Originally Posted by
higney85
I'm one of em. Started pinnacle, in time became an instructor, life of mergers happened, here we are. There is no hate, as much as I know from "farmlover" it's not true. Everyone is now endeavor and there are the random points of "back in the day" but it's not part of any aspect of training. Sure, someone may talk "about a day" when getting coffee, but it's pure conversation and not training. There is no "3 engine out of aspen" in training. We don't have a 5 APU aircraft to talk about. Evidently it was Billy bad ass of the times up to 240 knots. Hey, times have changed to 335 indicated. Adapt, learn, and grow.
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Exactly the "back on the Dash, the flight attendants could control their own heat" is really nice to know... but it's irrelevant in today's airplanes. (no I don't know why Bombardier built a prop with that panel and didn't bother to put it in any of their jets and won't expect you to know either) I expect you to know the Endeavor books. If you feel like shooting the breeze about the old books off the record, I don't mind, but I frankly don't remember a lot of that stuff anymore as those planes are gone and so are those procedures. Show up prepared to fly a CRJ the way the instructors have instructed you to do so.... Heck there are only a couple initial ground instructors left that even were around for the "back in the day" era at this point so it shouldn't be an issue, even in the sim, it's becoming a relatively junior group....
Were there some nice things about those planes of the past, sure, are there some things nicer about the current fleet, sure. The only thing I see as moving backwards as the merger has progressed is the shrinking to serving just Delta, and the shrinking to just focusing on New York City. Yes I know we still have bases in DTW and MSP, but the focus is all NYC; SLC/LAX/SEA don't exist for us and ATL/CVG ,even DTW/MSP might as well be the same as RDU/IND, focus cities.