HAHAHAHAHA> Someone stop me laughing, it's beginning to hurt!
Tell you what Combine. Hows about, you visit the Tristar Simulator for a landing, and I'll come and drive some steps. You have to land safely, and I have to get said steps in without ripping off a pitot tube!
The reason there maybe calls for pistols at dawn whenever a Mover jousts the side of a jet, is that it happens tooooooooo often. When was the last time a Tristar had a tail strike? And, on that note. When was the last time a Ground Engineer dinged a jet when driving the steps in? Hasn't happened while I have been around, and they operate the steps a lot downroute etc. Perhaps it's because they would be dragged across the coals if they didn't lower the steps before driving away and hit the aileron?
It has has happened before, it will happen again, but not with the same regularity that jets suffer 'Step Rash'. It's not a good thing to have happened, and yup, it shouldn't have happened. No one can deny that.
Last edited by flyboy007; 10th Jan 2007 at 20:23.