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All approaches, navigation, everything, has some form of tolerance. The PAPI that the airliner crew are looking at shows a range of possible approach angles, and whilst they ideally might want 2 red/ 2 white, slightly high or low would be acceptable. An older altimeter might have tolerance of...

So, they've successfully made the economy experience so bad that you (everyone) needs to upgrade.....

Probably not relevant, but I always found there was a big difference between the motion of Boeing and Airbus fuel control switches. The B was a more definite action, and very easy to operate, whereas the A seemed to be a less defined motion and so a little harder to complete. You had to think...

Well, overall I think the whole thing is somewhat tacky, but I guess I’m in the minority. As for the pilots, you can always give them an assessment of their landing. They always appreciate that.

F16. Isn’t that like being a genius. You just don’t say anything.

Rex flew three flights on most days, and two on the others. One in the early morning, one around midday, and the other in the evening. You could easily make just about any connection work. Specialists could come up in the morning, do a day or two of work, and travel home in the evening…in...

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.