pattayasnowman

Most modern aircraft don't need to dump fuel and can land at maximum weight.

Rubbish - As already mentioned by BSJ, dumping fuel is not possible on the A320family.

The differences from Max Take Off Weight (MTOW ) to Max Landing Weight (MLW) are not that small:

A321-200: Approx 14 tons

So you have to enter a holding pattern somewhere to burn fuel or to do the overweight landing procedure.

The A321 burns fuel at a bit less then 5 tons per hr . Since the flight to Macau is short it is likely that it was not at max fuel capacity at take off so that the difference between its TOW and MLW was less then 14 tons.

So flying in a holding pattern for 1 hr to burn 5 tons of fuel to reach MLW seems the most probable explanation for the 'facts' as reported.

But as you rightly pointed out so often these 'facts' can be far from what actually occured.

No! Not rubbish!!! Read and comprehend.

I didn't say that there was no difference between MTOW and MLW, onlt that an aircraft can be landed at maximum weight. An 'overweight landing' must be recorded and an engineering inspection carried out.

Consider this scenario. An aircraft takes off an experiences an uncontrollable engine fire, so must land asap. Does he hold to burn off fuel to get below landing weight? Of course not, so it's your assertion that is rubbish.

I'm not a google pilot.

You are not a very careful reader either:

Read my Post:

"So you have to enter a holding pattern somewhere to burn fuel or to do the overweight landing procedure."

Most modern aircraft don't need to dump fuel and can land at maximum weight.

Rubbish - As already mentioned by BSJ, dumping fuel is not possible on the A320family.

The differences from Max Take Off Weight (MTOW ) to Max Landing Weight (MLW) are not that small:

A321-200: Approx 14 tons

So you have to enter a holding pattern somewhere to burn fuel or to do the overweight landing procedure.

The A321 burns fuel at a bit less then 5 tons per hr . Since the flight to Macau is short it is likely that it was not at max fuel capacity at take off so that the difference between its TOW and MLW was less then 14 tons.

So flying in a holding pattern for 1 hr to burn 5 tons of fuel to reach MLW seems the most probable explanation for the 'facts' as reported.

But as you rightly pointed out so often these 'facts' can be far from what actually occured.

“There’s never been one case -documented case – of groundwater contamination in the history of the thousands and thousands of hydraulic fracturing [wells]” – That claim, from Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe, is false, according to Popular Mechanics magazine.

Pavillion ,Wyo - high levels of chemicals linked to fracking have been found on ground water supplies, Pavillion aquifer sits much closer then aquifers in other gas fields. As a consequence drillers may be forced to abandon shallow deposits.

In the past 2 years a series of surface spills , including 2 blowouts at wells operated by Chesapeake Energy and EOG Resources and a spill of 8000 galls of fracking fluid at a site in Dimock. PA ,have contaminated ground water in the Marcellus shale region.

In other words Fracking is a high risk and dangerous process. Thats not to say it should be banned, but it does need to be tightly regulated.

Frankly Thailand history of corruption and poor regulation raises grave concerns over their competence to oversee the Fracking industry.

The majority of shoppers in the big supermarkets are Thais - certainly not Americans.

These imported western food products are specialty items almost specifically for Farlung and well healed Thais consumption.

Thus price increases in these products do not affect the average shopper who is not addicted to say 'Walkers' chips and are happy to buy the locally manufactured product.

The Big Supermarkets and importers want to maximize profits and they will push up the price until it affects demand. In the case of these products the Price/ Demand relationship is relatively inelastic due to the well of clientel of these products

It is traded but not for delivery overseas.

Buying Thai Baht in the UK

Thai baht is widely stocked by most currency suppliers in the UK which means competition is strong,

Buying Thai Baht in the USA

1 USD is worth approximately 32 THB according to xe.com. Thai baht can be bought from most bureau de change.

You probably meant something else but the Baht is certainly traded internationally.

http://www.tripadvisor.com.sg/Travel-g293915-s601/Thailand:Banks.And.Money.html

Yes its traded - but it is value is not determined by open (free) market bidding .

Dec 4 2007 (Reuters) - Thailand has quietly abandoned the managed floating exchange rate of the baht it adopted in 1997 and reverted to the old system of a basket of currencies, the Nation newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Now using a basket of currencies, the BoT was managing the baht through a weighted average of movements of the major currencies in Thailand's foreign exchange reserves, it said.

It quoted a foreign exchange expert as saying the Thai reserves of more than $100 billion were held 60 percent in dollars, 30 percent in euros and 10 percent in yen.

So it is most heavily weighted in US$ and thus effectively pegged against the US dollar

It is not Floated that is it is not freely traded on the international currency markets.

My mistake earlier its the Yen not the BP that is the third currency in the basket

HAs anybody used a PayPal Debit card in Thailand ?

It has not been pegged to the US dollar since 1997 so you are off target on that one.

Its pegged to a Basket of Currencies: US$ , BP, and EUR

The weighting is heaviest with the US$

Ok, I understand that.....now, when will the baht drop against other currencies? I am talking a significant drop, not half a point!

Soon - Thai Baht exchange rate is tied to the US Dollar. It is now artificially high against this currency . The Thai government will be soon forced to devalue to a more realistic rate ( 37 - 38 )

Pattaya police ban pipes from Songkran waterfights

As I remember a BA is not sufficient to teach in the UK.

A graduate needs also to complete a 1 year teaching training course to obtain a Teachers Certificate .

At least this used to be the requirement wether it still is I am not sure.

This is a great VPN service that I have used

http://novavpn.biz/

Has a free 3 day trial

I understand plans very well, but you obviously don't.

First of all your 399 package cost 427 Baht including VAT, so you would have 310 Baht credit left and not 338 as you wrongly claim.

Secondly, Dtac packages are not 1 month but 30 days, so a package started on 7 March finish 6 April at 00.00h.

If there is not enough credit on your card to renew, which obviously was the case with you, you will be charged at 2 Baht per mb starting from 6 April 00.00h.

This eats your credit at record tempo, which explains why you had only 1.97 Baht left.

If you need more details about how a data plan works, which is obvious you don't know, please let me know.

Apart from your nit picking over VAT and 1 month or 30 days you are still wrong

Whenever I have forgotten to renew or had insufficient funds - it does not revert to the 2 baht a min rate .

You just cannot connect ! At least this has been my experience

And besides this was NOT the case in this instance - This discrepency came to my attention 1 day prior ( Thats on the 29th day !) to the end of the contract

There was no overcharge due to the plan having expired !

Read the original post before making carefully before commenting !

If you are getting stiffed by your provider, change to one that doesn't stiff you. Not rocket science is it?

Are you for real ? If you don't have anything whorthwhile saying don't say it !

Now thats not Rocket Science!

Switch to AIS then, they go to slow, unmetered when your bandwidth runs out.

So does DTAC - obviously missed the whole point !

"There is a difference between reaching your bandwidth limit and your 30 day plan expiring, which is what happened to the OP,:"

Wrong - you obviously do not understand the Plans !

When you have used up your 5GB of high speed you revert to a lower speed for the rest of the monthly period.

In otherwords you still have Unlimited internet access but at a lower connect speed

No additional charges are made.

Short term intra day fluctuations are normal and in themselves meaningless.

Looking for reasons are a waste of energy and time.

The long term currency tend is for a strong US Dollar which will mean a continual

weakening of the BP and a probable weakening of the BP/Baht rate

However, in my opinion the Thai Baht is artificially overvalued against the US Dollar

and if the Dollar strength continues may be forced into a revaluation.

A more realistic $US/Baht rate is 37 to 38

What sort of scam is it when they give you your money back for something you asked for?

It was never knowingly asked for !!

Bit heavy handed by Korea. The Japanese gave the DCA two months until the end of May to resubmit a new plan to address the ICAO concerns and to meet their requirements.

Sure the DCA ,to say the least , has draged its feet over this issue for several years. The country has been going through political upheaval throughout this time which may be a factor.

The matter has now come to a head and a fire has been lit under the DCA and PM Gen Prayut to get this matter resolved . The Koreans could have been a little more graceful over the matter and given another two months before pulling the plug and disrupting so many peoples travel plans. Afterall these concerns have been ongoing for years.

OK Scam may be too strong - but you be the judge

Here's the story.

I use DTACC Pre Paid Unlimited Internet Access plan that cost 399.00 baht / month. I use it exclusively on an Aic Card. No phone calls or text messages are made with the same number.

So I expect my total charges per month to be 399.00 baht

On March 7th 2015 my credit was 737.00 baht - the next day my Internet access plan was paid - 399.00 so I expected a balance of 338.00 at the end of the period April 7th 2015. To my surprise there was only a balance of 1.97

Actually this kind of discrepancy happened before and I just thought I had got it wrong, This time however, I contacted DTAC .

Apparently , it was explained to me, that I must have inadvertently clicked on one of the unsolicited messages , that have recently ( last 3 or 4 months) been appearing , on a daily basis. Thus causing this 336 baht of 'extra' charges.

I ask to have these messages blocked but he said DTAC hhas no control over this.

In fairness to DTAC and the very well (English) spoken and polite operator , he quickly investigated the matter and said the charges would be credited back withing 24 hrs.

Seems a bit like the old Pay-per-call service, offered only using a 900 number 'scam'

In those instances the phone companies would not reverse the charges

Scam or not - what do you think ?

Price of 'Victory' same with Aleppo in Northern Syria - is it worth it ?

If so who gains?

The so called engine failure comes from China Daily News and is based on one passenger

According to the newspaper, "a passenger on the plane said the forced landing is because one of the engines was broken."

A single engine flame out would not cause the plane to "plunge" from the sky

In fact a two engine flame out would not as was the case with US Airways Flight 1549, which was gilded to a water landing in the Hudson.

If indeed an Engine broke up , it could have caused damage to the wings leading edge or surface causing loss of control and a rapid descent. In which case the pilots diid an excellant job to recover and make an emergency landing.

More likely there was no damaged engine but a loss of cabin pressure which required an emergency descent. Again credit to the pilots for making a safe emergency landing.

What actually happened has probably been distorted and sensationalized

I always assumed forward momentum and glide ratio would prevent a plane from falling from the sky?

Any aircraft can stall at any speed. When it stalls, sometimes the pilot can reestablish laminar flow over the wings and sometimes they cannot. In any case it takes time to recover from a stall and during that time, it falls like a lead balloon.

I have some doubt that any aircraft can stall at any speed as you state. I believe there is a certain stall speed associated with any fixed wing aircraft. It would be interesting to be proved wrong though.

You can have a High Speed Stall and a Low speed stall

In the case of the former the AirFlow is dispupted on the top of the wing surface a shock wave forms due to the airflow exceeding the speed of sound

The latter case , which is more common, is due to the Angle of Attack being too high and the thrust (forward speed ) too low cause a loss of lift.

It seems that whenever I purchase something in my local 7/11 that costs say 42.5 baht , the counter staff round up the purchase to 43 baht and give change accounding to the rounded up figure.

Is this 7/11 Policy or just the ' Staff ' Policy at my local 7/11 ?

So If its 7/11 Policy, if they want say 43 baht for an item why don't they just price it that way and dispense altogether the 0.5 Baht sub pricing.

If its 'staff' policy , well 0.5 baht may be bugger all to most of us , but it certainly adds up over a few 10's of thousands of transactions.

OK I can already 'hear ' the cries "cheap Charlie" "tight farlung" etc - but as the old saying goes "Its not the money but the Principal"