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Omega General Help / Re: Rear Brakes

« on: 01 May 2020, 23:58:32 »

Well I can report that the spring retaining clips have arrived and very quickly too via Vauxhall dealers so that's one less problem and not too bad at £7 each

Before you fit it, check against this...

http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=127928.msg1942220#new

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Omega General Help / Re: Road Wars, silver box...

« on: 01 May 2020, 23:00:42 »

Best post a linky up then... not watching all of youtube to satisfy your curiosity

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Omega General Help / Re: Road Wars, silver box...

« on: 01 May 2020, 21:32:56 »

Looks silver in the dark, but is the top of the video screen, basically a single din slide out unit mounted in the top half of the radio slot

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General Car Chat / Re: Anyone know about Astras?

« on: 01 May 2020, 21:25:08 »

Amazing what a bit of fuel can do

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General Car Chat / Re: Brake Bleeding Question

« on: 01 May 2020, 21:11:08 »

And why most Omega require a grand spent on them on purchase

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General Car Chat / Re: Anyone know about Astras?

« on: 01 May 2020, 21:09:34 »

Job jobbed

Wipe its arse and kick it out the door

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Omega General Help / Re: Road Wars, silver box...

« on: 01 May 2020, 21:01:50 »

Linky required...

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General Discussion Area / Re: BA To Leave Gatwick?

« on: 01 May 2020, 20:55:01 »

The only sticking point is that there are only two sustainable tour operators flying their own fleets and one of them already has a base there... Tui.

When I first started in '95, there were at least 10 Charter carriers, plus BA, American, Continental, Emirates, Northwest, US Airways, Virgin, Delta, Avia, Zimbabwe, and several other carriers operating scheduled short-haul. 

Ironically, if Thomas Cook had been bailed out, they would have been perfectly positioned for kick starting the tourism industry. Instead, there's unlikely to be the capacity to meet demand...

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General Car Chat / Re: Uncle STEMO

« on: 01 May 2020, 20:17:07 »

Do ya feel lucky?

 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Fake Covid-19 Figures?

« on: 01 May 2020, 19:59:44 »

That is the result of the body not supplying oxygen etc via the blood stream, the cause of the non supply is what's what

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General Discussion Area / Re: BA To Leave Gatwick?

« on: 01 May 2020, 19:57:54 »

Slightly off topic, but aviation related and interesting nontheless. 

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/01/how-airlines-found-parking-for-thousands-of-planes-amid-coronavirus.html

How much is all this aircraft parking costing I wonder?

At Gatwick...

< 50 Metric Tonnes Per 5 minutes of chargeable parking time. £2.50
>= 50 & <= 200 Metric Tonnes Per 5 minutes of chargeable parking time. £5.00
> 200 Metric Tonnes Per 5 minutes of chargeable parking time. £10.00
Notes
(1) Weight category is based on an aircraft’s maximum take-off weight (MTOW).
(2) Parking is free between 22:30 and 04:59 UTC at all times of the year.
(3) A peak charge will apply to an aircraft which occupies a pier served stand between 05:00 and 22:29 UTC
from 1 April to 31 October. During this period of time, each minute will count as three minutes for the purpose
of calculating parking charges.

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General Discussion Area / Re: BA To Leave Gatwick?

« on: 01 May 2020, 19:50:35 »

A question for both DG and LC0112G:

How many other jobs in all the services and support industries, from cabin cleaners to aircraft engineers, through to aircraft builders will be lost per thousand individual airline job cuts please?

Can it be calculated?

Not in those terms, a few airline jobs wouldn't result in job cuts at service providers.

That said, if a whole airline leaves an airport then the effect is obviously more pronounced.

In the case of British Airways, a company called GGS (Gatwick Ground Services) has a single contract: BA.

They provide all the ground handling and cabin cleaning services to BA and only at Gatwick. At a guess, that's 4-600 people straight out of the door. Their catering is provided by Newrest, again I believe only at Gatwick, so probably another 500-800 people or so. The laundry that cleans the blankets is up at Heathrow so probably won't be too badly affected beyond a drop in production.

BA does its own maintenance, so that will be a combination of redundancy, retirement and moving staff.

Associated services will suffer financially from the loss, for example fewer passengers means fewer customers for the shops/restaurants, but these won't automatically mean job cuts as they require staff to function.

The greatest financial loss out side of the direct airline operation will be to the airport with regards landing fees, and service provision (these charges are publically available on the Gatwick commercial website) such as parking (aircraft and staff), ID issuing, vehicle permits etc.

BA tends to operate its aircraft for 25-30 years, and they're currently mid way through upgrading their long haul fleets with B787, B777, A350.

The A380 is a slow, fat Concorde. A great idea, but a bit of a poisoned chalice. It's simply not a cost effective aircraft... You can't put 800 people in it because people demand a bit of luxury/space, so most are running around at less than two thirds of their potential. Also, they can't actually carry that much freight weight, which rules out freighter conversions.

Hence, for the last couple of years, most A380 operators have started dumping them in favour of more efficient twin engine wide body aircraft. Even Emirates cancelled the last of their orders for the A380, and they're the only airline who actually made it viable (in no small part due the fact theirs have amongst the highest passenger number configuration).

There won't be many left in service, if any by 2025.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Fake Covid-19 Figures?

« on: 01 May 2020, 19:08:39 »

Well there's that

If you dropped from a heart attack, then that would be the correct cause of death. What caused you to have a heart attack would be secondary if there were a reason to investigate it such as being otherwise young, fit, healthy etc

Batflu deaths would/should be recorded as such if you turned up with nowt else wrong with you expect Batflu and succumbed to it after a brief holiday in hospital...

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General Car Chat / Re: Brake Bleeding Question

« on: 01 May 2020, 17:36:01 »

Extremely. It has been known for the piston to come out far enough to allow undetected fluid loss resulting in the loss of brakes.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Interviews for jobs in lockdown

« on: 01 May 2020, 17:29:49 »

Positive news