throttling up on the taxi way.
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Hope you enjoyed the outing, TS
Perhaps the answer is we should have a forum where SLF can ask questions which puzzle them on the basis of Many of us pilots like to know exactly what you think of us, the job, the airline or anything that you think we should hear about. (please forgive yet another quote of 'the rules') and Rainboe be kept away from it for the sake of your sanity (and NJS's)? I have certainly experienced some 'hurried' runway entries 'down the back' (and made a few myself 'up front')
Perhaps the answer is we should have a forum where SLF can ask questions which puzzle them on the basis of Many of us pilots like to know exactly what you think of us, the job, the airline or anything that you think we should hear about. (please forgive yet another quote of 'the rules') and Rainboe be kept away from it for the sake of your sanity (and NJS's)? I have certainly experienced some 'hurried' runway entries 'down the back' (and made a few myself 'up front')
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Rainboe does indeed come with a toxic health warning! It's designed to combat the perennial problem of seeing out of the windscreen in heavy rain, particularly on the approach, with the wipers flailing. It was contained in a silver cylinder, plastered with health warnings, and located on the rear bulkhead of the flight deck on the brand new Boeing 737-200 series that I lowered myself into the left-hand seat of, on an early command/conversion sector. There was an ugly dark smudge all up the windscreen. I groaned:
"Some daft sod's gone and sprayed Rainboe all over this windscreen when it wasn't raining. Can't some people read the manual! Sheesh!!"
"Yes," said the gravelly-voiced training captain in the right-hand seat ... "my profound apologies ... I did that yesterday!"
That was the start of an entertaining day out, during which the previously helpful training captain, became thoroughly unhelpful, the first officer of your worst nightmares, in fact. I duly fell into numerous elephant traps! At the post-flight debrief, the training captain promised to put a five second time delay on his index finger, on the Rainboe button, if I promised to put an equivalent time delay on my mouth! Then we had a good laugh, and went off to the pub.
The engineers said that the best way of getting the Rainboe 'goo' off the windscreen, was a liberal application of Coca-Cola, apparently.
The nimble 737 was 'gunnable' for a rapid departure, as described. However, trying the same tactic on the DC-10 was liable to have you shuddering straight on, most especially in the wet!
"Some daft sod's gone and sprayed Rainboe all over this windscreen when it wasn't raining. Can't some people read the manual! Sheesh!!"
"Yes," said the gravelly-voiced training captain in the right-hand seat ... "my profound apologies ... I did that yesterday!"
That was the start of an entertaining day out, during which the previously helpful training captain, became thoroughly unhelpful, the first officer of your worst nightmares, in fact. I duly fell into numerous elephant traps! At the post-flight debrief, the training captain promised to put a five second time delay on his index finger, on the Rainboe button, if I promised to put an equivalent time delay on my mouth! Then we had a good laugh, and went off to the pub.
The engineers said that the best way of getting the Rainboe 'goo' off the windscreen, was a liberal application of Coca-Cola, apparently.
The nimble 737 was 'gunnable' for a rapid departure, as described. However, trying the same tactic on the DC-10 was liable to have you shuddering straight on, most especially in the wet!
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There was a hint: "I then worked to LAX"
I think it's cool when an aircraft does a rolling take-off - you really get a feel of the power of the engines and the skill of the crew.
Ditto when landing at CPT in a 747 - the deceleration is amazing (presumably because of a relatively shorter runway compared to LHR?)
I think it's cool when an aircraft does a rolling take-off - you really get a feel of the power of the engines and the skill of the crew.
Ditto when landing at CPT in a 747 - the deceleration is amazing (presumably because of a relatively shorter runway compared to LHR?)
