I've had pilots phoning now asking me for pax figures. Maybe they've all read this topic.
If it happens again, I'll be phoning the captain on his mobile, asking to speak to the F/O, and tell him to land back with a certain fuel quantity. See it does work both ways. Surely I don't have to have any qualifications for this do I Secret Squirrel ? ( Page 2 ).
"it may sound very amusing to waltz into a flight deck and ask if the bugs have been set etc., except there's only one problem: you're not qualified to ask that question. You wouldn't know whether the pilots were telling the truth or not." We wouldn't ask the question if we didn't know what the right answer would be. We are wannabe's. This is the perfect way to get into the aviation industry and so we learn things about the aircraft we operate to help us in the future when we go for the ARB's.