Meanwhile, aboard Ryanair...

Noxegon

Ryanair pilots probed after video shows one using rubber chicken to operate throttle.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11985259/ryanair-pilot-rubber-chicken-throtle/

Timmaay

Slow news day... It is the sun tho.

IngazZagni

Yeah it is fairly idiotic of the pilots involved. They should know these kind of photos will be used by the media against them.

However on the photos you can clearly see the engines are off and the parking brake is set. In fact one of the photos is on an AlbaStar 737. So no safety issue.

goingnowhere

Aircraft is on the ground, engines are OFF and parking brake is set. Bit of a laugh in the turnaround.

Slow news day...

PCros

Noxegon wrote: »

Ryanair pilots probed after video shows one using rubber chicken to operate throttle.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11985259/ryanair-pilot-rubber-chicken-throtle/

Hope it wasn't with the chicken! :eek:

theguzman

God be with the days before every clown had a smartphone and camera in his pocket. You can't piss now but it would end up on social media. Pilots in the old days often had a fumble with an airhostess mid cruise.

Chris_Heilong

The very first comment on the articles says "Well if you’re going to produce irresponsible articles like this at least get it right. Don’t you have. a responsibility to not publish false information? One of those pics isn’t even a Ryanair flight, and one of those people in the picture is clearly cabin crew not “Two pilots”.
shame on whoever sent these pictures in. Shame on the sun for publishing this junk. Trying to destroy two young people’s careers in one of the most disrupted industries right now. It costs a fortune and takes years to study to become a pilot. Those airline staff work like dogs and are poorly paid especially by Ryanair and budget airlines."

flanzer

Slow news day. There's a lot of complicated stuff going on in the world, that S*n newspaper readers wouldn't understand.... Ryanair will probably use this story to their advantage, and those pilots will continue to fly

TheDriver

flanzer wrote: »

Slow news day. There's a lot of complicated stuff going on in the world, that S*n newspaper readers wouldn't understand.... Ryanair will probably use this story to their advantage, and those pilots will continue to fly

What a load of crap in that article. No different than kicking back at your desk during your break.

Hairy Japanese BASTARDS!

IngazZagni wrote: »

Yeah it is fairly idiotic of the pilots involved. They should know these kind of photos will be used by the media against them.

However on the photos you can clearly see the engines are off and the parking brake is set. In fact one of the photos is on an AlbaStar 737. So no safety issue.

Which photo is Alba Star?

How do you know? :P

I've been skimming the photos looking for an aircraft reg.

Alpha Romeo

Hairy Japanese BASTARDS! wrote: »

Which photo is Alba Star?

How do you know? :P

I've been skimming the photos looking for an aircraft reg.

Somebody mentioned it in the comments on the article.

[IMG]https://imagehost.com.au//d7amw0Kd9r/Alba Star_5efe8af04d95e.jpg[/IMG]

Hairy Japanese BASTARDS!

Alpha Romeo wrote: »

Somebody mentioned it in the comments on the article.

[IMG]https://imagehost.com.au//d7amw0Kd9r/Alba Star_5efe8af04d95e.jpg[/IMG]

Eagle eye

salonfire

goingnowhere wrote: »

Bit of a laugh in the turnaround.

Slow news day...

Isn't this what causes air crashes and the whole idea of CRM is to keep the cockpit professional at all times?

The airline should take a dim view on this.

What if in the messing something got dislodged or trapped by a foreign object?
Unlikely you might say.

But most things that cause air crashes turn out to be "unlikely" or a fluke.

Strumms

The problem isn’t what they were doing per say I’d guess... but sorry, taking photos like that AND uploading them to social media is irresponsible and silly, it’s unprofessional. There may have been zero risk, no dangers involved but it leaves the company and those involved ‘open’ to having that questioned.

Say a week later Ryanair had an incident say a tailstrike on landing or even a wing striking a light while parking or clipping a piece of gse erroneously parked, could have been the marshalers fault... whatever.. tabloids might stick up that pic up with caption... “only last week, Ryanair pilot in cockpit takes pic of himself playing with his cock.” The incident ‘coupled’ with the photo in such a close timeline could cost the airline a lot of trust, therefore revenue...

Company I worked for the policy was that pilots personal phones were switched off before they went airside. Captain had a basic analogue Nokia, which was a work phone. Used for things like contacting ops, ramp transport, hotel, etc... same as our work phones, it didn’t even have a camera.

Tenger

This thread has run its course with a rational post to close it out