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Re: Airline Pilot Training

#41 Post by Slasher » Mon Dec 09, 2019 3:53 am

barkingmad wrote:
Sun Dec 08, 2019 8:27 pm
I remember the episode where Frank learns to fly. Betty’s up in the Tower with another instructor who asks him “Mr Spencer. Do you remember anything from your training? Anything at all!”

“There are old pilots...and bold pilots...but no old bold pilots!”

=))

Buggered if I can find a vid of it online. A bloody classic.

PS: Frank flew better than some cadets I’ve trained.

Edit: I’d love to write a script with Frank as a 320 cadet.

“Now cadet you are in Normal Law.”
“Are there any other laws?”
“Yes. Now where do you seek information about those Laws?”
“I suppose I would ask a policeman.”
“No no no...”
“Constable Fraser would know. He knows the law inside out. He once gave advice to Mrs Timmons in the next street on how to licence her cat. I ginger tom as I recall. Maybe he knows about Airbus Laws too. He was a RAF guard once so he might know about planes.”
“NO I said! You would look it up in your eff com.”
“My eff...?”
“Com! Eff com!”
“Is that anything like F Troop? I didn’t know Corporal Agarn had branched out and started writing Airbuses manuals. Then again he knows a lot about everything doesn’t he.”

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Re: Airline Pilot Training

#42 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Mon Dec 09, 2019 5:57 am

Fill yer boots...



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Re: Airline Pilot Training

#43 Post by Slasher » Mon Dec 09, 2019 7:01 am

TheGreenGoblin wrote:
Mon Dec 09, 2019 5:57 am
Fill yer boots...
Brilliant mate! Thanks for the link! 👍🏻

I get pissamestic about jet slag too! =))

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Re: Airline Pilot Training

#44 Post by Ex-Ascot » Mon Dec 09, 2019 8:49 am

Thanks GG. Haven't seen that before. Mrs Ex-Ascot remembers it though.

Capt I presume you do the pilot incapacitated drill with your kids.
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Re: Airline Pilot Training

#45 Post by Slasher » Mon Dec 09, 2019 10:22 am

Yep. Major point of being a F/O sah innit.

Standard drill applicable to all fleets:

Ensure captain is fully dead. If he’s not, wait till he is.
Take control. Note positions of all switches knobs PFD etc.
Call in cabin crew to pull capt’s seat fully back and reclined.
Ask cabin crew to check he’s still dead.
Descend if necessary to FL200.
Select Flaps 1.
Reduce to VLS (1.30 Vs01) turb permitting.
Contact Co on FMC ACARS or Satcom link or VHF/HF.
Type or announce “My command pay starts NOW!”
Pull out Master Seniority List.
Scratch off/delete dead Captain’s name and Seniority number.
Update one’s own Seniority number.
Calculate revised expected command upgrade date.
Keep going to destination.

Drill complete.

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#46 Post by Ex-Ascot » Mon Dec 09, 2019 10:52 am

Seniority: When I joined the airline there was a fleet expansion and I think we took on 50 pilots. The A320 course started two weeks before the A300-600 course. Therefore we started 25 down the seniority list. Then graded on our scores on the ground type rating exam. Chief pilot was ex Royal Air Force and would have had 100% ex-military if he could have. He kept moving the goal posts for hours for command. It was a bit of a bummer for the ex fast jet guys though who were lucky to get 10 hours a month.
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