A380 Hudson Fysh comes home to SYD Tuesday 9th November

[jakeseven7]

Some lovely video footage here:

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Qantas A380 soars back to Sydney​

After more than 500 days gathering dust in storage first in Los Angeles and then in Dresden in Germany, a Qantas A380 superjumbo has roared back across Australian skies for the first time since 2020.

Qantas A380 soars back to Sydney after gathering dust for more than 500 days

After more than 500 days gathering dust in storage, a Qantas A380 superjumbo roars back across Australian skies for the first time since 2020.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Franky]

If you type a waypoint in to the FMC, it offers the choices, sorting them by distance. 999 times out of a thousand, the closest is the one you want. There was an accident in the early days of electric jets (a 767 I think), in which they chose the wrong one, and found a large hill in the way.

For this flight, the navigation flight plan was 9 A4 typed pages, and the NOTAMs and other messages, were 39 pages.

Good grief, do pilots have to do a speed reading course amongst all the other training that they need to do?

 

[moa999]

Interesting in Josh Cahill's latest video (about the BA A380) that they've pushed it back into service (admittedly only on Frankfurt-London) within a week of the first aircraft returning from Spain.

Whereas QF is going to spend a month going over the aircraft, and even more time on crew retraining.

 

[Mrmaxwell]

Was lucky to get an invite to the welcome home event today. It was great to see up close and appreciate this big bird!

Video HERE

 

[Princess Fiona]

Was lucky to get an invite to the welcome home event today. It was great to see up close and appreciate this big bird!

Video HERE

Super jealous. Even although I was involved through my Facebook group in giving out invites I was only able to watch wistfully as Hudson Fysh flew far above me as I was driving along the Hume Highway this afternoon.

I actually felt a bit emotional at the sight.
Given how awful it’s been over the past 18mths this at last seems to be a step forward to the resumption of what we once had.

 

[Pushka]

Was lucky to get an invite to the welcome home event today. It was great to see up close and appreciate this big bird!

Video HERE

Great photos. Great day.

I think I would have embarassed myself and broken into clapping at the sight. It is indeed a sign of return to normal. Covid normal I guess. Whatever that looks like. When the international planes all flew to be parked was the most depressing sight as that meant we were in for many months of pain.

 

[flyer89]

If you type a waypoint in to the FMC, it offers the choices, sorting them by distance. 999 times out of a thousand, the closest is the one you want. There was an accident in the early days of electric jets (a 767 I think), in which they chose the wrong one, and found a large hill in the way.

For this flight, the navigation flight plan was 9 A4 typed pages, and the NOTAMs and other messages, were 39 pages.

I think this is the one you are referring to.

American Airlines Flight 965 - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[jb747]

Good grief, do pilots have to do a speed reading course amongst all the other training that they need to do?

The 9 pages of the flight plan, will be read through, though the detail of the ATC plan and the nav plan aren’t relevant at the pilots‘ planning stage. They’re checked on the aircraft, when the ATC plan will be checked item by item against the route that has uploaded to the FMC. The total distance calculated by the FMC will then be checked against the total distance of the nav log. A tolerance of 1 nm is all that’s allowed.

The NOTAMs come in three parts, weather, important items, and a less important section. That separation has never worked well, with trivia ending up in the important section, and vice versa. Everyone reads through every item of the weather section. I used to detail an SO to each of the other parts.

The problem is that by including so much that really isn’t relevant, items that you need to know can be hidden within the dross. This has been an element in incidents around the world, with the general conclusion being that NOTAMs are written to exonerate regulators, with no consideration to how useful they are. For instance, many Australian ones would reference ‘work plans’ when talking about airport works, but without the actual work plan, they really told you nothing. But, the buck has been passed…

 

[docjames]

The flight plan shows a POB of zero, which is probably management's wet dream. I would expect it to be 4 pilots, and 2 cabin crew.

Photos prior to departure showed crew of 4 (standing on steps to board aircraft was the shot i saw online).

No sign of any cabin crew. Doesn’t mean there weren’t any - but seems strange to not include them.

 

[jb747]

Photos prior to departure showed crew of 4 (standing on steps to board aircraft was the shot i saw online).

No sign of any cabin crew. Doesn’t mean there weren’t any - but seems strange to not include them.

You don't need them to do a ferry. I've done quite a few flights with nobody down the back. In the past, they would have put two on for this sort of trip, as pilots don't normally know how to operate anything in the galleys. But, given the state of things at the moment, leaving them out is no surprise.

 

[docjames]

I meant strange not to include them in the photo if they were there and/or on the aircraft - agree why have them (travel to Germany etc) unless you absolutely needed them so no surprise they weren’t required.

You don't need them to do a ferry. I've done quite a few flights with nobody down the back. In the past, they would have put two on for this sort of trip, as pilots don't normally know how to operate anything in the galleys. But, given the state of things at the moment, leaving them out is no surprise.

 

[justinbrett]

The 9 pages of the flight plan, will be read through, though the detail of the ATC plan and the nav plan aren’t relevant at the pilots‘ planning stage. They’re checked on the aircraft, when the ATC plan will be checked item by item against the route that has uploaded to the FMC. The total distance calculated by the FMC will then be checked against the total distance of the nav log. A tolerance of 1 nm is all that’s allowed.

The NOTAMs come in three parts, weather, important items, and a less important section. That separation has never worked well, with trivia ending up in the important section, and vice versa. Everyone reads through every item of the weather section. I used to detail an SO to each of the other parts.

The problem is that by including so much that really isn’t relevant, items that you need to know can be hidden within the dross. This has been an element in incidents around the world, with the general conclusion being that NOTAMs are written to exonerate regulators, with no consideration to how useful they are. For instance, many Australian ones would reference ‘work plans’ when talking about airport works, but without the actual work plan, they really told you nothing. But, the buck has been passed…

FIR NOTAMs are the worst.

 

[Mrmaxwell]

Changing the landing gear on the a380 seems like a decent job - is this a standard every ten years requirement or perhaps specific to this aircraft?

 

[Captain Halliday]

Changing the landing gear on the a380 seems like a decent job - is this a standard every ten years requirement or perhaps specific to this aircraft?

Big enough that Rex thought it was worthy of a media release when they changed the gear on one of their 737s

 

[moa999]

Seen a report elsewhere that this aircraft has come back from DRS unrefurbed - was just the landing gear work, and will spend the next few months being refurbed in Sydney.
So good to see QF getting more engineers and maintenance staff back to full capacity before the fleet.

 

[ChrisGibbs]

Unless I am mistaken the SO on the flight is the daughter of ex RAN A4 (805???) squadron CO?

 

[jb747]

Changing the landing gear on the a380 seems like a decent job - is this a standard every ten years requirement or perhaps specific to this aircraft?

I'd expect the requirement to be based on number of landings, but roughly every 10 years from what I was told. About $13,000,000 per aircraft.

Unless I am mistaken the SO on the flight is the daughter of ex RAN A4 (805???) squadron CO?

Quite correct. Nice lady, whom I've flown with a few times on the 767 and 380.

 

[Franky]

I'd expect the requirement to be based on number of landings, but roughly every 10 years from what I was told. About $13,000,000 per aircraft.

Quite correct. Nice lady, whom I've flown with a few times on the 767 and 380.

BZ that man - and his daughter...