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Re: Write your own Daily Mail aviation incident drama

#261 Post by Woody » Mon Jul 25, 2022 9:12 am

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The evacuation drill on the A300 was for the pilots to go out of their DV windows and assist the passengers off the two forward slides. I was cool with that. 'Thank you for flying Monarch Airlines' Thank you for flying Monarch Airlines' Thank you for flying Monarch Airlines'.
Who was responsible for the cheese board, or was that a BA thing :D
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#262 Post by Wodrick » Mon Jul 25, 2022 9:38 am

I think in the Spotty M world cheese was Dairylea or BabyBel
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Re: Write your own Daily Mail aviation incident drama

#263 Post by Ex-Ascot » Mon Jul 25, 2022 12:22 pm

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I think in the Spotty M world cheese was Dairylea or BabyBel
BabyBel, come on Wodders, the brain dead down the back would probably eat the wax. We actually had a very nice cheese board with fruit just for the crew. I would ask for that to be put on the jump seat and I would nibble off that rather than have a crew meal. Most were pretty awful but I remember a good breakfast one with hash browns and baked beans.
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#264 Post by Wodrick » Mon Jul 25, 2022 1:38 pm

Crew meals were always better than the things the customers got. One of my blokes used to inhale menu G which was a disgusting Cottage Pie type thing.
If you (as line eng) could get your hands on an unmolested crew breakfast and cook it yourself they were quite ok.

I meant the Laughing Cow. Was on a TV quiz last week.
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#265 Post by G-CPTN » Mon Jul 25, 2022 3:46 pm

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I meant the Laughing Cow.
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#266 Post by CharlieOneSix » Mon Jul 25, 2022 10:19 pm

In days of yore the Dan-Air hot breakfast on the 1-11 red-eye ABZ-LGW was always excellent!
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#267 Post by OFSO » Tue Jul 26, 2022 4:48 am

Agreed. BCAL LGW to FFAM, hot breakfast served by the lassies in mini kilts. What a start to a working day...

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#268 Post by PHXPhlyer » Tue Jul 26, 2022 2:53 pm

FFAM? :-?

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Re: Write your own Daily Mail aviation incident drama

#269 Post by OFSO » Tue Jul 26, 2022 3:13 pm

FrankFurtAmMain. What we used to call it to differ from all the other Frankfurts around the world. Not an airport code, sorry.

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Re: Write your own Daily Mail aviation incident drama

#270 Post by Woody » Fri Jul 29, 2022 9:55 pm

I’m not in any of these photos, but it’s very familiar to me, how ever I lost count of the number of mistakes in the article and I’m bloody certain that JHK has never been seen in the Main Baggage Hall :((

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#271 Post by Dushan » Mon Aug 01, 2022 12:13 pm

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Good job Ex-A is on safari, can’t see him being too impressed with this :-o

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Re: Write your own Daily Mail aviation incident drama

#272 Post by Ex-Ascot » Mon Aug 01, 2022 12:44 pm

Dushan wrote:
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Woody wrote:
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Good job Ex-A is on safari, can’t see him being too impressed with this :-o

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... nding.html
This story lacks some very important details. How much is the house The Queen lives in worth?
If you are thinking of Buck House about 2.5 billion quid but HMQ does not own it.
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#273 Post by Boac » Mon Aug 01, 2022 1:55 pm

Three questions for ex-A:

1) Why is HMQ flying in a Luxembourg registered charter aircraft?

2) How are crew selected and screened for these flights? Obviously any old driver will do!

3) Why did the thunderstorm not cease for the Queen?

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#274 Post by Ex-Ascot » Mon Aug 01, 2022 3:35 pm

1. It was as you say a charter. 2. No idea probably the chief pilot as happens down here. 3. God is obviously senior.
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#275 Post by Woody » Fri Aug 19, 2022 7:07 am

They’ve run out of articles about BA, so have come up with this :-o

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#276 Post by Ex-Ascot » Fri Aug 19, 2022 8:05 am

I would suggest that it happens a lot but most don't overshoot destination. I have woken up on a flight deck of 4 with the other 3 asleep.
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#277 Post by G-CPTN » Fri Aug 19, 2022 8:10 am

Why don't pilots use their big watches to set personal alarms that would wake them before they arrive at their destination airport?
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Re: Write your own Daily Mail aviation incident drama

#278 Post by OFSO » Mon Dec 19, 2022 8:24 pm

Various media have reported an easyJet flight approaching Gatwick declared an "in-flight emergency" and diverted to Stansted. In-flight emergency? Well.... Crosswind exceeded maximums at Gatwick. That's all.

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Re: Write your own Daily Mail aviation incident drama

#279 Post by Woody » Sat Jul 29, 2023 6:19 pm

Well we don’t seem to have had one for a while :))

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Re: Write your own Daily Mail aviation incident drama

#280 Post by Woody » Mon Sep 04, 2023 1:15 pm

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