Does Emirates ban their pilots from sitting in the cabin during ULR flights?
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All these half baked rules amount to only one thing, these companies want the Captains unable to take decisions.
Captains that can't take decisions = no Captains. If we need a warning about what happens on a large aircraft with no Captain, take a look at the threads about the unfortunate 340 at Toulouse.
Some might consider it amazing that we can drive these machines around the planet 24/7, and not damage anything. Maybe this is a sober reflection on our psychology, and that we are paid to be "safety managers".
It would be a great shame to see another aircraft in the same condition because the Flight Crew had poor rest in an inadequate bunk fitted in the wrong part of the aircraft!
Captains that can't take decisions = no Captains. If we need a warning about what happens on a large aircraft with no Captain, take a look at the threads about the unfortunate 340 at Toulouse.
Some might consider it amazing that we can drive these machines around the planet 24/7, and not damage anything. Maybe this is a sober reflection on our psychology, and that we are paid to be "safety managers".
It would be a great shame to see another aircraft in the same condition because the Flight Crew had poor rest in an inadequate bunk fitted in the wrong part of the aircraft!
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We all love to shoot down in flames Hollywood's spin on all things Aviation whenever we're ever exposed to it in a theatre because it's almost always patently ridiculous and so highly unlikely to happen, it's totally unrealistic to anyone with a modicum of knowledge about the way things are really done. The fact is, almost none of the 'high drama' situations we see on screen in Aviation-related movies are even remotely likely to happen because very smart men who've been flying aeroplanes a very long time have foreseen almost every potentially dangerous situation Hollywood loves to portray and put in place very clever procedures that usually nip any such problems in the bud before they can develop into anything even remotely dramatic.
However, given the situation we now have in EK with the sole captain for hours on end situated about as far from the flight deck as he can possibly be and still be inside the pressure hull, (and on the 777, even further than that, as he has doubled back once up in the roof, and almost on all fours, gone ***ing forward again almost half the length of the Economy cabin!), I can't help but smile at the thought of how those creative scriptwriters could jack up the tension to the point of farce without even having to delve into the faintly ridiculous.
Can you picture Bruce Willis (or should that be Leslie Neilson?) in his powder blue, four-barred pyjamas making his way forward through the teeming hordes in cattle class as all 300 of them sit calmly (NOT!) in their seats during a major emergency? The screenwriters could stretch his journey out for two reels and three walkaround oxy bottles before he even reaches the Business Class cabin.
However, given the situation we now have in EK with the sole captain for hours on end situated about as far from the flight deck as he can possibly be and still be inside the pressure hull, (and on the 777, even further than that, as he has doubled back once up in the roof, and almost on all fours, gone ***ing forward again almost half the length of the Economy cabin!), I can't help but smile at the thought of how those creative scriptwriters could jack up the tension to the point of farce without even having to delve into the faintly ridiculous.
Can you picture Bruce Willis (or should that be Leslie Neilson?) in his powder blue, four-barred pyjamas making his way forward through the teeming hordes in cattle class as all 300 of them sit calmly (NOT!) in their seats during a major emergency? The screenwriters could stretch his journey out for two reels and three walkaround oxy bottles before he even reaches the Business Class cabin.
