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The focus has definitely moved from a heavy checking environment to a training one. This is a really good thing in my opinion as it's relaxing crew a lot more. The idea is that we are just rocking up to work like any other day. So really anything can happen on any given day. Know your memory...

I can definitely see where you're coming from. I would prefer to turn away from high terrain at all costs if the aircraft was still flying well. Over the ocean if gives us a lot more room to fly around. However, until there is some sort of controllability issue, I'd rather not fly up through a...

Yep. That’s exactly what we would fly too on 34L/R. In CNS on 15 it’s, by the departure end of the runway and you make a left turn to track north east and climb away. The 737 has a restriction that whenever we are below V2+15kts that we need to limit the bank angle to 15°. This means that in...

It doesn’t matter. It’s the same procedure. Our procedures off runway 34L/R are to maintain runway track until we reach the minimum safe altitude and then we can ask for vectors to go somewhere out of the way to do checklists.

Yes it is. What happened today was pretty much textbook in the sim. Engine severe damage at V1 and then come back around, and land. So we waited on the ground for an hour (with engines running) until QF520 landed and the runway was clear. They had to clean up a bit of fuel that had spilled...

I was taxiing down Charlie to 34L and something caught my eye on the 737 that just didn’t seem right. They looked much slower and a lot lower than normal. I noticed a bit of smoke coming from the runway but couldn’t quite see and that it was either coming from Foreshore Dr or a boat was on fire...

Is this why you see the “stirring of the pot”?

Yep this annoys us as much as it does passengers too. Especially coming back from DPS lately into SYD. Had one every week for the last 3 weeks and every time we had been put on the stand off bays just near the QF Jet base. The running joke is that it could be just a monetary thing, although I...

My university degree in aviation management didn’t help me at all during Covid. I agree with JB, if they’re going to go to university then go and do something non aviation related. As far as there being a “better” way, I’m not sure I believe there is a best way to become a pilot. I was washed...

They definitely wouldn’t allow that. It’s on the 737. A mate of mine just got to A330 FO after 7yrs in the back seat.

I honestly don't know about that. I haven't heard anything like that happening before. The spoilers on the ends (closest to the fuselage and outboard near the ailerons) are the ground spoilers. After landing, the captain initiates the scan for the FO by retracting the speedbrakes. We don't have...

Nothing too special about the ATR specifically, I actually tried it in the Saab when another aircraft parked off their line and there wasn’t enough room to power out. The thing here is not to use the brakes to stop but you’ll need to come out of Beta range (reverse) and power forward...

Money would be a big driver for only having minimum crew. The maximum we could do in a single duty is 10.5hrs of flying with 2 crew. Controlled rest works by one pilot effectively napping (not sleeping) for a maximum of 20-30mins at a time. Any more and you go into sleep inertia and wake up...

It would make sense for 3 but no, it’s all done 2 crew. So we manage our fatigue with periods of controlled rest.

I’ll be on leave for most of January unfortunately. I’ve got nothing this month to HND but might see if there’s another one for me in Nov. I have a feeling it’s getting competitive now that they’ve decided to close the route and people are opting in to fly it.

Was a first for me as well…

We will select a number of miles to start with when going off the route. Then once we’re happy to come back we can either request a waypoint to track to or ATC will give us one. In the second diversion we were 300nm off the route. To then come back onto the flight plan route would cost us more...

The MAX is great on fuel. Block time home was 8hrs 12mins and we still landed with about 2hrs on top of our fixed reserve fuel. Pax loads were light so the aircraft was just sipping the gas at the other end. The diversion cost us about 800kg or 50mins of fuel.

It was actually really good. Day one was a killer to get to CNS though (SYD BNE PPP BNE CNS). The trip to HND itself was really good. Really took me back to my long haul days and using CPDLC (datalink - a text messaging service with ATC) again. The way up was quite uneventful and at 7hrs...

I haven’t encountered it no, and neither has anyone else that I’ve spoken to. I wouldn’t think many people would even realise they’re on it. VA make no reference to the word MAX in any of the comms as far as I’m aware.