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RE: Airbus to help Emirates pilots sleep after crews find A380 'too quiet'

Last post 12-22-2008 12:40 PM by UKads. 9 replies.
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  • 12-03-2008 5:04 PM

    RE: Airbus to help Emirates pilots sleep after crews find A380 'too quiet'

    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 Morrison

    Date: 03 December 2008

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  • 12-03-2008 5:06 PM In reply to

    Re: RE: Airbus to help Emirates pilots sleep after crews find A380 'too quiet'

    Davidson is not the only one who loves the sound of the engines more than the noise of passengers. 

  • 12-04-2008 4:17 PM In reply to

    Re: RE: Airbus to help Emirates pilots sleep after crews find A380 'too quiet'

     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.

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  • 12-04-2008 6:28 PM In reply to

    Re: RE: Airbus to help Emirates pilots sleep after crews find A380 'too quiet'

    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!"

  • 12-10-2008 1:02 PM In reply to

    • UKads
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    Re: RE: Airbus to help Emirates pilots sleep after crews find A380 'too quiet'

    dakota67:

    "Happiness is a pair of sodding great Pratt & Whitneys...bliss is a pair on each wing!"

     All those in Favour, Say “Aye”!

     

     

     

     

    "Happiness is a pair of sodding great Pratt & Whitney's with both burners blazing"
  • 12-11-2008 11:32 AM In reply to

    Re: RE: Airbus to help Emirates pilots sleep after crews find A380 'too quiet'

    Even if most of the passengers get to sleep, no matter how quiet the plane is , the sound of heavy footed cabin crew clonking up and down shakes the floors and rattles the seats.
  • 12-22-2008 12:03 AM In reply to

    Re: RE: Airbus to help Emirates pilots sleep after crews find A380 'too quiet'

     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!!!!

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  • 12-22-2008 12:05 AM In reply to

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     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.....:)

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  • 12-22-2008 12:06 AM In reply to

    Re: RE: Airbus to help Emirates pilots sleep after crews find A380 'too quiet'

    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

     

     

     

     

     
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  • 12-22-2008 12:40 PM In reply to

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    Re: RE: Airbus to help Emirates pilots sleep after crews find A380 'too quiet'

    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!"

    "Happiness is a pair of sodding great Pratt & Whitney's with both burners blazing"
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