Changing the lav

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minitour

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If you're going to get charged $55 and toss a $20 at the line guy who gets the pleasure of changing the lav (after you've disconnected it, walked it up the aisle from the back of the plane and handed it to him....while in uniform...and sweating...), make sure they actually change it......and not just DUMP it!

W-T-F-o?

I want my $20 back! :mad:

I guess now we get to petition the owner for a 40 gallon drum of blue goo in the back of the plane...or those little freeze dried packets. What a CF.:mad::mad::mad:

-mini
 
You haven't lived until you've cleaned puke out of the back of a 402. In uniform.
 
dasleben said:
You haven't lived until you've cleaned puke out of the back of a 402. In uniform.
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And I thought mine was undignified. CRJ-700 with puke all over 2 rows, to the top of the aft lav sink, and the FA is now running up the aisle with the dry heaves because she just walked in the bathroom and saw the carnage. I put my two weeks in later that afternoon.
 
Nothing's better than FORGETTING to put the honey bucket in it's place.

Mopping up human waste with some shop rags is fantastic.
 
JordanD said:
And I thought mine was undignified. CRJ-700 with puke all over 2 rows, to the top of the aft lav sink, and the FA is now running up the aisle with the dry heaves because she just walked in the bathroom and saw the carnage. I put my two weeks in later that afternoon.
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Ahh, 121 is so nice though. "Hey ops, cleaners to gate 32, please."

I wasn't thrilled to clean it up, but I'd just diverted to a random outstation after a particularly nasty ride (with two go-arounds) into a particularly nasty airport. The ramper was dry heaving and couldn't do it, so I manned up and cleaned the airplane out with a biohazard kit.

Actually had to clean out the aft cargo section after some teenager went #1 back there (did he really think it was a lav?). That wasn't bad, though. Urine is sterile. :o

Wouldn't do either without a biohazard kit, though.
 
TFaudree_ERAU said:
Nothing's better than FORGETTING to put the honey bucket in it's place.

Mopping up human waste with some shop rags is fantastic.
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I'm still trying to get over the fact that the line guy at an FBO very near and dear to your heart could look me in the eye, hand me the completely empty lav (which I'm paying $55 for him to "service", not "empty") and then take the $20 and walk away.

Then the manager didn't believe me when I said the lav was completely empty and I wasn't paying for it.

Unreal. I hope you guys don't have to deal with that crap (no pun) all the time.

-mini
 
It's times like this where I feel fortunate that in my one year of flying here I've yet to have someone puke in my airplane.

(knock on wood)
 
Whenever I do a lav I never expect a tip. It's part of my job. Granted I don't like them it's no reason to do it incorrectly. I do hate dry lavs though. the FA50's isn't too bad, just an awkward position. But if you DO get a tip, I would expect that you would try to go above and beyond even MORE to show gratitude. :dunno:

What are you flying Mini?
 
Douglas said:
I know not the ways of the private jet. What is the difference between these two?
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Empty- Dumping the #1s and #2s either into the lav cart or directly into a toliet.

Service- Doing the above and then replenishing the system with blue juice.
 
Here's one for ya. How about armpit deep in an Airbus lav tank trying to unclog it. Been there, done that!
 
I think one of the worst things that happened lav-wise to one of our lineman was with a Hawker. Those familiar with it, the Hawker has 2 plugs on the drain for the lavcart hookup, the main 'door\plug', but up inside the dump tube there's another rubber plug that has to be removed with a special tool. Well one of our lineman didn't know about the 2nd plug, so he just opened the first one, hooked the lav-cart up and pulled the drain handle. Heard all the #1 and #2's come down the tube, too bad it never reached the lav-cart. Unfortunately someone had to unhook the lav cart, stick their arm up the tube, take out the second plug and let all the stuff dump without a lav-cart.

The worst one I did was on a Citation X last summer. Pilot came up to me and asked if I wouldn't mind doing the lav, I said not a problem, do it all the time. He replies with a, 'No you don't understand, the airplane has been sitting out in the (summer) sun for 5 days and it hasn't been serviced yet.' Can't even put the smell into words. ugh!
 
Hawker lavs should come with combat pay.

We had a lav cart with a doughnut tool built into the hose but for some stupid reason the tool never worked on the hawker and we had to use the non hose protected tool.

Less reputable line staff like to play a little prank, install the doughnut, service the lav and then pull the dump handle... that way the line guy at the next stop gets to take a nice blue shower, if he's lucky.
 
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