British Airways Pilot helps out with safety demonstration?
Mar 10, 2017, 1:30 pm
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British Airways Pilot helps out with safety demonstration?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/305521...e-move-runway/
http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/5...abin-crew.html
Just saw this. First time I heard of something like this? Probably not illegal or anything, but the cabin crew were that short?
http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/5...abin-crew.html
Just saw this. First time I heard of something like this? Probably not illegal or anything, but the cabin crew were that short?
Mar 10, 2017, 1:44 pm
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No, not illegal...
Aircraft I believe was a super hi-j which requires 14 positions for the safety demo to be done in a single sitting, they had 13 cabin crew. So, instead of doing it twice, the extra FO (3 flight crew on an IAH) filled one of the positions.
Nothing to even get remotely worked up about, unless you are a Sun reader looking for some limelight.
Aircraft I believe was a super hi-j which requires 14 positions for the safety demo to be done in a single sitting, they had 13 cabin crew. So, instead of doing it twice, the extra FO (3 flight crew on an IAH) filled one of the positions.
Nothing to even get remotely worked up about, unless you are a Sun reader looking for some limelight.
Mar 10, 2017, 3:03 pm
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Oh come on... Its published in The Sun (and I think The Mirror ran it too), so of course it is going to be "terrifying"... They are the plebeians of the journalistic world.
Their hysteria cut and paste skills are about on par with BA customer service and their email responses.
Their hysteria cut and paste skills are about on par with BA customer service and their email responses.
Mar 10, 2017, 3:30 pm
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No, not illegal...
Aircraft I believe was a super hi-j which requires 14 positions for the safety demo to be done in a single sitting, they had 13 cabin crew. So, instead of doing it twice, the extra FO (3 flight crew on an IAH) filled one of the positions.
Nothing to even get remotely worked up about, unless you are a Sun reader looking for some limelight.
Aircraft I believe was a super hi-j which requires 14 positions for the safety demo to be done in a single sitting, they had 13 cabin crew. So, instead of doing it twice, the extra FO (3 flight crew on an IAH) filled one of the positions.
Nothing to even get remotely worked up about, unless you are a Sun reader looking for some limelight.
I can't see how anyone would think this is terrifying.
Mar 10, 2017, 3:41 pm
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Hi-J is 13 crew positions for the demonstration with a total of 14 onboard.
Super Hi-J is 14 crew positions for the demonstration with a total of 15 onboard.
The flight in question was crewed with 13, which is still above the legal required minimum cabin crew for the aircraft and pax load.
Figures above for demonstration requirements are off the top of my head, and I might be wrong.
Mar 10, 2017, 4:09 pm
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Oh come on... Its published in The Sun (and I think The Mirror ran it too), so of course it is going to be "terrifying"... They are the plebeians of the journalistic world.
Their hysteria cut and paste skills are about on par with BA customer service and their email responses.
Their hysteria cut and paste skills are about on par with BA customer service and their email responses.
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Mar 10, 2017, 4:40 pm
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Mar 10, 2017, 6:21 pm
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I LOVE to hate air Canada. But on a recent flight from sfo to yyz, they had an issue with the ife. They did all they could on the ground to get it going. No luck. As fa's did the drink service, I could see the captain, the senior captain, fiddling with the ife above row 1a in a a320 and would go in and out of the cockpit.
sure as crap I saw a cursor in the bottom right of the screen after about 30 minutes of his fiddling
I was not panicked. In fact, I was think this was most impressive to see all staff trying to help out.
so here, I honestly would have had a nice smile and a great change from the cheesy videos.
I mean, who thinks the BR video is even remotely proper. Although funny as heck.
sure as crap I saw a cursor in the bottom right of the screen after about 30 minutes of his fiddling
I was not panicked. In fact, I was think this was most impressive to see all staff trying to help out.
so here, I honestly would have had a nice smile and a great change from the cheesy videos.
I mean, who thinks the BR video is even remotely proper. Although funny as heck.
Mar 10, 2017, 9:40 pm
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https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/305521...e-move-runway/
http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/5...abin-crew.html
Just saw this. First time I heard of something like this? Probably not illegal or anything, but the cabin crew were that short?
http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/5...abin-crew.html
Just saw this. First time I heard of something like this? Probably not illegal or anything, but the cabin crew were that short?
If sun readers get hysterical because "the pilot" left the cockpit whilst the plane was taxiing on the ground I wonder what they would have thought if they saw the pilot going for a walkabout mid flight!
Mar 10, 2017, 11:21 pm
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I once saw a deadheading Delta pilot helping out the FAs with the beverage cart service on one of their flights, to the amusement and bafflement of the normal cabin crew.
