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Generally the Captain, but if the saw something in close, then the FO would. You talk to each other about things you're seeing, so a go around shouldn't be a total surprise. No. Probably clean up back to flap 2, and gear up. But, the only go around that I ever did there in a 380 was for a gear...

No. It's one hour more than on the timetable. The flight plan is redone for every flight and the actual timing will vary. It's difficult to say without seeing their actual flight plan. Do they normally take off at max take off weight, or is there some margin? How much fuel to they normally plan...

Yep the free long service first class tickets were so good that I abandoned them. Scam of some sort.

I consider both of these people extremely unreliable. GT hangs around the periphery of aviation like a bad smell. He is not an expert. The other bloke is behind a supposed method of tracking the missing Malaysian flight. The veracity of that method, and of the experiments behind it, is the...

For the actual approach, or the landing? The only aircraft that I've ever flown in which you used bank instead of drift to offset the wind during the approach was the A-4. But, it also didn't have a flare (at all) so landing it wasn't actually comparable to airliners. None of the airliners...

Weather and fuel planning doesn't work on the basis of "there's a typhoon", let's carry an alternate. The forecast will be broken up into periods in which the cloud, visibility, wind etc will all be forecast. If any of those elements goes below the alternate criteria, and is there for the...

Takeoff was always done with the autothrottle, though it made very little difference. It just rolls the power to the target, then locks itself out. The 380 was a bit more complex with a pause along the way. Landing in the 767 and 747 was always done with manual thrust, unless you were doing an...

You are assuming he had a choice. For instance, if the airport required an hour of holding, that amounts to about 8, 000 kgs for a 747-8. So, on arrival he has the mandated holding, and that probably gives him a couple of close diversions. As the time passes, whether he is holding or flying an...

Some may, but generally it will be external power carts, not some fixed infrastructure.

The 747 can be landed with all drift intact, and this is a bloke for whom removing it is apparently a bridge too far. Taking the drift out involves an input of rudder, which will give a secondary effect of roll (in the direction you don't want), which has to be countered by an aileron input. All...

So that they can turn the APU/air conditioning off, and save a lot of fuel, without it becoming too hot.

Without knowing why they've had the delays, you can be sure that your connection will NOT be a consideration in any future delay.

Even when looking out, it's not necessarily all that reliable. Unalerted see and be seen is just an accident going somewhere to happen. But even when you know an aircraft is there, it's not all that easy to find them, and various factors of coughpit design, and even your eye's design, work...

Which is why there has never been a mid air collision in the entire history of aviation whilst employing "see and avoid".

Yes, and no. The EBA structure does work like that, and has done so ever since QF merged with TAA. But, all that means is that there are two different pay structures, and sets of rules. The pilots can, and do, change from one to the other other. 737 FOs all come from the SO ranks on long haul...

To be honest, the uniform is something they should be listening to staff on. They didn't last time, so I have little reason to expect they will this time. The current pilot uniform is universally despised. People who took the time to attend the design meetings were uninvited if they didn't...

QF, under various leaders, has separated the "group" into various entities that don't cross over. Presumably these aircraft are being flown by mainline pilots, in which case it's an entirely new aircraft type. Now, there's no shortage of Airbus experience within mainline, but it's all on the...

Ibis. Short walk. Pretty cheap. I used it a lot when working.

I don't think they'll have the slightest trouble defining power banks and spare batteries. People will want to argue, and but as far as I know, nobody has ever won any argument about what they should be allowed to carry.

We now will go through a cycle of normally reasonable people attempting to work out how they can circumvent these rules. They will slowly tighten (or rapidly if there is a bad fire) until power banks are completely banned for carriage.