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Pilot arrested on suspicion of flying over the limit

 
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 6:40 pm    Post subject: Pilot arrested on suspicion of flying over the limit Reply with quote

Virgin Atlantic co-pilot has been arrested at Heathrow Airport on suspicion of being over the legal alcohol limit

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7066636.stm

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Not again? Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 7:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think it's a fuss about nothing. After all, it probably helps them to drive better. I reckon that this is another bit of propaganda stirred up by our Dave to discredit NL after the sale of BAA to the Spaniards. Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 7:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

firewirefred wrote:
I think it's a fuss about nothing. After all, it probably helps them to drive better. I reckon that this is another bit of propaganda stirred up by our Dave to discredit NL after the sale of BAA to the Spaniards. Rolling Eyes


Ok if you feel so strongly, you should ask for this guy to fly YOUR plane next time.

Best of luck! Laughing
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 6:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Apparently he was a standby pilot. The whole crew needed to be changed too.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 7:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I still think it's a fuss about nothing. A little tipple of sherry isn't going to do anybody any harm. Anyhow, I thought these things flew by wire these days?
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 7:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

firewirefred wrote:
Anyhow, I thought these things flew by wire these days?


Thats a popular myth. Yes there is an autopilot, but who inputs the co-ordinates. If the inputer is over the limit, he is more likely to make a mistake. Also he will be slower to react to an emergency.

I still think you should volunteer to sit up from with the guy flying the plane, just to prove to the rest of us, that we are worrying unduely. Wink
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 8:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

gfloyd wrote:
I still think you should volunteer to sit up from with the guy flying the plane, just to prove to the rest of us, that we are worrying unduely. Wink


I have sat up front. I even managed to get the optics to work on a flight to Miami - no man feat when you've got turbulence (I blame the curry the night before).
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 9:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A few years back, I was talking with a pilot working for American Airlines.
I asked him if the typical film scenario of an untrained civilian being able to land a Jumbo was possible.
He said it was.

just thought I'd mention it..
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 9:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

SantaFefan wrote:
A few years back, I was talking with a pilot working for American Airlines.
I asked him if the typical film scenario of an untrained civilian being able to land a Jumbo was possible.
He said it was.

just thought I'd mention it..


of course they can land it. Into a mountain, the sea, a city, perhaps, but yes a civilian can land a plane. It will even land itself once the fuel runs out.

The Cypriot aircrash over Greece is proof that even a civilian with flying experience cant land a commercial aircraft.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Apparently, Airbuses can now take off and land "by wire" - taking their signals remotely via air traffic control computers if necessary. Recently, I flew out to Athens on an A321 and after we landed (rather than before!) the number 1 officer told us that we landed on autopilot. Had he been tippling the ol' sherry, I wonder? I could do that job!
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