I feel the need to justify my claim that the culture is unsafe just so that people won’t think I am making things up to excuse my actions. Here are a few things I’ve noticed in less than two months with the company:
1. We are required to always brake and chalk our dollies when they aren’t...
I’m not really sure what you’re alluding to. Do other airports equip all the ground ops people with radios? That seems like it would produce chaos on the radio.
I just woke up and saw some new posts. I wanted to clarify that I (and I believe just about all other ground vehicles at our hub) don’t have communications with anyone while driving. I think there are simply too many vehicles to do that. We are just supposed to visually determine whether it is...
Unit74, we don’t have a union, but I think I’ll take the approach of throwing out a hypothetical since I’m a newbie. “Say, Nick, have you ever heard of anybody pulling out onto a taxiway in front of a plane? Does safety come down hard on that stuff or do they usually get away with it? Etc” And...
Hello pilots. This is specifically relevant to cargo pilots, but passenger pilots can probably help too.
I recently started working at a cargo hub at a large airport, unloading freight from several planes and then loading a few planes and heading home. Just this week I started driving a ground...