Transavia captain locked out of cockpit while F/O asleep
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This just in........do not believe everything you read in the press. Lately
there seems to be a tendency for the press to overreact and make stuff up as they go along. A source within the Dutch safety board confirms that the F/O did fall asleep. The same source also stated quite clearly that the captain opened the door himself after using the emergency code. The crew reported this incident which to me seems to be the professional thing to do. To all of us, this should be a learning moment instead of a reason to make up fairytale stories about pilots "forgetting" emergency codes, and needing the cabin crew to open the door.
Surprised nobody has seen fit to comment on, or even acknowledge your assertions, hence the continued drift, speculation, ill informed nature of some of the subsequent posts. If your statement is indeed verified, then subject should be CLOSED
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Yup; SOP?!
This just in........do not believe everything you read in the press. Lately
there seems to be a tendency for the press to overreact and make stuff up as they go along. A source within the Dutch safety board confirms that the F/O did fall asleep. The same source also stated quite clearly that the captain opened the door himself after using the emergency code. The crew reported this incident which to me seems to be the professional thing to do. To all of us, this should be a learning moment instead of a reason to make up fairytale stories about pilots "forgetting" emergency codes, and needing the cabin crew to open the door.
Surprised nobody has seen fit to comment on, or even acknowledge your assertions, hence the continued drift, speculation, ill informed nature of some of the subsequent posts. If your statement is indeed verified, then subject should be CLOSED
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Its also an example of, how important it is to check the codes before starting the cockpit set-up.
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I'm still smarting over the comment about the FE being the first one to fall asleep . . . which one of you two-winged master-race blabbed?
But I used to wake up relatively often too - you know that trivial take-off and landing thing.
I used to put the emergency code in my phone as a telephone number, but knowing my luck, the phone would have been in my navbag . . . .on the flight deck!
Oh dear, how embarrassing.
But I used to wake up relatively often too - you know that trivial take-off and landing thing.
I used to put the emergency code in my phone as a telephone number, but knowing my luck, the phone would have been in my navbag . . . .on the flight deck!
Oh dear, how embarrassing.
Last company I flew for required a member of cabin crew to sit on flight deck if you had to leave for a comfort break.
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In today's cost cutting airlines you will always operate all flights with a skeleton crew in the cabin, they hardly have time to visit the lav themselves.
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SLF nowadays, but the US carriers on domestic routes with no relief crew that I've flown on in the last few years have someone from the CC pop onto the flight deck when one of the pilots leave.
