Originally Posted by
BEagle
What a bizarre procedure! When I flew the JP, we would never try to replace the face screen pin after landing until on chocks and vacating after unstrapping. Seat pan and guillotine pins yes, but that was all.
To have someone fiddling over your face screen handle fumbling with the pin seems very dangerous - and why have a different procedure when dual to that when solo?
Hi Beags
As I recall it at "main base" (e.g. Cranwell) you'd let the ground crew do the tops after shutdown, dual or solo..but we'd also certainly self top pin or buddy buddy the top pins at times - e.g. circuits Dual-> solo at an RLS, somewhere like Barkston, where the QFI would hop out after the dual bit...pins had to be moved accordingly and when appropriate with no ground crew to assist.