The stand-by flight group displays an artificial horizon, for basic instrument meteorological conditions.
Two 3 x 4 in up-front displays located around the ICP are used to display integrated caution advisory/warning data, communications, navigation and identification (CNI) data and also serve as the stand-by flight instrumentation group and fuel quantity indicator.
Some benefits, of course, are based around the company's own products – staff discounts on British Gas boilers, Marks and Spencer food (applies to live-in partners, too), Virgin's seven stand-by flights a year and cheap electricity bills if you work for a major energy supplier are all well-documented.
We have met people who have been on a stand by list, or even told that they have a confirmed flight and it has all come to nothing.
Mr Kallas hit back yesterday with his own examples of how the rules would be applied, saying that if the legislation is not passed, pilots and crew on rest time would have to sleep sitting up in economy, while some member states would have no limits at all on maximum stand-by and flight times.
However these flights are also stand-by.
He was resigned to waiting out the storm in Chicago, but made the earlier flight as the last stand-by, smiling as he walked down the aisle to take his middle seat in row 30.
Chipotle food trucks will be on stand-by where researchers can take notes and take over the flights if necessary.
The next morning, he stood by for a flight to Chicago, but many of these were being canceled as well because a big snowstorm was now raging in Chicago.
Another advantage, she said, is that unlike passengers with checked bags that must remain on the flight their luggage is booked for, if her flight is delayed or she arrives at the airport early she can stand by for another flight.
US Airways put it this way on its Web site: "If there is not an open seat on an earlier flight that departs on the same day as your originally scheduled departure, you may stand by for that flight at no charge".
