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RE: Airport Ground Operations - What goes on behind those NO ACCESS doors.
Finally, to answer your prompts.
I'd like to work as a pilot. First captain. Honestly, who wouldn't? lol...
Haven't being to an airport since i was 5. I have a pretty blurred memory about it. But yeah, if anything, i think the lobby might just be fun. Or if there's a place where a foodie like myself could just sit down and have free takes while waiting! :-p...
Question... what happens if a plane's communication systems is taken out completely while in flight? Of course, this might be hypothetical. How does the alternative power kick in? What if it's fried as well?
Damn, i'm an antagonist!... lol
There are places where you can eat while having a view. Depends on the airport.
About the communication systems... it depends on where the plane is a small plane or a jet. There are plenty of antenna's on almost any plane. VHF, HF, COM, Transponder. So in order to take all of them out I would assume a general fault or a full power out. Many planes also have an APU (auxiliary power unit) and a set of batteries. Emergency power on a jet is supplied by a little propeller being extended from the fuselage called a Ram Air Turbine:
On a small plane, it's more tricky, but essentially even if the plane's electrics are dead, the plane can be landed via the VFR (visual flight rules). Some of the data can be retrieved by installing a little app on your phone (i'm not kidding), I wrote about it on Steemit
Theoretically, you could use that app to land, to an extent. It would help if you had a Barometer in your phone, such as the Xiaomi Mi5 I have.
So, there are good chances that you can land it anyway, of course, that is a very very small chance that you will lose everything at once. Usually, only one fail happens and it's almost always redundant.