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I fly for an airline, so we get mandatory "death by powerpoint" sessions (thankfully online from home) several times a year. One of the mandatory presentations we have to go through is about bombs, which includes an interactive section where you have to correctly identify the various components (power source, detonator, etc...) of several bombs shown as x-rays. Since our training as pilots doesn't include defusing bombs, it's unclear why we need to be able to identify specific components of them on an x-ray, unless someone thinks we're going to somehow MacGuyer something out of mini water bottles and Biscoffs. Another section of that same presentation involves a long and detailed description (including a quiz) of a specific procedure that was removed from our manuals and training several years ago, but apparently the TSA refuses to let that section be removed for some reason.
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Jan 30, 2021 22:33
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Aardvark! posted:What is the specific procedure out of curiosity? Also lmao at the bomb thing. Maybe they figure you'll be able to tell if it's a bomb so you can throw it out the window It's the procedure that's supposed to be used if a bomb is discovered on board in flight. Essentially, it involves covering the suspected bomb in layers of stuff like wet blankets, clothes, and suitcases (all secured with seat belt extensions, ties, or belts) and the training module gives you a list of various items and requires you to put them in the correct order to place on the bomb. The procedure used to be in our manuals, but was removed about five years ago for the pilots (someone probably realized there's no situation where we'd leave the flight deck to do that), but that bit of training comes back every year.
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Jan 31, 2021 00:21
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My airline job just went through a several month long battle about water bottles. As a background, our airplanes had a case of 1.5 liter water bottles on board, and the pilots usually take one a day so we have something to drink, and there was another case that the flight attendants would use to fill the water cups for passengers. When Covid hit, we switched to giving passengers individual mini water bottles, which was followed by a memo telling the pilots to quit taking the big water bottles, because somehow having us go through six times more miniature bottles was cheaper. It turned out that the "cheaper" excuse was actually just creative accounting, since we were given the small water bottles "for free" by our parent airline/holding company, but the large ones were billed to our airline, so the company as a whole is spending substantially more on the stupid miniature bottles, but since the losses go to the parent company, it's all fine.
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