In Flight Catering
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In Flight Catering
We are getting into thread drift about In Flight Catering on the Daily Mail thread.
I am sure we all have had good and bad experiences on this subject over the years.
This is a bad one. Snake's head in a crew meal.
https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/watch- ... 29357.html
I am sure we all have had good and bad experiences on this subject over the years.
This is a bad one. Snake's head in a crew meal.
https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/watch- ... 29357.html
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Sausage rolls for Tornado aircrew in flight meals.
Flaky pastry.
Nobody ate them for obvious reasons.
OC Catering and I (with my Station Flight Safety Officer hat on) had a bit of a bust-up over that one.
Flaky pastry.
Nobody ate them for obvious reasons.
OC Catering and I (with my Station Flight Safety Officer hat on) had a bit of a bust-up over that one.
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When all else fails, read the instructions.
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As any helicopter pilot on North Sea offshore support flights will tell you, you have to be able to consume cold greasy bacon and egg rolls washed down with cold coffee . As a treat sometimes you got a cold steak with cold chips, all courtesy of the rig caterers. There were the exceptions, mainly in the Norwegian Sector, and especially in the early days of North Sea ops when food standards were really good.
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What's worse: It was the vegetarian option.Ex-Ascot wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 8:35 amWe are getting into thread drift about In Flight Catering on the Daily Mail thread.
I am sure we all have had good and bad experiences on this subject over the years.
This is a bad one. Snake's head in a crew meal.
https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/watch- ... 29357.html
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I asked for a vegetarian crew meal out of Brize once. It was a pea curry. Boiled rice with a tin of peas tipped on top and a curry sauce. That ended up on OC catering's desk. Still in the foil dish I must add but I really should have tipped it out.
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Maybe they thought you were on the 'other' sqn.
Once flew as crew on 216 to FI, proper service, china plates, kfs, etc, all served by the MACR ALM. Curiously I met him again later when we were both in post as SOMA managers, he at Lyneham and me at Coningsby.
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Two FLAs I don't know.
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Anyone available to decode PN speak or are all in the dark too?
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I know MACR ALM is Master Aircrew Air Loadmaster, but SOMA?
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SoMA means School of Military Aeronautics.
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Ops management computer system, IIRC. SEMA and SAMA are (were?) the Eng and Admin versions.
I used to use SEMA for nefarious purposes
I used to use SEMA for nefarious purposes
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Less well known (thankfully) was SDOMP and its similarly still born successor that was an acronym of an acronym that included RAFCCIS. I can't remember that one.
Station and deployment operational management project.
Station and deployment operational management project.
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I bet the system log made interesting reading.Fox3WheresMyBanana wrote: ↑Tue Aug 02, 2022 12:49 amOps management computer system, IIRC. SEMA and SAMA are (were?) the Eng and Admin versions.
I used to use SEMA for nefarious purposes
The stackers' had their own system (USAS) which used the same hardware/software as SEMA/SAMA. Whilst SEMA/SAMA was managed by a highly paid TG3 Chief Tech, the stackers themselves managed their system - something which caused furrowed brows in CIS Eng who couldn't get their heads around a non-tech trade doing tech stuff.
USAS also had a useful chat facility - for example, the Timmy Spotters Club at MPA would use it to pass the landing scores back to BZN within seconds of the aircraft arriving; not popular with some Timmy captains if they didn't get a decent score, as it allegedly cost them a slab or three when they got back to UK.
Getting back on topic - IIRC a major embarrassment at Fairford when the in-flight rations intended for some Jordanian passengers were found to include NAAFI pork pies.
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That's all right then, unless the name alone was the problem.Getting back on topic - IIRC a major embarrassment at Fairford when the in-flight rations intended for some Jordanian passengers were found to include NAAFI pork pies.
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There was a pork pie factory in Witney. Flight catering at Brize used to get out of date pies from them for butty boxes. I lodged a complaint so they took them out of the dated wrapper and put them in cling film. Don't know how they got away with this.
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Catering was even more of a criminal enterprise than MT, in my experience.
This was why all my Squadrons had OC Catering as an honorary Squadron member
Aircrew were, of course, whiter than the most purebread unicorn.
This was why all my Squadrons had OC Catering as an honorary Squadron member
Aircrew were, of course, whiter than the most purebread unicorn.
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Bugger never thought of that.Fox3WheresMyBanana wrote: ↑Wed Aug 03, 2022 8:13 amCatering was even more of a criminal enterprise than MT, in my experience.
This was why all my Squadrons had OC Catering as an honorary Squadron member
Aircrew were, of course, whiter than the most purebread unicorn.
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They probably had a sideline selling on any excess to British Rail.