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JB with QF 32 in Singapore accident I understand one of the engines took a long time to shut down . Do you know if any changes were made to the systems to avoid the same problem in the future?

Hi JB. With QF 30 did you have any issues the engines as a result of the explosion that would have tested your sim training experience. Also on BA 009 in 1982 with the 4 engine flameout how difficult would the plane be to fly with engines coming online and then off-line?

Not an airport and I am not sure if it true but the story is about Dallas airport and the taxiway layout. The taxiways with the identifer Y or better know as Yankee is the most northly taxiway and it was called that as the Yankee's always come from the north.

China Airlines is normally good value and the hard product on the a350 is good. The food and soft product is a bit hit and miss. The flights are overnight from and to Australia and the flight arrives at 5am on the way up. That is the only real drawback. Tawain is a nice stopover with really...

Our work policy is to use a knock-o-meter or gentle persuader a few times on the key parts when disposing of IT components.Using a hammer is good therapy when you realise you wasted money 😀

With the airtags some airlines like JAL do not allow you to have them in your luggage. So always check the airlines policy😀

JB when VH OJA was retired to Wollongong I understand that the plane had minimum fuel levels. I was wondering when doing short flights like this or flights like Melbourne to Avalon do the normal fuel rules apply for diversion airports ?

Qantas , Air New Zealand, Cathy Pacific and being cheeky scoot I think offer PE. Is there any more ?

Just to go back to the JAL part I think that JAL will have a spare 777 when the A350 is put on the New York run. The spare aircraft is doing the Sydney run.

I was wondering does the weight of the wing ( being full of fuel) make any difference to the lifting capacity of the wing? Does the fuel in a wing dampen the twisting of the wing? Is there a preference for the distribution of the fuel in wing as you are using up the fuel beyond balancing the...

Mine is right down the back. Two hopes. The first the flight is not full so the middle seat is empty Second they let you off the back door The first works most of the time and the second works in Sydney and Brisbane but not Melbourne for me😀

Hi JB . I think Qantas has flown 1 stop on the 747 and/or A380 to London via Singapore, Bangkok, Dubai , Mumbai and Hong Kong from Sydney and Melbourne. I can't remember if the A380 went via Darwin 😀 My questions are Via which city was the most efficient with fuel use for the whole...

When travelling in PE I found the hard product to be the most important thing. My biggest issue is that the seats normally slide forward so at 194 cm my knees get sqashed in the seat ahead. The soft product is not so important. Some airlines just give you economy food while others have a...

Overnight,for us , there has been flooding at Frankfurt Airport. I was wondering how deep the water has to be before taxiing, takeoff and landing becomes too hard. https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-66533844

Hi JB . There's were 2 articles about the same plane , vh oqi, flying QF1 and 2. For QF 1 I was wondering with the autopilot failure would the captain allocate different roles to normal and would someone be allocated the role to resolve the problem or would the pilots just fly the plane...

Last Friday (21st July) I was on a 737 QF 541 from Brisbane to Sydney and we only got to 24 thousand feet. The plane's previous flight was at 37k and the next flight was at about 28k. Would there be a reason or were just luck that ATC wanted us to get such such a close up view of the clouds as...

It is called fiscal policy and governments of all persuasions will tell you that the central bank is independent and that they can do nothing about monetary policy.

Will the Virgin flights to Tokyo only need two pilots or will there be a third? If a third is needed how would that be arranged as virgin does not have 2nd officers.

I was wondering for flights to and from America with the recent weather and closure of Auckland would you still consider Christchurch as an alternative or would you go a little further north of new Zealand to avoid the weather and avoid the congestion caused by flights being diverted. On qf 12...

I would like to tell you what cheese my wife off at the airport... it is me...it is little things like: Why do I need to check the regos? Why do I want to I want to take photos of every plane we pass? Why do I want to go to a gate that is at the other end of the airport to see that plane...