Originally Posted by Deal or No deal
If an APU failiure is present, then ground crew need to chock and provide a GPU unit BEFORE engines are shut down and the beacon is off.....
That's all I'm gonna say!!!!
Just the nose wheels chocked. There is no need for the main wheels to be chocked until the engines are shut down and the beacon is switched off.
I have had to stop ground personnel from installing main wheel chocks on a couple of occasions while the engines are running.
It seems, from my experience, that the ground staff have no idea how dangerous operating engines are.