Captain said we would be landing adrift [long pause] of schedule
Oct 4, 2018, 4:28 pm
#31
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I probably would not have even noticed had I not read this thread, but the Captain of BA93 LHR-YYZ used the phrase "adrift of schedule" tonight, albeit after landing. So it may be a linguistic foible of a particular captain (and to my mind a harmless one - the phrase not the captain!), or it may be used by more than one...
Oct 4, 2018, 11:29 pm
#32
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Isn’t this a wonderful example of the rich and varied tapestry that is spoken English. Pilots do not have prescribed words to be used in PAs. Heaven forbid that we end up with a script because a few find some simple but unusual phrases or sayings are not in their personal acceptable lexicon. “Adrift” is hardly a scary word, “ crash”, “death” and “mutilation” might be, but “adrift” not so much.
Oct 4, 2018, 11:41 pm
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But I speak a different English.
Oct 5, 2018, 8:06 am
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We use adrift meaning late at work a lot, and I have to admit I do sometimes struggle when talking to civvies to avoid jackspeak, perhaps the chicken dipper was an ex-WAFU?
Oct 5, 2018, 2:19 pm
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I’ve no idea, but a great book from the late great Surg Capt Rick Jolly OBE, only man to be decorated by both sides in the Falklands Conflict, may he RIP.
Oct 5, 2018, 3:16 pm
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I've heard someone say "adrift to hell" once, which I assumed to mean extremely late. I'd quite like to hear that phrase in an announcement from the BA flight deck the next time I land somewhere in in spitting distance of an EC261 claim.