Filed under: History, The Cockpit Chronicles
We left off in the last episode looking at an extra two nights in Paris after a mechanical issue caused our flight back to Boston to cancel.This was because our 7:10 p.m. required departure time had arrived and the mechanics still hadn't found the problem. So now there was no way to get to Boston without exceeding our 14 hour maximum time on duty.
We couldn't believe the situation. A five-day Paris trip? I've always envied the British Airways and Virgin crews that layover for days in the Caribbean. We'd finally get a chance to experience Paris after a full night's sleep.
Later that evening, the mechanics narrowed down our problem to a faulty total air temperature probe. This probe supplies the temperature information for the FMS (Flight Management System - The airplane's 'computer.') which calculates our Mach number and how high we can fly, among many other things. They'd have to fly a new temperature probe in from Chicago the next morning.
We left off in the last episode looking at an extra two nights in Paris after a mechanical issue caused our flight back to Boston to cancel.This was because our 7:10 p.m. required departure time had arrived and the mechanics still hadn't found the problem. So now there was no way to get to Boston without exceeding our 14 hour maximum time on duty.
We couldn't believe the situation. A five-day Paris trip? I've always envied the British Airways and Virgin crews that layover for days in the Caribbean. We'd finally get a chance to experience Paris after a full night's sleep.
Later that evening, the mechanics narrowed down our problem to a faulty total air temperature probe. This probe supplies the temperature information for the FMS (Flight Management System - The airplane's 'computer.') which calculates our Mach number and how high we can fly, among many other things. They'd have to fly a new temperature probe in from Chicago the next morning.
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