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bcuster
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DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
I got tinnitus just from looking at that photo of the Griffons.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Close your eyes and listen to the audio, tis the Chattanooga choo-choo 
Lancman
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The early Shackleton’ s undercarriage was raised or lowered by 2 large buttons mounted one above the other on the pilots’ panel. Press the top one, which was sticking out, and the lower one, which was flush, popped out and the undercarriage retracted, and vice versa. Simple. The standard green/red/out lights showed the u/c position and a horn sounded if the u/c was not down and locked and the flaps weren’t set for landing, and if the throttles were closed.
This horn frequently sounded when manoeuvreing hard at low level over a contact, so a mute button was fitted.
It also sounded at the downwind point when flying circuits if the u/c was travelling down but the flaps were not yet set for landing It became habitual to mute the horn at the same time that the u/c was selected down.
One night a bunch of new co-pilots was being checked out at the Shackleton O.C.U. and the aircraft was climbed away to circuit height after a roller landing while the co-pilots changed over, but nobody remembered to retract the u/c.
At “downwind” the Captain called for undercarriage down and the newly seated co-pilot replied “undercarriage down, two green lights” (as they were of course) and pressed the protruding button as well as the horn mute button out of habit. Up came the undercarriage.
At the subsequent Board of Inquiry the unfortunate co-pilot said “ I thought at the time that the aircraft didn’t seem to need much power coming down finals.”
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
'Pilots that have, and pilots that will....'
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
BA has been renting their planes and crews this year, but not from Exeter, so no idea there…
T & P
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Classy 
www.theguardian.com
AirAsia boss criticised for ‘unprofessional’ massage photo during meeting
Former Queens Park Rangers owner Tony Fernandes posted picture on LinkedIn
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This is in essence a gloating post, but everyone deserves to feel smug once in a while.
When I was checking in online yesterday with Iberia for my return flight to London from Madrid early this morning, not only they offered me an upgrade to business class for a mere £59, which is a bloody no brainer, but I guess the early morning flight is so busy, IB uses twin aisle long haul birds for the job instead of the usual A320s. Which meant I got a full flat bed business class seat, plus whole turn-left-at-the-door and be greeted by name by the flight crew experience for good measure.
I’ve never been in one before, and thought I’d probably would never experience it as long haul business fares ain’t cheap, so I was chuffed to bits. Had a lovely long nap, which considering I was going straight to the office from LHR for a full day’s work, was something of a life saver.
BA’s business class upgrade offers are almost always in the £150+ area, so kudos to IB. I hope it’s not a one-off. Even without the upgrade I’d rather travel economy on an A330 than a narrowbody.
When I was checking in online yesterday with Iberia for my return flight to London from Madrid early this morning, not only they offered me an upgrade to business class for a mere £59, which is a bloody no brainer, but I guess the early morning flight is so busy, IB uses twin aisle long haul birds for the job instead of the usual A320s. Which meant I got a full flat bed business class seat, plus whole turn-left-at-the-door and be greeted by name by the flight crew experience for good measure.
I’ve never been in one before, and thought I’d probably would never experience it as long haul business fares ain’t cheap, so I was chuffed to bits. Had a lovely long nap, which considering I was going straight to the office from LHR for a full day’s work, was something of a life saver.
BA’s business class upgrade offers are almost always in the £150+ area, so kudos to IB. I hope it’s not a one-off. Even without the upgrade I’d rather travel economy on an A330 than a narrowbody.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
The airline says it’s for training the crew how to use that type of aircraft, IB also uses an A350 on this route some days too.
Our last flight to Madrid from Heathrow…
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BA would sometimes put the A380 on the MAD route for staff training, at least when they brought the birds back into service after the lockdowns.
I’ve always wanted to go on one, and Madrid must be the cheapest option by some degree, but I’ve always found both the airlines’ own websites and the independent booking sites pretty shite in offering to search for flights by aircraft model. Is there a website that easily allows that?
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Afaik they used 777’s to a Madrid and A380’s to Frankfurt, but I don’t know everything.
Subscribe to FlightRadar’s site, has shit like this. I just see it as making bookings through a GDS, which is not really like a website and not accessible to the general public, indeed the airlines are trying their best to make it inaccessible to me too.
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I've been to Frankfurt with Lufthansa on a venerable A300, but that was obviously a very long time ago. Cool plane though.
Thesaint
Active Member
Oh yes forgot about A300s and they were originally short haulers in the first place.
I went on a Monarch A300 years ago and the luggage lift lorry broke down so a couple of chaps had to load the checked in bags by hand...and that's a lot of bags on those!
_Russ_
Never not Knowingly Misunderstood
Haha, on a recent flight a bee showed upon the panel coaming just after I had taken off (I keep Bees), felt a bit bad for her as she soon disappeared somewhere I couldnt see and I don't know how far she travelled with me..hope she made it home
bcuster
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Wasn’t that a spider?
