I got my buttocks jumped on for hooking up ground power and air had just enough impact to keep me from doing it.
Glad to haer it.
Yes they are indeed one and the same. You wouldn't think it watching them work. Is there some type of pecking order as far as who does what?
I can zip down the line with the best of them now but I remember my first time out on a tug. I first thought that this was the craziest unorganized chaotic thing I had ever seen, tugs and trailers crisscrossing back and forth, buses and ground support equipment running up and down the line aircraft coming in and being pushed back in the middle of it all, people talking back a fourth over the radio in a barrage of acronyms. It was absolutely crazy for someone that has never been subjected to it. I think I have fallen into the groove very well if I must say so myself. This job is very much addicting. I had to call in my first "hold boarding†call yesterday. I sure did hate to make that call but one lav was already on MEL and we had two more that would not service. I thought it would be a quick fix but by the time I realized it was not, time was quickly slipping away. I hauled blue water up in buckets on the aircraft to fill the tanks. I called MC and put the lavs on deferral to be fixed that night. The aircraft departed without delay, it was close though. I think I kind of fudged on that one but it did work and the lavs were operational for the flight. Boy how I do love the pressure when it is down to the minute like that.
local. I'm not here to stir the "$hit" I'm just here to tell you how it is.
Kev, I'm not here to take your job or bash anyone I just want you guys to get with the program. We all have a job here to do, so either you guys need to do it or get out. There is no reason for the animosity that exists between the different work groups. You guys that despise the company you work for need to either become a team player or quit and let someone else in that might appreciate their job.
So thats three MELs on one plane alone. How many MELS do you have on average?