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If you call a good news the arrival of an outdated, noisy and fuel guzzling aircraft to an airport, just for the sake of pleasing the spotters, there's a problem somewhere...

TLspotting wrote: ↑09 May 2019, 17:16

I won't make any comment at the moment...

Well, I guess that's good news ain't it?

To cut a long story short, the Max is a bit like a lawnmower equipped with a Big-Block Chevy...

Shanghai Airlines is flying their Maxxes from SHA to Lanzhou, meaning that the Max will not fly back soon in PRC.

Compressor stall generates loud bangs, due to reverse air flow in the core engine generated by too high pressure at HP compressor level. If there's multiple bang, it means that it's probably the variable stator vane actuator having a problem and not positioning the stator vanes at the right position...

It is not the old Sabena canteen building?

A0906/19 From:20 MAR 19 00:30 Till:20 MAR 19 02:45 Text:BRUSSELS ACC CLSD DUE TO STAFF SHORTAGE. EMERG FREQ ARE WATCHED Liege Airport (and the Belgian economy) will again be the main victims of this action (or lack thereof) :( If one looks closely, most of the planes are parked on the LGG apron dur...

Either the failure effect of a single failure is minor or major, and there is no initial risk for pax or pilots. Either the failure effect of a single failure is hazardous or catastrophic and, there is a risk for pax or pilots. In the latter case the aircraft is not airworthy. That makes the 737 ma...

I don't understand how Boeing's chief engineering office has validated this envelope protection system with only 2 AOA sensor's relying on one input to validate exceedance. At contrario, Airbus is using three sensors which required correlation between two of them to validate inputs to Flight control...

Trump grounds Boeing Max planes President Donald Trump says his administration is grounding Boeing 737 Max planes based on new information about the crash of an Ethiopian Air Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft. Trump said from the White House on Wednesday that planes currently in the air would be ordered to...

The other issue in the industry is that many airlines discourage manual flight. Some pilots count way too much on automation and are therefore weak in manual flight skills. Good luck to recover from such a situation (unreliable airspeed + runaway stabilizer) if you basically never fly manually (or ...

I'm using the route at least 10 times a year, if that would turn to be true, I would then fly Hainan from BRU instead of KLM...

5 A380's in China @ CSN darling!
Not 3...

sn26567 wrote: ↑06 Feb 2019, 17:36 miserably failed

Is it safer to fly the head of state with a "no go" item?

Funny thing, you know I have been on this forum for a decade I guess now, but there is a thing that does not change....
If discussion is on a walloon topic and if passenger is posting something, ...i know it's bad news for us (walloon)...I don't critisize, it's just observation.

Daily PVG-FRA for China Eastern Airlines with the new 350.

News from Temploux.

https://www.thebulletin.be/wings-over-w ... n-aviation

8 millions pax for CRL in 2018.

https://www.lanouvellegazette.be/327170 ... rs-en-2018

Poiu wrote: ↑29 Dec 2018, 00:49

sn26567 wrote: ↑29 Dec 2018, 00:03 There was also an IT issue for the left engine!

Contaminated fuel is know as a cause of engine electronic malfunctions.

Can you explain a bit more?
Thanks

Remember that in 2001 an Air Transat A330 successfully landed at the Azores after both engines ran out of fuel. Thus it was maybe not a bad decision to continue to Brussels with both engines running normally. They have been very lucky indeed, since the captain opened the crossfeed valve during flig...