sAx_R54,
Fair Cop young fella!
That was an intended ironic comment on supposedly the best Western airlines in the world conducting absolutely dangerous procedures to cover for the deficiencies of their ground support crew in providing timely information to their operational crew.
It is indeed ironic that we aircrew allow and even condone the slack work operating practices of our ground teams and compromise the critical time before take-off in making up for their company or personal deficiencies.
This is not only not necessary, but it flies in the face of flight safety. Why do we aircrew have such trouble in recognising such errors (threats to safety)?
Because we can do anything that is thrown at us with aplomb and we have bigger balls than anyone else, but of course...
Edited to include phrase "(threats to safety)".
Last edited by FlexibleResponse; 4th May 2009 at 12:42.
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