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Sri Lankan Aviation Chronicle

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PP1.01     Undressing the SriLankan Bride
PP1.02    SriLankan Airlines continues to re-structure and review network
PP1.03    PAREXIST & FRAEXIT by SriLankan Airlines
PP1.04    Well done BIA – Toilet revolution has begun!
PP1.05    Business ‘class divide’ @ SriLankan Airlines
PP1.06    SriLankan Airlines enters into wet-lease agreement with PIA
PP1.07    PIA to return Airbus 330 leased from SriLankan Airlines
PP1.08    SriLankan pilots and crew their own whistleblowers
PP1.09    Pilots’ priority to safety and professionalism
PP1.10    SriLankan pilots protest illegal suspension, not alcohol tests

PP1.11    SriLankan Airlines clarifies
PP1.12    Sri Lanka to pay $115 million for cancelling planes: source
PP1.13    SriLankan Airlines chartering a course towards a sustainable future
PP1.14    SriLankan curbs losses and amalgamates Mihin
PP1.15    SriLankan Airlines in the news for all the right reasons: CEO
PP1.16    Sri Lanka pilots start union action over booze tests
PP1.17    Mihin to stop flying
PP1.18    Developing Mattala Airport, new pragmattic apporch needed
PP1.19    Govt. planning to develop BIA
PP1.20    Toilet paper scam at BIA

PP1.21     Independent Inquiry @ SriLankan Airlines goes awry
PP1.22    Independent Inquiry @ SriLankan Airlines goes awry - Act II
PP1.23    SriLankan explains reasons for delaying flight
PP1.24    SriLankan Airlines and Mihin Lanka set the record straight
PP1.25    Mihin stripped of its identity even before it ceases ops
PP1.26    Brighter skies over SriLankan Airlines’ financial position
PP1.27    SriLankan Airlines board to be sacked soon?
PP1.28    SriLankan airline Board split erupts before cabinet
PP1.29    Sri Lankan airline shoots itself over ‘drunk’ pilot testing
PP1.30    Brighter or Darker skies over SriLankan Airlines?

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PP2.01      Ratmalana airport’s operations and unplanned development
PP2.02     Three steps to get SriLankan on track
PP2.03     More on SriLankan back on track
PP2.04     Saving the national carrier
PP2.05     Saving the national carrier - a rejoinder
PP2.06     True quality of airline pilots
PP2.07     Cancellation of the four Airbus A350-900 leases
PP2.08     Why SriLankan cancelled the A350s
PP2.09     Response to SriLankan Airlines management
PP2.10     Thai Pongal adventure

PP2.11     Airports should be seen as key economic centres
PP2.12     New Board for SriLankan
PP2.13     Rescuing SriLankan
PP2.14     Pilots’ union speaks up on how to rescue the national carrier
PP2.15     More Questions for SriLankan
PP2.16     Suspension lifted
PP2.17     Who is managing SriLankan Airlines?
PP2.18     Emirates remembers, the world remembers
PP2.19     Move to revive SriLankan Airlines takes off once again
PP2.20    More to remember on Emirates!

PP2.21     More facts to remember on Emirates!
PP2.22     How the national carrier was ruined
PP2.23     National aviation policy in the making
PP2.24     No more flights from Sri Lanka’s second airport
PP2.25     The last aircraft flies away from Mattala
PP2.26     Sri Lanka sets world record with no-fly airport
PP2.27     Lonely MRIA awaits stopovers
PP2.28     SriLankan CEO takes early retirement
PP2.29     Political appointees ran down SriLankan
PP2.30     An airborne published blunder

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Aviation Dictionary


Airspeed - Speed of an airplane. Deduct 25% when listening to a military pilot.

Bank - The folks who hold the lien on most pilots' cars.

Cone of Confusion - An area about the size of Adam's Peak, located near the final approach beacon at an airport.

Crab - The squadron Ops Officer.

Dead Reckoning - You reckon correctly, or you are.

Engine Failure - A condition which occurs when all fuel tanks mysteriously become filled with air.

Firewall - Section of the aircraft specially designed to let heat and smoke enter the cockpit.

Glide Distance - Half the distance from the airplane to the nearest emergency landing field.

Hydroplane - An airplane designed to land on a 20,000 feet long wet runway.

IFR - A method of flying by needle and ripcord.

Lean Mixture - Nonalcoholic beer.

Nanosecond - Time delay built into the stall warning system.

Parasitic Drag - A pilot who bums a ride and complains about the service.

Range - Usually about 30 miles beyond the point where all fuel tanks fill with air.

Rich Mixture - What you order at the other guy's promotion party.

Roger - Used when you’re not sure what else to say.

Service Ceiling - Altitude at which cabin crews can serve drinks.

Spoilers - The Civil Aviation Administrators.

Stall - Technique used to explain to the bank why aircraft lease payment is late.

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A joke told repeatedly at aviation industry conferences puts a man and a dog in an airplane. The dog is there to bite the pilot if the man so much as tries to touch the controls; the pilot’s one remaining job is to feed the dog. Many aviation veterans have heard the joke so many times that is possible to tell those in the audience new to the industry by their laughter.

Gary Stix, in Scientific American, July 1991.

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