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Flip a switch in the electronics bay for True GLASS?? Please explain..???? Aren't theN G. CAL 737's FANS equipped?? I'm sure that cannot be. Hell the A320's are 13yers OLD and many of them are FANS equipped with ATSU's rather than just ACARS and uprated MCDU's With provisions for 3 mcdu's and dual radars. Did they only upgrade the 800's and 900 ER's to fly ETOPS?? Heck! As BAD as UAL management has been over the last 15 years We've at LEAST not knowingly shorted the cockpit equipment and when they did? It usually got corrected. I know we made the mistake of not installing the second Flight managment computer on our 737-322/522's and it came back to "bite us in the Butt" so many times that the planning guys said they'd never make that mistake again!
They said from now on our airplanes would be ordered "Fully Dressed".
We had an incident not that long ago where a 747 bound for Hong Kong nearly Taxied over max Gross weight and the VP OPS was Aghast to find out we didn't have the Gross Weight display capability like Singapore and Lufthansa had. We took nearly a 35 minute delay until the baggage /cargo and Fuel was recalulated to find we were in fact under max taxi weight. I thought Kolshak was going to have a Coronary/Conniption FIT right there in the OCC. That woulda' been something to see because VP's don't usually Have "Conniption fits"! (Unless they're REALLY "put upon")
Since he was always trying to be so "COOL" I'd have paid GOOD money to see that!