Originally Posted by
Regularguy
Now my question: I read from the ex-CAL pilots they talk over and over again about percentages, "I'm 65% on the Captain list in EWR," and similar. Why all this talk about percentages instead of real actual numbers?
Why do United pilots say "six seven" instead of "seven six"? Probably just the way it got started and it stayed that way. Saying "I'm at 50%" has more comparable meaning across equipment than "I'm two hundred and fifty nine out of four hundred and seventy seven."