For the aviation fans

[Bateleur1]

At the risk of upsetting some folks, I struggle to grasp how these peeps do this crap for real. Honestly, I do the real actual flights and peeps do it on a sim.........goodness how *** your life must be to do a real time transatlantic flight on a sim.........seriously!! As long as you sit in a dark cupboard to make it more real!!

Okay, so I can’t say certain words, bloody hell, what has the world come to, realy K.A.K is not included......eikona wena!

 

Edited for grumpiness due language!

 

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.

[kosmonooit]

This latest version of MS Flight Sim uses actual satellite images of the ground pulled off servers which takes virtual flying to another level: the 3D simulated surface of FSX never did it for me but it remains to be seen how realistic it will simulate it in 3D say if you want to do some mountain flying, which I certainly would like to do.

 

Back in the day i used to practice my skills by flying in between the twin towers of the World  Trade Centre ... little did know.

[Spokey]

Yep - there were exhibits that were really unexpected- such as the DH Sea Vixen (not Bronco), as that was never widely used, and certainly not by Australia Apart from that you had a perfect strike rate.

 

The others were a P2 Neptune, the split flaps of a Canberra, and the interior of a DHC-4 Caribou. 

 

The F111 is an impressive aircraft - much larger than I would have thought, and to think it was capable of  Mach 2.5.

 

F111 has an interesting method of ejection. The entire cockpit comes off as a sealed escape pod. The RAAF had a wonderful airshow sequence where they dumped fuel and ignited it with the afterburners....impressive to see I would imagine!

[Long Wheel Base]

When we get to play in the sim here at work we usually take off from Cape Town, do a circuit over the ocean and land again. It takes like 10 min. No radios, no other aircraft in the sky. Half the time we don't even put full motion on as apparently some people get sick and they don't like people getting sick in the sim. Fun for that short period but anything more and I will rather just go fix something.

[Bateleur1]

F111 has an interesting method of ejection. The entire cockpit comes off as a sealed escape pod. The RAAF had a wonderful airshow sequence where they dumped fuel and ignited it with the afterburners....impressive to see I would imagine!

 

Called dump and burn ..

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpPEdOMSIgQ

[Capricorn]

how nervous does it make you when you read stuff about Mango airlines being serviced with parts supplied by criminals ?

 

I guess it's only a problem when the plane starts falling out of the sky.

[kosmonooit]

F111 still in active service there?

 

Retired in 2010 according to the interweb, replaced by F18

 

Designed in the 1960's

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics_F-111C

 

 

http://ab.lattimore.id.au/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/dsc_0157_cropped.jpg

Edited October 7, 2019 by kosmonooit

[kosmonooit]

how nervous does it make you when you read stuff about Mango airlines being serviced with parts supplied by criminals ?

 

I guess it's only a problem when the plane starts falling out of the sky.

 

No surprise given the supply chain has been subject to BEE etc

 

The fundamental problem with this policy is that the scrutiny, checks & balances are removed and replaced by delusions of entitlement.

[Capricorn]

No surprise given the supply chain has been subject to BEE etc

 

The fundamental problem with this policy is that the scrutiny, checks & balances are removed and replaced by delusions of entitlement.

same thing going on in Eskom. Tthe bane of every SOC it seems

[Long Wheel Base]

how nervous does it make you when you read stuff about Mango airlines being serviced with parts supplied by criminals ?

 

I guess it's only a problem when the plane starts falling out of the sky.

SO SO SO SO sad. You have no idea how embarrassed I feel sometimes to say I work for SAAT. I just wish we could get rid of all these corrupt b@st#rds and get on with doing our jobs. There are still damn good technicians working here who do their jobs properly and honestly. I draw a spare out of our store, it's not my job to check where it comes from, as long as I have a servicable label and a picking slip I should have no reason to suspect otherwise. Clearly I should. We use a program called AMOS, it's probably one of the biggest aviation software companies in the world. Majority of aviation companies use it, clearly these criminals have found a way to "jippo" the system.

[patham]

Retired in 2010 according to the interweb, replaced by F18

 

Designed in the 1960's

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics_F-111C

 

 

http://ab.lattimore.id.au/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/dsc_0157_cropped.jpg

 

Yep - that's what the information boards on the museum said. I gather there were about 13 airframes that were decommissioned and cleaned up for museum display. The rest met a sad end - landfill.

 

https://airforcesmonthly.keypublishing.com/2011/11/28/final-23-retired-raaf-f-111s-buried-in-landfill-site/

[Bateleur1]

SO SO SO SO sad. You have no idea how embarrassed I feel sometimes to say I work for SAAT. I just wish we could get rid of all these corrupt b@st#rds and get on with doing our jobs. There are still damn good technicians working here who do their jobs properly and honestly. I draw a spare out of our store, it's not my job to check where it comes from, as long as I have a servicable label and a picking slip I should have no reason to suspect otherwise. Clearly I should. We use a program called AMOS, it's probably one of the biggest aviation software companies in the world. Majority of aviation companies use it, clearly these criminals have found a way to "jippo" the system.

 

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.

[SwissVan]

This latest version of MS Flight Sim uses actual satellite images of the ground pulled off servers which takes virtual flying to another level: the 3D simulated surface of FSX never did it for me but it remains to be seen how realistic it will simulate it in 3D say if you want to do some mountain flying, which I certainly would like to do.

 

Back in the day i used to practice my skills by flying in between the twin towers of the World Trade Centre ... little did know.

You are now the #1 hubber on the watch list....

[SwissVan]

SO SO SO SO sad. You have no idea how embarrassed I feel sometimes to say I work for SAAT. I just wish we could get rid of all these corrupt b@st#rds and get on with doing our jobs. There are still damn good technicians working here who do their jobs properly and honestly. I draw a spare out of our store, it's not my job to check where it comes from, as long as I have a servicable label and a picking slip I should have no reason to suspect otherwise. Clearly I should. We use a program called AMOS, it's probably one of the biggest aviation software companies in the world. Majority of aviation companies use it, clearly these criminals have found a way to "jippo" the system.

In reality the local authorities (SACAA) should be jumping all over them for stuff like this, and the same when they are audited by by EASA or FAA.

 

AMOS.... our company uses it, personally I hate it.

It has to be the most complicated system I’ve ever come across. But like all systems, what you put in in is what you get out... junk in junk out

[Long Wheel Base]

In reality the local authorities (SACAA) should be jumping all over them for stuff like this, and the same when they are audited by by EASA or FAA.

 

AMOS.... our company uses it, personally I hate it.

It has to be the most complicated system I’ve ever come across. But like all systems, what you put in in is what you get out... junk in junk out

So you guys also think its complicated. Here I thought it was just they way we got trained to use it. I have mastered the art of the APNs I use. Being shop based I mostly use 1084, 1085, 565, 147, 184, 2015, 1418. It was mostly through trial and error and lots of playing in playpen. Do you have access to APN 687?This is the best APN on AMOS.

I do feel AMOS is a good system but it needs to be streamlined IMHO. With so many companies using it, it has to be a liked system around the world.

We used MEMIS before AMOS, now that was a pile of rubbish.

[SwissVan]

So you guys also think its complicated. Here I thought it was just they way we got trained to use it. I have mastered the art of the APNs I use. Being shop based I mostly use 1084, 1085, 565, 147, 184, 2015, 1418. It was mostly through trial and error and lots of playing in playpen. Do you have access to APN 687?This is the best APN on AMOS.

I do feel AMOS is a good system but it needs to be streamlined IMHO. With so many companies using it, it has to be a liked system around the world.

We used MEMIS before AMOS, now that was a pile of rubbish.

 

 

687 ist verboten 

As i'm in planning I use the maint forecast 1844 mostly, along with CAMP 

 

Edited October 7, 2019 by SwissVan