You would love a job at Heathrow Up to 1000 flights during your 18 hour day landing and taking off in both directions on 2 runways. At peak times, landing flights hit the tarmac every 40 seconds. so planning their moment of clearance taking into account their different speeds on their glide slope is about as easy as launching the space shuttle. With everything being so different from the norm. Landing Concorde into that line up was a work of art. Living on the outskirts of London, when we had 10 minutes free from aircraft noise, we knew that Concorde was coming. This was because it had to join the back of the line as it approached the runway, without ramming the ass of the flight ahead. Had it flown at the same speed as everyone else, it would have stalled and dropped out of the sky.
Which one? My first real post? Yeah it's cool. I view it as a complete social life, usually I'm coming home when everyone else going to work. I have fun at work. I go home I don't need to socialise. us free drinks. ~thumbs up~
I retired as Team Leader of the FUBAR team of the SNAFU division of the International Cluster Fuck Development Center. "Your project is not truly fucked up until we lay our dicks on it."
Yes, it is nothing if not interesting. I see things on a daily basis that most people can't even imagine.
I work in the worlds oldest profession. If you don't believe me---next time you get a roof leak--call a whore.