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Thread ID: 113795	2010-11-04 04:59:00	Anyone feel like flying Qantas?	somebody (208)	PC World Chat

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1150275	2010-11-05 02:45:00	It kinda looks like a shark attack.	Battleneter2 (9361)
1150276	2010-11-05 03:24:00	Air India curled my hair! The joys of Air India . No comment . Have suffered my share of rough flights, too low approach landings, having lightning flash all around the plane, crab landings, hair raising approach/landings or take off's from strips that I wouldn't even drive a car on, in everything from single engine cesna's to the very nice 380 and heli's missing half there safety equipment . Oh the joys of flight . . . . . . . . . . .	PinoyKiw (9675)
1150277	2010-11-05 03:51:00	I remember flying NAC in a F27 from Auckland to Napier in the middle of summer and the cabin heater was stuck on full heat. :)	Trev (427)
1150278	2010-11-05 04:42:00	QANTAS provide acceptable service, no better or no worse than the majority. My beef with QANTAS is that they charge "Top Dollars" for their seats, there are very few decent deals offered. It is an Airline to travel Business Class when someone else is paying. My other major b*tch with QANTAS, is their Frequent Flyer Programme - what's the point of having over 250,000 QANTAS FF points when they make it extremely bloody hard to use them. Given the choice between Australia and Europe, I put Cathay, Singapore and Emirates well ahead of QANTAS, especially if one is paying for the ticket themself. Re the A380 Engine failure - one can't blame the Airline for that - the servicing problems that QANTAS can be blamed for are where they outsourced major servicing to Asia in pursuit of a cheap job.	KenESmith (6287)
1150279	2010-11-05 05:20:00	Mate had a gutsful of Qantas points thing, finally went to the top, that made a huge difference.. Another mate who does big miles in the air,would never use Qantas,only uses Singapore. He is Australian.	Cicero (40)
1150280	2010-11-06 06:27:00	cos the fuse was large. get it? fuselage? hah hah hah ... :punk	sahilcc7 (15483)
1150281	2010-11-13 02:03:00	Do you think that Lucas is now running Rolls Royce. Look at this: Mr Leahy said Rolls-Royce had found a solution which involved installing computer software that would automatically shut down the engine before it exploded. from www.stuff.co.nz Um, wouldn't the logical thing be to a) locate the design fault and b) fix it? Instead, they are going to install software (designed by whom? Microsoft?) to let them know when the engine is going to explode and shut it down. I am gobsmacked.	John H (8)
1150282	2010-11-13 02:12:00	Mr Leahy said Rolls-Royce had found a solution which involved installing computer software that would automatically shut down the engine before it exploded. Mr Leahy conceded it would ''take some time'' to fix the problem as the changes meant the engines would have to be pulled apart. ''These are all electronically computer-controlled engines [so] you would see a failure mode starting and you would immediately shut down that engine so you don't let it get out of control,'' he said. ''They know how to do that and that software fix should be done in the next couple of weeks.'' John, I think what Mr. Leahy meant was to automatically shut down the engine through computer intervention in-flight while the aeroplane is still operating. On the ground, yes, the logical thing to do would be to isolate the fault and fix it. As for the operating system installed for the intervention, I shall not venture there. :)	Renmoo (66)
1150283	2010-11-13 03:24:00	John, I think what Mr. Leahy meant was to automatically shut down the engine through computer intervention in-flight while the aeroplane is still operating. On the ground, yes, the logical thing to do would be to isolate the fault and fix it. As for the operating system installed for the intervention, I shall not venture there. :) Yes, I understood that - not much point in having software to shut the engine down on the ground... My point was that they have their ideas arse about face. Fix the engine fault first, and maybe have the software as a backup in the event of an unforeseen fault. This fault is now known to be relatively widespread with this engine - in other words they know there is a fault, so they should deal with the cause and not the symptoms. Think about it as a passenger, and what you would prefer! I know I would much prefer them to spend their time on working out what the design fault is, and fixing that, than finding an emergency shutdown procedure for when the fault re-occurs!	John H (8)
1150284	2010-11-13 05:54:00	Thats a so typical pommy response to engineering. What it needs a complete new resigned turbine bearing housing seal which would take years. I suppose if the engine is on 4 engine planes only it might be ok but on a 2 engined plane you might get two shutdowns which would be a ration book ripping moment if say over the Atlantic ocean.	prefect (6291)
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