Squawk as you see fit (Off Topic Thread)

Most aircraft have a 10 or 15 knot tailwind limit, the impact of the tailwind is a higher ground speed at touchdown and a longer landing distance, if the aircraft performance is within limits then you can accept the tailwind.

Airports appear to use 5 knots as the changeover limit, in the above case it was 5.2 knots.

Hard to know for sure from those photos, they're very similar!

strange that no automated internal IT cross check insisted that prior to approval and rubber stamping of the pairing that a ‘computer says no’ didn’t alert those rostering or automatically prevent the roster pairing. 🚨 ….

i would doubt any of the conventions governing the liability and loss for an airline such as Montreal or Warsaw would dismiss the responsibility on Virgin for this shîtshow. People will have been seriously inconvenienced, stressed and out of pocket.

And I know Of an event where it was discovered at the destination.

They were just approved to fly back.

Remember that this isn’t a cadet with no experience, he is a high hour pilot who is trained on the aircraft. He just hadn’t done his final line check ride with an examiner.

Can't really understand U2's love for the 319, airframe stretches are usually successful but shrinkages not so much (most of the cost, most of the weight, for less revenue potential). 320/737-800 seems the optimum size for most short haul airlines.

must have hit a tree or had a birdstrike at low level.

Isn't that the plane they use to calibrate/verify the various ILS and transponder beacons dotted around the country?

saw an unusual plane fly over the house again heading out into Dublin bay , it was a twin tail vintage 40's-60's looking plane either passenger or transport type. The unusual bit was that it looked like it had Japanese rising sun markings on the wings.

Lads anyone know good plane spotting viewing areas around Dublin Airport?

Again.

Thats the Helicopter interior.

SA had a wonderful industry back engineering aircraft, apparently when things changed, everyone who was involved got fined and had to state in writing that they wouldn’t do it again. These days SA has zero aircraft industries for this reason.

Seems much more mechanically complicated than just having one set in the centre. But IIRC the Manchester/Lancaster were designed with just one pilot's station so might be a hangover from that.

Oops, in Sao Tome

Thai Airways still have a lot of parked aircraft and the BKK is still rather quiet.

Cityjet listed as a creditor for about 4.4m - don't think they can afford to be given a fractional repayment of that.