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The Man Without a Face.

Kris Kristofferson

You said VISA, so presuming a 60 day tourist visa placed in your passport by a Thai Embassy/ Consulate outside of Thailand. It can be extended once at immigration for 30 days. If a person comes from a qualifying country for a Visa Exempt entry, they can leave Thailand and return and get a 30 day visa waiver entry. There is a limit of 2 land border entries in any one calendar year. I would suggest NOT using Poipet as there are many complaints of people having 'problems' there. One or two land crossings do not like in-and-out border hops. Nong Khai might be the easiest. (Hope that helps).

Not so great if one lives or takes holidays in the Asian region. More of them.

Other than the food court (queue up 3 times craziness) it is simply an overpriced collection of pending failures. I used the cinema, nice enough but bring a jacket. Tried a small Thai food restaurant, rather overpriced, but quality good. After the film the place was near crowded midweek. Asian tourists mostly, and I believe usually so at weekends, but I got an impression of window shoppers and not a lot of buying going on. As seems to happen in Pattaya, the Mall market has been saturated.

Space Truckers

Boeing down $40 billion as shares fall. Its captain had more than 8,000 hours of flying experience, And he had only 40 seconds to figure out how to resolve the problem, thumbing through the manuals, before the aircraft goes into an unrecoverable nose dive. Boeing pilots had less than 40 SECONDS to over-ride automated system feared to have caused two deadly 737 Max jet crashes, test simulations revealBoeing pilots had less than 40 SECONDS to over-ride automated system feared to have caused two deadly 737 Max jet crashes, test simulations reveal. Daily Mail

Ridiculous, it is a relatively new aircraft, and there have been 2 total and utter wipe-outs of all passengers and crew in 370 delivered. By your evaluation they would all still be flying, or at worst just grounded for 3rd world carriers with the inferior and lazy pilots. One or two more crashes or incidents scaring, maybe killing, passengers and crew would be the fault of those pilots not the manufacturer. I might also add that these very same pilots, who you believe need to return to school to compensate for Boeing's QC, have also flown many many other flights successfully. Problematic is a new way to say it. I hope more information is released as to what the pilots did try on the doomed flights.

These are old established border runs. First Class. Five Star.

Tenuous... an automated system that can crash the plane killing all on board that requires supplementary training is a design fault. If the information being discussed is correct the MCAS can push the nose down due to faulty AOA data, that is also a design fault. When the pilot's actions are over-ridden by automated stall protection (particularly if that near stall determination can be flawed) he is not in control of the aircraft nor being allowed to be. There had already been a fatal incident, and other presumably reported incidents that were handled, Boeing admitted there was a problem as they were 'working on it'. The CVR tapes need to be heard!

John Wayne

If my recollections are correct, 2 sensors isn't so great. You probably see similar in your work. hard to pick what number to use when 2 sensors give different numbers and there is a multitude of choices. I saw 3 where you can make more logical decisions based on only expecting one to 'fail'. Wasn't it some sensors icing up (airspeed) caused a lot of problems before.

they go up tiddly up up, they go down tiddly down down. This afternoon's rates.

I may have got my facts mixed up but I heard 2 'solutions'. One was a little MCAS switch somewhere , another was killing the power to the tail horizontal stabilizers (although if that left them in an unsuitable position it would not be a perfect result). Imagine an aircraft not responding to pilot's input during climb and going nose down at a still low altitude, and a pilot has to remember about a little switch as he hurtles to the ground responsible for near 200 people. Ethiopian Airlines crash: Pilot did not receive training on Boeing 737 Max 8 simulator, sources say. Boeing has said that experienced 737 pilots needed little training for the new Max 8, an assertion that has now come under close scrutiny by regulatory officials and pilots at other airlines. Yahoo News. It is hard trying to read the latest on this, most USA press outfits (like the Seattle Times) are blocked unless you subscribe or at least let them bombard you with adverts. It's a form of News embargo!

Bloody annoying overlay window that I can't get rid of, anyone got a spray for that?

David Janssen.

Perhaps try toothpaste!

A little surprising to hear they will check headlight lens clarity, mine are quite opaque after many years of use. It is caused more by abrasion , but my car is kept under shade so no discoloration. The vehicles in Saudi suffered from it badly with the sand, a drive in a sandstorm would have quite an effect. I have often wondered if I attacked it with the wax-polish, or scratch remover you get for bodywork would help or not. Sounds like they sandblasted yours, although maybe something finer than sand. They should be checking number plates for clarity too, most are illigible.

You may not be familiar with the standards on The poon! Soap is a maybe, as is hot water or a towel that can actually do the job and is not of a similar consistency to tissue paper. Only Nightwish seems to be investing. Even had a place recently where the water heater had been gone many months, and even the shower head was missing. I was told, it had been like that some weeks.

As the Lion Air crew fought to control their diving Boeing 737 Max 8, they got help from an unexpected source: an off-duty pilot who happened to be riding in the cockpit. That extra pilot, who was seated in the cockpit jumpseat, correctly diagnosed the problem and told the crew how to disable a malfunctioning flight-control system and save the plane, two people familiar with Indonesia’s investigation told Bloomberg. The next day, under command of a different crew facing what investigators said was an identical malfunction, the jetliner crashed into the Java Sea killing all 189 aboard. The previously undisclosed detail on the earlier Lion Air flight represents a new clue in the mystery of how some 737 Max pilots faced with the malfunction have been able to avert disaster while the others lost control of their planes and crashed. The presence of a third pilot in the cockpit wasn’t contained in Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee’s November 28 report on the crash and hasn’t previously been reported. Yahoo News.

So the domestic has been 20Kg limit for a long time already? Also I guess you are not going directly from the International Thai flight as the old 30Kg limit I thought carried over to domestic transfers? Anyhow, I fly on Thai Sunday, 30Kg limit, although more than I need.

But as you bought the tickets pre April 1st I believe you get the 30Kg?

The old swamp that is soi Buakhao all ends up under water during heavy rain. I seem to recall medium rain will cause a flood at the 3rd Rd/ Chaiyapoom junction, a little more and Buakhao is under 6-12 inches and it is pretty much all of it. 3rd is worst at the Klang end, or rather just before there at the Alley 11 junction. I have spent a few hours of my life sitting under the awning there at the cafe watching the water lap up my bike's wheels.

I always appreciate this type of feedback. Is the problem all Austrian, or the inability of that shit-hole LHR to get an aircraft up on time? I don't remember Vienna airport very well, other than it being a bit basic. Last time I flew via there I started in Manchester , I treated myself to Biz Class on Lauda Air, it was actually a class act!

As per their website..domestic. Economy Class 30 kg (66 pounds) * Except RBD RBD L/ V/ W: 20 kg (44 pounds) Checked Baggage Policy by Weight Concept applicable to International Sectors within TC3 (Asia, Australia, New Zealand) , between TC2 (Europe, Africa, Middle East) and TC3 (Asia, Australia, New Zealand) Economy Class 30 kg (66 pounds) * Except RBD L/ V/ W: 20 kg ( 44 pounds) for Ticketing/ Travelling effective on/ after 01 APR 19