Hoping Bill is around, or anyone else that might know….

Got my final exam tomorrow to see if I’ve successfully completed the training to go work on the airfield at Melbourne Airport. But the trainer has said he is going to need an explanation of what “pull-back procedure” is, but I’ve never heard of it and can’t find it anywhere in my books/manuals or online.

I am well aware of push-back procedure, but pull-back?? Does anyone know what this is, or is it likely that the trainer is trying to confuse everyone?

Never heard of it either sorry.

I think it is analogous to..

Railways:Getting Off at Redfern

JTQ said:

Hoping Bill is around, or anyone else that might know….

Got my final exam tomorrow to see if I’ve successfully completed the training to go work on the airfield at Melbourne Airport. But the trainer has said he is going to need an explanation of what “pull-back procedure” is, but I’ve never heard of it and can’t find it anywhere in my books/manuals or online.

I am well aware of push-back procedure, but pull-back?? Does anyone know what this is, or is it likely that the trainer is trying to confuse everyone?

I haven’t heard of it either, which is not surprising. Can you give more context?

eg. if it’s for working on the airfield it could be the strategy for moving away from a disaster zone, without moving too far away.

Slightly more seriously, I reckon pull-back and push-back relate to the same operation.

In a classroom type situation if a teacher says something that the student does not understand it is generally accepted that student enquires further as to the meaning. Perhaps this was the test…

you’ll find it under:

“relationships with other staff members, section 2: not getting caught…”

It might refer to aircraft carriers with the hookie thingie that jets catch when they land.

That bit of wire that then stretches out could be the pull back.

Maybe he wants people to question it?

as in email him with the question or ask him for a reference to it

Is it the reverse of push back?

I’m going with the aircraft wire.

remember this from one the alien movies

it used to be a Boeing passenger jet tug

• I’m going with the aircraft wire.

In civil aviation?

furious said:

• I’m going with the aircraft wire.

In civil aviation?

aircraft carriers

Tau.Neutrino said:

I’m going with the aircraft wire.

Think you will find that it has a different name.

• aircraft carriers

Yeah but the question was related to civil aviation, in Australia, so aircraft carriers won’t even be close to being the right answer…

furious said:

• aircraft carriers

Yeah but the question was related to civil aviation, in Australia, so aircraft carriers won’t even be close to being the right answer…

ok ditch that one then

It’s called a hook arrestor. Darwin airport has one each end of its main runway which is still in use AFAIK.

Tau.Neutrino said:

It might refer to aircraft carriers with the hookie thingie that jets catch when they land.

Not as simple as “pull back “ (on stick) nose of aircraft goes up?

bob(from black rock) said:

Not as simple as “pull back “ (on stick) nose of aircraft goes up?

This is airport tarmac, not on board an aircraft or aircraft carrier.

I still hold to my initial guess that it’s the pull-back strategy whenever there is a fire, explosion, crash, bomb threat or other disaster on the runway or near the terminals.

If the airport is Tullamarine, it might be referring to the expected response to Hydroflouric Acid.

(there was a spill there about 4 months ago and half the ground services guys were carted off to hospital)

mollwollfumble said:

bob(from black rock) said:

Not as simple as “pull back “ (on stick) nose of aircraft goes up?

This is airport tarmac, not on board an aircraft or aircraft carrier.

I still hold to my initial guess that it’s the pull-back strategy whenever there is a fire, explosion, crash, bomb threat or other disaster on the runway or near the terminals.

Sounds logical to me.