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> YA-KME for example, has a strange little thing where you’ll get an ECAM Red ENG 3 FIRE after you detent into CLB. For f*ck sake, don’t discharge the bottles, there’s no fire. It’ll shut up after 3 or 4 seconds. Again, reason unknown, everybody just kind of lives with it’s quirks now. KME is commonly referred too as “Kill Me”, as this is the aircraft with the most random issues. Brake temps breaking the charts when you start up from cold and dark in DXB for example. You’ll get used to them, and you’ll get used to which ones are “KME Normal” and KME actually trying to kill you.
I remember reading report from another captain, flying for Kam Air or some other Afghan airline about a decade ago. I recall his hotel got attacked by Taliban suicide bombers, but other than that the contract went fine. I guess things are calmer now out there.
> somehow Kam Air can keep all of their APUs operating but European carriers I've flown with will go the entire Summer season hopping about the Greek Islands with it INOP
If anyone knows: is it normal to allow dispatch without the APU? I kind of assumed it would be a required redundancy, especially on an airbus where the computers and electronics are what keeps the thing in the air ...
Outstanding.
I live in "kashmir", India side and the place is on a similar no-go by both UK and US governments travel advisory.
https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/india
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/...
Us has a level 4 do not travel.
The point is, we are around 10 million souls living in this place and we call it home. It may not be for Americans and British but its our home.
Reading this article, im sure travellers here last month could give similar "harrowing" accounts of escaping from the valley and the stuff they did.
Yeah, terrorism tourism is real and its "extremely cheap" compared to last month. More safer I would assume but yeah.
The air fare has dropped to like 30%, hotels are empty so they will offer you sweet deals.
Makes sense from Indian army point of view. I wouldn't expect its easy to even get there, especially if westerner, we stick out of crowd properly even when skin tone may be similar, clothing is obviously very different. There is a reason why those prices are so low. Maybe nothing happens, maybe something does. Flying is probably safest, if one ignores the possibility of ground-air or air-air missiles, intentional or not.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_union_ter...
These are the crime stats and even while our stats are skewed by jammu, overall its still a much safer place.
Think of it this way. 26/11 happened in Mumbai. Who would've thought ? That hasnt stopped people from visting Mumbai or rest of mainland India ?
I get it. The perception of threat is worse than an actual threat.
So.... you know if since 2008 as you said, any tourist was caught up in the issue ? I dont remember.
The only reason is tourists are not coming. I am a consultant working with the industry and EVERYONE has cancelled. Hotels have closed operations
Doubt Arabs in Tunisia or Iraq do this? You probably meant the Kafala ("visa sponsorship"), usually abused by businesses (illegally so, in Bahrain and the UAE) employing blue-collar workers in ~4 GCC ("Arab") states.
Edit: And how in God's name are you going to extort the passport from someone whose literal job is to fly an airplane to other countries, where they not only need it to do their job, but can just land somewhere and be like "peace out, I quit, I'm not flying this thing back."
This.