Absolutely correct FD2. Sometimes on landing PPOs arming up, ADCs putting on swords, ladies putting on hats, chaps jackets. Girls in the galley washing up. For timing purposes I used to plan on using the full runway length. Think I have mentioned this before but at Nairobi the foreign secretary was delivered to the aircraft by a Kenyan Air Force aircraft. The idiot had parked within our wing span which could not be seen from the flight deck with the swept back wings. Marshaller was waving me forward, Air Attache saluting suddenly gave me the stop signal. Principal pax was being served an orange juice. The stewardess caught it in the table cloth.
Those swept back wings were a bugger. Also at Nairobi been marshalled one of our aircraft on a schedule flight took down a lamp post outside the boundary fence. They charged us for it but never fixed it. Had a Capt under training at Brize take out a set of steps just after the guy standing on it saying he was clear jumped off. The training captain in the jump seat, who couldn't see a thing, was the aircraft commander and got done for it.
Bit of a thread drift but for those not familiar the problem is 'wing growth'