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My wife, very sensibly, banned me from flying anything after I retired from the airline. Given some subsequent events, she was quite correct. So, to fulfill my flying needs, I got deeply into a flight sim game called DCS. One of those nice friendly ones, where you shoot others down. So, now I...

Well, AV will be the master of these sectors, though we did some in the 767, and even occasionally in the 747. Singapore to KL was about 20 minutes. You'd get the arrival information before takeoff, and have the expected arrival loaded. It's easy enough to change if necessary. And you'd brief...

A manufacturer may apply reduced crosswind limits on a wet runway, but your rudder usage is normal. Just use what you need. But at lower speeds, where nose gear steering is doing the work (roughly once below about 30 knots), you need to limit the rate and degree of any application. It's not...

A couple of months after never.

If you actually follow the procedures, then yes. Watching a CW Lemoine youtube, for which he has translations of the coughpit conversations up to the loss of electricity, then there was no CRM or procedural effort at all. There is no hurry or need to rush into doing anything. And you don’t...

Nobody talks to corporate.

Which makes me wonder why they ever got into bed with the RAAF in the first place.

A note today to the effect that the Temora museum is winding back the aircraft that are being flown. In particular the jets (Meteor, Vampire, Dragonfly and Canberra) are going to disappear from the flying displays. I know that their rarity makes them extremely difficult to keep in the air, but...

Just looks like a bitumen dust seal. The local road gang should be able to do that.

Well, there's certainly some who rank highly on his list that I never liked sharing the airspace with.

Go in the evening. Never sit inside.

Long time since I've looked at 767 MELs. A search on the net shows a couple of variations, but it seems that it is allowed to be totally u/s. There's various conditions applied, for instance the runway must be dry, and there are performance adjustments to be made. I'm actually surprised that it...

You need to be careful with this sort of comment. The conditions other aircraft have encountered, has very little relevance to what you may encounter. Rather like tossing a coin. The previous result does not affect the next throw.

His and hers. VW T-Roc R and GTI.

It's a rabbit hole of "what went wrong", if you don't have any real information. Assuming the landing was normal (well, normal for a 767), then you don't start with any heavy landing damage. The brakes are gently applied during wheel retraction, but that pressure will be released immediately...

I'd already saved enough points to get a trip when I retired, but the subsequent devaluations, and changes to sign on bonuses, as well as apparent scarcity of actual seats, make the effort pretty futile these days.

A comment that has come up, but for which there’s no verification, is that the tyres blew almost immediately after landing. The auto brake activates very quickly, but it does not normally command all that much braking. It tries for a deceleration rate, and most landings use it at the minimum...

The anti skid system requires approximately 800 extra metres for the landing calculation. 9,000' would probably still be okay, on a dry runway. The system normally provided individual protection to each wheel. There is a backup mode in which it works for wheel pairs across a bogie. I'm not...

Most of the time, we didn't even order. Stuff just came, and we eventually paid the bill. There were various theories as to how the bill was worked out, but $30 flag fall, and $30 per hour seemed to work. When Fatty was alive, it was even less possible to work out, and probably varied depending...

A heavy landing is not going to cause this. Or, if it did, the tyres won’t be the only thing broken. He’s burst all of the tyres, which is a good effort. They look to have been worn through, so brake lockup. Normally you’d expect the anti-skid to ensure you can’t do this, so for whatever...