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Post by FabienA380 on Oct 2, 2014 0:45:36 GMT 1
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Post by Jkkw on Oct 3, 2014 3:26:24 GMT 1
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Post by FabienA380 on Oct 3, 2014 7:06:53 GMT 1
water canons again....................
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Baroque
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Post by Baroque on Oct 5, 2014 3:18:14 GMT 1
VH-OQL (cowboy kangaroo ? ), flying to Dallas, experienced an in flight issue with some fuel pumps on 3rd Oct, forcing it to return to Sydney after 9.5 hours. It went back to normal service after 25 hour delay. avherald.com/h?article=47b480e2&opt=0
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Post by FabienA380 on Oct 5, 2014 5:19:52 GMT 1
VH-OQL (cowboy kangaroo ? ), flying to Dallas, experienced an in flight issue with some fuel pumps on 3rd Oct, forcing it to return to Sydney after 9.5 hours. It went back to normal service after 25 hour delay. avherald.com/h?article=47b480e2&opt=0picture with 2 QF A380s at DFW flic.kr/p/pfbqiSwith the comment Thanks Brandon Thetford!
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Post by helios91 on Oct 5, 2014 8:04:48 GMT 1
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Post by limoncello on Oct 5, 2014 20:53:11 GMT 1
long distance flight of A380 and landing at Dallas/Fort Worth after mor than 13.000 km.
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bvb09
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Post by bvb09 on Oct 6, 2014 10:02:11 GMT 1
hmm, somehow the newly introduced SYD-DFW A380 rotation seems to experience some serious teething troubles: QF8, operated by VH-OQE has just left LAX after being diverted.
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philidor
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Post by philidor on Oct 6, 2014 11:18:57 GMT 1
VH-OQL (cowboy kangaroo ? ), flying to Dallas, experienced an in flight issue with some fuel pumps on 3rd Oct, forcing it to return to Sydney after 9.5 hours. It went back to normal service after 25 hour delay. avherald.com/h?article=47b480e2&opt=0I have a technical question. I understand the issue that led to a return to base was a fuel pump malfunction. Yet, I thought that, at least under a certain flight level, engines could be fed by gravity. If true, what is the reason to divert when some pumps fail ? Or am I wrong about gravity feeding ? Or would fuel burn at a lower flight level increase so much that the aircraft would have had insufficient range to reach destination, if not the coastline ?
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Post by helios91 on Oct 6, 2014 11:50:25 GMT 1
I think that you are right about the gravity feed fuel system and I think like you that flying at FL 300 or lower could affect their ability to reach DFW in safe conditions knowing that it is already a very lenghty flight from SYD. So may be they could have made it instead to the US west coast in LAX where no doubt repair was possible but in such case, this return may have been driven by ETOPS concerns / rules crossing the Pacific. Back in April this year if I am not wrong, another Qantas A380 had a similar pumps problem on a journey LAX to MEL and it returned to LAX more than 9 hours after departure EDIT: here is a link to the April event: avherald.com/h?article=4731f263&opt=0
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