a new badge to wear
 

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.:ugh::mad::confused::8:=:*

Can you get a bottle of water declared a tool? There might be some small benefit in it !

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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..

Put the tea in a suitably official-looking container and label it "Dilute 2-phenyl-3,4-dihydro-2H-chromen-3-ol"

Tea! Van! what's the world coming too? ;)

Do you need one to carry a printer cartridge yet?:E

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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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. :rolleyes:

Me? I can't go airside. Can't prove I'm not a criminal, you see... :ugh:

I wish I could retire right now.

Me too!

Is this a specific airport ruling or will it be rolled out nationwide? I only ask as we have no such problem at ***.


Yet.:suspect:

" 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!:mad:

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 .....:E

and they still search pilots!!!:ugh:
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.

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...

X-ray ing a gun what the %$£&" do they expect to find inside that? Another gun?
:ugh::ugh::ugh::ugh::ugh::ugh::ugh::ugh::ugh::ugh::ugh::ugh: :ugh::ugh::ugh:

Marmite doesn't make it either but a spray can of iso propyl alcohol will!

Priceless!

Thank you for that comment pottwiddler, it made my morning.

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Who knows what they expect? I put my nav bag through the x-ray at a UK airport earlier this year. After a great deal of screen staring, they opened it up, took out my metal teaspoon (beverages, hot, for the use of), placed the teaspoon by itself in a little plastic tray, and x-rayed it again.

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.

Do the security staff have a letter code on their cards that alerts everyone else that they are tools?

Or is the uniform deemed sufficient.

Looks like working in Third World countries can occasionally be less frustrating than the UK.

Killer spoon
 

Maybe it was a Killer Spoon. Don't tell me you have no batch for this ? :{

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:E Was this it??

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or perhaps

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