The Smiling Death - a Hill Ton
Bula!.
Its not only Paris's namesake that should be fired, but a few more. Now where shall I start?
The baby of the fleet?
Let it be known that it has come to the attention of us right seaters that one of our brethern was acousted by none other than a horse (commonly known to children as GG's ) during a flight and quized on a few Capts acft operation. The F/O we believe was a little guarded in his replies but the Horse said;
" I want that in writing!"
The F/O (as we all do) sought counsel from a Capt. The Capt said DONT write and discuss this issue with the Union. However, the Horse called the F/O a week or so later asking for the said report. Then a few days later, the F/O was called, still hadn't written the report so a taxi was sent to his house (on a day off) and he was taken to the hangar, put in an office and told ;
"Write that report or else!"
Me thinks this is a report under duress, NOT a free CONFIDENTIAL report.
Some of us were also quized on the same Capts acft operation after our SIMs.
It seems to us that the horse dosn't like dairy farmers! This dairy farmer was on to something BIG. I mean he had been working on this project for 4 yrs!!!! He was about to 'break dirt' as they say.
Now about the farmers acft operation.
IT WAS BLOODY EXCELLENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SO WERE HIS SIMS -
I did a couple with him. The farmer would sit down with you and go through the sequence stage by stage. Check lists in detail and cross reference performance tables so everything was known. The result would be a sim debrief;
-"Thats a good pass to both of you. Any questions?
Lets go!"
I personally looked forward to flying with the farmer - even though he could talk all day about cows, grass, fertizliser, etc. He could be half way through explaining something and still spot a minor point if you were PF.
He flew the acft as if it were on rails.
However we hear that his contract was terminated due to
- unacceptable acft operation and poor sim performance.
That is BULL!!!!!!!!!!!
FJ Mgt were green (note that this is the colour of the BULL!!!!!) with envy.
Must also go and practice my Arabic.
Next time I might discuss some RFS issues, or ETOPS. Now that is where the framer really knew his stuff. The HORSE pulished a memo stating 1230 miles as FJ 737s 180 min ETOPS. The framer showed me the Boering Aera of Operation tables.- You aviators out there take a look and tell the rest of us what you find. Bet you cannot find 1230 miles in the 180 min column.
Moce Vinaka until next time.
Sun glasses, arabic phrase book, Travel guide to the WORLD.