Squawk as you see fit (Off Topic Thread)

I think they are also operating it to Frankfurt, possibly some others. Crew familarisation/recency apparently.

Saw a "weird" plane fly over my house a couple of weeks back , what was striking about it was it was a single prop engined plane but was the size of something like a regional jet , also the wings werent swept back much, it had no obvious airline markings. What might have I been looking at? it was heading west inland from Sandymount Strand direction. It just looked like a plane one would expect to be twin engined.

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Makes me feel old that "oeo" 320s are going to the scrapper 😳 "Sit on my knee, son, now I remember when that fly by wire thing was considered witchcraft"

Then again, I'm still not over the loss of the L-1011 😪 by far the most technologically advanced airliner of its era, but it still couldn't overcome "why isn't this light on" 😕

Flew through Dubai World (DWC) a few nights ago, there had to be at least 40 A380’s in storage there. Didn’t see any B777’S, are they back in service or parked somewhere else.?

Ryanair 4052 Manchester to Faro made an emergency landing at Brest, France last night due to a reported outbreak of fire on board. Everyone was taken off safely.

Sky News have it that the aircraft shed 36,000 ft of altitude in about 6 minutes to make the approach, which must have been great craic for all concerned.

Don't know whether this is the right thread - but did any of you see the WWII movie Midway at the weekend, it showed a fighter plane taking off from a aircraft carrier and crashing in the sea because the ship was moving too slow - can someone please explain this scenario?

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SOmeone has a lot of paperwork to fill out

A plane spotter's dream comes through

Lots of bad CGI there.

I see China Airlines is maintaining its usual standards...

Catapult launches as we know them today were much more limited then and most aircraft took off from a carrier under their own power, aided by the built in head wind. A carrier needed to be hitting 25 to 30 knots, added to whatever wind was blowing on the day, to get loaded aircraft off and you often saw loaded aircraft dip down near the water after clearing the bow to gain a few extra knots of airspeed. Pilots were taught to turn left or right immediately in case they did ditch, to avoid getting run down by the ship. They also had the canopies open so that they could get out quickly. The aircraft usually had flotation bags built in to give them more time to get out and a dedicated crew dinghy, which was sometimes rigged to deploy automatically when immersed. But, carrier ops were and still are, always hazardous and accidents and losses were and are much more frequent than for land based operations.

Anyone recommend parking in the Clayton? I'm away from 24th-30th and the Clayton is only €51 where as the red long term where I was originally going to park is €75. Is the €25 saving worth it?

10 Irish aircorp fly by in Dublin this morning? Anybody?

HS 748 and a Fairchild C119

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?

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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.