military cohousing at skeyes

Hear! Hear! Did I miss something?

Of course. What else would you have expected?

[[ excuse me for nit-picking ... ]] s/seased/ceased/ in the thread title?

Guilty, your honour.

The trick is not to allow pilots to choose their speed :lol: WHAAhahahaha! :lol: Could a modern aircraft fly a track, just as easily? I cannot speak about modern planes, but from a programmer's point of view it would be a lot easier. I have over and again insisted that, in the 21st century, magneti...

I stand corrected, André, thanks.

In brief: local government appoints new "president" (CEO?) at airport management company; said person has a past in one trade union but many (most?) people working at the airport belong to another union. His linguistical capacities are also questioned: he should have good Italian and French, but no ...

Thanks for info, @Rwandair. Particularly surprising to me to see South African Airways only fifth - surely they lost a lot of traffic, then, recently? Weren't they a major carrier at one time, perhaps even Africa's biggest?

Subsidies are not an investment (if I may be excused for "nitpicking" as some call it). They come on the operations side of the balance sheet; investments come on the active/passive pages.

"... plans to spend" might be better wording.

Oh, was this about a Dutch airline? Good reminder!
[ / sarcasm ]

"State" aid? It has been rightly pointed out that Brussels Airport is a private independent commercial operator. At least in theory

Never ceases to bewilder me how certain countries seem to be inviting disasters like this by allowing housing so nearby, and on the runway axis. Quite common in Africa, but Californians are good at it, too. Accidents waiting to happen, sadly.

The Italian taxpayer is rich but not indefinitely That touches on politics, sadly but unavoidably. In Italy like in certain other countries, there is a marked separation between richer areas, that bring in the majority of tax money (and, hence, have their own ideas about how and where tax money sho...

Indeed. The Pope is on a state visit (not to say "on a trip" ), or there's an earthquake somewhere, or the funghi are late on season, or the prime minister's dog is having a litter... Always an explanation.

... and with Belgium

I don't think there's much use in calling people names, either way. "Idiots"? "Ridiculous"? Then again, while keeping things polite, I too have my questions about the additional cost and hassle of two stops so very close by.

This website and forum so frantically claiming to be about "aviation", I have more than once questioned how the "aviation" bit was to be interpreted. Here's some extra food for thought, gratefully copied from the - ever retrospective! - chickenwingscomics.com : See, this is the stuff they don’t tell...

you cannot count on a 2nd invisible pilot to cross check your gear is extended, right?

Sure, but it does help to fly a fixed-gear plane In all seriousness, though, you are of course entirely right.

always crosscheck your actions

Ha! That's easy to say if you're always two in the cockpit !
Too much cross-checking one's self can lead to nasty damage to the brain, so my AME warned me ....

(AME: "aviation medical examiner", the doctor who delivers one's medical "fit to fly" certificate).

Mooohahaha! if that was the case, really, the messages can well remain in the "trivia" thread. And of course it is all too cheap too ridicule others' errors, still this poor amateur pilot has well learned the lesson to first "standby" the transponder, then set the new squawk, then "un-standby". But ...