Don't you just hate...
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Don't you just hate...
...the bended bases of containers, that make light containers hard to slide.
Rusty floors that make friction your worst nightmare!
Used to be a loader at an international airport, but I still remember vividly these "happy" moments!!
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Rusty floors that make friction your worst nightmare!
Used to be a loader at an international airport, but I still remember vividly these "happy" moments!!
Please add to the list of HATE
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G-BNWH
The worlds worst aircraft. Rollers never worked, and on occasions blew CBs.
Aircraft was a mess, doing MAN-JFK constantly, the amount of Perishable freight that got wrecked by that beast was unbelievable.
The worlds worst aircraft. Rollers never worked, and on occasions blew CBs.
Aircraft was a mess, doing MAN-JFK constantly, the amount of Perishable freight that got wrecked by that beast was unbelievable.
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The containers are bent because some a-holes lift them with fork-lifts.
Gosh they then managed to find a hilo...
30 minute delay whilst door, floor etc inspected and then transited to final stop (Abu Dhabi) at (Captain's quote) "lower than normal height."
what fun
Jumbo floors...
..or lack of..
Had to retrieve my walky-talky from the 'bilge' a few times, My airport ID too..remember when they only clipped to you shirt? I've lost count of the number of pens I've dropped down there.
Also the pallet locks in the rear when you had to change the pallet combination... the 'ears' of the lock release would usually be gone and you had to have a pair of pliers with you to grip the remnants of the release.
The container stops and stack loading were good...fast loading with just one guy on the loader. Wayyyyyyyyy better than the shuttle bar crap on some DC10s.
Talking about DC10s, I used to open the bulk compartment door by standing on the belt loader, the height of the switch meant the loader had to be almost at door level to operate it, you then had to twist your body away as it opened. Closing it was the same but you had to remember not to hold the edge of the door!
Anil
Had to retrieve my walky-talky from the 'bilge' a few times, My airport ID too..remember when they only clipped to you shirt? I've lost count of the number of pens I've dropped down there.
Also the pallet locks in the rear when you had to change the pallet combination... the 'ears' of the lock release would usually be gone and you had to have a pair of pliers with you to grip the remnants of the release.
The container stops and stack loading were good...fast loading with just one guy on the loader. Wayyyyyyyyy better than the shuttle bar crap on some DC10s.
Talking about DC10s, I used to open the bulk compartment door by standing on the belt loader, the height of the switch meant the loader had to be almost at door level to operate it, you then had to twist your body away as it opened. Closing it was the same but you had to remember not to hold the edge of the door!
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I remember when we used to have a card to open the barrier ourselves to drive onto the taxiway, call the tower and cross the runway to get to the passenger aircraft at Stansted,
Can't remember security then at all !!!
Happy days....
Can't remember security then at all !!!
Happy days....