{"id":805,"date":"2018-03-30T17:00:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T15:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/?p=805"},"modified":"2019-07-23T11:43:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T09:43:30","slug":"that-was-the-week-that-was-26-30-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/?p=805","title":{"rendered":"That Was The Week That Was: 26 \u2013 30 March"},"content":{"rendered":"The week ended with Easter, making one think of rabbits, and thus hops.\u00a0 Which is a neat way to start thinking about Monday<\/strong>; when Qantas\u2019 non-stop service from Perth to London set out, and arrived. \u00a0It was a non-stop service \u2013 a single hop.\u00a0 But to read the reports, including from a number of aviation sources, this was called a direct service.\u00a0 Does no-one now understand the difference?\u00a0 Qantas has been flying direct to London since the 1930s.\u00a0 This was non-stop.\u00a0 A direct service is on a single flight number, on a single aircraft.\u00a0 It is not non-stop.\u00a0 A non-stop flight is one that does not stop.\r\n\r\nNomenclature aside, it is an interesting development.\u00a0 In the end, the technology always wins and here is another example of \u2018hub-busting\u2019.\u00a0 The aircraft flies over all the traditional stopping points.\u00a0 The corollary is that it might make Perth a hub.\u00a0 Not a sentence you read every week that was.\r\n\r\nBy Tuesday<\/strong> all the excitement of using the wrong name to describe something was wearing thin, so it was back to normal.\u00a0 Or it would have been had we known what normal was\u2026\r\n\r\nNormal, of course, is a drone scare.\u00a0 Having lost its mantle as the most endurance-testing-place-to-fly-to, at least for the moment, Air NZ had to do something to get into the headlines and what is better than a drone scare<\/a> for that?\u00a0 Well, a call for tighter regulation, obviously.\u00a0 Cue mad scramble as drone operators, drone manufacturers and all related parties tried to show that it was not them.\u00a0 The claim was that the drone was within 5 metres, a distance somewhat hard to measure when you are on short finals.\u00a0 Remarkably, it did not get sucked into the engine.\u00a0 The engine and its vacuum-like ability to get risky objects away from the fuselage can normally be trusted.\u00a0 It is almost impossible to image how that could have been the case.\r\n\r\nWednesday<\/strong> saw an interesting thing \u2013 normally, here at TWTWTW we like to see what is going on, but on this one, we are crowd sourcing.\u00a0 Have you noticed how suddenly, after leaving the formal agreements with both Canada and the US languish around unexecuted \u2013 but complied with \u2013 there has been an outbreak of tidying up.\u00a0 In the last few weeks both for the US and now for Canada<\/a>, the open skies agreements have been signed and finalised.\u00a0 Loose ends neatly put away.\u00a0 Can Brexit be involved?\r\n\r\nAs we have had to remark in the past, thank heavens for the most honestly named union in Europe, the European pilots union, or the European Cockpit Association, as it wants you to call them.\u00a0 Easy to remember: European; an association; the pits; and you can probably guess the rest\u2026\u00a0 Still, they were on hand on Thursday <\/strong>to give comfort to the comfortless, hope to the hopeless, joy to the joyless and wire to the fly-by-wire brigade, by noting that there is no pilot shortage in Europe.\u00a0 Sorry NO PILOT SHORTAGE.\u00a0 Indeed, pilots are not being paid enough and there are pilots leaving the pilot caper.\u00a0 No comment.\r\n\r\nFriday was of course Good Friday<\/strong>, a time when traditionally in much of Europe, eggs are distributed by a bell \u2013 about as mechanically believable as a bunny doing it in the Anglo-Saxon world is physiologically believable.\u00a0 Mind you, as is so often the case with rabbits once introduced they become a invading scourge.\u00a0 Try finding chocolate bells this year.\r\n\r\nThat was the week that was and we take this opportunity to wish you all the best for Easter.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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