Tag: safety

We actually just recently found a water bottle behind the pedals in the jet. It was empty and it is part of our checklist for firing up the aircraft and doing the security check to look back there, but it …

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I have nothing but admiration for test pilots. I assume that nowadays the procedures and safety precautions are on a higher level than what they were in the “startup” phase of aviation. But it still takes guts to be the …

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I have to admit, I’m somewhat of a heathen regarding barbecue. I just light up some coal and put meat or sausages on the grill. Although I do enjoy that very manly task enormously, I have not yet felt the …

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Some airports we land at go all out when it comes to the safety cones. They must have pretty good cone salespeople there. I don’t mind them usually because they come in pretty handy around the big helicopter. You would …

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