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Old 8th Jan 2013, 09:13
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dixi188
 
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How many occupants is your aircraft certified for?

We had a ramp inspection at Frankfurt about 2 years ago on an Airbus A300 frieghter, Irish register.

There were 4 inspectors and one of them got excited because our ELT was switched off as per our procedures. He said this was wrong and it should be armed. I showed him our ops. manual but he did not agree.
Another inspector said it was OK as we were certified for max 9 occupants.
It took nearly 2 hours of phone calls and discussion for the original inspector to accept this.
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