Reminds me of the situation about three years ago when there was a change of government in the Australian state of Victoria. The new leftist government stopped the building of a new cross city motorway in Melbourne which would have alleviated chronic traffic congestion. Only trouble was that it cost one thousand million dollars of taxpayer's money to NOT, repeat NOT, build this motorway, due to reneging on existing contracts that had already been entered into!

(Written on 15/08/2017)(Permalink)

Aircraft is both the singular and the plural...no need to add an "s"!

(Written on 25/06/2017)(Permalink)

The hotter it gets, the poorer the aircraft's performance (any aircraft). The airline can compensate by reducing the passenger/baggage load, but sooner or later this would result in them losing money on the flight. But eventually you reach the hard limit (certification envelope limit being referred to by Highflyer). That is a total showstopper, even with an empty airplane cabin.

(Written on 23/06/2017)(Permalink)

I am the opposite. I have only flown the 35. But technically, I am Type Rated on the 31. At least in Australia, the Type Rating is Lear 31/35/36. This has always surprised me, given the very different config of the 31, simpler fuel system and presumably significantly different handling characteristics laterally. Apologies if this is getting slightly off topic. And thanks for the great comments...

(Written on 21/05/2017)(Permalink)

Thanks guys...It's been eight years since I last flew the Lear 35. Am in serious need of a refresher ground school...

(Written on 16/05/2017)(Permalink)

This is just lateral thinking, but maybe either a bird strike or even a drone strike on the nose may have triggered the Lear's stick pusher at the very low altitude. While the wind gusts were fairly strong going up to 36knots out of the NNW, that's not too much of a crosswind component onto runway 01.

(Written on 16/05/2017)(Permalink)

What can I say? The low cost flying public now think that there is no difference between sitting in their loungeroom versus cruising at M 0.85 at 37,000 feet...

(Written on 02/05/2017)(Permalink)

Doubt that I would call the KC46, let alone the Poseidon, an "auxiliary aircraft"!

(Written on 22/04/2017)(Permalink)

I am surprised that this (as the LN prefix indicates) aircraft is actually at least registered in the country of Norway...this is ridiculous!

(Written on 28/03/2017)(Permalink)

Don't underestimate the degradation in OEI climb performance if this flight had been unlucky enough to also suffer an engine failure (after V1) during departure. The aircraft's single engine climb capability through the segments is based on being able to retract the landing gear.

(Written on 02/03/2017)(Permalink)