Sleeping in the hangar

[Hardy Heinlin]

Good morning,

a little light question for the early morning coffee, not related to PSX.

How do pilots and engineers around the world call a parking unpowered aircraft?

Cold and dark ship
Dead ship
...
...

Yesterday evening I saw myself spontaneously using the phrase sleeping ship. Perhaps I unconsciously assumed it will resurrect the next day (not being completely cold or dead) :-)


Cheers,

|-|ardy

[martin1006]

I know at KLM they have Airbus A330 with registrations PH-AO?

So PH-AOA, PH-AOB etc

But they skipped PH-AOG

Means Aircraft On Ground

The other one I know for a plane on ground is 'Hangar Queen' but this is more related to problem airplanes.

[Richard McDonald Woods]

Maybe 'unpowered'?

[Hardy Heinlin]

:-) I mean, are there any cultural or regional preferences, e.g. "Cold and dark ship" in the USA, "Dead ship" in Australia etc.?

(My question isn't seriously meant.)


|-|

[Garry Richards]

No, no sir, it's not dead. It's resting.  

[John H Watson]

I've only heard "Cold & Dark" in the sim world, but, having said that, my experiences may be biased by regional preferences. Here we turn the expression into a verb.- "deadship it"

"Cold and dark" is a bit of a mouthful. Engineers tend to abbreviate things (with acronyms, etc).

No, no sir, it's not dead. It's resting

Norwegan Blue Airlines? )

[Will]

Beau'iful plumage, it 'as.

[Hardy Heinlin]

I think I first heard "cold and dark" from Mel Ott. Then also from other US guys. Or US pilots? Not US engineers. Yes, just US pilots. Maybe pilots tend to poetry more than engineers do :-)

What's that, Will? :-) French?


Cheers,
Ardy Einlin


"This, Sir, is an ex-aircraft."

[Matt Sheil]

No, no sir, it's not dead. It's resting.  

It's Nailed to the Angar Floor

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

Speaking of AOG, problem aircraft, and registrations... we have a customer with a particularly funny issue with our equipment in just one of their airframes and it is PR-GOD. Now this leads to funny discussions over the phone.


Jeroen

[stekeller]

"AOG" tends to be used in the industry when an aircraft is unairworthy due to a maintenance issue. So it is not a "good" or "normal" thing. Parts that are rushed through the system for aircraft that need them have "AOG" tags on them.

- Stekeller
KORD

[martin]

:-) I mean, are there any cultural or regional preferences

Yes.

[size=16]"[/size]That pline is dead as a(n) { dodo (UK/Empire) | kiwi (NZ) | emu* (Oz) }[size=16]"[/size]

All unable of flight.

 
M
PS? Ornithologist & Guanologist

* but not drongo

[martin]

we have a customer [...] one of their airframes [...] is PR-GOD.

Them probably...
M

[farrokh747]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM5QMKLjjm8

and the 419 scambaiter version....

from the http://www.419eater.com archives...

hilarious stuff..


fc

the complete story:
http://419eater.com/html/bigman.htm

[Will]

Fascinating.

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

It's dead, Hardy.

[Jamie]

When we call our dispatchers during approach, we tell them the remaining fuel on board. The response could be 'Flieger geht schlafen' which means 'the bird's going to sleep' or 'Ihr könnt's abdrehen' for 'kill it'.

When we arrive at a 'cold&dark' aircraft, the first ones who notices this are the flight attendants: 'ooo noo it's dark!' (it > referring to the aircraft), which either means 'i'm getting cold, i'm too skinny and could have eaten some more schnitzels' or 'i should have worn some warm pants instead of these short skirts' (I skip the nipple part).

I can't recall using words for a 'cold/dark' or sleeping aircraft... The first question to arise is: 'do we have ground power?'. For the attendants 'kannst einheizen bitte???' which translates to: 'can you warm/heat IT up?' = starting the APU for nice warm, but smelly bleed air.

Funny to mention when we shut it down, we use this 'final parking checklist': we power it down in an orderly manner whereas when our maintenance arrives to take it over: they shut it down in a complete random sequence which underlines they are the masters of technique, the system Gods, we have great respect for them

[Hardy Heinlin]

For the attendants 'kannst einheizen bitte???' which translates to: 'can you warm/heat IT up?'

In Austria, shouldn't this read "Kaaansd eeynheeyzen biiidschön?" :-)

[falconeye]

Oder "geh hearst, hot die oide Kraxn kaa Heizung ned".:-)

[martin]

Perhaps a bit early, but I vote this thread Inter-Cultural Thread of the Year*
 :mrgreen:

*with special mention of JJ for Insights Into Real Life: I have a now a clear picture of the Dead Emu plane in places where there are no kangaroos around.