fingertrouble could be an issue on the Bus. Welcome in the Club for the TAP pilots
Pilots sleeping -NO - IMHO just
, poor idle talk only.
With its RMPs and ACPs, and additionally the not really practical "procedure" in some airlines which forces the CM2 as PNF to work on the RMP "like hell" just to get the SELECT light OFF
its easy to get "fingertrouble".
I guess this kind of "Fingertrouble" happened or will happen at least once to each Bus pilot, so that the frequency "dissapears" somewhere.
Learned from this, 121.5 is always open (as it should be) !!! And ACARS printer is always free, so you can see asap if any message is coming in. E.g. TAP OPS is sending an ACARS message, printed on the printer, but unfortunately the printer is covered, by something, book, newspaper
, or anything else.
But I saw and still see houndreds of pilots, where 121.5 is just OFF.
So in case of the mentioned "fingertrouble" no chance for ATC or anybody else to call the "lost" guys.