"EXCLUSIVE: The RAF has effectively paused making job offers to white male recruits in favour of women & ethnic minorities to meet "impossible" diversity targets, sources claim. The head of [url=https://twitter.com/RoyalAirForce]@RoyalAirForce[/url] recruitment has resigned in prote... Read More

Starting a thread to hear stories about those who have lost half or more of their engines in flight. Just did my third unplanned shutdown in 5K hrs or so of piston multi time. Always got a kick out of my recurrent sim (falcon jock) pilot explaining that an engine out on his plane was an inconvenience… Read More

There are no words… Perhaps we need big fluro flashing signs at the stand or something? If it was night, they would have departed clearly. Then the fun really starts. [QUOTE] An Australian Transport Safety Bureau investigation preliminary report has detailed that an Airbus A350 passenger aircraft was about to be pushed back for departu... Read More

Not sure if posted previously but your thoughts on this insanity? [url=https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/plane-makes-lowest-ever-landing-27709903]WIZZ AIR SKIATHOS[/url] - Daily Record My triple would have left its tyres in the sea…. [ame=https://youtu.be/pN40Pxs27Sw]WIZZ AIR SKIATHOS VIDEO[/ame] Read More

We've had discussions about various onetime holiday airlines, but anything Laker seems to only discuss Skytrain. However they were much more than that, being a pioneer One-Eleven IT operator, plus 707s and, later DC-10s, used on Mediterranean flights, transatlantic ABCs before Skytrain, and such like. They bought up tour operators, and I think had... Read More

There are a lot of soundings at the moment in relation to Eastern Ukraine and the possibility that Kiev Government will look to conduct a major attack on this area. In 2014 the people in this area disliked the Maidan Sq protests and did one of the own which was attacked by Kiev. As this area is populated by people with more Ethnic ties to Russia... Read More

Simply select area, yield, type & height of burst, press the button and watch your neighbourhood disappear. Might come in useful very soon... :eek: https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/ Read More

According to the union FPU Romania a Wizz Air cabin crew member was reprimanded and forced to resign by the base manager for refusing to extend a flight duty period (FDP... Read More

[left]BBC exit poll giving Con 368 seats Lab 191 SNP 55 Lib 13 an 86 majority.. We have a couple of billboards up round here, large one for Con in the local horses field as normal, and a tiny one in a garden for Lab[/left] Read More

Still at 37000 ft over Addis... they were woken up by the autopilot disconnecting (?).... Read More

[url=https://www.travelweekly.com.au/article/wondering-when-international-travel-will-restart-this-new-chart-could-hold-the-answer/?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_term=&utm_content=Wondering%20when%20international%20travel%20will%20restart%3F%20This%20new%20chart%20could%20hold%20the%20answer&utm_campaign=Travel%20Weekly%3A%20Thursday%2028... Read More

Please, as an ATC here, if you are asked to “standby” please don’t read that back to us, just keep quiet haha we are generally attending to another matter like telephone cooordination or working out separation, which is interrupted every time there’s a transmission, including the response “standing by”. A read back of this sort causes much vexatio... Read More

[url=https://vulcantothesky.org/news/vulcan-xh558-set-to-leave-doncaster-sheffield-airport-in-2023/?fbclid=IwAR3cZln13WlupgdjKMykulbSdpLc0PglO32tY7PdbO-OFSAb7a72MPCD_Eo]Vulcan XH558 set to leave Doncaster Sheffield Airport in 2023 - Vulcan to the Sky[/url] So what would it take to dismantle and reassemble a Vulcan? Read More

Full page advertisement in today’s The Australian celebrating Rex’s twenty years of service to the Australian community. Even PM Albanese gets in on the Rex backslapping. Read More

[QUOTE=Kiltrash;10642121]Not a Caption. Buster has gone missing; he has had the call from Goodison Park[/QUOTE] Couldn't do much worse than the last 6! :mad: Anyway...many thanks Kilty. Always an honour. Seeing we're on a theme...

[url=https://www.msn.com/en-gb/travel/news/tui-pilots-did-not-notice-boeing-737-plummeted-nearly-1-500-feet-in-less-than-a-minute/ar-AA10NZXs?ocid=EMMX&cvid=90d16ec0ba80478888d04e31372091ec]Tui pilots 'did not notice' Boeing 737 plummeted nearly 1,500 feet in less than a minute (msn.com)[/url] "Stellar" reporting kinda takes away the impact of t... Read More

No, not the UK shortage - Europe… [QUOTE]Recent droughts in Europe once again made visible the "Hunger Stones" in some Czech and German rivers. These stones were used to mark desperately low river levels that would forecast famines. This one, in Elbe river, is from 1616 and says: "If you see me, cry" [/QUOTE]

Hi All, New here. My apologies if this isn't the best subfurum for this question... Any posters here (ex) Medical Officers? I'm ex RAF groundcrew. I was very fortunate to have a tour on the Reds which included lots of back seat flying. The trip down to the CAM at Henlow sparked off an interest in aviation medicine and changed the course of... Read More

How to make a story sound sensational. https://www.theage.com.au/national/nsw/qantas-pilots-declare-mayday-due-to-low-fuel-on-transcontinental-flight-20220720-p5b35r.html Read More

Wow. Imagine my surprise that the most ill thought through, poorly run, and shockingly poor value for money system in NATO is unable to produce pilots! https://news.s... Read More

This very unfortunate case has been running for 4 months now, ever since the unfortunate young lad apparently suffered extremely serious injury in his bedroom, possibly as a result of taking part in an online challenge. The first reaction is naturally to sympathise with his parents who have been left in a terrible situation, not the least of which... Read More

Cx Publishing rosters on 22nd has got to stop. This has gone on long enough. Not only do we have to use up leave for quarantine hotels but we don’t get to know far enough in advanced if we can even book hotels due to late roster publication! Make them stop this blatant transgression of ANO. Write to the CAD. enough is enough. Read More