Three strikes.
"The ATSB found that the dispatcher for YID could not visually confirm the position of VGR relative to gate D2 and assessed that because the aircraft hadn’t moved, it was on the gate. The pushback ground staff followed the normal practice for a pushback from bay E1....
And who paid for it all?
I’ve cribbed Thony’s post from the UP; it’s done very nicely and avoids dropping some poor bugger ‘right init’. The fear of retribution for speaking out, first hand against such aberrations keeps chief pilots all over Australia awake at night. Furious at the...
Tale wags dog.
Higgins : “CASA’s continual refusal to review the CAO 48.1 in the context of directive 01/2015 flies in the face of CASA’s new mantra of being a “fair, firm and consistent’’ regulator.” From AP - Here-. Good point; a very good point indeed: a quick straw poll came...
Au revoir; Muthafuccas.
They do say – there are the French; and then, there is the rest of the world. This little flaperon contretemps with the French has upset not only Malaysia’s little apple cart; but that of their ‘allies’; who, much like the rats on a sinking ship, have decided to...
Q/ Can you spot the difference between lucky & unlucky?
Reference AuntyPru Forum: Hoodlum we may have a problem? Gobbledock quote: Shit I hope the Indo's listen to what the astute Alan Stray taught them and they don't follow the Beaker template for incident investigations. Otherwise there will be ATR's dropping from...
Two pints of opinion please.
Does Australian aviation cares who forms a government? The short answer is no. In fact the closer the two parties are to a ‘hung’ parliament, the better the chances of actually getting the appalling state of aviation administration and the costs the current situation...