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Bookmark or Share- How to Speak Airline: A Glossary For TravelersCrosscheck is a generic term used by pilots and flight attendants meaning that one person has verified the task of another. In the cabin, flight attendants crosscheck one another’s stations to make sure the doors are armed or disarmed as necessary. • ALL-CALL “Flight attendants, doors to arrival, crosscheck and all-call.”.
- Turbulence: Everything You Need to Know - AskThePilot.comThe worst offender is the Boeing 757. A mid-sized jet, the 757 isn’t nearly the size of a 747 or 777, but thanks to a nasty aerodynamic quirk it produces an outsized wake that, according to one study, is the most powerful of any airplane. To avoid wake upsets, air traffic controllers are required to put extra spacing between large and small ...
- Terminal Racket. The Scourge of Airport NoiseOr that’s the idea, anyway. Alas, the airplane cabin has contracted this same scourge. Nowadays, the entire boarding process, followed by the first several minutes after takeoff, consist of nothing but announcements: safety videos that never end, ignored directives on how to stow your luggage, and those manifesto-length promotional speeches.
- TERMINAL MADNESS: What Is Airport Security?Scary, but these kinds of explosives are very unstable and cannot be easily transported by hand. And although certain liquids, when combined under specific conditions, are indeed dangerous, creating those conditions poses huge challenges that, say most experts, would be highly difficult to replicate in an airplane cabin.
- The barking dog: those strange noises on Airbus planesIt’s common to hear a loud, repetitive whirring sound emanating from the floorboards of Airbus planes. Sometimes it’s a high-pitched whine; other times it’s a stilted WOOF, WOOF, WOOF, like the noise a very agitated dog might make. This pertains to twin-engine Airbus models: the A320 series (includes the subvariants A319 and A321) and the ...
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