Well...there is good news...

Miss a check in? Forget a passport? Do something that while not unsafe would cause your ACP a headache?

Guess what...you ain't his/her biggest problem! DCMP will be playing with her puppets and doing all the other little things that endeared her to the masses and keeping those ACPs too busy to stay too aggravated at you...

Maybe we can send her to WIA and the Air Inc sessions as a recruiter.

 

I can't wait for my chance to fly with Pat

 

Did I miss an FCIF about the poor new hire's death? or something? Don't we usually get FCIF's on tragic stuff like that?
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FCIF 06-0596 (General) Issued: 11/15/06 2320z


I don't know if this link will work or not, but you can give it a shot:


FCIF 06-0596 (General)



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In the Navy we called that the Second Law of Thermodynamics (When the heat is on someone else, it's not on you!)

 

From the Memphis Commercial Appeal of Thursday, November 16, 2006

Pilot killed in North Parkway crash
Brian Wolf flew F16 fighters for three tours in Iraq as a major in the Alabama Air National Guard.
Yet after surviving all those missions, Mr. Wolf died Tuesday afternoon in Memphis when his 2004 Corvette crashed into a tree along North Parkway.
Wolf died Tuesday afternoon in Memphis when his 2004 Corvette crashed into a tree along North Parkway.
The irony wasn't lost on his father, Chuck Wolf, a retired pilot.
"I've thought about that a hundred times. What can you say? It's just fate. It happens. Luck of the draw," said Wolf, who lives outside Atlanta.
His son moved to Memphis from Atlanta earlier this year to take a job flying 727s for FedEx.
He was 37.
"He's a fantastic guy. I'm so saddened by his death," said friend and fellow pilot Dave Hirschman of Atlanta. "Just a really enthusiastic nice, friendly guy. Very down to earth, very unassuming, very patriotic in a low-key kind of way."
Mr. Wolf found his calling after following his father around to various air shows as a child.
"From there, he got in his mind he wanted to be a military pilot," his dad said. "I never pushed him. It's one of those things."
During his time in Iraq, Mr. Wolf sent frequent e-mails to his family, discussing the war and his role in it as well as more down-to-earth topics.
On getting used to the sounds there: "The jet noise is familiar but the mortar shells are not. This base has been mortared almost 300 times this year. Since I'm not in the Marine Corps or Army, this sound has taken the most getting used to."
On the danger: "Some nights over here it sounds like the "Apocalypse Now" movie. It's the helicopters coming in at night. That's a bad thing since they're bringing in the shot-up Americans to the trauma center here on base. If one is having doubts on whether we're in a combat zone or not, they can go visit the trauma center over here. They are never without patients."
On his preferred flight position: "I've had 10 flights so far. Each sortie lasts about 5 hours. ... Most of the time I get to fly with my favorite flight lead ... me. Being No. 1 is better because you get to make all the decisions. Being the flight lead is a lot like having the remote control when I'm watching TV with my two brothers. They can have an opinion about my channel selection but ultimately, they have to watch what I want."
Nearing the end of his last tour there: "The best sight, I think, will be the last takeoff heading west."
-- Jody Callahan: 529-6531

 

http://www.codeonemagazine.com/event..._events11.html

2003 Semper Viper award citation.

 

Every time I read one of these tragic stories such as Brian Wolfe's I wonder if I ever met the guy or rubbed shoulders with him in the AOC. How many times have you read an FCIF on someone with cancer lying on their deathbed or a memorial for a recently passed FedEx pilot? How many times have you thought the name sounded familier but you couldn't quite put a face with the name? If you knew who it was it might make the difference on whether you would send the family a card, money, visit the hospital or go to the memorial service. I have written and asked our management at least 6 times to allow an option on the secure side of VIPS for our crew ID photos to be shown. For the privacy freaks they could opt out just like their calendars or phone numbers. We have the digital photo database and it would probably take a programmer less than a day to implement. If you agree with me I would ask that you submit a request to your ACP to allow aircrew photos to be shown in VIPS. Maybe a large number of requests will get some action. An additional benefit would be the ability to view who you are flying with on future trips.

 

Great idea Mach, I'll bring it up with JP when I'm back in ANC on Wednesday.
We recently had a MEM F/O die of a brain tumor. I read the fcif, but didn't recognize the name. (I forget my own half of the time). I was in CDG last week and they had the fcif and his photograph on the wall with a black diagonal band in the bottom left corner of the picture. It was only at that point that I realized that I had worked, and played with him in the past.
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It's not the easiest method, but we do have pictures of new hire classes on the website from the last several years (almost as long as VIPS has been on the internet vice "Green Screen" only). Brian was hired in the January 30, 2006 class. From the Flight Ops home page, you can click on "General Info", then "New Hire Classes", then "January 2006", then "January 30, 2006".


Here's a direct hyperlink - - no guarantees it'll work.

Brian Wolf is the first one on the left


I've also submitted that as a suggestion to the "Webmaster" through the "Customer Support" link on the top of the page. The response I got was something along the lines of, "It's on the list of things to do."


Maybe if they get 4600 requests, we can bump it higher on the list.

https://pilot.fedex.com/about/customersupport/?link=1




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