Originally Posted by
oneant
On another message board I visit, a frequent poster--an AA MD-80 pilot--posted a trip report of his final flight before retirement. I got his permission to re-post it here. It's not short, but I found it interesting to read a trip report from the flight deck.
By now I have the autopilot engaged. We climb through 10,000 feet and begin to accelerate to our enroute climb speed of 300 knots. I chime the F/As to indicate that the "sterile" period - that is, the period in which they must not call us except for safety issues - is over with. [/INDENT]
Thanks for posting this -- I found it fascinating!
The paragraph I have left quoted above answers a question I have had ever since I began flying -- what exactly do all those chimes from the cockpit mean? Sometimes there is one, sometimes two. Besides the reason mentioned here, what do the other chimes indicate?
Just curious.