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After 40 plus years as an aircraft maintenance person involved with airports I now have to have a pass, at some expense to my company, to authorize me to carry tools airside.
So what's next then?
Probably I can see it coming where any aircraft with any defect will have to be towed from airside, worked on by us suspicious technical tyopes and then undergo a nose to tail strip search by security types, they get from the street.
And then at great expense no doubt be towed back airside.
I wish I could retire right now.
So what's next then?
Probably I can see it coming where any aircraft with any defect will have to be towed from airside, worked on by us suspicious technical tyopes and then undergo a nose to tail strip search by security types, they get from the street.
And then at great expense no doubt be towed back airside.
I wish I could retire right now.
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From: CUPBOARD
Is a bit crazy, at the uk airport i am employed at we all have too carry (T- Cards), tool cards, and the other night i was told off in a firm but friendly manner,because i had a mug of tea in the company vehicle, which was a fluid and not allowed airside, and yet in the back of the van, i had
Isopropyl Alcohol/Eng Oil/Skydrol/Acetic Acid, which ok i am not gonna drink, but surely Tea is much an important engineering fluid as mobile jet 2 oil is too a gas turbine.
Eng oil level low, engine makes cranky noises, overheats and ultimatley shuts down,
Engineer Runs out of tea, Engineer makes cranky noises, overheats and ultimatley shut down.
Should have the amm ammended too have tea/coffee listed as a working fluid..
Isopropyl Alcohol/Eng Oil/Skydrol/Acetic Acid, which ok i am not gonna drink, but surely Tea is much an important engineering fluid as mobile jet 2 oil is too a gas turbine.
Eng oil level low, engine makes cranky noises, overheats and ultimatley shuts down,
Engineer Runs out of tea, Engineer makes cranky noises, overheats and ultimatley shut down.
Should have the amm ammended too have tea/coffee listed as a working fluid..
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From: Falling off the end of the thread
yup, what you need is one of these suits and a set of these gloves, no dayglo tabbard to wear, no passes that have to be on show, probably whisked straight through security without the normal 2 hour delay, allowed to take your tools, your water and anything else you want onto the airport and the vehicle onto the apron, no need for a beacon and I bet the speed limit was waived too.........
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From: The spiritual home of DeHavilland
Nice queue outside the Thomson shed at Luton this morning. Must have been a lot of butty boxes confiscated and a few hundred manhours lost time. 
Me? I can't go airside. Can't prove I'm not a criminal, you see...
Me? I can't go airside. Can't prove I'm not a criminal, you see...
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" 10 year working history, references, Disclosure, Gsat, Company Interview, BAA Interview, endless forms, paperwork sent to scotland, photo id, Toolbox lists etc etc and we still get stripped search and vans searched with no liquids allowed!
OTT i think!
OTT i think!
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From: leafy suburbs
An airport I regularly work at has a letter code on the ID card that alerts the security that I am maintenance staff so they will expect to find tools on me.
For other workers there are different codes.
So for example; if you are a cleaner and have tools on you, they will be confiscated.
If you are an Engineer with a vacuum cleaner .....
For other workers there are different codes.
So for example; if you are a cleaner and have tools on you, they will be confiscated.
If you are an Engineer with a vacuum cleaner .....
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From: The glasshouse, a stone's throw from you
and they still search pilots!!!
yet coppers walk straight through with all sorts of paraphernalia...next time I go through security with a cup of tea (or Dilute 2-phenyl-3,4-dihydro-2H-chromen-3-ol- is that with milk and two sugars?). I'm going to get a copper to carry it.
yet coppers walk straight through with all sorts of paraphernalia...next time I go through security with a cup of tea (or Dilute 2-phenyl-3,4-dihydro-2H-chromen-3-ol- is that with milk and two sugars?). I'm going to get a copper to carry it.
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From: 55 degrees north ish.
Not true, I have personally watched several policemen with weapons be made to put them through the xray machine, along with their shoes.
My beef stew didn't make it, but the 15l of hydraulic fluid in the van was ok...
My beef stew didn't make it, but the 15l of hydraulic fluid in the van was ok...
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From: The glasshouse, a stone's throw from you
X-ray ing a gun what the %$£&" do they expect to find inside that? Another gun?
Marmite doesn't make it either but a spray can of iso propyl alcohol will!
Marmite doesn't make it either but a spray can of iso propyl alcohol will!
Last edited by pottwiddler; 13th November 2010 at 18:42. Reason: couldn't spell alcohol last night as I couldn't read the bottle I was drinking from! hic
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what the %$£&" do they expect to find inside that? Another gun?
I couldn't believe what I was watching. Unless I've been buying spoons from Desmond Llewelyn again, just what sort of lethal weaponry can you conceal inside a solid stainless steel teaspoon? Most of the guys are fine but there are a few who must come to work on the Sunshine bus.
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From: Australia
An airport I regularly work at has a letter code on the ID card that alerts the security that I am maintenance staff so they will expect to find tools on me.
Or is the uniform deemed sufficient.
Looks like working in Third World countries can occasionally be less frustrating than the UK.
