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If you wanted to go direct it would be UA or DL. Otherwise staff travel being mostly luck you could try, HA, AC, NZ, FJ, CX, etc.

The lounges are usually in a better spot than the crew rooms are. Before administration it was blasphemy to wear our full uniform in both the lounge and business class. After that, it was deemed ok to not have to put a jumper on (although I still do). The lounges are not to be used for our...

I guess the thing that surprised me the most when starting out was the fact that I got my first real lesson in English when I sat for my first CASA exam for the PPL.

If the cabin altitude reaches 10,000ft a warning horn sounds with a red light directly in front of the pilots. This was added after the Helios accident because the crew got confused as the it’s the same horn as the take off warning configuration. As a side note, the masks will only...

The CVR in the MAX can record for 25hrs vs just 2 for the NG. There is a recorder independent power supply that provides power to the CVR for 10mins after the aircraft is shut down. Not sure why they would pull the breaker for it. The recording for the CVR will usually start again during the...

Yes that’s my understanding of it and why I was so confused when I read that too. Of course I can’t find anything that would lead me to believe the door would just fly open. Unless electrical power was lost, the door will remain locked. So I’ll be waiting and watching to see what gets “put in...

All comms occur via the headsets or the speakers and hand held mic if you’ve taken your headset off. There is no phone like the 777.

The pressure panels will open. And by open I mean just fall out from the inside. They are still attached by straps. In the event of a door jam you can unlock the release pins and then the whole panel will come off and you can then get out from the flight deck into the cabin. Straight from the...

There are destination alternates and en route alternates. We don’t always need to carry a destination alternate if that airport has multiple non intersecting runways. Diversions into Guam and Saipan don’t require additional TSA requirements provided no local personnel need to access the cabin...

May not always be NRT. Here are the other destination alternate airports considered: SDJ - Sendai NGO - Nagoya KIX - Kansai

Absolutely and then during some cyclics too to revise.

A sudden decompression like that would mean that something big has let go. The procedure would be for the Capt to become pilot flying and the FO to be the pilot monitoring. The reason for this is because the pressurisation panel is above the FO’s head. Of course there is nothing stopping the...

Was this accompanied with a PA from the flight crew saying “cabin crew prepare for landing” or something of the sort? Given the weather around the country at the moment it could have something to do with it and getting cabin crew seated shortly thereafter?

Just a serviceability check of all the radios and navigation equipment. We’ll then advise ATC and the company on arrival to get an engineer to look it over after landing.

Haha we’re talking about a 737 here. Redundancy is not a thing apparently. Most models only have one radar antennae. Having said that, Silk Air must’ve paid extra because all of those frames have duplicate systems. We will choose the L or R depending on who is flying when operating a Silk Air...

Not common, but it happens. If the actual radar itself is broken, then the flight can’t depart if there is any potential hazardous conditions along the route. In other words, wait for a clear day with no storms and/or rain. As for things to make it work again? That would be the function of an...

No decision height, but a landmark for class G airspace. The rules just say the preceding aircraft needs to be clear of the runway before the following aircraft crosses the threshold. So, yes it was close but still ok to land as crossing the fence is before the threshold and the bizjet had...

Controlled airspace closures. Aircraft are still permitted to transit the area but it is no longer controlled. The designated area reverts to Traffic Information Broadcast by Aircraft (TIBA). Pilots must make mandatory reports, try not to change level inside the airspace (unless operationally...

Only a couple of sims and just an online presentation with an exam at the end.

They are 26K engines but Boeing have written it as the MCT rating of 25K just to confuse us on the FMC and in the manuals. In actual fact they provide slightly more take off thrust than a 26K engine. We use default CLB settings unless we require a higher setting. CLB-2 is just way too slow for...