Flightglobal: Weary Emirates Airbus A380 pilots are complaining that they cannot sleep in their crew-rest area in the aft main cabin because the aircraft is too quiet. The......Author: Murdo MorrisonDate: 03 December 2008Read the full article
Author: Murdo Morrison
Date: 03 December 2008
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Davidson is not the only one who loves the sound of the engines more than the noise of passengers.
What a great story this is, they want to employ lightweight generators to create ambient noise. Incredible!! Maybe they should just try and cut out a load of egg boxes and try and insulate the resting area.
Wimps...
AirSpace - more than just hot air
I shall be brief on this bizarre situation. It was an utterly stupid and absurd decision to locate the bunk area so far away from the flight deck and amongst hundreds of crazed, tired, cramped and bladder-desparate stampeding economy class passengers. But having done such a ludicrous, commercially expedient action, all that is needed is a simple continuous tape or CD system which plays, at a volume level chosen by the pilots, the sleep-inducing sound of a couple of Pratt and Whitney R-1830 radials set at 2,050 rpm. It certainly used to send me to sleep over the tropical oceans surrounding Papua New Guinea...and I was supposed to be flying the old C-47 with up to 40 Highland warriors chanting their tribal songs just behind me! If it worked under those conditions, it should certainly send our current A-380 pilots off into a deep untroubled slumber.....cheap too; which should be most appealing to the bean-counters so concerned with the First-Class VIPs.
"Happiness is a pair of sodding great Pratt & Whitneys...bliss is a pair on each wing!"
dakota67: "Happiness is a pair of sodding great Pratt & Whitneys...bliss is a pair on each wing!"
All those in Favour, Say “Aye”!
AWWWW, would you rather have exhausted pilots who can barely keep their eyes open? When you get to your destination 16 hours later, you have a few days to sleep.....We often are lucky to get 8 hours of sleep (not rest time) before launching again!!!!
Good post, Dakota!!! I know I prefer the sound of radials rather than the insidious high freq vibrations that actually unscrew my camera lens!!!!!
btw, spooky driver here.....:)
UKads: dakota67: "Happiness is a pair of sodding great Pratt & Whitneys...bliss is a pair on each wing!" All those in Favour, Say “Aye”!AYE 100 TIMES!!! screw ETOPS, give me 4 engines over the cold NOPAC or NOATL
AYE 100 TIMES!!! screw ETOPS, give me 4 engines over the cold NOPAC or NOATL
I have since been reminded of "old shakey" (C-124 Globemaster) how about a compromise....
"Happiness is a pair of sodding great Pratt & Whitneys...bliss would be another pair located as far down the aft main cabin as possible!"