Aviation Forum / Country Specific / Australian Group / September 2008

Here's a thought that was prompted by JB's incident and the Seven News
picture of the A380 business class.
If passengers in business class have their heads down when a
decompression event occurs, it seems to me entirely possible that

FWIW - I understand that the long overdue, and anticipated (by me at
least),  AD  addressing the possible role of ice in this crash will be
issued in coming days.
Ned

http://www.smh.com.au/news/travel/qantas-in-international-fuel-trial/2008/09/22/
1221935488847.html
How are your hill-soaring skills, JB?
Sylvia.

From today's Herald-Sun newspaper:
"Both Mr Dixon and Mr Joyce said they had no intentions of changing the
configuration of the Qantas 450-seat A380 which had the lowest of the A380
seating densities so far announced.

A RAAF "C130 helicopter" had nosewheel difficulties on Monday night.
That's "our" ABC.  *sigh*

Mercedes Adriatik S665sp Motorhome 2005
Mercedes 316 cdi, 163 hp Mercedes diesel, only 16000 km, 5-speed man,
Adriatik 6850 L,
four beds, queensbed, separate shower/wc, wood floors, wood  interior,

At least according to Senator Bill Heffalump
http://tinyurl.com/3etzsl
Can we hope one hits him on the head?
Regards

Thought this somewhat appropriate to some of the posts we see on here.
http://www.pprune.org/d-g-general-aviation-questions/343258-do-you-fall-into-pro
file-air-accident-checklist-read-before-making-posts-here.html
AA

From CNN - A U.S. Air Force pilot has landed a plane in Antarctica in
the dark for the first time using night-vision goggles, a feat that
could lead to more supply flights to scientific bases in the frozen
continent during its dark winter months, officials said Friday.

A Cessna 206 is missing, according to this morning's Sydney
Morning Herald:
Sydney plane disappears into thin air
Georgina Robinson

The Americans have won folks. I'm not sure which disturbs me
more, that Australian police are introducing themselves as
"anti-terrorist" or that Qantas called the cops on a bloke
who left his laptop switched on during a landing.

Emirates temporarily withdraws A380 after engineering delay
Middle Eastern carrier Emirates has withdrawn its Airbus A380 from
service for the time being after engineering work on the aircraft overran.
Emirates took delivery of the jet, the first of 58 for the Dubai-based

I was reading this article about a Russian air crash - here is an excerpt...
    Russian investigators have discovered that the cockpit-voice
    recorder from the crashed Itek Air Boeing 737-200 contains no
    trace of the ill-fated jet's final flight.

G'Day Team,
I am sure I saw somewhere an article about Jeststar flight Perth  to Jakarta
for AUD 159.00 ++ each way. Yet, surprise surprise can't find any detail on
the QF or Jeststar wesbites.

At 12:01 PDT Saturday.
Resulting from Machinists strike - estimated to cost $1M/day in deferred
revenue.
Will impact especially the Dreamliner schedule and V-Australia's Triple