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A couple of reasons are possible fot 9H-GLOBL's routings. Sector training for the pilots. Ie need X number of sectors to be released. That FL looks below RVSM. Numerous reasons for that. Dodgy autopilot, transponder not working properly, felt like it... :) I don't know, just guessing :) Thanks redd...

I see that the first aircraft, 9H-GLOBL, for Global Airlines, much derided on TOP, is on its way to Europe. It seems to be following a rather odd route though. Mojave-Montreal-Prestwick-Beja-Malta. Surely it could do at least Mojave-Beja (HI-Fly's base in Portugal) non-stop? I notice also that it's ...

Woody wrote: ↑

Wed May 01, 2024 8:52 am

I’m with the late Capetonian in my opinion of the Sandpit

Me too. I liked it in the late 80's when there was still the air of an Arab port about it. I haven't been there for many years now, and I have no intention of returning.

Had a BIG hailstorm at lunchtime, clouds bumping into each other, sparks flying and heavy hail. Driving El Toyota around I realised that Left rear was quite low pressure, found a wind machine which charged a euro, it's new, used to be a freebe. Thing is it only took cards. Shape of things coming I ...

Had a BIG hailstorm at lunchtime, clouds bumping into each other, sparks flying and heavy hail. Driving El Toyota around I realised that Left rear was quite low pressure, found a wind machine which charged a euro, it's new, used to be a freebe. Thing is it only took cards. Shape of things coming I ...

probes wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 28, 2024 5:08 am

yep, tnx Karearea and Tango - forecast! - but it was surreal to see pics of the jets on water .

Indeed. Knowing the aversion of jet engines to water in those sorts of quantities, I was surprised that such events were taking place!

From the Royal Meteorological Society, article by Kirsty McCabe, FRMetS - Dubai floods and cloud seeding An interesting and level-headed article, which rather debunks the scaremongering headlines. Interesting to read that it had been forecast, too. Were it not for the fact that Dubai is full of Gen...

Best wishes Wodders

I can't believe that only seven people have died in all that flooding - particularly in a region that is not well-prepared to deal with it. I very much doubt if the population was given much warning. I imagine some of the promised aid can be moved fairly quickly, but the remainder will have to be ma...

Sunday 5th May is Orthodox Easter, and I wonder if something big could happen prior to that.

So I read that as Israel either not having much to throw at Iran, or conserving what stocks they have, in case they need them. The munitions factories in NATO countries are going to be busy from next week! (I heard from someone who works in one of these places that they have been working flat out un...

Sturgeon doorstepped and explains what it's like at home at the moment. Awkward over the breakfast table maybe, discussing when the knock at the front door might be for her. Schadenfreude anyone, but maybe she can wriggle out of this one too? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13327887/Nicola...

We don't hear too much about ground battles at the moment - it all seems to be drones and aerial attacks, which is no bad thing of course. Do we think that both sides maybe a bit short of conventional field ammo?

Some very sloppy handling there. I've had dealings with gold and other precious metals as cargo in the past, and also currency. You certainly wouldn't have been able to take delivery of it with a dodgy airwaybill. What's the consignee doing with an airwaybill before the cargo's been unloaded anyway?...

We have the problem that accurate BDA is probably available to the Ukrainians via their partisans, but they probably then can't confirm it to us because of OpSec. It may be possible to get some civilian satellite photos tomorrow, available to us Friday, but the Russians are in the habit of shifting...

I would consider GDC to be a good source, even though they spell defence wrong :) I don't know where in Moscow this plant is. It used to build large lorries (the sort that carry ICBMS, seen in Red Square on May Day), and I'm not sure whether it still does, or whether it's been turned over to missile...

I was watching FR 24 for a few minutes earlier, and the holding pattern off the coast looked totally chaotic. Not a bit like Bovingdon and Ockham

I gather that there was unusually heavy snowfall over the Urals during the winter, and this of course is now melting, and it has to go somewhere. Much of rural Russia still operates on the old planning system, so if it wasn't in the plan then there is no provision for it, with either money or resour...

I love a mug of Oxo, especially with a bacon sandwich, (sorry G-C) but the Oxo has to be the low-salt one.

Tomsk is a major oil-producing region and also the site of a large nuclear power plant. in my days of visiting the Soviet Union, we were not allowed to go to Tomsk (amongst other places), because it was a 'closed city.' If the flooding has reached the city, there will be a lot of problems. It would ...