anothermember

Maintenance in the US is one of the mail reasons I left. WGA used to sent the acft to Leige to run Africa and Afgan in order to get worked on properly. The Euro and Malay mechanics were great. The US ones simply sucked, that went for maintenance control in Estero. Shreveport was a joke. Every MD I took from there was a return. Neff has a large parts supply but it is all yellow tagged$$$ to green tag. But he is waiting for UPS to offer the right amount for the parts and the parts on wheels.

JohnBurke

You know that a yellow tag is an airworthy part, and a green tag is a repairable part, right? Yellow tag doesn't mean a bad part. Yellow tag is the good part.

Flightradar24 shows 9 of WGA's MD11's down, today. The daily average is 7. That's out of 12 airplanes. That includes airplanes in for heavy maintenance.

The apologist view is that this is just a temporary condition. Airplanes parked to bring them up to speed. If the temporary condition is every day, always has been, nothing new under the sun...it may be that it's not really temporary, after all. Kick the can down the road until it either can't move or the crew refuses to fly it/writeup won't let it move. Ops normal.

Ihatepilots2

Neff is the entire reason why the US side sucks dick. Mostly his wife controls the $$$. The HQ is set up like a Dollar General of mismatched office garbage. Neff only purchased EMRO TRAX and not the official version because its was to expensive for Jim. You get what you pay for. Moral is very low and people continue to leave. The vaxtards are also not helping. Never seen so many brain dead mistakes in my life in such short time. I know we **** up a lot, but it's getting worse.

Ihatepilots2

2 things; Parts and Jim Neff. Goes hand n hand. I cannot keep up with the mistakes and failures anymore. That goes for pilots, mx, mxctl, operations, parts dept, crew scheduling, mx planning, and QC/records. Anyone thinking its temporary hasn't been there very long and doesn't know anything. They're believing the lies. To many higher ups that are YES MEN. There is also an internal battle going on between management that is getting ugly. Those jets aren't going anywhere and I laughed about the 777 announcements. Some people are just hanging on for the experience to leave for better jobs. So many uninformed morons work there took the clot shot and have become dumber by the day. All the jets that are down in SHV have no engines. They're getting more soon from Lufthansa deal and all the parts. ****ed off UPS they won the part bid for MD11s. Won't really matter though. SHV lacks 200 people to be operating correctly. SHV is also very ghetto and dangerous to live in currently. The main guy running SHV is about to quit. The LGG crew running the Chinese cargo operations are about to quit and the US guys are a dwindling number all going to FedEx or Atlas. FedEx has an AOG team made up of ex-WGA employees. They speak very highly of them because they worked so long with garbage and don't take the new job for granted. I am happy for people that left, but feel sorry for those people that were dumb enough to believe the government and took the clot shot. You can talk **** all day long about WGA, but somehow it's still operating. You know nothing about this place and you wish you did. I could destroy this entire company if Inwanted too. It's not my choice though. It's up to God to make that decision and its not my right to ruin others lives that work here because I am some jaded employee.

JohnBurke

You sound like more than a disgruntled employee. You actually work at WGA, do you? You say you could "destroy the company?"

Sounds like you need to have a talk with a federal investigator before someone gets hurt, and it sounds like you need to be grounded both by law enforcement and medically.

Seriously. You need to step back and stay away from the aircraft.

You're sounding more like a terrorist than a pilot.

Pilot4000

So let me get this straight, a poorly run 121 supplemental is poorly run because people got the vaccine? That is.....interesting.

C17B74

Using the term “clot-shot” does make more sense having just departed HSV (not SHV) yesterday evening as it was easy to see 3 WGA MD-11’s were clotting up the ramp area. Is this a parts facility, maintenance stop or chop shop? Just curious and a bit perplexed.

Wingdeagle11

HSV is now a regular service out of HKG twice a week and more.
https://aircargoworld.com/news/kerry...ic-flight/amp/

C17B74

Thanks! Route makes sense. Must be 3 at once, they weren’t moving nor were the ground crews having parked them away from the load hangars. That is a long flight non-stop and we did it a few times, different customer most likely. Is that a one hop for an MD or tech stop somewhere? Unsure of the legs. Even our 16hr+ MIA to ICN is shorter than that HSV to HKG was. Nice to fly out of our old stomping grounds. Nice to visit, chat with our old school load team leaders and get the skinny and blast down to MIA. Quick and easy.

Wingdeagle11

This flight requires two tech stops for the MD: usually ANC and ICN.