Originally Posted by
UGBSM
I agree, it's easy in hindsight. I'm saying it's not always just a cut and dried decision.
The day after this LAS heat incident, I made a decision to start the APU as soon as I got on the aircraft and pull the ground air because I felt it wasn't adequate in ATL. Just my intuition and experience. I didn't want to get behind the cooling power curve. So I go outside to shut off the air and the ALA starts giving me a bunch of grief. Why am I doing this? Is the ground air not cool enough? He thinks it is. I tell him "No, it's not. Please pull the air now". To which I get another round of the same questions. Finally I just shut off the air power myself and walk away. It was frustrating and I wasn't trying to be mean, I was just done arguing about it.
Most ground air units simply can’t keep up when it’s hot. If the cockpit and the rest of the airplane aren’t nice and cool(not simply “tolerable”) then it’s up to us to make it so. The execs don’t work in a uncomfortable office, and neither should we or our passengers.