Which Aircraft?

ivanT3 · Post by **ivanT3** » 22 Nov 2006, 22:42

Hi All,

When booking a flight, which aircraft should I take? One with 100%, one with 96.009876.09856% or,, Door #3, makes no difference as long as My landing is reasonable.

Thank you..

Ivan..................

Chris Trott · Post by **Chris Trott** » 23 Nov 2006, 00:54

Don't take any airplanes with less than 96% rating. Other than that, there is no restrictions as long as it's a plane that is based at that airport (see the Aircraft Bases thread for that info).

DanKH · Post by **DanKH** » 23 Nov 2006, 01:35

Thought we'd only had airCRAFT, not any airPLANES at CBFS-VA.... :think:

Post by **Garry Russell** » 23 Nov 2006, 01:39

They could be Aeroplanes though :think:

Garry

DispatchDragon · Post by **DispatchDragon** » 23 Nov 2006, 03:26

I'd prefer aeroplanes actually

Where do people get this Aircrafts (plural) Its VERY prevalent here in the young airline industry pukes. It ranks up there with "repo" rather than Ferry flight and the ever popular I axe you (Rather than I ask you) made popular by yukkk rappers....One more time for everybody the plural of aircraft is aircraft - just like the plural of seacraft is surprise seacraft!!!!

OK Off my soap box

Leif

Post by **DaveB** » 23 Nov 2006, 12:09

Hi Ivan..

Rule of thumb mate.. never assume. You can fly something to the 'enth degree and make great landings every time but the one single landing that needs to be good can often end in tears. As has been said already.. don't go for one on or very close to 96% with one exception.. you are stuck with it at say 96%.. 96.1% and you need it for your return leg. Don't take it out from the outbound airfield at that percentage

ATB

DaveB :tab:

Post by **MALTBY D** » 23 Nov 2006, 12:44

Just to clarify (I've aksed about this before)

The reason we don't fly airplanes under 96% is that the maintenance cost and time out of service is a lot higher for airplanes under 95%.
So our rule of never fly aircrafts under 96% is just to give us a safety margin above that.

Out of interest, they appear on our stats pages as 'Priority for maintenance' when they go under 97%
I think most of us managers put them in for repair at about 96.5 & below if they are at base.
Check out the links on the 'Stats, stats & more stats' thread if you want to see which aircrafts belong where, where they are, who flew them last etc. (Fleet Status).

Any other questions, just axe.

DM

Post by **Garry Russell** » 23 Nov 2006, 12:55

MALTBY D wrote:
airplanes
aircrafts
aircrafts

Any other questions, just axe.

DM

Yes I have one

Who's taking the p1ss then?

:nahnah:
Garry

Post by **RAF_Quantum** » 23 Nov 2006, 13:13

Hi,

As DM says, letting maintenance state drop below 95% incurs a big jump in costs.

A-Check: 100-95% ; 1 day (costs 3% of aircraft valuation)
B-Check: 95-75% ; 3 days (costs 20% of aircraft valuation
C-Check: 75-40% ; 7 days (costs not known, but we don't want to be here)
D-Check: 40-0% ; 14 days (costs not known, but we especially don't want to be here)

So for a Trident 3, putting here in for maintenace above 95% will cost v$660,000. Letting her drop below 95 before mainenance will cost v$4.4m as well as two extra days down-time.
For a SuperVC10 an A-Check costs v$1.3m whereas a B-Check costs v$9m

Rgds

John

Post by **MALTBY D** » 23 Nov 2006, 13:19

You missed one Garry.

Aks & Aksed is one that really bugs me. There's one girl on Eastenders who's always bloody saying it (my wife watches it)
And there's 'brought' instead of 'bought' (or vice versa).
Oh and 'pacific' instead of 'specific'.
I'm a right moaning old bastard too.

You aks im, I brought dat pacific item off is stall.

AAARRRRRRRGGGGGHHH