British Airways rejected takeoff in Cape Town (video)
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you know what? We have to hand it to him, he got us all talking! Perhaps not in the way he had intended but god its made fun reading!
I can see the funny side of it of course! I can hardly think that such a slow speed thing was an amazing video. I'm a huge aviation nut and love everything about it.
Interesting that you were crew on that flight. What was the actual problem as a matter of interest ?
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at around the 1min26sec mark of the video one of the water droplets smashes into another one on the window resulting of the forming of a new water droplet.
While the Hadron collider has been repaired for a year because the rain got in, I expect all the scientists sitting there getting very bored used watching this crap vid as an excuse learn about shooting water droplets into collisions.
Radar 0976, you can save us all a lot of fun if you pull up your first post and delete it. Hopefully all this will disappear. And don't use cameras on take-off again.
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Radar, please get rid of this crap! Delete the first post and the rest should go. You have wasted about 9 months of peoples' lives with this nothingness of no interest. For humanity's sake, delete yourself if the moderators won't!
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No, they've been stuck down there for 2 years, Getting urgent- the ladies have run out of hygiene products and diapers and all the men are out of razors. The captain has a 2 foot beard.
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I desperately need your help.
My watch is electronic.
There is no on/off button.
Specialist tools are required to open the case in order to remove the battery. They are nearly always confiscated by "Security".
So what should I do?
Please help.
I fear that I can never travel again.
Would a deaf passenger with his hearing aid turned off be safer than the same passenger who was able to hear safety / emergency announcements because his hearing aid was turned on, contrary to the rules?
Do you routinely carry out heart transplant surgery in flight for those PAX who have turned off their pacemakers?
Until you learn a degree of perspective, I hope not to travel under your care.
As stated above, what part of "ALL electronic devices must be turned off" did you not understand.
My watch is electronic.
There is no on/off button.
Specialist tools are required to open the case in order to remove the battery. They are nearly always confiscated by "Security".
So what should I do?
Please help.
I fear that I can never travel again.
Would a deaf passenger with his hearing aid turned off be safer than the same passenger who was able to hear safety / emergency announcements because his hearing aid was turned on, contrary to the rules?
Do you routinely carry out heart transplant surgery in flight for those PAX who have turned off their pacemakers?
Until you learn a degree of perspective, I hope not to travel under your care.
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Originally Posted by ManofMan
After watching twice I can see where the poster in coming from....at around the 1min26sec mark of the video one of the water droplets smashes into another one on the window resulting of the forming of a new water droplet.
You think that's bad, you want to try two rejected takeoffs out of Pristina, on New Years Eve and the knowledge of all on board that a third will result in us seeing in the New Year there. Now that's drama!
I suppose, in an attempt to be fair to Radar, most of us in the industry, and/or those with a strong interest of aviation, know what a truly nasty RTO looks like. Whereas, to a passenger with little or no knowledge, even the mildest is an event out of the ordinary.
Wings Folded,
With regards to electrical devices, to a certain extent, we have to rely on people having a little bit of common sense. As you appear to have none, please refer to the inflight magazine or ask one of the crew! Unless of course, you were just being overly pedantic...
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What was the actual problem as a matter of interest ?
Some random warning light as they commenced power up because of a mis-set take off configuration or something I think!
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As stated above, what part of "ALL electronic devices must be turned off" did you not understand.
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I am sure that there are some passengers with little or no knowledge. There are, on the other hand, others with huge distances under the belt, and some of them might even be, or have been, pilots.
Thanks for your concern, but I think I have a fair degree of common sense, a reasonable experience of air travel as a passenger (1,085,000 kms spread over 825 flights since 1981 (when you were about 8 years old I think) and quite a few hours in my pilot's log book.
It's a pity you cannot differentiate irony from pedantry.
Whereas, to a passenger with little or no knowledge, even the mildest is an event out of the ordinary.
Wings Folded,
With regards to electrical devices, to a certain extent, we have to rely on people having a little bit of common sense. As you appear to have none, please refer to the inflight magazine or ask one of the crew! Unless of course, you were just being overly pedantic...
With regards to electrical devices, to a certain extent, we have to rely on people having a little bit of common sense. As you appear to have none, please refer to the inflight magazine or ask one of the crew! Unless of course, you were just being overly pedantic...
It's a pity you cannot differentiate irony from pedantry.
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Wings Folded,
Oops. Hook, line and sinker!
As for passengers, I am well aware that many have a fair to vast amount of knowledge. I was referring to the ones that don't, hence me saying "to a passenger" rather than "the passengers". Maybe I didn't word it very well.
Jsl
P.S. In my defense, as one of those dreaded BA cabin crew, I've spent the last week trying to understand what the hell my more militant colleagues are playing at, along with trying to convince my passengers that I had no intention of striking. I'm a little ragged round the edges, right now. And you're right. I was 8!
Oops. Hook, line and sinker!
As for passengers, I am well aware that many have a fair to vast amount of knowledge. I was referring to the ones that don't, hence me saying "to a passenger" rather than "the passengers". Maybe I didn't word it very well.
Jsl
P.S. In my defense, as one of those dreaded BA cabin crew, I've spent the last week trying to understand what the hell my more militant colleagues are playing at, along with trying to convince my passengers that I had no intention of striking. I'm a little ragged round the edges, right now. And you're right. I was 8!
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If the pilot calls it a day mid-way through take-off, most 'bog standard' passengers would pap themselves. The fact that being there was probably a bit more intense than watching it is neither here nor there. At least the camerawork is decent, which is more than can be said for about a billion other half-arsed vids I've watched.
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Must be trying times for you all.
Remember that in aviation, as in life, calm and cool always wins over hot under the collar. (Perhaps more critical in aviation, but equally true in life generally)
I hope you can straighten out your ragged edges with a little cool calm collected thinking.
Lend some of it to your co-workers, and my best wishes to you.
Must be trying times for you all.
Remember that in aviation, as in life, calm and cool always wins over hot under the collar. (Perhaps more critical in aviation, but equally true in life generally)
I hope you can straighten out your ragged edges with a little cool calm collected thinking.
Lend some of it to your co-workers, and my best wishes to you.
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It's unbelievable. The prat posts the worlds most boring vid (beautiful raindrops though, but I didn't like it when they got aggressive with each other- reminded me of a normal day in R&N! Some ate each other up!), says it's actually quite interesting (for God's sake why?), posts a hurt comment at the derision, and vanishes! Wish the idiot took his stupid vid with him!
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"I suppose, in an attempt to be fair to Radar, most of us in the industry, and/or those with a strong interest of aviation, know what a truly nasty RTO looks like. Whereas, to a passenger with little or no knowledge, even the mildest is an event out of the ordinary."
Really? So you think that newly recruited cabin crew know what a 'truly nasty RTO looks like'? No, I don't think so. Where exactly would they have experienced one? Most pilots will never even have to carry out an RTO other than in the simulator throughout their entire career (and even if they do it's likely to be low-speed), so I think Rainboe et al could give this guy a break for posting something which is out-of-the-ordinary for most travellers (although in breach of the rules on turning off equipment!).
When I was on a Swissair flight which rejected at high-speed twice with no explanation from the flight deck, I think I can say most passengers were not especially reassured by how 'routine an occurence this was for people in the industry'.
Really? So you think that newly recruited cabin crew know what a 'truly nasty RTO looks like'? No, I don't think so. Where exactly would they have experienced one? Most pilots will never even have to carry out an RTO other than in the simulator throughout their entire career (and even if they do it's likely to be low-speed), so I think Rainboe et al could give this guy a break for posting something which is out-of-the-ordinary for most travellers (although in breach of the rules on turning off equipment!).
When I was on a Swissair flight which rejected at high-speed twice with no explanation from the flight deck, I think I can say most passengers were not especially reassured by how 'routine an occurence this was for people in the industry'.
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Most pilots will never even have to carry out an RTO other than in the simulator throughout their entire career