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07-18-2013, 07:21 PM
#31
Banned
Joined APC: Nov 2008
Position: A330
Posts: 1,043
Originally Posted by cactusmike
No BS. The check airman/designee giving me the oral was being observed by the lead Fed, Dick Julian, from the PHX FSDO. Bob had me finished after two hours on mostly what if scenarios but Dick said, well, you didn't cover this, pointing to a switch, which led to the extra 2. Plus, as I said, the potty breaks.
Kind of reminded me of my 737 capt oral. We had a Fed come in who was a SWA Fed. First thing he did was give me a runaround chart problem. I sharpened my pencil and worked through it in about 10 minutes. Showed it to him, he consulted his notes and said " wrong answer". 45 minutes later after reworking it 6 times and getting the same answer he said "well, it looks like you will have to take a fallure on this". I said, can I see what you have and it turned out that he was applying a SWA procedure that we did differently at AWA. The difference was the difference between my answer and his. The rest of the switch/light systems quiz was cake after that scare.
I would never reset a CB in flight. But I will use what I know and what MX control gives me to get the jet off the gate. Mexico and Canada flights don't always have easy access to MX control, and I do a lot of those overnights.
R57, I agree with you about the need for balance, and I expect that is the direction we will be going.
Kind of reminded me of my 737 capt oral. We had a Fed come in who was a SWA Fed. First thing he did was give me a runaround chart problem. I sharpened my pencil and worked through it in about 10 minutes. Showed it to him, he consulted his notes and said " wrong answer". 45 minutes later after reworking it 6 times and getting the same answer he said "well, it looks like you will have to take a fallure on this". I said, can I see what you have and it turned out that he was applying a SWA procedure that we did differently at AWA. The difference was the difference between my answer and his. The rest of the switch/light systems quiz was cake after that scare.
I would never reset a CB in flight. But I will use what I know and what MX control gives me to get the jet off the gate. Mexico and Canada flights don't always have easy access to MX control, and I do a lot of those overnights.
R57, I agree with you about the need for balance, and I expect that is the direction we will be going.
07-21-2013, 06:46 AM
#35
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Dec 2007
Position: Window seat
Posts: 5,213
Originally Posted by cactusmike
Yes, but I hear that's evidently not true on the 777.
A/T off on the 777 is no big deal. Requires adding wind additives to Vref which isn't required with A/T's on.
Most guys on the 777 leave the A/T's on. I typically turn the A/T's off on approach, if they're not already off, to stop the 'hunting' inherent in all A/T's.
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