved in pilot training (with a cross over to a simulator). I thought that the Captains did the training. What would his role be?
Is the QF63/64 considered a ‘junior route’? I understand why it wouldn’t be on the top of the crews list given the choice or is it more the fact that everyone has different things that they prefer?