Originally Posted by
FlytheSky
Exactly. The list of stuff I'll put up with when I'm making money is much longer than the list of stuff I'll put up with when I'm not making money. The funniest part is when it's the mainline guys losing it on the radio. If it's not too loud I'll throw in a little "hey, we're not all making over $2/minute you know." That works pretty good to stop the complaining for a while.
I will disagree with you on the warmup clock, BobbyLee. I take it as a personal point of pride when I've got it timed so literally the second the timer hits two minutes, we're lined up with the runway and I tell the FO "you have the airplane." Since normal ops are so predictable, it's a fun game I've made so I can challenge myself to see how good I am at predicting ground ops.
Finally, with the altimeters, you trying to normalize STDs, man? I mean "STD normal" is a weird callout man.
Haha, no but I'm talking about a 2 engine taxi where there is no SOP to time the clock. When we are doing a SE taxi, then yes, by all means. I do the same thing as you regarding the timing of passing 2 minutes. I have a card counting strategy.. 30 seconds for NB, 1 minute for WB:
Say you got 4 73s and 2 777s in line,
4 73s is worth 2 minutes, and the 777s are 2 minutes together. That's 4 minutes.. so you just wait till the line simmers down to 3 minutes worth of planes in any combination...because you need 1 minute to start and 2 minutes to warm up. So say the line simmers down to 2 777s and 2 73s, that's when you would start the 2nd engine. Actually works really nicely.
I know someone will roast me for going to great lengths for starting the 2nd engine so efficiently, but I promise you it's out of boredom.
FOs: if you forget the warm up clock like I always used to, the APU SHUTTING DOWN eicas takes 1:30 to clear from the screen after you shut it down. It's not 2 minutes but, its something...