Atlas Air Charter

[Paul f.]

Originally Posted by Jayden Laing

Paul, that I have no idea but yesterday I seemed to have been done. Once the anti collision beacons came on, the engineer climbed a flight of removable stairs situated about 3/4's rear on to the number 4 engine. He picked up a long steel rod (brace & bit drill type rod) & after receiving a thumbs up from another ground engineer who was talking to the flight deck, proceeded to twist the rod inside a rear panel of the engine. It then seemed to fire up & was some time after the spool up & the running of the engine before he removed the rod & towed the flight of stairs away. Now with the engine running, the 742F was pushed back & all the other engines started.
So when I saw this, I thought it seemed quite unusual & after seeing the long rod, I immediately thought of a crank start. I could be wrong & more than happy to be corrected but that's what I saw yesterday.


Thanks for the comments Shayne!

Thanks Jayden,i have never heard of this before.

[Stefan Perkas]

Evening all,

Not sure ow often this one in sydney but N493MC operated QF7598 Shanghai-Sydney tonight.

[phil.l]

Due this morning N459MC B747-446 ex JAL.

[Shayne G]

N459MC departed to Bangkok at 11:30am.

[Jayden Laing]

[Darren Butterworth]

Brilliant pic Jayden

[Mark T]

Hi Jayden

Nice pic. I am fairly sure I know where this pic was taken from. Last time I was there they had added some extra height in barbed wire to the fence, so you must have an extra high ladder - is that correct?

[Jayden Laing]

Mark,
It was actually taken from the fence down near the access gate at the mound. I was just using a normal 1.8m ladder & being 3m back from the fence, there the fence is not a problem.

[Jayden Laing]

QF7552 is operated by N459MC, an Atlas Air B744BCF.

[Mark T]

Thanks Jayden. I thought that you might have been over on the concrete block on the fenceline to the left of the mound, which used to be a great spot, but now not so good.

Cheers
M