Brisbane airport stuff

[lloyd fox]

Wish i could have done better but it just waited and waited and i ran out of time

84-0061 2 Pics today of this mighty big aircraft.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/794876...h/29251852227/

2 Pics and a few others from today and late yesterday last 7 pics

Cheers

Tomorrow BNE has EVA AIR 77W for NZ,PIONAIR 146 and a BBJ 737-7 MAX

[lloyd fox]

The 737-7MAX turned out to be a 737-700 BBJ with the dual winglets

https://www.flickr.com/photos/794876...posted-public/

EVA AIR 77W operating for NZ ..ZK-OKT first flight to BNE today

https://www.flickr.com/photos/794876...posted-public/

[lloyd fox]

Hevilift ATR72 is now flying out of Brissie.

VH-FVM.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/794876...posted-public/

[MarkR]

I note EK are back to a daily A380 eff Sept 2

[Greg Hyde]

Originally Posted by MarkR

The seriousness of the incident has seen the ATSB start an investigation, with the press now reporting on it.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-Brisbane.html

ATSB issues safety notice on pitot probes after MAS A330 incident

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has issued a safety advisory notice after a Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Airbus A330-300 took off from Brisbane Airport without the covers for the aircraft’s three pitot probes being removed.

The ATSB preliminary report on the July 18 2018 incident, published on Thursday, said an inspection of the aircraft prior to departure “did not identify the presence of the pitot probe covers and they were not removed prior to the aircraft’s departure”.

As a result, the aircraft, 9M-MTK, pushed back from the gate and proceeded to Runway 01 for takeoff with its three pitot probes, which are used to measure airspeed, covered by tightly woven Kevlar sheaths about 12cm long with a 30cm streamer.

The ATSB report said the flightcrew had detected an airspeed anomaly during the takeoff roll, including red speed (SPD) flags on both primary flight displays (PFD).

It said there was no indication on the recording from the cockpit voice recorder that the captain – who was the pilot monitoring and who held responsibility for the decision to reject the takeoff or continue – and the first officer, as the pilot flying, discussed rejecting the takeoff.

After takeoff, the flightcrew carried out actions for unreliable airspeed indications and made a PAN call to air traffic control (ATC), advising they had unreliable airspeed indications.

The flightcrew then flew the aircraft to the north-east of Brisbane Airport where they carried out several checklists, troubleshooting and preparing for an approach and landing on runway 01.

“In accordance with published procedures, the flightcrew turned off the three air data reference systems (ADRs),” the ATSB preliminary report said.

“This activated the aircraft’s backup speed scale (BUSS), which provided a colour-coded speed scale derived from angle of attack and other information, and altitude derived from GPS data. The flightcrew also obtained groundspeed information from ATC, and used the aircraft’s radar altimeter.”

http://australianaviation.com.au/201...a330-incident/

[MarkR]

What a failure of procedures, missed by multiple party’s including the captain on walk around, and even at takeoff. MH are clearly not used to having pitot covers on turnaround, which as the report suggests, is an idea at Brisbane:

The ATSB report noted there had been at least 15 incidents between 2008 and 2015 involving high-capacity regular public transport (RPT) aircraft departing from Brisbane Airport where one of the pitot probes had a partial or total blockage, at least four of which were identified as insect nests

[lloyd fox]

More pics the past few days

https://www.flickr.com/photos/794876...h/42629570530/

Samoa Airways announced BNE flights from 13Nov.Twice weekly on Tuesday and Sundays.I have read they are chasing a 2nd 737.

[Stirling D]

Wedgetail A30-001 paid a visit on 11-9.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/stirli...posted-public/

[lloyd fox]

Managed a pic yesterday of new Fly Corporate Saab now in partial livery
also many more such as Pionair,EK,both Hevilift and more.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/79487691@N07/

[lloyd fox]

Today the new Dryandra Rd tunnel linking Moreton Drive to the RFDS,GA Terminal,BNE jet base and Loop Rd plane spotters area is expected to open.This will take motorists under the 2 new taxiways under construction.Yankee and Zulu are those and will link both runways heading in a west-east direction.The new roadway will head North-South below the taxiways.
These 2 taxiways have been completed above the tunnel and roadway and now the old Dryandra Rd will be closed so part of it will be made into the taxiways as well.