Originally Posted by
tennisguru
I’ve flown with a number of guys who were project pilots bringing the 717s over from AirTran and they’ve said those guys raised their eyebrows on a few ways Delta decided to do things. Especially the whole “take it out of PROF and put it into FPA down to mins” just so we can be Delta standard with other fleets and set missed approach alt by 1000 ft.
And making the engine starting process as manual as possible when it was designed to be as automatic as possible.
Now I have to stop talking 717 before I have flashbacks.