Originally Posted by
TOGA LK
Like I said, pilots can only do so much. The problems I am seeing really have nothing to do with flight crews, its the support system (deltamatic, awabs, etc).
Not sure I would slow an aircraft back below LRC based upon gate availability. When planes are in the air they are burning time and fuel, the clock stops with the WOW and one engine at idle on the deck is always more efficient than two at max endurance in flight. Can't validate the concept as I have never used Atilla.
I will never slow an airplane more than 1 or 2 minutes below target time.
The fact is that ATILLA is mathematically invalid. It does not include any of the required variables for a good forumula.
The worst is that it assumes compliance in the output data which have no input into compliance effort or outside variables into what actually goes into aircraft hitting the targets. The fact is that ATILLA is a complete and total waste of money and some idiot in a desk with no mathmatical apptitude thinks it works. It doesn't. It is stupidity and makes us all look stupid when we try to comply with it.
Come up with a program that truly sees the big picture and can work with ATC and manuever the operation and I will believe. ATILLA is a money pit and nothing more.