Wet Sock Smell
04-07-2018, 08:04 AM
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Originally Posted by nkbux
The FO is a good friend and that is all correct...except there’s a lot more to the story with the Captain...furthermore the “chain of events” not being reported to the FAA is from a problem child flight attendant who sends this idiot false information which then gets published on this website. The company is well aware of it as are the 99% of the pilots. This is clearly an issue industry wide that needs to be addressed. Ours took center stage because of this event. However we are not under a rampant string of events everyday. How is that possible? Did we get a bad batch of 320’s and no one else is having problems? This happens at every airline in every type of A/C all the time. Sometimes it’s more prevalent than others. Sometimes you may not even recognize it’s happening. I’m not a company kool aid drinker but Spirit is leading the industry in fume awareness and is in the process of investing a ton of money into an STC for a state of the art filtration system on the bleeds that will do away with this problem. Not coming down on you...but this literature is the national enquirer of aviation incidents
04-07-2018, 08:24 AM
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It’s like the 3 stooges. Every party points at the other. Oil fumes are organophosphates. The same compounds as pesticides and chemical warfare agents. Major kudos to Spirit for taking the lead on this.
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Like all things, follow the money.
04-10-2018, 05:04 AM
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Originally Posted by rbigred300
Is this problem pretty much mostly with Airbus 319/320/321s? Someone said it can happen with pretty much any aircraft, but I've only really seen Airbus mentioned
04-11-2018, 10:23 AM
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Good news, Frontier has a procedure in place. It's not in every QRH yet, but I just saw it in the back of the QRH in one of our newer NEO's. I haven't seen a memo yet making pilots aware of the procedure, but I hope that we'll see that soon. Maybe once they get it in every airplane.
04-11-2018, 03:50 PM
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Originally Posted by SuperDuty
Good news, Frontier has a procedure in place. It's not in every QRH yet, but I just saw it in the back of the QRH in one of our newer NEO's. I haven't seen a memo yet making pilots aware of the procedure, but I hope that we'll see that soon. Maybe once they get it in every airplane.
04-12-2018, 05:53 AM
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04-12-2018, 07:01 PM
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Here at G4 we just had a bulletin come out with a Fumes Checklist that talks about “Wet Sock”. Good to see most all Bus operators doing something about it, or at least aware of it.
What has Airbus said about this problem? Are they doing anything about it? I find it hard to believe the FAA couldn’t step in and force their hand.
What has Airbus said about this problem? Are they doing anything about it? I find it hard to believe the FAA couldn’t step in and force their hand.
04-15-2018, 07:50 AM
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The BA event comes to mind where the entire crew got sick. Does the fact that they got sick before the passengers mean that they already had an elevated level of the chemical in their blood? Are Airbus pilots always breathing low levels of this stuff?
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04-15-2018, 10:14 AM
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Originally Posted by schwa
The BA event comes to mind where the entire crew got sick. Does the fact that they got sick before the passengers mean that they already had an elevated level of the chemical in their blood? Are Airbus pilots always breathing low levels of this stuff?
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