Originally Posted by
sandlapper223
No offense man, but with the conditions you decribed here, I wouldn't have accepted this flight and airplane/gate equipment under these extremely hot conditions. THAT is Captains Authority my man. Too many regional captains seem to forget this. SAY NO. Tail swap the aircraft, or borrow an air cart from the competition or something. No ground air whatsoever in the summer HEAT? To let the company get away with this is rediculous, not to mention unhealthy and UNSAFE. It is called a summer OPS plan....and most companies have one. For goodness sake. We must put our feet down!
did you miss the part where I refused to board until I had an engine running, therefore cooling down the plane enough to board? and that by the time we started boarding it MAY have been after sunset, thus cooling the temp almost 20 degrees instantly? No where did I say I DIDN"T call for an air cart... I didn't think I was going to have a lawyer analyze my post and have to give every single detail, just enlough to make the point of the argument...and did you even read the last sentence where obviously I said it was unsafe? I notice you left out the whole middle section of my quote where I made the no go decisions......
People read into everybody's posts waaay too deep and liteally on here. I could say I went to the car dealer to buy a VW bug and the sales man wanted me to pay $75000 for it. Then someone would post on here saying what an idiot I was for buying a $75000 VW. Never said I bought it!