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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon I was just curious. Aviation is full of little things to beat up the new guys as Jim has alluded to also. Most of which would take a fair amount of detail to explain, but in the end, help to make the newbies understand a little more about the aircraft systems. One such tale is pull starting the APU. The APU is a small gas turbine that provides electrical power on the ground during prefight. It is normally not available for use in the air, and there is a little switch on the nose landing gear that disables it when the gear is up attached an uplock (a hook which locks the nose gear in place when it is up.) The uplock/switch can be can be manipulated on the ground, to make the airplane think that it is in the air, so when the new pilot or flight engneer goes to start the APU it won't start. The seasoned flight engineer, who pushed the uplock up will tell the newbie to just pull start it. Which, is usually met with resistance, because anyone knows you can't pull start a turbine like a lawn mower. The seasoned engineer will tell the newbie to hold the start switch to start, and will then pull the manual nose gear release handle, which looks kind of like a pull starter, releasing the uplock, making the switch and Violla, the APU will start, leaving the newbie the rest of the flight to figure out what just happened. And yes, this was done to me. [/quote] Dan I enjoyed the story. What about "the little trailor" that the GPU fits into. [:D] [:D] [:D] You know "IT" has to go too. [:D] [:D] [:D] next subject You have to admitt tho that the guy looking for the "tubes" takes the cake. That one is just tooooooooo funny.
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