Originally Posted by
forgot to bid
I wouldn't put your name in it, multiple times mind you, if I wasn't hoping for an entertaining response!
Well, I didn't save it.
I just questioned whether it was really a good idea to put modern avionics in a MD88. If management / ATC really knew where it was, then they could calculate deviation. If the MD88 remain true to form the Chief Pilots, ALPA Safety, FQUA, and FAA are going to look like this reading the data.
and every time it lands they'll be all like:
and resolving all the ASAP reports will take a lot of staffing:
The idea of a datalink'd MD88 makes me have this nightmare...
"Hello, Captain Bar, is this you? Good. We were just calling to ask about flight 2179. The data shows you lifted off at 10:36, then enountered a stall, lifted off again at 10:36:15, overshot N2 by 1.7%, and underflew your assigned altitude by 310 feet. You were a three miles right over Summit and the computer shows the right hydraulic system failed twice, then fixed itself. On decent the airplane oversped by 2 knots and then undershot the assigned altitude by 210 feet while in the turn, oh and it reported another stall. Were you holding at the FMC derived holding speed? oh, well then we show a runway excursion, twho N1 undershoots, and a code we do not understand for the outflow valve, a failed spoiler deployment, insufficent cool down time and APU over voltage. Do remember going off the runway? Good, never mind, mechanics didn't see any mud either. Did you write anything up? OK, well we were just calling to follow up in the data ... good job. We will wait two weeks and see if we hear anything from the FAA or Airport Manager. Now, about the return leg the data indicates ...."