Kill,
When I was an Effo, I tried several Times to leave the Flight deck as the last man ( matter of courtesy as you said).
Yet I noticed many skippers entertained themselves in the seat long after all the checklists, goodbyes and salutes were exhausted.
In that case I dismissed myself and went on my way.

I guess this video is how CX at present time...

THE REAL A Day in The Life of CX TRI/TRE ...



AND THIS, I EXPECT how FIRST OFFICERS wish they could do...

The second clip looks like one of Toss's debriefs. !!

What the **** is a Gasper Vent ?

...... equally oddly named 'punkah louvre'

I think the term came from British India. The 'punkah wallah' was a servant who operated a flapping panel, the punkah, to force air through the punkah louvres, in order to fan the sahibs.

A punkah wallah character appears occasionally on the classic series, 'It Ain't Half Hot, Mum'.

Does the CA also arrive to the cockpit first? No rules on who comes or goes first on this side of the pond. Great thread though!

Am probably being anal, HFX ( sic ).

However the CX navs were PER based not
Halim or KL based. They used to join flights to YPPH there often, but not exclusively. G & F would some times join @ HKG and were used on other routes fm time to time. One of these box carrying star gazing characters was my surrogate grand dad. I was a CX brat from a time when Cx was a small and GREAT outfit.... sadly only nothing lasts forever.


If I have missed this in your posts I stand corrected and am sorry for butting in. Also, sorry to deviate fm an otherwise harmless thread filled with a little light relief fm an occasional ego driven and sometimes pointless method of bringing the best out of a collection of professional and keen drivers.

Get back to the entertaining stuff

501

501

Yes they were based in Perth, you are absolutely correct. My recollection is the one in the story was G not F. I heard through the grapevine that FW passed on in late 2010 and assume it was perhaps he who was your surrogate grand dad. Best VR-HFX

No it was Gus. And I do remember that yarn from along time ago, from both sources Gus and one of the other operating crew.

Great memories, thanks mate.

501

Sorry I mean " yes it was Gus" ( just being a bit slisdexic ) and very typically so.

Ng oh yut

By the way, another very essential question a checker asked me: Airbus A330, do you know what those crosshairs mean on the panels in the overhead panel? Anyone knows?

Did the checker leave you hanging? If he didn't tell you, or didn't know himself, they are earthing points. You can sometimes 'fix' dodgy panel lighting by a tap on one.

The small x shows you where to press on that panel in case it isn't working properly. Probably also where to press when installing the panel.:ok:

Good grief after all this years someone gives me the answer. And no he did not tell me, he was the technical pilot (not CX). Thanks.

Yep, same on the Boeing.

Used it the other day when part of the forward panel ( beside the DDRMI ) background lights were way too dim. Fixed it too. :ok:

I've heard the same but obeying the Mantra - "Never miss an opportunity to, Shut the F#%€ Up" I never aired my thoughts. For Sunday giggles at my expense though - how come we need a specific place to touch a piece of metal to earth it bearing in mind that charge travels at ....."lightspeed divided by the square root of the surrounding dielectric constant", or "30-70% of c", or "like greased weasel bullets" depending on who you ask - Quick anyway??? Please resist the Pruners temptation to assume I'm Trolling or being Sarcastic but fire away with all barrels at my idiocy, I just don't know :confused:

The cross indicates the position of the bulb behind the panel. The bulb illuminates the panel legend

Regards

csd

Apparently arming both LNAV and VNAV at the same time with 2 fingers for the EFIS check is not the Cathay way...

Btw...... What is a "Technical Pilot".... Is it "test pilot"?