It had to be today....

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I had to pick the QF12 service today over the QF108 and what do I get?? A nice diversion to Auckland. Probably the first time in a while where 108 will beat 12 into sydney. There goes the morning meetings with an eta into sydney of 1130 :(:(
 
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My cabinetmaker just arrived and told me that he was supposed to meet his daughter at SYD this morning on QF12 but he received a text message from her saying that "the GPS sent the plane to New Zealand instead". I tried telling him that QF doesn't use a TomTom for navigation but he's an old Italian so what do you do...
 
Homer said:
I tried telling him that QF doesn't use a TomTom for navigation but he's an old Italian so what do you do...
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Both your tom tom and the GPS in an airgraft use exactly the same system and satellites, its just the specs and the maps that vary a bit though, and I have never heard a plane request me to make a u turn where possible :mrgreen:, although there are some places where I wish it had!
 
CH7 4:30 news reported a faulty weather radar forcing the plane to follow an Air NZ flight into AKL.

Usual beatup about safety fears to go with it......
 
See here also. Some tenuous links, and not sure what the bit about 'near
misses' is

Qantas jet &squo;piggybacks&squo; Pacific | The Daily Telegraph

A QANTAS flight was forced to "piggyback" an Air New Zealand plane and divert to Auckland after its weather antenna stopped working three hours out of Los Angeles.

In the latest example of Qantas' near misses, over 280 passengers on board flight QF 12 arrived in Sydney four hours late today after repairs to the aircraft in New Zealand.
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A journalists definition of a near miss is when another aircraft can be seen from yours, its called the big sky theory:rolleyes:
 
markis10 said:
A journalists definition of a near miss is when another aircraft can be seen from yours, its called the big sky theory:rolleyes:
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Actually, that would be a full miss. A true near miss would mean they actually hit :p.
 
So infact what we are talking about is a near-hit :D
 
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In a rare and extraordinary sight, passengers earlier awoke to a high-altitude dawn with a close-up view of the Air New Zealand jet off their left wing.
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Is it rare?:shock:

I have seen other aircraft quite often when flying PER-SYD.

Maybe I have just been lucky to spot them, usually at night and you can see their lights.

ejb
 
Not rare at all i would not think, from MEL when the BA, SQ, and QF flights all used to leave within a few minutes of each other they used to shall we say have a race, one night i even asked the cabin crew to ask the pilot who was beside us... he replied that it was the BA plane we just overtook and we took off atleast 10 mintes after them :D

(i am thinking it was MEL-SIN .... but maybe i am thinking SIN-LHR)

I have seen it many times on some of these routes.

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