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Would their job be worth aspiring to…? For those thinking of building their own A380(etc) or 777(etc), this selection of gear is quite amazing. It would have been really useful back in the days when I was first learning about FMCs. winwingsim.com

At a guess, ATC manning issues, resulting in closure of some airspace. Or, as an alternative, they were lost. Were the other flights mentioned, earlier, or at the same time?

Engagement surveys are, at best management b/s. I'm sure they cost money, but they go on and on, year after year. A recent question and response (which I stole off a QF forum): Q. Describe, in a few words, what you like best about the company. A. V1.

Like all things, they vary. There have been some outstanding ones, and others about as useful as a chock. Mostly in my time they were pretty decent though.

Unless things have changed dramatically, as a pilot you never have any interaction with HR. About the one time I can recall them calling me, my response was of two words, and I never heard from them again. Re standby though, you’re supposed to make sure your phone is charged! If you need to...

What is very much forbidden is making any serviceable system unserviceable, just so that you can apply an MEL. And in this case, making a working warning system U/S, because you don't like the readings, is beyond dumb. I can see that an MEL may be appropriate for a vibration monitoring system...

It was stable, and I'm sure they were prepared for things to get worse. QF long haul FO's are legally allowed to be acting in command in the cruise, so you could reasonably expect the FO/SO to be able to handle things. It becomes an assessment of whether having that break will make a difference...

Quite a few of the pictures are mine.

The wikipedia article is pretty good. It was roughly 10 tonnes lighter than planned, but honestly that would be barely noticeable when looking at an overall weight of around 120 tonnes. Also, at the time, the 767 was very new, and at all weights it was quite sporty compared to previous...

It was a 767 operation. Last one I can find in my logbook was in 98. It was a fun little sector, that you had to brief the arrival for at the same time as the departure. There were no slips in KL. You operated through to Singapore or Oz. My only slip in KL was around 1990, when we operated a...

Sometimes. Call it 50% of the time.

They certainly do. You might even need to consider the known areas of turbulence whilst writing the roster. Not really. Basically, if you need to call someone back from the crew rest, then things are happening which will probably preclude you getting to destination anyway, so the roster goes by...

If you aren't in a control seat, there's a limit to how much influence you can have.

The longest, predictably, was Dallas to Sydney, which clocked in at 16:58. There were a number of others, (Sydney-Dubai) that were in the 16:45 region, though I expect they had appreciable holding. It's not just flight time that you need to consider, but duty period. Even back on the 747, I hit...

AV, how to they run the rosters with the MAX? Do you chop and change during the day, or stick to the one variant for a while?

I'm not normally a fan of the talking head aviation reports, but Hoover does a pretty good job.

400 volts. Convert that..... If a seat charger trips, it will most likely trip power for the entire seating row, not just that seat.

Yes, but you're talking about commercial's view of things. As a passenger, I'd go to some trouble to avoid these flights.

Isn’t one of the major attractions of SQ (et al) the fact that they don’t generally fly single aisle jets on long routes.

It's all quite doable, but my point is that it would not be cheap. And as best I can gather the aim is cheap flights, not convenience. I doubt that it would have either.