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Old 4th Jan 2015, 10:25
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Gordomac
 
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Airclues and 26-er got me recalling my education at LGW in the eighties. Nigel, beside me, calls for push. Tug nowhere to be seen, doors still open, bits of netting, or something,still dangling out of cargo doors, etc, etc. Huge delays if you missed your slot so we did think that this was going to be good. Atco Annie asks if he was "fully " ready for push. Nige says, beautifully, "affirm". She, then, went ballistic. She claimed that she could see him from her armchair in GMC and gave us all a lengthy definition of what "fully ready" meant. The tirade must have lasted only a while but seemed to go on forever. Push denied and Nige drops out of the sequence for about two days but he did have the presence of mind to say, in response to her lesson ; "Gosh, I get all this at home. I come to work thinking I'll get away from it!" I think we all took a full minutes silence in order to compose ourselves.
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