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Oh please !!! :roll: Dig http://www.skybrary.aero/ on risk, human factors and safety management. Then do an airline pilot job for at least 6 months. Then, perhaps, you'll have a standpoint worth fighting for. But most probably by then you will have joined the group of the supporters of asymmetrical ...

Costs could be even further reduced by shutting down Ryanair completely !

The safety culture at Emirates is so poor it's an accident waiting to happen. The Flight Data Monitoring programme is used against the crews to fire them, even for a simple go-around (which is a normal procedure after all). When recurrent training comes the sim checkride is done before the sim train...

French ATC staff have a job for life and enjoyed privileges for decades. The trick is that these privileges (work 1h, get paid for 2.5h) will not go on with the Single European Sky, and have no legal foundations. Even the French Cour des Comptes recently published an incendiairy report against their...

Terrorism is all about the post-ops benefits and return on investment. In this case there isn't any. The guy is dead, his IRS file is closed, there's no fanatic right behind him to take the flag in his place, etc. Just a desperate guy doing desperate things in what seemed to be a desperate situation...

The European Cockpit Association just published a small article on this issue: http://www.eurocockpit.be/index.php/com ... ho-is-next

Strange... - runway lights are white (turning red towards the end), taxiway lights are blue. - taxiways don't have an ILS (i.e. use it to confirm you're on the correct strip of asphalt). 36C doesn't have an ILS ? - most control towers now have radars precise enough to spot and identify any movement ...

SN/BruAir ? I wouldn't count too much on it. A crane on the tail... doesn't that remind you anything ? Yep, bingo !
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Lufthans ... 1595731/L/

Now a "tiger crane", mmmmh... In a dinosaur museum perhaps ?

Well, I suppose exactly the same way it landed on it. Just zoom along the runway until you reach liftoff speed. The tricky part must be the application of power by the taildragger.

Or a less chivalrous way: with a crane...

Settle down, folks. I was refering to the taildragger who intentionally lands on a moving caravan in the second video posted by Regi...

Does the pilot who landed on the caravan still have his pilot licence ? I just couldn't believe it if the FAA didn't dump his certificate into the paper shredder.

The only place were speculation is unacceptable is the accident report. Even the families are speculating right now, it's part of the grief and healing process following an immense stress and the loss of loved ones. Human beings need to share their feelings to stay connected with a reality that's ju...

Flash Airlines (unfortunately) demonstrated that an inappropriate pairing of inexperienced pilots could smash an aircraft having no significant malfunction into the sea. Only the black boxes will be able to tell us what systems were hit and how the crew handled the emergency. The images from the sur...

What: Cargolux Boeing 747-400 freighter en route from Barcelona, to Luxembourg Where: Luxembourg When: Jan 21st 2010 Why: While landing in low visibility due to foggy conditions, the Cargolux 747’s tires went through the roof of a maintenance truck whose crew was working on the runway ground lightin...

A Turkish Airlines Airbus A340-300, flight TK-60 (scheduled departure Jan 23rd) from Istanbul Ataturk (Turkey) to Bangkok (Thailand) with 237 passengers, was preparing for departure in heavy snowfall with about 2.5 hours delay at about 02:00L (00:00Z). After de-icing was finished, the airplane start...

Breaking news, CAA suspends all operations until further notice. Tickets are no longer offered for sale... Although they still have some heavy metal to twist and burn. I suppose their AOC was suspended after a few phone calls following the latest crash. A pretext used quite conveniently to make room...

The Kalitta accident report says: The accident was caused by the decision to Reject the Take-Off 12 knots after passing V1 speed. (...) In his statement, the pilot said “he was under the impression the aircraft could not fly” after he heard the bang. (...) Flight crews who have experienced an engine...

By reducing the decision speed you can use smaller runways. The logic is: short runway, early warning, early decision, early abort, everyone gets out safe (but not necessarily happy). Getting an alarm past the decision speed (true or false) and stop the aircraft ? Yes, it will eventually stop, but p...

Compagnie Africaine d'Aviation starts the year with (another) bang: http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20100102-0 http://www.avherald.com/h?article=42523ef2&opt=5120 It's the second airplane smashed in two months (previous one an MD-82 in Goma). That's what I call making room for ...

Guess what... http://www.lhconsulting.com/ru/career/vacancies.html 8-) By the way, still no name to answer my question about a profitable airline on a purely African network ? C'mon guys, it's been more than 10 days now, you're getting rusty, aren't you ? Oh, by the way, CAA (one of the competitors ...