Editorials

THE JUNIOR PILOT DILEMMA

The industry has got away with it for too long.

On the front page of the flight manual it says:
“This is a two-crew Regular Public Transport (RPT) airliner.”

It doesn’t say
“Single-pilot turbo prop with a seat for a ‘paid-passenger’ to sit next to the pilot.”

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ETHIOPIAN ET302

Second Boeing 737 Max

The Airbus mantra is that the if aircraft is not doing what you expect, press the red button on the side-stick and fly manually. It is encoded in the 'GOLDEN RULES' card given to all new Airbus pilots.

Rule #1 is
"THE AIRCRAFT CAN BE FLOWN LIKE ANY OTHER AIRCRAFT."

Whoever imagined that Boeing would be the ones to break it?
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LION AIR JT610

737 crashed from 5,000 feet doing 340 knots.

A LION AIR 737MAX crashed in to the sea after takeoff from Jakarta on Monday 20th October, after flying for 13 minutes. Read More…

UNITED AIRLINES MAYDAY

What causes low fuel on a long haul flight?

Today a United Airlines 787 flight declared a Mayday upon arrival into Sydney due to low fuel.

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MH370 FINAL REPORT

Unable to find cause

This is why we should continue to search. Never Stop Searching.
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A 747 CRASHES AND NO-ONE KNOWS.

The first crash caused by Lithium Batteries

A well-maintained and operated Boeing 747-400 owned by the world's largest parcel service, UPS, crashed in Dubai on a weekend … and no-one in Australia heard about it.
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WILL THE DREAMLINER EVER FLY?

The Boeing 787 is delayed again.

Have Boeing chosen the right path? More Flights More Often, in a plastic 767, works well if Heathrow gets a third runway, and oil is cheap.

But Heathrow will never get a third runway, and oil will go back up to $130 a barrel.

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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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