Originally Posted by
Il Duce
Any assistance deemed necessary? I'd have told him to make the tea - and got his wife to hand it out as a birthday treat.
Oh I dunno; on a mid '80's flight deck Fam Flt (arranged by GATCO) back into that quiet little backwater called Heathrow I was able to enquire, purely as an aside (as we got well into the intermediate approach phase):
"Is it Company Policy to fly the approach on the Standard Pressure Setting?"
Immediate 'cross cockpit gradient' double takes followed by handfuls of millibars (or was it inches of mercury?
) wound off the altimeters and circa 300ft of separation re-established against other traffic........