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Very interesting read. A mate was paxing on it, so I got a heads up. I think it was the first 380 I’ve seen fly past my home in about 4...

No, though there are some spoiler panels that are controlled by an individual computer. Loss of that computer means loss of those...

I use the flight plan, most times, it's pretty much all it's good for.

By the sidewalls. And they’re big enough to hold large water bottles. The most likely explanation is that he was additional crew...

I’d say that’s accurate. This helped me with my type rating.

It means you'd probably eat into the fixed reserve. There comes a time when you may not be able to go around. If you just flew a quick...

I doubt that there's really anything new in aviation, so I'm sure that it's been done before, and probably will be again. Pins are...

And the workaround to that is to simply use an alternate that is close. For instance Stansted or Gatwick for London. They're so close...

Contingency fuel is sometimes planned, but any 'contingencies' are generally carried within the variable fuel. Basically that's 10% of...

It may increase the duct pressure, and that should increase the air flow through the packs. I don't know whether the amount would be...

Unless I had a vast amount of fuel, I'd bug out as soon as I heard something like that. And worth considering the situation of aircraft...

We’d started taxiing to RWY34R and were just past Shep’s Mound when the ground stop happened. From that position we could see the fire...

Not really. If you left the aircraft sitting on the ground, with nothing else on but the APU, it would be the first tank to empty. In...

Previously many airlines have been mixing the 330 and 350. I thought this was an accident waiting to happen as their only similarity is...

ound. The flight manuals contain sequences for the external preflight. Whilst much of it is common sense items like leaks and tyre...