HANNABAL, for info Dave Stealey is the Airbus fleet captain (A320,A321 and A330). The reason he is the one being filmed is because there were no volunteers from his fleet. Rather than force one of his troops to be subjected to the filming he elected to do it himself. He would rather not have been there. Don’t sit on the edge of your seat for the next week in anticipation. “The Emergency” in question is being given a flight level of 280 by Shanwick on the Oceanic clearance on the way to Orlando. Fmc of course said they did not have enough fuel to get there. Oh course when the next level was obtained they miraculously make it. What suspense! Although there is a funny bit. Watch for the fleet captain to say, "F*@k" on camera. Am told they did not know the camera was rolling at that point!
Steepclimb. Agree with you. Thought LWT missed the chance to show the way the delay was handled from all sides. Such as, the reason for using the A300 was because there were A300 pilots on Sby in Florida. That this would cause minimal disruption to the inbound passengers rather than them having to go into a hotel for the night and wait for the DC10 crew to come back in hours. But as usual they only focused on the one set of passengers who were there to be interviewed. Are we surprised? One of our A330 pilots who positioned out on that flight was telling me that he observed the film crew talking to a family who had been sitting quietly in the departure lounge. A short time later said pax started a big ruckus at the gate with the Manch Handling agents. On queue the film crew just happened to be right there to film it. He does not put it past them to have given the family a bit of extra spending money for their holiday in return for the outburst.
Loggerhead. You Like it? You are sad.
The only good thing about the program is the fact that LWT did not get enough footage and so concentrated more on the passengers. Which in turn means there is very little about us.
[ 10 September 2001: Message edited by: Rolling Stone ]
[ 10 September 2001: Message edited by: Rolling Stone ]