Job description: Fly jets. Close fuel panels.

[Cleared2Land]

There's another post here where a Lufthansa pilot gets out to close a fuel panel. In this clip, an Eagle pilot "would love to" do the same.

[cessna157]

Not sure what Lufthansa has to do with this one.  Jet Blue sees the refueling panel open on an Eagle.  Eagle says he has to go back to the gate and someone else offers their opinion on how to fix it.  They had a good point too.....

[Cleared2Land]

Yes, what I was trying to explain was that there is another audio clip on this site, posted by someone else, about a Lufthansa pilot who pulls over to get out of his plane to close a fuel panel. The clip I posted has only to do with Eagle (and an observant Jet Blue), and the Eagle pilot expresses that he would "love to" just get out and close his.

[cessna157]

Ahhh....roger that.  I'm with ya now.  Yes, that's the benefit of flying a plane with stairs on the door.  I can just jump out and run whenever I want.

[davolijj]

I never did understand why the EGF ERJs never had airstairs on them.  Maybe Embraer doesn't offer that option??  I remember working the ramp in SYR and having to deplane the passengers from a diversion with a beltloader since we weren't equipped to handle ERJs at the time.

[Cleared2Land]

The mystery to me is that Lufthansa was almost certainly a heavy jet, and how the pilot would have "hopped out" from an Airbus or Boeing 7**. Perhaps others here can shed some light on that small mystery.

[KSYR-pjr]

I remember working the ramp in SYR and having to deplane the passengers from a diversion with a beltloader since we weren't equipped to handle ERJs at the time.

One of those little stair trucks wasn't around?   I see them parked all over the place at Syracuse.

[cessna157]

Embraer RJs have stairs as an option, Bombardier puts them on standard.  Chautauqua has stairs on all of their RJs but Mesa does not.  It's a cost/weight thing.  ERJs have bad weight/balance problems, so not having a door full of stairs helps them out a little.  It just creates a hassle for the ground crews to have stairs ready upon arrival.

[KMSY]

I was flying ExpressJet last weekend into JAX. At JAX there was only one ground crew working and they had to deal with two arrivals in ten minutes. On the second one, they ran up to start servicing the plane, and did everything but let people off.  Some handy stairs would have been nice.

BTW, XJet is really doing a great job. On MSY-JAX they actually overfed me! The one FA was nice and did a great job. XM is great. All for only $56 one way. I really wish XJet well. Alright, back to the topic at hand...