More Drinking

[I_Money]

You are the captain of a red-eye flight. There is a large group of 20 some people who have obviously been drinking for the past few hours. Although they are not out of control they are being rather roudy. About 2 hours in, you get a call from a flight attendant about one of these passengers. It turns out they passed out in the bathroom, and has been in there for the past hour. Shortly after you hang up the phone, the FA calls you again, this guy in the bathroom woke up, and stumbled to a seat, where he went to sleep.

Would you do anything?

[Mr_Creepy]

I'd say "Is his name Iain?"

[I_Money]

HA HA -

[pscraig]

Nope, I'd just let him sleep. He was able to get from the bathroom to his seat, so he's OK.

[mtsu_av8er]

I Wouldn't do a thing at all.

A sleeping drunk is a happy drunk.

[Cheechako]

Crank the cabin altitude up so they all follow suit!!

[I_WANNA_BE_ATP]

Ok, please tell me how increasing cabin altitude makes people sleepy is it the decreased O2 percentage???? This is very important info!!!!!

[Doug Taylor]

Booze hampers the hemoglobin's ability to carry oxygen thru your body. Increasing the cabin altitude (can't really do that in an MD-88 without going manual) in a real round-a-bout way decreases the amount of oxygen (well, air actually) which may in fact push the already oxygen deprived (intoxicated?) passenger over the edge and into the murky goo of unconsciousness.

Or umm, something like that.

[I_WANNA_BE_ATP]

Sweet I love that!!!!!!!
I can't wait until I can do that

[Doug Taylor]

Dude, going 'manual' on any pressurization controller is recipe for disaster!

We practiced manual pressurization control (that weird wheel with black and yellow coloring) more or less makes a full time pilot working the radios and the other pilot watching the cabin rate indicator and trying to constantly anticipate the flying pilots throttle movements.

it's NOT pretty!

[FL270]

Yeah I remember DC-9 school way back when ... manually controlling the outflow valves with that goofy yellow wheel. Not an easy thing to do ....

[Doug Taylor]

If you think of it as a big trim wheel, it makes it a little easier. That and have the flying pilot turn off the autothrottle and roll it opposite of the throttle movements.

Oh shucks, nevermind. Just refuse the aircraft!

[I_WANNA_BE_ATP]

I actually just meant, increasing the cabin altitude. I'm a lazy kind of guy and I really DO NOT want to mess with a manual anything!!!!! period!!!!

[FL270]

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That and have the flying pilot turn off the autothrottle and roll it opposite of the throttle movements.

[/ QUOTE ]Autothrottle? What's that? ha ha

[Doug Taylor]

It's that thingy that you never knew you needed, but when it's on MEL, you miss then the way a junkie misses a heroin fix.

[mrivc211]

I remember tlaking to a captain who ended up cancelling a flight becuase his autopilot was deferred in addtion he'd have to mannually control the pressurization. The EEC's (Electronic Engine Control?? I think) we're also deferred so it would make it difficult to add and take away power. The wx was really bad which was the deciding factor in the flight not going.

[GrantHubbell]

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You are the captain of a red-eye flight. There is a large group of 20 some people who have obviously been drinking for the past few hours. Although they are not out of control they are being rather roudy. About 2 hours in, you get a call from a flight attendant about one of these passengers. It turns out they passed out in the bathroom, and has been in there for the past hour. Shortly after you hang up the phone, the FA calls you again, this guy in the bathroom woke up, and stumbled to a seat, where he went to sleep.

Would you do anything?

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Yea I'd do something, I'd point and laugh!

[Doug Taylor]

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Yea I'd do something, I'd point and laugh!

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HAAA haaaa