Magh3 said:
@Glorified Busdriver and lexxie747
Nobody said anything about you not being entitled to your opinion, I am going to refrain from making other comments because you are not discussing your opinion you are trying to insult people, with remarks such as if you can read etc . However as I said.. still don't think you are in a position to judge their professionalism. Why did you delete your post by the way??
Further It always strikes me how quick other airline pilot's are there to call somebody else unprofessional, CLOWNS etc. I see aircrew in the simulator for a large European company regularly and to be honest if my statistics are correct some people on pprune should not speak so full of confidence about other crew's flying skills. and believe me just because somebody speaks well English or good on the radio doesn't at all represent their flying skill or airmanship. These guys appear to have had a genuine problem and maybe it doesn't win a beauty contest but they got the job done.
Thank you for your cool head, Magh3 the lone voice of sanity on this thread. Of course, since we weren't on the flight deck and don't know the maintenance and flying history of the crew and ship, none of us can hand down a verdict of "professional" or "clown" at this stage of the event. Right? All we know is that the Captain did the right thing because they are all alive.
Please General Lemay, and other armchair aviators, if you don't have about a decade on the subject in question, let's not sit here pretend we know the airworthiness of an old A310.
You have no idea, the unreported spurious failures that go on in a poorly maintained early model. Some nights that damn ecam computer alone will go "ding ding ding" all fracking night long.... with no way to tell the damn thing that we already know capts CADC is busted for two seconds; then it is fine. Then, another hour of alarms.
If you had a flight engineer distracting you all night like that you'd fire him.
It was a good airplane; but like all things good, it had some short comings as the first glass machine in the industry. One of those was the famous: "ground checks O.K:"
"By golly captain! This FUBAR has been written up for weeks but my system download software says "Byte checks O.K." "Tell you what, I'm going to swap the CADC's again and sign this puppy off for another adventure!"
Note: it looks like we have some local atc folks on this thread. That's fine; and nothing wrong with stating an opinion,
but keep in mind that calling pilots "unprofessional; clowns; etc" prior to an investigation: puts you up for cross examination by the pprune peanut gallery : you can't have any credibility on this site if you make up a screeen name [bus driver], then pull your posts and lie about how old you are. Wouldn't you agree?
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