Coffee in the cockpit?

[Ray Proudfoot 8,942]

From today’s Daily Telegraph…

“TWO Indian pilots have been suspended after they posted a cockpit photograph showing an open coffee cup balancing on the controls of an airliner. The incident reportedly took place on a SpiceJet flight from Delhi to the north-eastern city of Guwahati earlier this month, while the aircraft was cruising at an altitude of 37,000 ft. 

A backlash from fellow pilots was caused after they posted it online.

A senior pilot at another Indian airline told The Daily Telegraph that the celebration posed a serious safety risk.“

 

 

[ahsmatt7 1,199]

Dumb move…

what’s up with this new generation taking pictures and videos in flight and making a spectacle of it all? Who knows.

Putting any liquid in that position is once again….a dumb move.

[Ray Proudfoot 8,942]

When it comes to Health and Safety a different attitude to it is very obvious in the Indian sub-continent. Look at their trains with people sitting on the carriage roofs.

[DavidP 1,410]

Like I always say - you don't need to be a bright spark to be a pilot.

[Bob Scott 7,718]

¡Aya carramba!

Apparently neither of these guys ever saw the 1964 Glenn Ford movie Fate is the Hunter.

 

[G550flyer 1,013]

We have always had a rule in the jets I flew that coffee is handed to the outside of the seat you're in. In the left seat, they would hand it to you on your left side and right into the holder it went. We would never take drinks over the center pedestal/console. I remember a guy once spilled coffee on the co-pilots com panel. It was all sticky, shorted out and inoperable. We had to swap it out quickly with the one from the jump seat. I don't even know how he did it. I heard him cuss and suddenly I had to fly and handle the radios for departure. That's when I had him swap it with the jump seat. It was my leg and I wasn't about to work the radios as well.  

[birdguy 3,943]

1 hour ago, Bob Scott said:

Fate is the Hunter

An outstanding book by Earnest Gann who started commercial flying in DC-2s.  One of my all-time favorites.  Not a book you want to read while flying as a passenger.  The book is dedicated to 100 or so names of pilots who died in the line of duty.

Unfortunately the only relation to the book the movie has is the title.  After writing a few script false starts Earnest Gann gave up on it and asked his name be removed from the credits.

Noel

[stans 702]

Holy cow that's dangerous!

[jon b 2,046]

I don’t fly 737’s but unless I’m mistaken that coffee cup is actually balanced on the fuel control switches or whatever they maybe called on a 73, either way they’re not something you want to be accidentally moving in flight while reaching for your coffee.

I once saw a clumsy FO drop his open bottle of water onto the Center console on the 747. The water got into the transponder panel and we then had continuously changing random squawks all the way from northern  Canada to California, much to the displeasure of ATC.

[Beardyman 604]

They are breaking company rules and yet make a photo for evidence - how s****d those guys must be??

[n4gix 4,947]

6 hours ago, jon b said:

that coffee cup is actually balanced on the fuel control switches

Those are indeed the fuel control/cutoff switches.

[LHookins 3,102]

4 hours ago, Beardyman said:

They are breaking company rules and yet make a photo for evidence - how s****d those guys must be??

They were drinking the coffee in an attempt to sober up.

Hook

[dmwalker 603]

7 hours ago, jon b said:

that coffee cup is actually balanced on the fuel control switches

Thank goodness there wasn't space for two cups.

[spearmint_flyer 579]

I saw this this morning. Thought. How stupid can you be? 
 

It was posted in the Facebook group “airplanes and coffee”. I love the group, but the crew must not stay up to date with the incident that happened literally a couple months ago where the crew had to declare an emergency because they spilt coffee on the electronics accidentally. 
 

 

[Roger Ramjet 72]

Their wings are clipped............

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/india-spicejet-airlines-pilots-coffee-intl-hnk/index.html