Are you, or were you a cornerworker? If so were you trained for this as A QE?

Are you, or were you a cornerworker? If so were you trained for this as A QE?

http://hawaii.hawaii.edu/math/Courses/Math100/Chapter1/Extra/CanFlt143.htm

Oh, sorry. Apparently QE is no longer the proper term to use... So replace QE, with the word rookie.

Awesome, I think I'd need a fresh pair of shorts.

Wow!!!

Great story w amazing ending.

LOL'd at the "side note" at the bottom. Great story.

Just think of how much safer things could be if airplanes had horns.

So close to TL;DR'ing that.
Glad I didn't

That plane was actually for sale a while ago, no one wanted it though, at least not for the price they were asking

I was the FNG last year working at Long Beach and I was nervous enough about not screwing up, let alone something like that.

kazoospec wrote: LOL'd at the "side note" at the bottom. Great story.

yeah, that was what got my attention ….

n amusing side-note to the Gimli story is that after Flight 143 had landed safely, a group of Air Canada mechanics were dispatched to drive down and begin effecting repair. They piled into a van with all their tools. They reportedly ran out of fuel en-route, finding themselves stranded somewhere in the backwoods of Manitoba.

No, not covered in flagging school.

Biggest thing to learn is actually slowing down and letting a situation resolve before acting. (let the car finish crashing before you radio, etc.. only thing you do immedately is throw the yellow)

That said, I don't know if it would be seen as really out there, having flagged Lemons..

Eh. Debris flag for 2 laps, then it's part of the course.

As I found out last year on a flight to Florida talking with a transiting pilot on our broke plane, he explained that modern twin engine airlines have two fuel pumps per fuel cell and cross overs and each fuel pump provides enough pressure to run both engines at nearly normal power levels.

Our flight got cancelled because one of our fuel pumps had a faulty gauge. They replaced fuel pump, sender, and gauge.

Overkill? Thank God.

Those unit calcs can get you if you aren't careful, just ask NASA!