Originally Posted by
iaflyer
You bring up a good point. At my last airline, we had ship sets. We went to about the same 15 airports, but the airplanes went to mostly the same two or three (same aircraft, same route). The Jepps for those cities were well used - it wasn't crew abusing the charts, just normal use. Imagine the ATL charts being used 4+ times a day as the plane goes ATL-DCA-ATL-MCO-ATL-DFW or whatever.
Or 12 times a day on the 88: ATL-RSW-ATL-PNS-ATL-RDU-ATL-BNA-ATL-MIA-ATL-MSY-ATL-AUS...
Originally Posted by
newKnow
3.) I think the captains and the F/O's could do the exterior walkaround after the captains started getting signed off to do them during OE. The captains just never did them, unless the F/O wasn't there or if it was 75 degrees in Miami and the Dolphins Cheerleaders were in the window taking pictures of the airplane. (See how I worked that in for you 80 and ftb?)
Nice New.
Originally Posted by
80ktsClamp
Whoops! I was looking at it on my phone originally and with the small font I thought for some reason NuGuy (names look semi similar I suppose) posted twice... with the first post being much nicer and suggesting cheerleaders. Ah, post redeye delirium....
Should have known! I don't know how to post pictures on my new tamPad yet, so that will come shortly.
-5 newK bucks for me.
I'll save us both 80! I started looking for pics of
Hayden Panettiere and hoped to find one with a nerd and her in a cheerleading outfit to complete New's concept of a pilot preflighting and cheerleader. Then I thought, find a picture of a pilot doing a preflight on a phone and make fun of it... when that didn't work, I tried Star Wars, Titanic, Dumb and Dumber and finally gave up and am proud to give you a pic that has nothing to do with anything.
A moment of pause for Miss Jennifer Aniston.
BTW, is it an okay time to complain that in the past two months or so, but especially this month, evidently the schedulers have tossed out looking at the PCS requests. #1 several times and blown off, no conflicts on my schedule, no conflicts with the other pilots. Just blown off and each time I've gone back to the RUO rules and the PWA and can't figure out how they got what they got other than arbitrarily assigning things. It wasn't like this until recently, my requests have always been honored and if they weren't I either could find the reason why or I made a call and the schedulers explained why and the reasons were sound. I've made one call recently and I'm not making any more, I'll leave it at that and we'll see if it gets better soon.
Now I'm going to go back to the beginning of the standardization conversation and start over...