How safe is Air Flight Journey? Commercial Airplane Accidents and Safety continue… September 13, 2008
Posted by dodo in : Air Tickets, Airlines, Destination, Rail Pass, Round The World, Sightseeing, Tickets, Tour, Trip , 3commentsWhat kind of maintenance steps do airlines take?
There are two basic types of maintenance: scheduled maintenance and unscheduled work focused on correcting faults that have occurred. For scheduled inspections, government regulators require increasingly detailed work, some of it related to a plane’s age and the number of hours and flights it has made. At each step in the process, mechanics probe more and more deeply into an aircraft, taking apart more and more components for closer inspection. Regulators give airlines some flexibility in their maintenance programmes, but a typical programme looks something like this: (more…)
How safe is Air Flight Journey? Commercial Airplane Accidents and Safety September 13, 2008
Posted by dodo in : Air Tickets, Airlines, Flight Schedule, Round The World, Tickets, Travel Clinic, Travel Gear, USA , 3commentsThe most dangerous part of flying is the journey from your home to the Airport and back!
Commercial aeroplane accidents are rare events. Even so, a jetliner crash is major news all round the world, often renewing the question: how safe is it to fly? The information in this article was provided by courtesy of Boeing Aircraft Company. It attempts to answer some common questions about commercial aviation and describes the effort being made to make jet travel even safer than it already is. (more…)
Is there any way to make Air Travel safer? September 13, 2008
Posted by dodo in : Airlines, Flight Schedule, Hotels, Travelling Bag , 3commentsSince the inception of the jet era, flying has become much safer because of innovations like computerised flight simulators, expanded radar coverage, and high-tech devices that warn pilots of such things as nearby aircraft, threatening proximity to terrain, precarious aircraft altitude or flight angle, and wind-shear conditions. The industry is continually finding new ways to make flying safer through better pilot training, better aircraft inspection and maintenance techniques, and new safety technologies. In the next century, for example, all commercial jets will use satellites to navigate and communicate their positions to air traffic controller on the ground — a tremendous advantage over ground-based navigation aids and radar that lose “sight” of planes once they fly beyond the horizon. (more…)
Buy Flights Tickets, and tell Captain not to fly faster than sound, I want to listen the Movie September 3, 2008
Posted by dodo in : Air Tickets, Airlines, Destination, Flight Schedule, Round The World , 3commentsThis beautifully streamlined, state-of-the-art aircraft was actually first produced over thirty years ago. The 100-seater Concorde was, and still remains, the world’s only supersonic passenger aircraft. It is capable of flying at Mach 2.2, more than twice the speed of sound and at altitudes of up to 18 kilometres. At this speed and height the Concorde seems to hang motionless in the sky, the only sensation of movement being the shifting, curved horizon. Its dream-like performance is the closest thing to space travel the travelling public can experience. (more…)
Air Flight, Tobacco and Alcohol — the Flight of reason September 3, 2008
Posted by dodo in : Air Tickets, Airlines, Destination, Flight Schedule, Round The World , 6commentsShould passengers be allowed to smoke, should they be allowed to imbibe alcohol during flight? These questions pose considerable problems for passengers themselves, for aircrew and for airline management. There are strong and valid arguments against their case; on the other hand users may feel discriminated against and deprived of their “rights”. Trying to balance these points of view is becoming more of an issue by the day in general life, never mind in the confines of an airliner cabin. Let’s tray to put the issue in perspective — the perspective of you, the passenger, in a crowded aircraft. (more…)
