mjoelnir
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Post by mjoelnir on Jul 11, 2013 12:22:57 GMT 1
I'm surprised that they will schedule a break from flying considering how important it is for Airbus to certify and deliver the aircraft on time. Does the majority of the country shut down for holidays in France or is this just and Airbus thing? It is typical French, the whole nation shuts down. But I can still imagine that they do some work on the airplane during that time.  Perhaps transfer it to Finkenwerder?  |
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Post by philidor on Jul 11, 2013 14:03:08 GMT 1
The quote in mjoelnir's post above is from jkkw, not from me. On the contrary, I stated in my posts that I believe test pilots' holidays are a sacred matter and therefore must be part of Airbus'schedule.
I don't think this applies to the whole country anymore, but it does apply to test pilots, who are sort of divas who will never work when they think they should not.
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mjoelnir
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Post by mjoelnir on Jul 11, 2013 14:31:30 GMT 1
The quote in mjoelnir's post above is from jkkw, not from me. On the contrary, I stated in my posts that I believe test pilots' holidays are a sacred matter and therefore must be part of Airbus'schedule. I don't think this applies to the whole country anymore, but it does apply to test pilots, who are sort of divas who will never work when they think they should not. Sorry I was answering the text not the post. I do not think the test pilots being special "divas" it is just very French the untouchable time of the summer vacation. There will not anything being done in France in this time not being "live and death". |
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Post by Baroque on Jul 11, 2013 14:39:10 GMT 1
They still have around 100 hours of test data to work with. I don't think they could have gone through everything after the end of each flight. Could keep them busy even while the aircraft is on the ground and I think this is about reworking and fine tuning things such as software. They had a rather rigorous test schedule up to now and it's pretty clear they wanted data from every configuration before moving onto this next phase - could save time. Meanwhile here's something for the tech-heads.  Flight Test Engineer Station for A350 aircraftA nice overview of the hardware and software systems used for the flight test computers. |
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Post by someone on Jul 11, 2013 14:48:42 GMT 1
]I'm surprised that they will schedule a break from flying considering how important it is for Airbus to certify and deliver the aircraft on time. Does the majority of the country shut down for holidays in France or is this just an Airbus thing It's a Europaen thing......I just sat my out of office reply that I'm unavailable untill August  And I'm sure that Airbus considered all the holidays when they made the test schedule |
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Post by mjoelnir on Jul 11, 2013 16:45:11 GMT 1
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philidor
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Post by philidor on Jul 11, 2013 17:51:20 GMT 1
Thank you again, mjoelnir
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Post by mjoelnir on Jul 11, 2013 18:02:39 GMT 1
One more flight and the raccoon goes for summer hybernation.
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Post by bmw801 on Jul 12, 2013 8:56:14 GMT 1
F-WXWB is moving again (FR24) now as AIB15WB |
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Post by Shadow123 on Jul 12, 2013 9:06:20 GMT 1
Dnd she is in the air :-)
For her 15th flight.
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Perhaps transfer it to Finkenwerder? 
