Legin Draddog

occasional and sporadic tweets usually about my commuting experiences with sleazyJet and bRyanair...

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@belfastEmpire The bassist had no knowledge that AU was gonna be played clearly ….

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@LimelightNI I wouldn’t risk trusting any given showtimes as reviews from his Manchester and Glasgow shows so far best describe the gigs as ‘shambolic’…..here’s hoping he’s on a ‘good day’ tonight 😬🤞

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@symeew13 Bob Mould Husker Du

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@RajSKohliexcop So they can do PB more easily surely….

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@SimonCalder can you check how many ‘beyond their control’ EasyJet cancellations there were on This Sunday night from Gatwick? Lots of very unhappy and inconvenienced passengers again tonight. #Easyjetcanellations#easyjetcancelledmyholdiay#Gatwick #beyondourcontrol

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#panorama is that a booster seat????

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@Translink_NI travelling to GBBCA today from Ballymena, bought train ticket and bus ticket on M Link app, just discovered the bus ticket expires before my train arrives at GVS? Why? Seems odd to time limit a single ticket? Can u help?

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@greateranglia OK it has auto refunded but there’s definitely a problem buying tickets through your App for two days have been unable to complete a transaction just getting this processing screen circle of death….can u report it?

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@greateranglia hi, you have taken the payment for a ticket but your app just says ‘processing’ and never completes the transaction. Can you DM me please.

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@The_Brain_1968 @PSNIDCSDistrict @PoliceServiceNI Yes definitely is….several years old though but defo a criminal offence…

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@EnterpriseTrain

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@EnterpriseTrain what is status of next Enterprise train plse. Will it have Plus carriage and how delayed is it likely to be?

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@nirailways hi the link to check current service delays is broken, can you advise of current delay/status for next Lanyon to Connolly please?

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@easyJet That’s what I’ve been holding on for an hour plus, that’s definitely not a plus service….

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@easyJet your easyJet+ phone line is a joke today simply no one answering, can some one here deal with a request re + via a DM please. #easyJet+

[Steve Giordano @SteveNomadic]

On the leg between Guam (PGUM) and Kalaeloa (PHJR) we experienced a fault with one of our 2 AC packs. This left us a single point of failure away from de-pressurization, which would require a descent to an altitude where we could breathe without supplemental O2. Keep in mind, a lower altitude drastically increases fuel consumption.

Of course a single pack can maintain cabin pressure all the way up to the aircraft’s service ceiling, but if that pack fails, the aircraft cannot be pressurized.

The situation required that @OMD_SkyDog & I make a plan as to how to handle the potential loss of our remaining pack. This plan would be dynamic, as the action taken would depend where we were at the time of de-pressurization.

Past the ETP (Equal Time Point) turning back to GUM was not an option; and continuing to JRF at a low cabin altitude was ALSO not an option - as we’d be short on fuel. PKMJ was a bit too far south to be of use, but PWAK (Wake Island) and PMDY (Midway) were valid alternates that we could use for diversion and still land with the engines turning.

Even though we did have ETOPS planning info on our flight plan, we can’t always rely on it 100% because ferry flying creates some unique challenges due to the fact that we don’t operate the same aircraft all the time, and we have no operational history to set the burn bias. We need to be proactive in the cockpit so on the secondary FPL page of the MCDU, Bob and I played out a few scenarios at different points and compared fuel burns. We decided on a boundary where once crossed, the diversion alternate switched from WAK to MDY. In either case - we’d land with fuel, but it would be pretty minimal.

Passing 170W would be the most critical point. The options would be MDY or LIH from there and both would land with under 800 KG of fuel. Because that didn’t inspire much confidence, we took some additional measures and brought 2 POBs (portable O2 bottles) up to the flight deck. This way, we’d have both the crew O2 from the pressure demand bottle (about 30-40 mins estimated) plus the O2 from POBs available to remain a bit higher longer in the event of a depress. Staying higher meant saving fuel and having more options - always a good thing.

Anyway, the operational pack remained working, and we were able to get the aircraft to JRF before getting the bad pack back online for the next leg - so crisis averted, but the moral of the story is: you always need to have a plan! Especially when flying over remote areas of the planet..

[Legin Draddog @stonhewer]

@SimonCalder can @easyJet claim that air traffic control delays are really ‘extraordinary circumstances’ out of their control thus negating EC compensation when they are occurring so regularly? Any success with challenging their assertion?

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@MissionWrapsUK can you advise me what I should do with this wrap? Can’t wrap it? Poor quality control by looks of it….can you replace please? #wonkywraps #qualitycontrol

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@nirailways It’s completely random on Derry line if you get a new 6 car train or a wee 3 carriage one. 7am this morning @Ballymena, 3 short carriages. Standing from Antrim. False advertising…?

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@greateranglia hello, i have received an email informing me my tracking n on Sunday is cancelled, in so much as it’s not calling @ Stansted. As a result I’m having to make other plans. When I select refund there’s a £10 admin fee, surely that’s wrong?