Peter_Mundy wrote:
Flying High
Encoding altimeters with a parallel interface are known to produce such things if one of the lines is defective.
Spelling or darts‘ champion, you can’t have it all :)
Maybe some of the brakes, but not all. Hard to imagine taxying and stopping at the gate using reverse thrust 
yep, another journalistic gem…
Single brake deactivation started dozens of years ago, with the introduction of multi bogey gears. I don’t recall on the DC-8, but for sure an approved procedure on the DC-10 and subsequent. Approved procedure meaning the item is MELed, and all procedures, as also in performance calculations, are applied.
I have a controller friend at LEPA who sometimes sends me screenshots when he spots me. One day I got 3 inches (ok, maybe 4) into his CTR and he sent me a WA during his break. “Busted, please proceed to downwind 24L and prepare to hand over your aircraft to the pertinent AENA rep which, by coincidence, is me..”
I had no choice but to respond of course. Who needs VHF nowadays?
Wholesome!
I think Peter should try the same with “he who must not be named” in the CAA if Peter ever busts airspace in the UK again! 
We could crowd source his legal fees. The entertainment value alone would be worth it
There is a job for everyone nowadays
FYI, there is nothing under about 100 years old.
But it’s a great line at a party. Girl: What do you for a living? Boy: I am a gravestone auditor.
