Beemer,

A much nicer approach this time. Now I'll leave you a paper...

 

I start each trip with 3-4 magazines that I then leave in the airplane. It's nice to see a somewhat current US paper when you've been hub turning through Subic and bouncing around Asia for 10 days.

 

How about this for an idea... Now that you Mad Dog guys no longer have to carry Jepps, plus the fact that the company just published an FCIF stating that shortly, guys would no longer be required to carry the FOM, I think it's only right that each Captain, whenever starting an international trip (Canada excluded), be required to pick up and carry a minimum of 5 Wall Street Journals, to be left on the jets, for the succeeding crews. Under the "Division of Duties" rule, the First Officer will be required to carry and distribute a minimum of 5 copies of the Commercial Appeal, or if departing from Anchorage, 5 copies of The Anchorage Daily News, for those who want to keep up on who was just hauled off to jail for drunk and disorderly, etc. If the crew consists of a RFO, then he should be required to carry an unspecified number of National Geographic or other picture-laden magazines, so that the follow-on crews can have something to look at, once they are done with the WSJ or the local rag. After all, it's only fair. What do you think?

 

wow, i think someone needs a hug. I'm with AKBeemer. The ADN is a bit of a rag but there is nothing like picking up a jet in PVG and finding a newspaper waiting. I;m ANC based and have always left my paper on the jet and hope more do the same.