Originally Posted by
CRJDriver
Having a deferred APU in JFK just plain sucks. You know you will be taxing for endless hours.
This is from USA Today earlier this week...
As some jets waited for hours to move, the frustration increased. An unidentified pilot on Comair Flight 5233, which had arrived from Burlington, Vt., about 90 minutes earlier, asked the tower for help getting to his gate because his jet's air conditioner was broken. "Our cabin temperature is getting up into the 90s right now," the pilot said.
"Call your company and tell them to find gates for all those guys in front of you," a controller replied, according to a recording of the conversation provided by LiveATC.net, a website for aviation professionals that monitors air-traffic communications. "I can't move anyone out."
A real captain knows better than to take an airplane (especially the crj200) without an APU in the summer! Refuse the AC. God forbid maintenance would actually fix it. I have been quoted on more than one occasion as saying "if you're not going to fix this than you're left with two choices, find me another airplane or this airplane another Captain." things seem to magically get fixed.