stilton - w/b aircraft. We were obviously short of the hold short line. Radome short of the line. Nose gear is 8-10' behind us. Radome to nose gear is 20'.
During pushback we can never see the tug. On the walk around it's obvious that the tug is forward of the end of the radome.
Recent FO said "I can't get over how it looks like we're going off into the grass. I know the nose gear is far behind us but I still can't get over it."
With a blind spot extending 50' ahead of us we never see the taxiway edges immediately ahead of us while doing 90 turns on taxiways. The distance from the end of our field of view to the nose gear is 70'. Add in the height above the ground, the large blind spot, distance to the nose gear behind us and it's much different than taxiing a narrow body jet.
Last edited by misd-agin; 30th Aug 2012 at 01:21.