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#201 Post by Slasher » Sun Jan 12, 2020 2:45 am

Pontius Navigator wrote:
Sat Jan 11, 2020 7:05 pm
But these business millionaires, they just keep on digging and just earn more money than they can ever spend. Why?
Dunno Ponsh. And not just business millionaires but corrupt politicians too (recall 1MDB).

All I’d need is 10 million US bucks and that would be that. Like most ordinary millionaires one would not be ‘flamboyant’ and go buy bloody Mercs and yachts - that’s reserved for those who need to publically wank off and who can’t handle money anyway. I could live well, always have a home, get a Spit IX endorsement and buy into a partnership in one, travel FC to any point in the world whenever I feel like it, maybe rent out our present home iso selling it before the move to Loei, me and the missus can give up this working for a living nonsense and our lad has his Uni ambitions paid for. I’d still keep the Cub.

Probably I’d invest most of the 10 mill in my present portfolios and live off the dividends, but if we dipped into the capital there’d be no problem.

The main danger is that ‘dear old friends’ who haven’t spoken to you in yonks and distant rellies you never knew existed slither out of the woodwork when they discover you’ve got some serious loot. That’s why one should always stay below the monetary radar and live normally.

AFAIC if I was a Boeing shareholder (which unfortunately I’m not but wish I was) I’d be doing some bloody serious bitching vocally and publically about that prick walking away with 60 mill after he fuctup. It’s supposed to be filthy politicians and bankers who do that.

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Re: More Boeing Bad News

#202 Post by llondel » Sun Jan 12, 2020 4:08 am

Anyone seen mention of this before?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/0 ... blank_bug/
Boeing's 737 Next Generation airliners have been struck by a peculiar software flaw that blanks the airliners' cockpit screens if pilots dare attempt a westwards landing at specific airports.
That bug kicks in when airliner crews try to program the autopilot to follow what the FAA described as "a selected instrument approach to a specific runway".

Seven runways, of which five are in the US, and two in South America - in Colombia and Guyana respectively – trigger the bug. Instrument approach procedures guide pilots to safe landings in all weather conditions regardless of visibility.

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#203 Post by Slasher » Sun Jan 12, 2020 5:35 am

Yeh ‘del I did. It might be when flying a RNAV APCH in selected (manual) mode. I believe the 737 instructors were talking about it a coupla days ago.

Source (for Admin only): vaguely overheard from 3 tables away at the Training and Sim Facility canteen HKG.

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#204 Post by Pontius Navigator » Sun Jan 12, 2020 8:09 am

Slash, true, my friend bought a Range Rover Evoque (nice but I don't like it) and a Lamborghini (nice car, I have driven one, would be worried about being driven over by a truck).

He flew across the Atlantic in a private jet, worth it, and FC onwards to NZ, not worth it. Back home did his normal two week motor bike your in Europe.

These other egotistic clowns would be scared of being recognised and pisse d off if they weren't.

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#205 Post by Boac » Sun Jan 12, 2020 8:44 am

llondel wrote:Anyone seen mention of this before?
Yes, saw it on the Reg when it was published. It amused me to think of the Magenta Line kids being dumbstruck by blank screens and not knowing what to do. Hopefully if they turn to the Captain he/she might (hopefully!) know how to fly. I recall the absolute panic some years back in my F/O over the Bay of Biscay when I turned down her main screens - 'lost' without LNAV she were :((

It is typical of software code where some unforeseen combination or 'overspill' of numbers between buffers throws a line of code into a flutter. Apart from why (as reported?) ALL the screens were lost and not just some of the data, this particular episode is not a major problem, but it always leaves me wondering 'what else'...

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#206 Post by barkingmad » Sun Jan 12, 2020 9:46 am

“back in my F/O over the Bay of Biscay when I turned down her main screens”.

boac, just what WERE you up to in the privacy of a cramped flight deck and were any pics taken?! [-X

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#207 Post by Boac » Sun Jan 12, 2020 10:01 am

Yes, but I wore long-johns for decency.

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#208 Post by Slasher » Sun Jan 12, 2020 10:18 am

years back in my F/O over the Bay of Biscay when I turned down her main screens
She preferred the lights off huh? :p

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#209 Post by Boac » Sun Jan 12, 2020 10:21 am

Have you seen me in long-johns?

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#210 Post by Pontius Navigator » Sun Jan 12, 2020 10:24 am

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Sun Jan 12, 2020 10:21 am
Have you seen me in long-johns?
Ex-issue?

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#211 Post by Boac » Sun Jan 12, 2020 10:26 am

No - proppa jobs. Purchased for my earlier days flying an Aztec round Scotkllna with an unreliable hooter.

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#212 Post by barkingmad » Sun Jan 12, 2020 5:16 pm

Would this glitch be related to the “Scary software problem for Boeing” over in Eng&Tech threads?
Not related to warm underclothing!

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#213 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Sun Jan 12, 2020 5:19 pm

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Would this glitch be related to the “Scary software problem for Boeing” over in Eng&Tech threads?
Not related to warm underclothing!
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#214 Post by Boac » Sun Jan 12, 2020 6:34 pm

Got a link to that thread, guys? I think this is relatively 'new' and does not really impact the MAX saga (excuse the obvious...)

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#215 Post by barkingmad » Sun Jan 12, 2020 10:36 pm

boac, I’m probably mistaken but is this what you were after?

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#216 Post by Slasher » Mon Jan 13, 2020 12:54 am

Boac wrote:
Sun Jan 12, 2020 10:21 am
Have you seen me in long-johns?

Yep. Just the other day.

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You’re quite a cheery fellow with an axe.

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#217 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Mon Jan 13, 2020 2:16 am

Yeah but the fellah can afford it and the fecking crinkly outfit...
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#218 Post by barkingmad » Mon Jan 13, 2020 7:38 am

What troubles me is that he’s got a very rusty tool which demonstrates a basic lack of care......

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#219 Post by Boac » Mon Jan 13, 2020 7:58 am

There was me thinking I had a lovely chopper too. You should have seen some of my write-ups on my students at the 'College of Knowledge'.

PS Note the access panel with Dzus fasteners.

Thanks for the link, BM - I had forgotten that thread. I think this is separate issue

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#220 Post by barkingmad » Mon Jan 13, 2020 8:21 am

Appreciated boac, as usual I thought in my elderly confused state that I might have grasped the wrong end of the axe but thought it worth a try.......

Edit: On further P I of the pic I note that escape hatch at the rear looks incredibly fiddly to operate with all those buttons so one would not need to be in a rush to exercise the facility, especially if an urgent signal is received?! ~X(

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