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10-25-2014 | 10:20 AM

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From: Retired (mandatory age 65)

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Originally Posted by newKnow

For pilots, preference is just wanting to do things the way you first did it.

At Northwest, if I remember correctly, (geeze, it's been that long?) they printed three releases, a flight plan, weather & NOTAMS, and a flight attendant briefing form. One release was left at the gate, and the captain and the FO would each have their own release. Having two releases on the DC-9 was almost necessary, because we would use it to write down VOR frequencies, radials, DME's, ect. The flight plan was kept in between us, somewhere in the cockpit.

At Delta, you guys share the same release, and write down what you need on scratch paper. I know I initially thought, "Why don't they just print out two releases?" I learned the code to print out an extra one to give to my FO, but it stopped working. So, now I print out trip sheets from easy bid and give it to him/her. IMO, not quite as good, but good enough.

Today, I separate the flight plan, the NOTAMS, the WX, and the flight attendant briefing form. I find it easier for the NOTAMS and WX to be separated, so guys/gals can go right to what they want when needed.

To each his own. Different strokes for different folks.

That code still works. On the blue screen, JCPXXXX (XXXX=flight number) and hit enter. Some agents might not appreciate it though because you're tying up their printer for several minutes to print out something that has already been printed.

I'm still curious why you like to split the thing up, turning one document into four. Do you have different places that you put each new document? Otherwise, you now have four documents instead of one and when you want to find something you have to first sort through the stack to find which document contains what you're looking for. It just seems to me that it's easier to have one document, be familiar with the format so that you know the order in which things appear, and then you (and your F/O) are picking up the right document (the only document) on the first try and you can flip right to what you're looking for.