Originally Posted by
rolandpull
Surely the three holer drivers have some sort of reference point (written/visual) that says 'dont pull back any more' when they try to land (one hopes) lot lighter than 225K. Prob level 3-4.
Dont forget that to put the steps on, the recomended position for the operator is to pull the steps onto the aircraft looking above and behind you to get the door and steps sills level. Defo level 2-3 IMHO.
So, landing Timmy at high AUW = 5
Landing Timmy <MAUW = 3-4
Driving steps up to Timmy* = 2-3
* - Insert aircraft type here as necessary
So by your reckoning Roland, driving steps is, at it's easiest, 40-60% as difficult as driving a Timmy and at it's most difficult, 66-100% as difficult.
Thanks for the clarification Roland.
I'm sure that we'll now have a great deal more sympathy with the movers next time we're stuck in some toilet or other waiting for the aircraft to be fixed post a Muppet driving another set of steps into it.
Is driving the baggage loading thingy into the aircraft a different OCU, and if so, what's the return of service that entails?
Before this turns into another muppet-bashing thread and it gets locked by the mods, I'm sure the Timmy driver was trying his best and just made a simple old mistake. As any highly skilled operator of technical machinery (such as a mover) will tell you, mistakes are just a fact of life and shouldn't automatically instigate a witch-hunt.