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- Tue Mar 12, 2019 8:29 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Ethiopian Airlines 737MAX crashes enroute to Nairobi Q1 2019
- Replies: 5479
- Views: 824036
Re: Ethiopian Airlines 737MAX crashes enroute to Nairobi
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-12/ ... a/10894426edit:oops by the time I remembered my password, someone else had posted it.
737Max8 operations have been suspended in Australia by CASA (our regulator)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-12/ ... a/10894426
edit:oops by the time I remembered my password, someone else had posted it.
- Tue Jun 06, 2017 12:27 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Air China near miss with mountain
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1445
Air China near miss with mountain
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/2096928/air-china-flight-has-near-miss-mountain-hong-kongs An Air China passenger plane almost hit a mountain on Lantau Island on Sunday night when it deviated from its flight path after taking off from Hong Kong International Airport, i...
Jump to post- Thu Dec 01, 2016 10:04 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Longest Jetbridge in the world ?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 15010
Re: Longest Jetbridge in the world ?
Gate 13 in the Delta terminal BOS.. 2min 12 seconds..... That's nuts. Melbourne has a nice long one. https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/Melbourne+Airport+(MEL)/@-37.6690688,144.8449688,112m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x6ad659a9ebaa3917:0xf045676052ff090!8m2!3d-37.6690123!4d144.8410273 But not as lon...
Jump to post- Sun Sep 04, 2016 11:16 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Antonov 225 Mriya, production resumption
- Replies: 91
- Views: 26455
Re: Antonov 225 Mriya, production resumption
You also have to redesign the vertical fins, to compensate for the increase in yaw in case of a single engine failure on takeoff. Since it's not carrying the shuttle this time, if you're cutting 2 engines, you may as well just drop back to a single tail fin. :P Not really a 225 anymore if they star...
Jump to post- Wed Aug 31, 2016 9:54 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Commercial pilots and flying ability.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3909
Re: Commercial pilots and flying ability.
Praise your deity of choice (or lack thereof) for minimum standards. I'd hate to see what we'd have if they didn't exist. At my old airline one pilot was well known for being very "sporty", to the point of making some passengers uncomfortable.... Your comments remind me of this farside str...
Jump to post- Wed Aug 31, 2016 8:12 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Commercial pilots and flying ability.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3909
Commercial pilots and flying ability.
http://www.news.com.au/world/europe/fbi ... df10d40675 This recent article is about Andreas Lubitz (Germanwings flight 9524), but these three sentences are interesting. On Wednesday, the FBI claimed Lubitz had failed a key test of his skills during training at an Arizona-based flight school prior to...
Jump to post- Wed Aug 24, 2016 8:38 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Australian Aviation Thread Part 144
- Replies: 210
- Views: 29848
Re: Australian Aviation Thread Part 144
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Aust ... 27_dispute) on which 1645 pilots resigned (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_23).As it turns out, apparently yesterday was the 27th anniversary of day during the 1989 Australian pilots' dispute (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Aust ... 27_dispute) on which 1645 pilots resigned (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_23).
Jump to post- Fri Jul 08, 2016 12:35 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: BA7 (07Jul) LHR HND has turned back
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2996
Flight path https://www.flightradar24.com/data/airc ... bh#a4280f5
Jump to post- Mon Jul 04, 2016 4:19 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: UA840 SYD-LAX birdstrike, returns to SYD
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3331
Re: UA840 SYD-LAX birdstrike, returns to SYD
For those that get their kicks by watching videos of fuel dumps, the links have one.
Jump to post- Wed Jun 22, 2016 4:51 am
- Forum: Site Related
- Topic: Issues FAQ
- Replies: 179
- Views: 189179
Re: Issues FAQ
The gray and white is burning my retina and we know is physically unhealthy in the two hours before going to bed. You need an option to change the colors as you wish. In the quote screen it is gray text on white background. That's simply awful. T r u s t m e , i t c o u l d b e m u c h m u c h w o ...
Jump to post- Thu Jun 16, 2016 1:03 pm
- Forum: Technical/Operations
- Topic: How many people in the air?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10191
Re: How many people in the air?
Let's go with 1M, based on Viscount's post. If we were to put all "in-air" passengers into the one location they'd be: Australia's 6th largest city (after Adelaide at 1.3M). USA's 11th largest city (after San Jose at 1.02M) UK's 6th largest urban area (after Glasgow at 1.2M) NZ's 2nd large...
Jump to post- Wed Jun 15, 2016 12:12 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Virgin Australia - $852m capital raising
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3160
Re: Virgin Australia - $852m capital raising
travelhound wrote:From what I can work out VA will in effect be closing down its regional flying in the eastern states. In addition to this the E190 will be going.
The only thing left to do is change their name back to Virgin Blue!
Just as long as we get the red aircraft back. Jump to post
- Wed Jun 15, 2016 8:11 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: American A320 loses engine cowl
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6490
coolian2 wrote:Well gee, I wonder what happened here.
What ever it was it would have been impressive to watch.
They found the bits on airport land apparently
http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-up ... acdc4a2c0e Jump to post
- Wed Jun 15, 2016 7:55 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Rayani Air shut down
- Replies: 0
- Views: 501
Rayani Air shut down
Couldn't find a prior thread on this (no working search function) http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-up ... 2c75526064 Regulators announced on Monday they had permanently grounded Rayani Air, Malaysia’s first sharia-compliant airline, months after it was suspended from flying for breaching aviatio...
Jump to post- Wed Jun 15, 2016 6:58 am
- Forum: Site Related
- Topic: Airliners.net Site Upgrade Announcement & Discussion
- Replies: 2553
- Views: 403494
Re: Airliners.net Site Upgrade Announcement & Discussion
https://www.airliners.net/user/account/settingsLatAmFlyer wrote:LandSweetLand wrote:IADCA wrote:You might want to do the same, especially with such a unique name.
I would if I could find where in the profile page it is.
You can't. And that's only one of the many horrible "redesigns" of A.net.
Try this link
https://www.airliners.net/user/account/settings Jump to post