CAVU Café: Royboy’s Prose & Cons
MAX, ODAs, BABIES, AND BATHWATER
By Roy Resto
My spleen seeks comfort in being vented, so this is going to be one of those articles.
Regarding Max, let’s be clear; the issue will be fixed, the lessons learned, and the aircraft will return to be the economic best-selling performer it was meant to be. Period.
I have always been impressed with our industry’s capacity to get to the root cause of any problem devoid of emotional, political, or institutional influences, for example in accident investig...
Posted By Roy Resto | 2/3/2020 9:30:30 AM
In the Aviation/Aerospace industry, Manufacturers, Airlines, AMO/Repair Stations, and Distributors all conduct Receiving and Shipping Inspections of their aircraft parts. I have experience with all of these, so I thought I’d share some critical observations. First a little sarcastic humor from the distributor community:
Salesman: “I meet my quotas by buying everything as quickly as I can issue PO’s. If it gets through my Receiving Inspectors it must be good…”
Salesman: “I secretly drop ship ever...
Posted By Roy Resto | 12/2/2019 5:32:39 PM
It’s amazing how fast this data accumulates in a short period of time, so here’s the latest compilation in summary-highlights form for your reading pleasure.
Number of Laser Incidents in 2018
TSA Busiest Day Ever, And Various Interesting Stats
Global Airlines 2019 Profit Forecast Cut
European example of Trains competing with Air Service
CFM56 Milestone Achievements
US Aerospace and Defense Industry 2018 Performance
Interesting Highlights From the FAA Aerospace Forecast 2019-2039
Boeing 2019-2038...
Posted By Roy Resto | 10/1/2019 11:12:25 AM
You’re on your honeymoon. Your eyes are a-glaze with thoughts of a tranquil reverie with your beloved. Soon the honeymoon will be over and you’ll come home to the new reality of the challenge to make the relationship work. And so it is with airlines…but how so?
You have a new and young fleet. The aircraft, engines, and components are covered by warranty. Even as those warranties expire, it will be some time before many of those parts reach their forecasted MTBR’s (Mean Time Between Removals). A...
Posted By Roy Resto | 8/2/2019 1:03:45 PM
To lawyers and quality geeks, the careful selection of words one uses to communicate is a source of constant musing. Because of this I’m amazed that preflight passenger briefings continue to use a curious mixture of potentially confusing words for the inexperienced passenger. For example, “posted placards”. Huh? What’s a placard? Also, “no congregating around the forward lavatory”. Congregating? Are they expressing a religious restriction? I’m offended. Why not just plainly call a placard- signs...
Posted By Roy Resto | 6/6/2019 11:06:06 AM