Tool of the day
07-20-2013, 09:59 AM
#4201
Can't abide NAI
Joined APC: Jun 2007
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07-21-2013, 09:02 AM
#4203
Runs with scissors
Joined APC: Dec 2009
Position: Going to hell in a bucket, but enjoying the ride .
Posts: 7,755
This comment reminds me of something I've never understood, re. pax up while taxiing. What is the big deal?
Is this "All pax must stay seated because we are on an active taxiway..." nonsense an FAA, or NTSB thing? Or just a company thing, or a Flight Attendant thing?
After we get off the airplane, we can get on a Greyhound bus, not wear our seatbelt, and even get up to go pee, all while whistling down I95 at 70mph, in traffic, no seatbelts required.
But you must remain seated when on an airplane which might be moving on a taxiway, at the break neck speed of...11 knots.
I realize "Common Sense" has never been a requirement of riding in the back of a bus, or an airplane, but why is there no Buss Attendant on Greyhound, to walk down the aisle and tell us how to operate a seatbelt, prior to pushback, and to scream at us to be seated, when we really, really, have to pee?
Where is the Standardization from the NTSB?
One Level of Safety and all that...
07-21-2013, 10:31 AM
#4205
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jul 2009
Position: Downwind, headed straight for the rocks, shanghaied aboard the ship of fools.
Posts: 1,128
I forgot to mention my tool of the day. Award goes to the dirtbag sitting behind me non-revving from dca to clt the other day. We divert to Raleigh for Tstorms and he's "F this and F that". Real classy.
Land in CLT, after listening to more swearing about how he was wronged and how much Airways sucks, and he actually stands up and starts yelling and hollering at the people seated in rows before him to get out of the way he has a flight to catch. Amusingly, some elderly women in front of him told him to shut his piehole and wait his turn. I'd love to meet the fine employee who lets a dbag like that travel for free representing them.
Land in CLT, after listening to more swearing about how he was wronged and how much Airways sucks, and he actually stands up and starts yelling and hollering at the people seated in rows before him to get out of the way he has a flight to catch. Amusingly, some elderly women in front of him told him to shut his piehole and wait his turn. I'd love to meet the fine employee who lets a dbag like that travel for free representing them.
07-21-2013, 10:32 AM
#4206
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Oct 2011
Posts: 383
This comment reminds me of something I've never understood, re. pax up while taxiing. What is the big deal?
Is this "All pax must stay seated because we are on an active taxiway..." nonsense an FAA, or NTSB thing? Or just a company thing, or a Flight Attendant thing?
After we get off the airplane, we can get on a Greyhound bus, not wear our seatbelt, and even get up to go pee, all while whistling down I95 at 70mph, in traffic, no seatbelts required.
But you must remain seated when on an airplane which might be moving on a taxiway, at the break neck speed of...11 knots.
I realize "Common Sense" has never been a requirement of riding in the back of a bus, or an airplane, but why is there no Buss Attendant on Greyhound, to walk down the aisle and tell us how to operate a seatbelt, prior to pushback, and to scream at us to be seated, when we really, really, have to pee?
Where is the Standardization from the NTSB?
One Level of Safety and all that...
Is this "All pax must stay seated because we are on an active taxiway..." nonsense an FAA, or NTSB thing? Or just a company thing, or a Flight Attendant thing?
After we get off the airplane, we can get on a Greyhound bus, not wear our seatbelt, and even get up to go pee, all while whistling down I95 at 70mph, in traffic, no seatbelts required.
But you must remain seated when on an airplane which might be moving on a taxiway, at the break neck speed of...11 knots.
I realize "Common Sense" has never been a requirement of riding in the back of a bus, or an airplane, but why is there no Buss Attendant on Greyhound, to walk down the aisle and tell us how to operate a seatbelt, prior to pushback, and to scream at us to be seated, when we really, really, have to pee?
Where is the Standardization from the NTSB?
One Level of Safety and all that...
Common sense left town about 15 years ago. Wasn't there an obituary for him (or her, that's for LNL76) in another thread?
07-22-2013, 03:47 PM
#4207
Wind the clock beoch
Joined APC: May 2012
Posts: 437
Wear your ID only when/where it's required
The Delta pilot at the Atlanta Passport Office this morning who wore his Delta ID around his neck for the entire time he was there (which, like me, was a while). You in the light blue polo style shirt---you know who you are. 
07-22-2013, 03:54 PM
#4208
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Mar 2008
Posts: 2,919
07-22-2013, 04:38 PM
#4209
Line Holder
Joined APC: Apr 2013
Position: Group W Bench
Posts: 38
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