Hand signals versus headset
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You will never get the message over quicker than by saying, in an urgent voice, 'Stop, Stop, Stop, any language you like. Hand signals, from th FD of a B747, at night, with rain, are about as useful as a chocolate kettle.
Virgin Australia have a neat trick where the engineer wants to advise the crew it's OK to pressurise the hydraulics. He raps on the side of the fuselage to attract crew attention then with two fingers of his hand presses them gently against his eyes. That is the hand signal for (wait for it) PRESS-YOUR-EYES ie "pressurize" Gettitt...
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Head set is the best known solution (wireless or not). The hand signals are good when the process is in stages and it forces 2 parties (ground and crew) to ask for information or give information. Hand signals are not so efficient during emergencies, and that is the case the talk here moved.
Hand signals procedures are similar to deaf people practice, they need to attract the other person's attention. 2 way communication is much faster, more common (STOP is understandable everywhere on earth).
Hand signals procedures are similar to deaf people practice, they need to attract the other person's attention. 2 way communication is much faster, more common (STOP is understandable everywhere on earth).
