A lot of these were done in testing the landing systems on aircraft carriers and landing 'unusual aircraft on carriers so there wouldn't be a 1 to 1 ratio. For example he tested the use of 'rubber' landing decks by landing a Vampire without any undercarriage on the deck of HMS Warrior.
In that era you didn't have 17,000 page flight manuals to learn before going flying. Most would consider the 14 variants of the Spitfire to be one aircraft...close enough anyway, even though there were different engines involved. A conversion, even for a line pilot, consisted of, "there's the aircraft, take it out for an hour". Even now, most of the warbird pilots fly multiple types.
Ideally. Note that he's talking about carrier ops, so many flights would have started or finished on land, thus giving an unequal carrier total.
Likely I’m being pedantic.
Look at all those chemtrails.
Depends how many people are walking under it.
2,000’. So there’s room to fit someone else, going the other way, through the middle.
Well, it could be argued that they obviously work, given how stupidity seems to be spreading. Perhaps more interesting though, is that you can clearly see the vortex core in the contrail.
What are the activation criteria for TCAS.
They may be after an increase in take off weight. I don't know what sort of crew rest they had, but they will need a proper horizontal rest for the pilots.
The TCAS will see the other aircraft, up to a few thousand feet above or below, and they'll be painted on the map display, but won't become interested in them unless they're at your height, or climbing or descending towards it. Over the years the software improved dramatically, so they're basically calculating intercepts and not just going off for everything they see...which they did do a bit in the early days. It doesn't play air traffic controller...if it calculates a miss, then that's good enough. That means that you can be in places like LA or HK, with aircraft in very close proximity, and it remains quiet.
Sounds like the regulator is trying to appear busy and useful in a country with no aviation.
I think there's a fair bit of history with regard to unions with Australian airlines, that predates me. When I joined there was the AFAP, who basically covered anyone who didn't work for Qantas. They were the ones behind the 1989 battle. AIPA was the QF union, and for most of my time covered only QF pilots. Over much of my career they had pretty cordial relations with the company, and there was quite reasonable give and take. There was never any industrial action, or even talk of it. That was still the case up until AJ's lockout. From that point onwards, I think attitudes changed. In the era of Dixon and then Joyce, the company was considered untrustworthy by the majority of pilots.
I guess they aspire to become management pilots, though there have been a number in the union who seem to have been management placements anyway.
On the other side of the radio, we (ATC) also have pretty good coverage of the workforce through our union (Civil Air). Our union may be "small" - covering around 1000 civilian ATCs in Australia (+ RAAF), but the union has proven very effective over the years on both industrial and professional issues.
Like JB said, mistakes are always going to occur. But these mistakes are usually caught by our SOPs. It's why there's such a large emphasis on sticking to them as much as possible.AV, what is the talk amongst your workmates on this warning from the regulator:
"Australia’s aviation safety regulator has warned that mistakes are more likely to occur as airlines ramp up flying hours due to a deterioration of aircrews’ skills over the past 19 months.:
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The pilot body don't look at anyone differently if they're not in a union (not in my experience anyway), however if you are ever called in for tea and bikkies it's nice to have some sort of pilot representation there in your corner backing you up.
There have been expressions of interest to the pilot group do these flights because of the amount of quarantine required (both at home and in the hotel down route). At this stage though I think they've only limited it to BNE based pilots and check and training captains.
Any news on flights from MEL (or anywhere for that matter) to LAX?
Nope I haven’t heard anything from management about flights from LAX. Sorry.
Almost long haul....
