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Australian flight safety

Spark

Spark

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Yeah I've talked to a few (granted, American) pilots/mechanics and a lot of them say "Airbus = scarebus" for that exact reason, you have no idea what the ****ing plane is going to do sometimes.
 
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Top_Cat

Top_Cat

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It's fair that you point out they're American, fair bit of xenophobia involved "If it's not Boeing, I ain't going", etc., made worse that the Airbus is French (mon dieu!). AA587's crash didn't help matters either, several AA pilots utterly refused to get type-rated for Airbus's in response and went public.
 
Top_Cat

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Flying at night by itself is pretty scary sometimes. Can only imagine the terror they went through being over water at night, plane pitching and rolling at will with cockpit alarms going nuts.
 
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Spark

Spark

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Top_Cat said:
It's fair that you point out they're American, fair bit of xenophobia involved "If it's not Boeing, I ain't going", etc., made worse that the Airbus is French (mon dieu!). AA587's crash didn't help matters either, several AA pilots utterly refused to get type-rated for Airbus's in response and went public.
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To be fair the story of an Airbus executing a totally uncommanded go-around at random made me raise an eyebrow. Don't know if true, obviously, anecdotal and all.
 
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Spark said:
To be fair the story of an Airbus executing a totally uncommanded go-around at random made me raise an eyebrow. Don't know if true, obviously, anecdotal and all.
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Raised eyebrow here too, find it difficult to believe. Doing a go-around isn't just one button.
 
Spark

Spark

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Top_Cat said:
Raised eyebrow here too, find it difficult to believe. Doing a go-around isn't just one button.
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Apparently the first words out of the pilot's mouth were "what the ****?"

It was a long, long time ago that I read it though, would be impossible to dig up now.

As for the above - different issue, isn't it? Runway incursions and the like the curse of almost all big airports, I think.
 
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Top_Cat

Top_Cat

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Yeah, of course. Depends on what caused the incursion but that Emirates is involved again might encourage the ATSB to have a closer look. Emirates pilots who train here have a rep as party animals who, shall we say, enjoy the freedom of being away from prying eyes so there's a perception they're a bit loose with stuff like airmanship and rest periods.

Mind you, Emirates have never had a fatal accident.
 
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Top_Cat

Top_Cat

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Yeh, surprising number of people don't realise what QANTAS stands for. You'd think some ****s have never been to a quiz night.
 
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Quaggas

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Crazy stuff. I remember being allowed to take off in a Cessna and thinking that the runway was waaay to far left before I'd even cleared the end of it. I declined the opportunity to land the damn thing. :wacko:
 
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