Editorials

THE AIRBUS A380 IS (NOT) A DUD

The media campaign is doing the rounds again: 'THE AIRBUS A380 IS A DUD.'

In reality, for a world where the price of oil is back up to $135 a barrel (and above), slots at Heathrow are limited to only two runways, and Pilots are hard to come-by; the A380 is a winner. Provided your marketing department can fill the planes. For the only airline who can do that, if the upstairs is full, everything downstairs is profit, and vice-versa.
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TAKEOFF “TOGA” CALL

Not happy? Call "TOGA!"

We should have a standard call in all aeroplanes for takeoff.

“TOGA” (It means Takeoff / Go Around)

Upon hearing it, from anyone on the flight deck ... even an augmenting pilot looking out the side window and noticing the runway lights are not speeding-up at the right rate ... just yells “TOGA!” and the operating pilot selects the full power settings.

Instant power, and ask questions later.
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TAIL-STRIKE TROUBLE

Don't trust humans to make the calculation.

The Airbus LPC module can be modified so that it generates the Take Off Weight automatically.
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AIRBUS MUST DO THIS

Airbus sells their products in US Dollars but builds them in Euros.

They could build the A350 in Jebel Ali, Dubai using Filipino and Indian labour, paid in USD.
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DON’T BLAME THE AEROPLANE

Who flew into a thunderstorm?

Don't blame the Airbus A330 for the Air France 447 crash. Blame the pilots who flew into two active thunderstorms.

Why doesn't Airbus design AUTO AVOID, in which the aircraft warns the pilots, then diverts the aircraft upwind of red radar returns?
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REAL TIME 3D DESKTOP VIDEO CONFERENCING

Aircraft manufacturers should own this new technology The aviation industry has been decimated, tourism flattened by 9/11. Airport throughput times blown-out because of 100% security screening. The USA policy of sterile flight decks has proven flawed.

Airports that have mistakenly imagined themselves as shopping centres are in for a shock.
Business travel needs a quantum leap. The last one was the birth of the 747 and Concorde generations ago ...
Perhaps the next quantum leap is nowhere near the airport. Coming instead in the form of upgraded video conferencing.
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