Ask the BA Staffer and Heathrow ATC
Apr 9, 2012, 11:06 am
#991
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Tis may help explain what's mean better. You can just see what I am talking about in this photo of the port door.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tipsfor...rs/3685456668/
High up is a grab handle just behind the door (there is a mirror somewhere up there too, not visible in the photo). Follow that line down till you are level with the top of the lockers, and there is the box I am referring to. An oblong box with a small round lens like object at the top. In the picture, if you zoom in, it appears to have a red light on the front.
Of course what I am asking may be to do with security, in which case pls ignore me.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tipsfor...rs/3685456668/
High up is a grab handle just behind the door (there is a mirror somewhere up there too, not visible in the photo). Follow that line down till you are level with the top of the lockers, and there is the box I am referring to. An oblong box with a small round lens like object at the top. In the picture, if you zoom in, it appears to have a red light on the front.
Of course what I am asking may be to do with security, in which case pls ignore me.
Apr 9, 2012, 11:13 am
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Tis may help explain what's mean better. You can just see what I am talking about in this photo of the port door.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tipsfor...rs/3685456668/
High up is a grab handle just behind the door (there is a mirror somewhere up there too, not visible in the photo). Follow that line down till you are level with the top of the lockers, and there is the box I am referring to. An oblong box with a small round lens like object at the top. In the picture, if you zoom in, it appears to have a red light on the front.
Of course what I am asking may be to do with security, in which case pls ignore me.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tipsfor...rs/3685456668/
High up is a grab handle just behind the door (there is a mirror somewhere up there too, not visible in the photo). Follow that line down till you are level with the top of the lockers, and there is the box I am referring to. An oblong box with a small round lens like object at the top. In the picture, if you zoom in, it appears to have a red light on the front.
Of course what I am asking may be to do with security, in which case pls ignore me.
However... Are YOU Mr. Tipsfortravellers?
Apr 9, 2012, 11:50 am
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What you can see in the red cover of the evacuation initiation switch.
Apr 9, 2012, 11:55 am
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Apr 9, 2012, 12:00 pm
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Ok, I thought you were talking about something in the ceiling.
Glad we sorted that out.
Glad we sorted that out.
Apr 9, 2012, 12:18 pm
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Apr 9, 2012, 12:21 pm
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I think I now have some ideas of SEP questions to ask you in briefing. 
Apr 10, 2012, 1:20 am
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Thanks for that - definitely not one to touch then!
And no I'm not Mr Tipsfortravellers. I just was sad enough to Google "BA upper deck emergency door photo"!
And no I'm not Mr Tipsfortravellers. I just was sad enough to Google "BA upper deck emergency door photo"!
Apr 10, 2012, 1:31 am
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Apr 11, 2012, 2:11 am
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Why does the flight deck control the temperature until the top of climb, and the limit the range thereafter? I guess the second is because it impacts fuel economy (?).
Apr 11, 2012, 3:09 am
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Brilliant thread. Spent 5 hours reading it from post 1 to the end last night.
Anway, questions:
One for the CCs:
What's the most worrying/concerning question you have ever had to ask a passenger?.
Was once asked just after landing at LHR on an AA flight, by a rather concerned looking FA 'Did you see any smoke or fire from the engine on our final approach and landing?'
Fortunately I could answer 'no' to her, otherwise I think we would have been deplaned rather quickly!
Apparently ATC had seen 'smoke' from the no 2 engine (we were on a 777), and they sent the fire trucks to 'meet' us.
One for the ATCs:
How often do you see something wrong/odd with an aircraft like the above? And how often do you see tailstrikes nowadays?
Anway, questions:
One for the CCs:
What's the most worrying/concerning question you have ever had to ask a passenger?.
Was once asked just after landing at LHR on an AA flight, by a rather concerned looking FA 'Did you see any smoke or fire from the engine on our final approach and landing?'
Fortunately I could answer 'no' to her, otherwise I think we would have been deplaned rather quickly!Apparently ATC had seen 'smoke' from the no 2 engine (we were on a 777), and they sent the fire trucks to 'meet' us.
One for the ATCs:
How often do you see something wrong/odd with an aircraft like the above? And how often do you see tailstrikes nowadays?
Apr 11, 2012, 11:50 am
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Ground controllers/those in the tower would actually be able to see the physical aircraft, I would expect; ATCs only get to see virtual blobs on their radar screens, unless they sneeze, in which case they become physical blobs, but not representing aircraft! Of course, I am not an ATC, nor do I play one on TV, so this is just my unprofessional speculation, and probably deviates from others' reality considerably!
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Apr 11, 2012, 12:10 pm
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Tower/Local should have their eyes on the airfield and the aircraft.
Radar controllers should be looking at their digital displays, which lack any subtlety at all. The old school used proper analogue radar, where the blob told you something. There aren't many of us left
Radar controllers should be looking at their digital displays, which lack any subtlety at all. The old school used proper analogue radar, where the blob told you something. There aren't many of us left
Apr 11, 2012, 12:45 pm
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Was once asked just after landing at LHR on an AA flight, by a rather concerned looking FA 'Did you see any smoke or fire from the engine on our final approach and landing?'
Fortunately I could answer 'no' to her, otherwise I think we would have been deplaned rather quickly!Apparently ATC had seen 'smoke' from the no 2 engine (we were on a 777), and they sent the fire trucks to 'meet' us.
One for the ATCs:
How often do you see something wrong/odd with an aircraft like the above? And how often do you see tailstrikes nowadays?
In general I would say that, at Gatwick, we have between 5 and 10 priority approaches per week ranging from an ill passenger to more serious issues with the aeroplane.
As for tailstrikes, I have no idea I am afraid on the stats for these, but here is one that happened recently. http://www.flightglobal.com/news/art...strike-370363/
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