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This article is confused. The cockpit crew will not be handing out drinks. Other pilot-rated employees will be acting as attendants. You can’t operate in the E

This article is confused. The cockpit crew will not be handing out drinks. Other pilot-rated employees will be acting as attendants. You can’t operate in the EU, US or Canada w/o someone attending in the back. You have to have so many attendants per passengers. Pilots are well qualified for any cabin duties. Many US pilots who have lost their rating or are going through a health issue that keeps them out of the cockpit serve as attendants to keep their benefits or wait to be medically reinstated. https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/coronavirus-icelandair-pilots-cabin-crew-passengers-a9626041.html https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/coronav... “From 20 July pilots who are currently not required for flying duties will be assigned “responsibility for safety on board”.”

ornxka 6y ago
>The cockpit crew will not be handing out drinks. The mental image this gave me was amusing: >"Hey man, can you steer for a few minutes? I've gotta go push the drink cart." >"Sure thing dude, I'll get it next time."
- koboll 6y ago
  Don't need two pilots. Just have one pilot slowly push the drink cart with one hand while the other hand pilots the plane with a game console controller plugged into a VR headset. Then the passengers can simply grab drinks as it rolls by. Multitasking!
  - lowdose 6y ago
    No need for a VR set when you are already living in the simulation just reroute some plugs and you can do multitasking with remote viewing.
  - faeyanpiraat 6y ago
    Why not add autopilot functionality to the drink cart?
    - Sharlin 6y ago
      So the cart can fly the plane while the pilot is attending passengers? Geniys!
- cam_l 6y ago
  I remember the first time I flew in the mid eighties. The plane was a twelve seater, the pilot asked for one of the passengers to sit up front and 'be' the copilot. When it came time to hand out the refreshments, he would get the copilot to pull drinks out of the eski, and pitch the plane up so they could roll the drinks down the aisle.
  - tricolon 6y ago
    eski?
    - jchallis 6y ago
      Cooler. Some folks refer to this as an Eskimo, a non PC term for the Inuit.
      - rhn_mk1 6y ago
        What makes "Eskimo" not politically correct?
        thg 6y ago
        It's a rather demeaning term and means "meat devourer" or "meat muncher" (loosely translated).
        capableweb 6y ago
        That doesn't seem to be accurate. First, Eskimos and Inuits are not necessarily referring to the same people, and Eskimo seems to come from Algonquian and means "snowshoe-netter" or "to net snowshoes", at least as far as I gather from some quick searching.
        asutekku 6y ago
        If you would’ve read the whole NPR article, you would’ve realized that the “snowshoe-netter” is relatively new theory and does not suddenly remove the racist connotations the word itself used to have.
- vmception 6y ago
  "oh shoot I'm locked out of the cockpit! Magnus? MAGNUS!"
Krasnol 6y ago
> This article is confused. Not only the article...Ms.Premack must be. Otherwise I can't understand why she went to the FAA and wasn't even ashamed of it so she even put their answer in there.
- Sharlin 6y ago
  I presume she wanted to check if the FAA has authority on this issue on IcelandAir’s US routes in particular. Which is a fairly reasonable question for a layman to ask.

ornxka 6y ago

>The cockpit crew will not be handing out drinks. The mental image this gave me was amusing: >"Hey man, can you steer for a few minutes? I've gotta go push the drink cart." >"Sure thing dude, I'll get it next time."

koboll 6y ago
Don't need two pilots. Just have one pilot slowly push the drink cart with one hand while the other hand pilots the plane with a game console controller plugged into a VR headset. Then the passengers can simply grab drinks as it rolls by. Multitasking!
- lowdose 6y ago
  No need for a VR set when you are already living in the simulation just reroute some plugs and you can do multitasking with remote viewing.
- faeyanpiraat 6y ago
  Why not add autopilot functionality to the drink cart?
  - Sharlin 6y ago
    So the cart can fly the plane while the pilot is attending passengers? Geniys!
cam_l 6y ago
I remember the first time I flew in the mid eighties. The plane was a twelve seater, the pilot asked for one of the passengers to sit up front and 'be' the copilot. When it came time to hand out the refreshments, he would get the copilot to pull drinks out of the eski, and pitch the plane up so they could roll the drinks down the aisle.
- tricolon 6y ago
  eski?
  - jchallis 6y ago
    Cooler. Some folks refer to this as an Eskimo, a non PC term for the Inuit.
    - rhn_mk1 6y ago
      What makes "Eskimo" not politically correct?
      - thg 6y ago
        It's a rather demeaning term and means "meat devourer" or "meat muncher" (loosely translated).
        capableweb 6y ago
        That doesn't seem to be accurate. First, Eskimos and Inuits are not necessarily referring to the same people, and Eskimo seems to come from Algonquian and means "snowshoe-netter" or "to net snowshoes", at least as far as I gather from some quick searching.
        asutekku 6y ago
        If you would’ve read the whole NPR article, you would’ve realized that the “snowshoe-netter” is relatively new theory and does not suddenly remove the racist connotations the word itself used to have.
vmception 6y ago
"oh shoot I'm locked out of the cockpit! Magnus? MAGNUS!"

Krasnol 6y ago

> This article is confused. Not only the article...Ms.Premack must be. Otherwise I can't understand why she went to the FAA and wasn't even ashamed of it so she even put their answer in there.

Sharlin 6y ago
I presume she wanted to check if the FAA has authority on this issue on IcelandAir’s US routes in particular. Which is a fairly reasonable question for a layman to ask.