Bit of pre-op detail...
Hi cliffnemo and regle,
Your accounts of the prep for ops is marvellous stuff and I think everyone reading it has probably now got a most complete picture of how it all happened. Just one question occurs to this procedural ferret; at what point, and where, was the Form 700 signed? Somewhere between briefing, dinner (for those wanting to guarantee their ham and eggs), drawing chutes, getting togged up, getting bussed out, walking round the machine and then getting in; someone must have said 'would you kindly sign this...'
Ta!
Incidently, perhaps the worst 'chute joke I heard was from a 'chute hander-outer when I was in the ATC:
'If it doesn't work, cross your left leg over your right.'
'Why?'
'So we can unscrew you on a right-hand thread, har har!'
Perhaps 'chute hander-outers have never got out much...
Cheers,
Dave