tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post2090092241253255355..comments2024-03-13T09:47:40.487+00:00Comments on Cockpit Conversation: Quantum of SolaceAviatrixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13634111275860140084noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-73341058620042381662009-03-22T03:06:00.000+00:002009-03-22T03:06:00.000+00:00Hi, I'm not a pilot but I spend many hours on the ...Hi, I'm not a pilot but I spend many hours on the MS FS 2004 Flight Simulator. I just bought "Quantum of Solace" on Blu-Ray and froze the scene where Bond is operating the throttle levers on the DC-3. I checked with the DC-3 on my Simulator. It has the exact VC cocpit and the levers go from the left Prop RPM. THROTTLES, Mixture. It also has the feathering buttons above and on the sim, they work, so Craig was well briefed on the DC-3 Controls so he coould do the scene in the plane mock-up on the sound stage.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-33686754044829294732008-12-20T19:39:00.000+00:002008-12-20T19:39:00.000+00:00What struck me was the David Clark logo missing fr...What struck me was the David Clark logo missing from the headset. But then I guess they thought Daniel Craig wearing a headset with a big "DC" on them might look a little odd...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-55213909828221127442008-12-20T11:38:00.000+00:002008-12-20T11:38:00.000+00:00Aviatrix takes the film too seriously!You're on ho...Aviatrix takes the film too seriously!<BR/><BR/>You're on holiday now (well-deserved! )<BR/><BR/> Eni fule kno ALL Bond vehicles have levers and buttons for the "gadgets"<BR/><BR/> Smoke Belcher, Oil chucker, Nail Flinger,ejector seat, etc......just because the usual Pilot or Driver couldn't find the controls, doesn't mean the omnipotent Mr. Bond can't.<BR/><BR/>I haven't seen a Bond film since the days of Messr.s Connery and Moore (the latter, to me, the quintissential Bond. I could never decide if his half-smile was a smirk, as he hammed it to the max.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the links, Trix, Iknow I'm not missing a lot.<BR/><BR/>@ AndyC...I should imagine there's very little illegal broadcasting on the Amateur bands,nowadays,-the proles have CB and cell-phones ,both being "plug and play"Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11679310031767479691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-6718729343496756432008-12-20T08:03:00.000+00:002008-12-20T08:03:00.000+00:00I'm sure Mr K Perkins of Ramsgate, Kent, the real ...I'm sure Mr K Perkins of Ramsgate, Kent, the real owner of G0CSD as a call sign (for Amateur Radio) is amused by it being stolen for the film.AndyChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10232582442528343282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-80213043843567636472008-12-20T02:18:00.000+00:002008-12-20T02:18:00.000+00:00Relax A squared. Just an old controller who hasn'...Relax A squared. Just an old controller who hasn't quite let go. My "attitude" was officially put to rest by Mr Reagan in 1981.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-30357271667638146882008-12-20T01:30:00.000+00:002008-12-20T01:30:00.000+00:00Aviatrix,I wasn't referring to your comment in the...Aviatrix,<BR/><BR/>I wasn't referring to your comment in the review. Certainly anyone who has read you blog for a while will realize that you're way beyond that sort of behavior. I took your comments in your entry as you intended. I was responding to anonymous' comment, which seemed like a gratuitous cheapshot from someone who has a attitude about the US. Perhaps anonymous will clarify.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-31032028892169892912008-12-19T21:44:00.000+00:002008-12-19T21:44:00.000+00:00A phrase in this review seems to have been taken o...A phrase in this review seems to have been taken out of context. It wasn't meant to be a snotty remark about American air traffic controllers, but rather a mitigating factor in the embarrassing script error. American ATC, as I'm sure I've said on several occasions, is excellent, but US controllers do make the same error that James Bond, or rather the American script writers, made in the film: they read a non-American callsign ending in OXX as "zero x-ray x-ray". They do this because the third-to-last character of a US callsign cannot be Oscar (possibly US aircraft do not use Oscar in callsigns at all), so they assume it's a zero. Canadian controllers don't make the same mistake because no character of a Canadian callsign can be a zero. <BR/><BR/>Perhaps Americans can report if their tail numbers ending in zero are ever read by Canadian controllers as "Oscar."Aviatrixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13634111275860140084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-34581769535494284052008-12-19T21:29:00.000+00:002008-12-19T21:29:00.000+00:00American air traffic controllers.......mistakes......American air traffic controllers.......mistakes........surely you jest.<BR/>Are you referring to something in particular, or are you making snotty comments about Americans, merely because they're Americans and you feel obligated to make snotty comments?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-79598774022342935882008-12-19T21:23:00.000+00:002008-12-19T21:23:00.000+00:00David's comments brought to mind an interesting ph...David's comments brought to mind an interesting phenomenon of (presumably) Boeing's marketing geniuses. When Boeing acquired McDonnell Douglas, some brightspark concluded that now all McD and DC aircraft were "Boeing" aircraft. I recall browsing the Boeing website and reading all about the "Boeing" DC-3, DC-4, DC-6...etc. You could not find a single instance of hte word "Douglas" on the site. I found this particularly interesting, as I was flying the DC-6 at the time. In a move eerily reminiscent of Orwell's 1984, 76 years of Douglas aircraft had disappeared down the memory hole. I had heard that you could purchase in hte Boeing company store, flight bag stickers for the "Boeing DC-3" <BR/><BR/>At some point, a more intelligent faction at Boeing recognized that this merely made them appear small, petty and dishonest, and today the Boeing website does acknowledge the existence of Douglas and McDOnnell Douglas.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-44804124249841634972008-12-19T21:09:00.000+00:002008-12-19T21:09:00.000+00:00The reason that there is no circuit protection for...The reason that there is no circuit protection for the feather pump motor is because the consequences of not being able to feather a prop are approximately as dire as having an electrical fire. It's sort of one step above like having non-trip free breakers on critical circuitsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-24473054977422563042008-12-19T20:58:00.000+00:002008-12-19T20:58:00.000+00:00anonymous:American air traffic controllers are act...anonymous:<BR/><BR/>American air traffic controllers are actually very good (and I'm writing this as a Canadian). I've had unpleasant experiences with a couple of them, but that was a matter of personality, not professional competence. <BR/><BR/>If it seems like U.S. controllers make more mistakes, it's probably because the U.S. has so much more air traffic than other countries. How many years would it take Icelandic controllers (for example) to come up to the equivalent of one day's air traffic across the U.S.?davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15194758376900990105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-74664229666194091912008-12-19T19:56:00.000+00:002008-12-19T19:56:00.000+00:00American air traffic controllers.......mistakes......American air traffic controllers.......mistakes........surely you jest.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-91674139315467707602008-12-19T18:55:00.000+00:002008-12-19T18:55:00.000+00:00When I did some work at DAC/MDC/Boeing in the late...When I did some work at DAC/MDC/Boeing in the late 1990s, there were still over 1,000 DC-3s flying, and the employees boasted that while they'd been crashed into mountains in the flog, shot down in wars, blown up by hijackers, etc., no DC-3 had ever crashed because of a design flaw. Tough plane!<BR/><BR/>I've also read that pilots joke that those big radial engines run on oil instead of avgas (hence all the smoke).davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15194758376900990105noreply@blogger.com