Recently I witnessed an interesting occurrence on the line that has resulted in a number of queries to Boeing, and while not all the answers are back, the results so far are fascinating. Eighteen years on the aircraft and still learning, which is actually a nice place to be. Disclaimer : Normally I try to […]
Fourteen months ago I commenced a Type Rating on the BAe146 aircraft. After 20 years on the Boeing 777 it was something of a reset. Almost the first thing I did after checkout in the simulator was to travel to Cologne, Germany to Test fly and deliver an additional BAe146-300 aircraft to Australia. Yet another […]
Ok, so if you’ve read some of what I’ve written in the past, you’ll know I’m not actually pro-Apple. Let’s get that right out in front, so we can move on with what I want to say. Because what I want to talk about is a recent Apple tech support query which was … downright […]
After an 8 month hiatus – I returned to flying in August to the Los Angele route. On my first trip, I noticed that during the return sector from LA we had burnt more fuel than I could readily account for, and the FMC Progress Page Calculated Fuel was somewhat lower than the Totalizer fuel […]
