Recent content by lastrow

Yes you can count me in. I will be travelling by car from HBA . My other travel arrangements are transferred until next year. Message me for contact details.

I should be OK to come. Venue best picked by those who know.

I would be happy with either Hobart or L'ton. Would prefer a lunch. Hobart to Launceston by road is only 2 hours. Caveat - I am booked on a tour starting in Perth on the 20th October then train to Sydney but as Covid things go I think I will postpone this until next year.

I read very recently that air NZ will fly to Norfolk Island out of BNE but QF will continue to fly out of SYD

For years I have been trying to get DFAT to include details of the travel agent or booking agent used. The majority of posts here refer to the traveler needing help, however just as importantly there could be circumstances back home that require immediate contact with the traveller. In most...

I have flown JQ in business class and its suprisingly good. Ok there are no lay flat seats but for a 10 hour daylight flight who needs them. The FAs are attentive ,the meals are properly served and drinks are plentiful. Best of all the cost is well below that charged for a J seat on a "full...

I cant get my head around this new VIP acquisition. Given it was an ex Jetstar A330 fitted out for cattle transport and has now been converted into what? How can it be a tanker one end and a 100 seat Prime Minister's inter continental airliner at the other end. Does it do tanker duties en route...

When Tullamarine airport was built in the late sixties the location was so far out into the country it was well beyond any residential area. The runway approaches were over open grass land where only the cows could complain. As I flew over this area in the early days I felt sure that no one...

How is beating between two engines controlled? Is it a matter of fine tuning throttle settings or is it automatic. Sitting in the back of a rear engined aircraft during takeoff is bad enough but when the engines beat against each other the effect is horrific.

If you were at say 35000 feet and did not configure, on the basis of 3.5 miles per thousand feet you could cover almost 90 miles before reaching an uncomfortable 10000 feet. This might be enough to get you to a runway of some sort. I guess the elephant in the room is a headwind. Whilst that...

Engines out seems to be a pretty popular subject on YouTube these days with one showing a full landing without any engine power. What are the gliding capabilities of say a B747 or an A380?

If you want to wreck a place just invite hordes of tourists. The intro mentions a figure of 3.5 million passengers a year expected to arrive at the new airport and we will see a Westfield in the Sacred Valley. I know that tourist dollars are a vital ingredient in many nation's budgets but in...

If I was bombarded with this type of video I would put my fingers in my ears as well as closing my eyes. Noise cancelling headphones? no good as the sound trash would be sent all over the plane. In all seriousness I am surprised that ANZ treats such a very important safety briefing in such a...

If you are hurtling down the runway after touch down and you select reverse thrust to slow up, the last thing you would want is an engine stall. Having just landed would you have time to take it back to forward idle with a view to re using it if the stall clears, or would you just leave it in...

In an article I recently read two factors caught my eye. One was that trim wheels are ancient and are no longer fitted to the B777 or B787, and the second was that the control column is made harder to pull back than to push forward. Apparently on at least one 737Max flight the pilots were able...