I've read what seems to be a conspiracy theory on a website which claims there was no Instrument Landing System on this airforce base that the plane was due to land on.
This was a town of a few hundred thousand people. If so, then the useage of ILS is unlikely. What the conspiracy theories have also stated is that this base was in use for training fighter pilots and ask why it wouldn't have an ILS.
I'm no aviation exprert and do not have my private pilot's liscence (PPL) yet, but I have a great deal of knowledge in the field of aviation.
The use of an ILS system, is often only used in major cities of a country. If an extremly mountainious airport such as Skardu in Northern Pakistan has no ILS (atleast to my knowledge) why should people expect this base to be equipped with an ILS?
Especially when airports in Northern Pakistan are in extremly rough terrian aand require extreme skill and experience to land in. Most international pilots would never be able to land in Northern Pakistan.
Pakistani aviation laws require local certification to land in the Northern areas of the country, a region amongst the most difficult to land in.
So the question is if there's no ILS in Northern Pakistan, why should conspiracy theorists expect this airforce base to have one?
Sobotage? Unlikely. A release in the analysis of data recovered from the crash may give a clue to the cause, though some conspiracy theoirsts might reject it.
Friday, April 23, 2010
Airlines in Pakistan could possibly benifit from airshows.
The above videos are clips of an airshow in Montreal, Canada. It seems that even Canadian private airliners are participating in these aviation shows. Could the same work for Pakistan?
Pakistan's airlines, especially PIA the national airline is suffering financial problems and loosing passengers to Gulf careers.
Even their duty free products are hardly purchased on long haul flights at least from what I've seen.
Most Pakistani passengers do not seem to be interested in flying their country's airliners and usually opt for Gulf careers.
Perhaps a way to regain this interest instead of paying for advertisement, PIA can collaborate with Pakistani private airliners to organize public airshows to regain interest in the airliners and also a chance to sell off their unwanted duty free products such as posters, calendars, scale models and others.
The airshow must be paid for by those who attend, to cover operating costs by the airlines as well as gain them some profit and it could seriously generate more public interests in the airliners.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Opinions and ideas on PIA's latest livery.
Click here to see PIA's latest livery on their Boeing 777-240ER
According to reports on Pakistani Aviation forums, PIA's management opted for this livery to avoid criticism of it's provincial design and to save costs that the provincial liveries apparently produce.
PIA's claim supposedly was that the provincial tails consist of expensive stickers that were too expensive to maintain and also to replace in case of any maintainance needed on the tails.
If this is the case, I support the removal of the provincial tails, but the replacing livery should at least be creative and in good shape, which I do not see in this newly adopted livery.
This livery is in a way a repeat of PIA's livery used back in the 1980s as seen in this model photo.
Repeating a livery from an older generation is a big mistake in my opinion for an airline. Additionally, it is said that PIA has been hiring professional artists to design their latest liveries.
Not only is this a waste of money by PIA, but it also does not pay off as these liveries are very plain. There is no need to waste money on professional designers, especially when they offer lack of imagination and when the internet is filled with modified airliner photos made by enthusiast on aviation forums as well as sites like http://www.cardatabase.net/modifiedairlinerphotos/
There are countless liveries which look decorative while saving fuel and other costs at the same time.
All PIA could do is to ask aviation enthusiasts and artists to come forward and offer the best livery their imaginations can produce. In return they can be offered a prize for the winner such as a model in their livery.
It would sure save them plenty of money instead of hiring 'professional' designers who seem to lack any imagination.
Though I did not make the modified picture posted below, I strongly believe this is a much better replacement than PIA's most recently adopted livery: (click on image to enlarge)
According to reports on Pakistani Aviation forums, PIA's management opted for this livery to avoid criticism of it's provincial design and to save costs that the provincial liveries apparently produce.
PIA's claim supposedly was that the provincial tails consist of expensive stickers that were too expensive to maintain and also to replace in case of any maintainance needed on the tails.
If this is the case, I support the removal of the provincial tails, but the replacing livery should at least be creative and in good shape, which I do not see in this newly adopted livery.
This livery is in a way a repeat of PIA's livery used back in the 1980s as seen in this model photo.
Repeating a livery from an older generation is a big mistake in my opinion for an airline. Additionally, it is said that PIA has been hiring professional artists to design their latest liveries.
Not only is this a waste of money by PIA, but it also does not pay off as these liveries are very plain. There is no need to waste money on professional designers, especially when they offer lack of imagination and when the internet is filled with modified airliner photos made by enthusiast on aviation forums as well as sites like http://www.cardatabase.net/modifiedairlinerphotos/
There are countless liveries which look decorative while saving fuel and other costs at the same time.
All PIA could do is to ask aviation enthusiasts and artists to come forward and offer the best livery their imaginations can produce. In return they can be offered a prize for the winner such as a model in their livery.
It would sure save them plenty of money instead of hiring 'professional' designers who seem to lack any imagination.
Though I did not make the modified picture posted below, I strongly believe this is a much better replacement than PIA's most recently adopted livery: (click on image to enlarge)
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