Well, there was only one way to travel like this… if you were the third pilot on one of the very long flights of Continental Airlines. The skipper slept like a baby until it was time to releive his colleague up front.
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United Airlines first network carrier to introduce paperless navigation charts
United Continental Holdings, Inc. has announced that it is converting to paperless flight decks and deploying 11,000 iPads to all United and Continental pilots. The electronic flight bags (EFB) replace paper flight manuals, and as a first for major network carriers, provide pilots with paperless aeronautical navigational charts through an iPad app. Distribution of iPads… Continue reading United Airlines first network carrier to introduce paperless navigation charts
Wouldn’t you love to know…
Did you ever wonder where the new car you just ordered was being built and even more, when the wonderful process of parts coming together to grow into an automobile, your automobile, started. Not to the hour but at least to the day. I guess if you order a Rolls-Royce or some other exclusive car,… Continue reading Wouldn’t you love to know…
Freight dogging with TNT Airways
Sure they can…! A large majority of Air Traffic Controllers are usually busier during the day than during a nightshift. There are however a few radiotelephony callsigns which are always associated with night operations. One such call sigh is “Quality”, the official ICAO callsign of TNT Airways which sounds familiar to all ATCO-s on night… Continue reading Freight dogging with TNT Airways
Via bends and kinks to Honolulu
The shortest route to HNL There are many ways of flying from Brussels to Honolulu and the travel time is in excess of twenty hours in all cases. You might say that it does not matter since no sane person would want to do a trip like that in one stretch but in case you… Continue reading Via bends and kinks to Honolulu
Work hard, fly right, the motto of Continental Airlines.
The case of an overbooked flight – the two sides of a coin It was the last day of our holidays and travel plans called for taking a Continental 737-800 from San Francisco to Newark where we would change to a Continental 767-400 bound for Brussels. The flight from SFO was uneventful and the five… Continue reading Work hard, fly right, the motto of Continental Airlines.
When winglets turn green – Continental flies on bio-fuel
It is more than a year ago now, but on 7 January 2009 Continental Airlines was the first US airline to conduct a bio-fuel test flight with one of their Boeing 737-800s. One engine was running on a mixture of traditional jet fuel, algae and jatropha oil. The 73 got a special paint job for… Continue reading When winglets turn green – Continental flies on bio-fuel
GNSS Landing System (GLS) to the rescue…
Last year in September we were on the last leg of a longish trip that started in Honolulu and after a stop-over in San Francisco we were finally on-board Continental Airlines’ 767- 400 bound for Brussels. We were late pushing back (no fault of the airline) and taxi was more an occasional crawl than continuous… Continue reading GNSS Landing System (GLS) to the rescue…