Bateleur1

Did Airbus buy Bomardier?

Saw a documentry on German TV about inspectors at Frankfurt airport. Seems they inspect all aircraft landing there. If there are any issues the relevant airline needs to sort it out and may get fined for it. Should the problem be big enough they aircraft may not takeoff before it is repaired. If the airline is a repeat offender they might even be stopped from entering German airspace.

They can put that in their pipe and smoke it. Well said.

THis should be posted on the flat earthers thread

This I must try this winter

Aren't SAA aircraft on lease? Then I am sure they could organise things and as Lotus said, Airbus ain't stupid. The fact is however for SAA to be more profitable they will need more fuel economical aircraft. Those A340-600 served their purpose but they are compared to the latest aicraft heavy fuel burners. They could rather use the last of those 340-600 on the short haul flights were they can be less loaded with fuel and normally you can charge a bit more per head.

What do you see when you strap a gopro to an eagle? Some nice videos ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI63Rbxml5U

Think reposting this should be appropriate just about now ...

RT is the Russian propaganda channel so sure the tweeked the truth juuuust a small bit.

Well I am throwing up of envy ...#JustSaying

Don't forget about BoneyM

And here we complain about VW parts prices Phokkit

I am also thinking they are speaking foreign here.

He went to the braai for one reason and one reason only ... to brag.

Is this you Hairy? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntvyMfRPKBM

This is the sad part of so many SOC and government departments. There are still those that try do to their job well and are actually passionate about their jobs, but the upper levels of the organisation is stuffed. As I saw this news article I was reminded of a friend of ours who is an aviation engineer. He was working at Boeing when 9/11 happened and Boeing cut all contractor positions at the time. So our friend had to move back to SA for a short while. While staying here he took a contract position with General Electric who is one of the bigger Aircraft leasing companies in the world. This was in the time when most of the SAA 747 were handed back to GE. So our friend was contracted by GE to check all the QA docs and makes sure all is in place. He just said afterwards he would not fly SAA. Not that he was worried about the technical capabilities of the airline wrt to people working on the aircraft and the pilots but that the QA was a mess and they were then already taking short cuts where it should not have happened.

Called dump and burn .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpPEdOMSIgQ

Fully agree. I am itching out of curiosity to see the capabilities of the software but to do a cross atlantic for real is time that I simply not have. What is more scary is peeps record their flights and post it on youtube. I think it takes boredom to the next level. As LWB said, you can play an hour or two but then thats it.

I think not.

I beleive there are also guys who do ATC in the virtual world and might even be connected to those flying flights sims. Its like there is a whole virtual aviation world out there.

A co-worker at my previous company is quite big on flightsim. Got a whole multimonitor setup at home and from the sound of it spends quite a bit of time on it. I am itching a bit to try it out as well

When I was a youngster SAA had an open day and I remember being in one of the fligh simulators where the Pilot/Instructor said that the pilots used to practise extensively in the simulator for Kai Tak as it was at the time the most difficult international airport to land. Some good clips here ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PCOcyt7BPI

Well with all this focus on climate change, Germany is now boasting with the airport with the lowest CO2 emissions in Europe

Wha ha. Then I present to you ... the new Berlin Airport. Took 15 years to design, construction started in 2006. Was due to open Oct 2011. We are now 8 years later and they are hoping it would be completed by 2021. The new Berlin Aiport is the biggest joke in Germany.

There is quite a few of the smaller European airlines in trouble. Condor is a bigger airline that got left high and dry by Thomas Cook going down being a sister company to them. It is actually a very profitable company but got left in trouble with Thomas Cook going down. The German Government will lend the 380 mil EUR now that should pull them through.