👂🏻 POD TIME 👂🏻
Me & our man in Lausanne, @robarmstrong.bsky.social, hanging out with the masters of the commodities universe, on the shit show in the middle east
The commods gilet guys are *coining it* but still not up for Rob's jokes 🤣
Plus! Evil supervillains
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Aerossurance is looking forward to joining other stakeholders in offshore helicopter safety at this year's HeliOffshore conference in Madrid #heliffshore #helicopter #safety
#OTD 2020: Human centred design case study: the human machine interface of hoist/SAR controls and an inadvertent cable cut on an AW139 in Australia. aerossurance.com/helicopters/... #helicopter #sar #searchandrescue #hems #hoisting #hcd #humanfactors #design #flightsafety #aviationsafety
#OTD 2019: An #offshore medevac #accident highlights considering the changing risk of an individual flight, flight path management in degrading conditions & #survivability in a 'regulatory void'.
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#sar #helicopter #flightsafety #aviationsafety
#OTD 1977 Ekofisk Bravo Blowout ekofisk.industriminne.no/en/the-bravo...
#OTD 2024 A change in ground handling process inadvertently eliminated a key defence, passenger pre-briefing. aerossurance.com/helicopters/... #helicopter #managementofchange #sms #groundhandling #flightsafety #aviationsafety
They also have an unrivalled track record in their first 50 years for defeating the Royal Navy at sea🫡😆 🐟
Aviation wise they operate the H225 and Dash 8
The Icelandic Coast Guard (Landhelgisgæsla Íslands) is celebrating their 100th anniversary
Source FB 'Tom Cooper'
Boeing’s 737 Max engine anti-ice fix finally in the air theaircurrent.com/aircraft-dev... (via @jonostrower.com @juliejohnsson.bsky.social) #staycurrent
This is less than one percent of their flights, resulting from an accelerated shutdown of the striking CityLine 90-seater regional subsidiary.
Net result: no service to Bydgoszcz, Rzeszów and Stavanger. 10 other destinations served via other LH Group airline hubs. This sounds massive but is not.
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We’re now firmly into scenario 2 and staring down the barrel of scenario 3.
My view on the Briefing Room 5 weeks ago was:
If the Strait reopens in the next week, we have economic disruption but it’s manageable.
Closed for another 4-8 weeks & we have high energy prices throughout the year.
Closed for few months & all bets are off and we’re in a really grim economic world.
(FT) - Lufthansa has cancelled 20,000 flights between May and October to save fuel, one of the largest cuts by global airlines as jet fuel prices double following the Iran war.
@financialtimes.com $JETS
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Four Ukrainian minehunters docked in Portsmouth could form part of a British and French-led mission to reopen the Strait of Hormuz
www.thetimes.com/article/86fe...
1/ Russian companies are blocking foreign IP addresses en masse in a bid to block VPNs, stranding thousands of Russians abroad without access to money, flight details, or taxes. Major Russian apps are also being repurposed to scan users' phones for VPNs and secretly obtain user data. ⬇️
How does Europe maintain its lead in civil aerospace? And are new programmes moving fast enough? Key Qs from this year's Clean Aviation Annual Forum #avgeek www.aerosociety.com/news/from-in...
UPDATE 035 - JMIC ADVISORY NOTE
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#OTD 2015: $115.6 million aircraft written off after a second LOC-I during USAF flight trials over stresses the airframe.
aerossurance.com/safety-manag... #military #accident #aviationsafety #flightsafety
#OTD 2000: Police helicopter ends up in a house roof after TR pitch change spider bearing failure aviation-safety.net/wikibase/17940 #helicopter #accident #aviationsafety #flightsafety #airworthiness
OTD 2014 We look at a minor accident after loss of visual reference when winching a marine pilot at night to an inbound container ship off Astroria, OR.
aerossurance.com/helicopters/... #aviationsafety #helicopter #flightsafety
