The lazy sods who couldn't be ar$ed to do the pre-flight checks on the RWR (or even the HFs) on the Vickers FunBus always infuriated me! Guaranteed way for a captain not to start an AAR Cat check well if he couldn' be even bothered to run the Sky Grauniad checks. One AT dinosaur moaned that the RWR fan was 'too noisy' and didn't want it on.....
Similarly, even if only on a CT trip, there's no excuse for not getting a SelCal check in during the pre-flight checks. The person who might need it the next day for a few hours over the Atlantic (remember where that is?) and finds that it's tits-up will be ever so impressed to learn that the previous day's co-pilot was too busy drinking tea to bother with checking it and snagging it if it didn't work!
Last edited by BEagle; 29th May 2006 at 17:26.