Posts by christooo

God bless this mess: Study says UK's Christian beliefs had 'important' role in Brexit

Re: Religion in the UK?

It was the R.Cs.. who had the hissy fit.! The corrupt portion stayed and enjoyed little boys.!

Excel is for amateurs. To properly screw things up, those same amateurs need a copy of Access

Re: I had fun with access 2.0 in the 90's

As one of those types, the only place we wrote the correct actions was the aircraft log book. Why? because our billion dollar computor was open to view to all employees so we screwed it up for them!.

Brexit travel permits designed to avoid 7,000-lorry jams come January depend on software that won't be finished till April

Re: "It can only get better because we will have removed the old, retired (ie deadweight)

Await your turn.. God is watching you too! Beware!

Re: What's in a name...

Exactly. Dover has the 9th largest passage of cargo in the UK, of its 120 commercial ports. Immingham takes more than twice its import from Europe. Dover is more a passenger ferry port with some cargo reflected in its being the busiest one.The other ports on the east/ south coast in total take far more than Dover. Playing games I suppose.!

Britain shouldn't turn its back on EU drone regs, warns aerospace boffin

Re: Here be snowflakes...

Your knowledge of Air Legislation is to say the least very basic. It was never designed to tell you what to do so.It tells you what you cant do. That way they are free of all blame in a disastrous event. Think how many the FAA wriggled free from over the last 50 years.

Airlines will have more rapport with the manufacturer and spares than with their regulatory body as their knowledge of aircraft will be slim, their only concern is that the paperwork is complied with! Very easy but boring job.

That the CAA cant reboot to former glory is beyond belief especially now when BA is letting go the type of stafff they need.People with experience of aircraft operation would fill them with dread I suppose., so cant be done.!

Maybe tying in with the FAA is not a bad idea as most of the British and Irish (based in UK) fleet is Boeing and therefore can be at the whim and fancy of the EU. ( Aer LIngus got 30 million euro from EU to build a hanger but didnt read the small print. They had over a few years to rid themselves of Boeing aircraft and buy Airbus).

Re: Here be snowflakes...

Writing and certifying for 500million ?.....Not written for them ,only the airline industry and so everyone in the world benefits. Hence Faa ,Caa and Easa regulations are one and the same thing and are recognised so . EASA not recognising CAA and FAA regs. would be unthinkabe as these are not jingolistic nationalist rants but safety procedures for airlines , aircraft manufacturers and airports . Granted CAA are only one input but a large one at that as they do manufacture and build aircraft and engines of quality. EU will push you around IF you let them.

Pen Test Partners: Boeing 747s receive critical software updates over 3.5" floppy disks

Re: Honestly..

They came from Jepperson in the States. They replaced the numerous maps that the pilots carried in their flight bags and were updated monthly with new navigation changes. news like runway 240 in Hong Kong closed for repairs from 12/6/ to 15/6.during the hours 0000z to 0600z. . .

Re: Honestly..

That was an upgrade from the original 747.! Previously you inputted your waypoints manually into the INS from the Jeppeson manuals. The floppy presented all the info on the screen and you selected and downloaded your flight plan to the INS. (Inertial Navigation Systm.) and then a catering truck jolted the aircraft and you had to start initilising the system again! Happy days.

Boeing 787s must be turned off and on every 51 days to prevent 'misleading data' being shown to pilots

Something tells me you have the wrong date on that article!

Airbus A350 software bug forces airlines to turn planes off and on every 149 hours

Re: "...need to be hard rebooted after exactly 149 hours"

Good thinking Berger!

Fun fact: GPS uses 10 bits to store the week. That means it runs out... oh heck – April 6, 2019

You have just proved what we always thought . That the US is just a waste of space.!

Fujitsu pitched stalker-y AI that can read your social media posts as solution to Irish border, apparently

Re: secceed to Canada [sic]

UK should take control of NI. seeing it hasnt got a government and that would solve the equation.!

Re: extra CCTV and number plate recognition cameras at the border

How do the ones that are there now and have been for years not tampered with.? This is just Brit bashing

Re: Completly missing the point

By the way no more millers in the Republic . Closed by EU like the sugar factories. + factor look at all the employment a border generates! Like the" just on time"in the motor industry with bits and pieces to and fro across the EU adding to cost but generating useless/ not necessary jobs

EU regulations are not special,take Wicklow Chicken from Brazil sorry corrected now in a hurry to Netherlands.

Re: Definition of "hard border"

During the troubles it went from a trade and immigration border to a security one with good reason.

Re: WTF?

Thats based on the Flt and Voice recorders in aircraft which are thus to protect the pilots. Different reasons to a different data protection!

First A380 flown in anger to be broken up for parts

Re: Cramped?

He runs an excellent airline by having almost new aircraft all the time. 2 year guarantee , then get rid and make a profit and buy new again. Clever.

Re: Noticed that with BA

Should think Mildenhall, despite being in the middle of nowhere belongs to the MOD.( Ministry of Defence)

Would be of use to TNT or one of those freighter crowds as theres plenty storage space in those airfields..

you must have missed the Boeing offer of 2 for the price of one. or BOGOF. Buy one get one free.

Re: A380 is great, so silent inside! Scrap those noise old B747 and B777!!

Blame seating difficulties on the airline not the manufacturer, so therefore saying a 380 is more comfortable/better than a 777 is nonsense. In fact the 777 is the best maintainance friendly a/craft being designed with the help of ramp engineers for a change instead of desk bound designers. Dont know anything about the 380 but would imagine that in line with the 747, both being large aircraft there is plenty of room everywhere for both passengers and engineers.

Re: This underlines one more thing

ETOPS and EROPS came out early 90,s. Was for doubting Thomases , get better engineers!

Four hydrogen + eight caesium clocks = one almost-proven Einstein theory

Re: This is why science rocks

Yes diluted with a lot of whiskey!

About to install the Windows 10 April 2018 Update? You might want to wait a little bit longer

Re: Windows Schrödinger edition

with so many updates it means the product aint right ever.

Re: MINT Desperately needs a decent handbook

Great comment. Too many show offs.