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Tales from a fired stewardess

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  1. Tcar

    Tcar F1 Rookie

    One of those really inane threads... "don't drink the water unless it's bottled." Don't drink the coffee or tea... same water". "Pilots usually sleep during the flight". "Pilots are very skilled so that if lightning hits the plane, they know what to do", "Pilots always land hard when it's raining to keep from hydroplaning", "sometimes airlines borrow inexperienced pilots from other airlines if they run out", and on and on.

    There was this statement, though:

    "Did you know that if a plane is being hijacked while it's still on the ground, they have signs like leaving the wings up? That's their "code" to tell the watchers that there is a problem, so if you're ever on a plane that's in trouble like that, which I hope never happens, the pilot is trained to do certain things to call for help without being noticed."

    Leaving the wings up??? Huh?
    Flaps up maybe?

    Anyone heard of this?
     
  2. donv

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    Yes, but she has it wrong.

    The wet runway thing is funny as well-- I always find that I land much, much more smoothly on wet runways.
     
  3. rdefabri

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    Here I thought we would get lurid tales of shenanigans with passengers or crews...I'm sure there are plenty of "behind the scenes" things we DON'T know about. I do know a couple that works for a major airline (one runs maintenance, the other is a flight attendant), I could ask them about some of these.
     
  4. Tcar

    Tcar F1 Rookie

    So what does "Leave the Wings up" mean?
     
  5. ylshih

    ylshih Shogun Assassin
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    Here is the list of items and responses by various aviation people.

    https://www.quora.com/Are-these-flying-secrets-true-30-Pilots-And-Flight-Attendants-Confess-The-Best-Kept-Secrets-You-Don%E2%80%99t-Know-About-Flying

    "Leave the wings up" is kind of ambiguous by description. But as best I can figure it probably means to leave the speed brakes up or the flaps down after landing. These would normally be retracted after landing, so leaving them extended would be odd. Doesn't seem to be true though.
     
  6. donv

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    I don't want to disclose anything especially secret, not that this is, but this is from the FAA website:

    http://fsims.faa.gov/wdocs/orders/ps_orders/a_7110.49d.htm



     
  7. Bob Parks

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    This "wings up" thing has triggered a response that has recently gotten my hackles up. My sister-in-law recently described what happened to her grandson when he was riding his motorcycle and he had to miss "a truck tire". He was seriously injured in the ensuing crash when he collided with a guard rail. My initial impression was that there was a truck tire in the road so I asked her if it was laying in the on-coming lane or in his lane. She bristled and said that it was on a tanker truck! She then described that he had become sucked into the underside of a tanker and had to veer out of it and ran into the guard rail. The "tire" was a wheel on the tanker truck. So he was passing " an eighteen-tired truck" in her mind and to her a tire is an entire wheel. I have bumped into this several times recently and it then breaches the wheel terminology when so many people now call a wheel "A RIM". Where in hell did that start? So now, an entire wheel is called a tire and the wheel is called a rim. Has anybody looked up the definition of "RIM"? Does anybody know what a wheel is? Does anybody know what a tire is?
    There are some who tell me that that is the changing ways of language. That is bullcrap! To me it is slip-shod mental sloppiness.
     
  8. gday

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    Gotten into this discussion too. I think its more anchored in ignorance than sloppiness. And then throw in education by google search.

    -mick
     
  9. lear60man

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    So much fail. The flaps down, spoilers up scenario is a thing of the past. In all honesty, a hijacker will have no idea of a stuck mike while I plead to come to some sort of resolution. There is an official way to display distress that I will not disclose publicly.
     
  10. Spasso

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    The terminology of rim comes from many places, borrowed and interchanged.

    "The upper or outer edge of an object, typically something circular or approximately circular".

    Rim, as on a bicycle or motorcycle.
    On my flat bed truck there are six "split rim" wheels.
    A term from the 60's, "Chrome rims" (yes, wheels)

    All of which I will not expend the energy to correct on or agonize about...
     
  11. donv

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    There have been more hijackings of corporate and charter aircraft than you might think. A friend of mine was hijacked in a Citation... part 91.

     
  12. Bob Parks

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    No need to expend energy or to agonize when there are people like a fellow worker of mine who said that his friend sold his PORSH and bought an ALFA ROMERO. He also said that," You can make anything if you have the BASIC INGRIEVIENCES." He kept us smiling most of the time.
     
  13. Hannibal308

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    Is there a special code if they are trying to jack your nukuler weapons?
     
  14. Gatorrari

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    Reminds me of a t-shirt I once saw a guy wearing that said "Por-sche is a two-syllable word!"
     
  15. Spasso

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    I know a guy like that.:)
     
  16. Etcetera

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    I know for a fact that there's no such thing as turbulence, just bored pilots.
     

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