Why are we so courteous??
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A corporate jet arrives. We have nothing of our own moving for an hour, so I drove over to see if they needed any service before we packed in for a meal. "Hallo Captain, would you like to book any service before we shoot off for dinner?" The skipper is messing about with packages and unfathomable paperwork "P*ss Off you idiot! Can't you see I'm busy!" so off I p*ssed. (I am certainly an idiot, so I know who he's speaking to.) After meal break we find said machine closed up and a huge black plastic rubbish bag left outside. The skipper hadn't signed an ad-hoc charges sheet so we ignored it.
Back on shift next day when the crew arrive, they are disconcerted to find the trash bag still there after festering in the equatorial sun for 24 hours. No sweat, they think, we'll just drag it to the edge of the parking bay and leave it there then. Crew climb in and do their checks. Then, on the radio that we have tuned to the tower frequency, we hear them ask for start clearance. ATC refuse. They ask again and the tower tells them to put their garbage in the bin first. I can imagine the scene in the cockpit at this point. After a few moments of stunned silence the door opens, the F/A gets out, grabs the rubbish bag, carries it 150 meters to the nearest disposal point and puts the garbage in the skip. After she gets back aboard, smelling slightly less sweet than before, the start request is granted and they taxi out and leave. I wonder if the Skipper learned anything from that incident? Probably not. Rudeness is an incurable disease...
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Through difficulties to the cinema
[This message has been edited by Blacksheep (edited 18 April 2001).]
Back on shift next day when the crew arrive, they are disconcerted to find the trash bag still there after festering in the equatorial sun for 24 hours. No sweat, they think, we'll just drag it to the edge of the parking bay and leave it there then. Crew climb in and do their checks. Then, on the radio that we have tuned to the tower frequency, we hear them ask for start clearance. ATC refuse. They ask again and the tower tells them to put their garbage in the bin first. I can imagine the scene in the cockpit at this point. After a few moments of stunned silence the door opens, the F/A gets out, grabs the rubbish bag, carries it 150 meters to the nearest disposal point and puts the garbage in the skip. After she gets back aboard, smelling slightly less sweet than before, the start request is granted and they taxi out and leave. I wonder if the Skipper learned anything from that incident? Probably not. Rudeness is an incurable disease...
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Through difficulties to the cinema
[This message has been edited by Blacksheep (edited 18 April 2001).]
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In the dim & distant years of my youth I can remember a wise & wizened old Warrant Officer, who took me to one side & said,"Son, did you realise that Pilot's can only marry whores & barmaids?",to which I replied "No sir I did not, why is that?"."Because Laddie, they are the only people who will put up with them!"
Nuff Said
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Those who say it cannot be done, shouldn't interrupt the engineer doing it.
Nuff Said
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Those who say it cannot be done, shouldn't interrupt the engineer doing it.
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Check out the difference in replies to questions posted in our thread, and Rumours and news. Look at page 2 in RAF boys -Easy life. Comments like "extract head from rear orafice" etc, "Must have chips on both shoulders" its goes on. Compare that to the replies given by Engineers on the ATA100 series...Help thread. Polite, extremely help, no signs of any inflated egos, just a willingness to help a fellow engineer.
What a decent bunch of guys we are!!!
What a decent bunch of guys we are!!!
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Air Ambulance Ops....
We had a senior training guy, pissed off at working the line, who used to throw his (leather) jacket and his lunch in the back of the aircraft, sometimes over the patient.
Not surprisingly on one flight the paramedics unloaded the pilots stuff with the patients. Cue one happy patient with a leather flying jacket and smoked salmon rolls and one pissed off jockey, wet and hungry.
Remember, what goes around, comes around.
We had a senior training guy, pissed off at working the line, who used to throw his (leather) jacket and his lunch in the back of the aircraft, sometimes over the patient.
Not surprisingly on one flight the paramedics unloaded the pilots stuff with the patients. Cue one happy patient with a leather flying jacket and smoked salmon rolls and one pissed off jockey, wet and hungry.
Remember, what goes around, comes around.
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Unfortunately, if those nice people seated at the pointy end weren't around, We would be out of a job! Anyone can break a jet, only relatively few can fix 'em.
Hmmm.... Me an injuneer.... I like that thought.... :-)
GTG
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And remember, she's GoodToGo!
Hmmm.... Me an injuneer.... I like that thought.... :-)
GTG
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And remember, she's GoodToGo!
