Dangerous_Dave
As someone with fifteen years as CC you will know that within an airline, as crew, one's life is governed by Standard Operational Procedures, - SOPs, they form part of the Operations Manual and have a legal status. These SOPs are designed to cover just about every eventuality and allow for the brightest spark employed down to the dimmest.
"Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men" comes to mind and if you can get away with 'bending' the rules then so be it but if you get caught, or caught out, then you can expect the weight of the world to descend upon your neck!
If an airport has a 'no smoking' policy on aircraft on stand, (and several do), then it will be incorporated into the agreement airlines have with airport operators and in all probabliity has legal status too - break the rules, get caught and expect to suffer the consequences.
I am devil's advocate here.
Last edited by BlueEagle; 18th Feb 2003 at 09:55.