NFR - My flight just aborted it's take off..

[Hazey]

2/3rds of the way back to Oz on a stopover in Singapore, throttle down full, the massive double decker A380 just beginning to lurch off the ground when......BANG BANG - we blow not one, but two tyres on the runway!

Take off aborted without any incident...now how to fill in the 7 hr delay??

Made me think that gee we all take this flying lark for granted sometimes aye!!

[gang]

Hazey, have you put on bit of weight? to blow 1 tyre is bad luck, to blow 2 is careless.

[ScalleysDad]

Take in the orchids and see if you can find the famous swimming pool. Good
luck in Oz. You'll not be wanting my seat for the QPR game then?

Oh. And as gang says shift some of that surplus.

[Burt]

Spend $20 to go to the top of the Marina Bay hotel. Worth every penny!

[Hazey]

Trouble is noting is open and it is like 2am!  Not long to go till boarding now!

Oh and enough of the cheek Gang...where u been hiding since Hamburg anyways?

[CorkedHat]

I have been on some hair raising flights. I have been on a plane that got struck by lightning and it fell about 10,000 feet like a stone.
I have been in a plane that had to jettison fuel over Botany Bay and you could see the look of alarm on the fishermen below. I have been on a plane that touched down at Mascot, saw that he was too far along the runway and took off again immediately. I have been half way across to Hong Kong when the bloody plane hit turbulence like you have never experienced before. It went on for ages. I have been on a plane in Melbourne when a plane hurtled a few feet over the plane I was in. This made the papers as a near miss and they weren't wrong.
If I never fly again it will be too soon.

[CorkedHat]

Spend $20 to go to the top of the Marina Bay hotel. Worth every penny!

Bloody hell - it'll take a good ball to remove those bails  :005:

[Burt]

I have been on some hair raising flights. I have been on a plane that got struck by lightning and it fell about 10,000 feet like a stone.
I have been in a plane that had to jettison fuel over Botany Bay and you could see the look of alarm on the fishermen below. I have been on a plane that touched down at Mascot, saw that he was too far along the runway and took off again immediately. I have been half way across to Hong Kong when the bloody plane hit turbulence like you have never experienced before. It went on for ages. I have been on a plane in Melbourne when a plane hurtled a few feet over the plane I was in. This made the papers as a near miss and they weren't wrong.
If I never fly again it will be too soon.

My closest incident was at Heathrow, when we were coming in to land and ended doing a "touch and go" as a plane was crossing the runway in front of us on its way to Terminal 4.

I have also dropped like a stone for a bit, apparently we flew through some volcanic ash.

And on a flight from San Diego to Dallas one of the engines packed in.

Flying in India on internal flights is a pretty hair-raising experience too.

[Burt]

Spend $20 to go to the top of the Marina Bay hotel. Worth every penny!

Bloody hell - it'll take a good ball to remove those bails  :005:

LOL

It's an amazing piece of architecture.

Singapore is the maddest place, where you have quite traditional colonial architecture cheek-by-jowl with some pretty groovy new-builds.

Loved the place. Apart from the 4pm downpours.

[Snibbo]

Spend $20 to go to the top of the Marina Bay hotel. Worth every penny!

Bloody hell - it'll take a good ball to remove those bails  :005:

LOL

It's an amazing piece of architecture.

Singapore is the maddest place, where you have quite traditional colonial architecture cheek-by-jowl with some pretty groovy new-builds.

Loved the place. Apart from the 4pm downpours.

Was in Singapore 25 years ago and loved it. Was there this January and was very disappointed in comparison. $14 for a beer was not unusual. It had lost its "Asian" feel, and felt to me like it had totally sold out to commercialisation.  Maybe that's inevitable, but I thought it was a shame.

[Burt]

I guess as I had never been to Singapore before I had nothing to compare it against.

I found Sydney far more expensive than Singapore. But as with any city, if you are there long enough you find great places to eat and drink for reasonable prices.

[King_Crud]

Sydney is a rip-off. People here find it hard to believe when I tell them I moved to London because it's more affordable for what you earn.

[The Equalizer]

Sydney is a rip-off. People here find it hard to believe when I tell them I moved to London because it's more affordable for what you earn.

It was okay when we were getting 3 Aussie Dollars to the pound!