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01-29-2007 | 12:09 PM

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SNAFU

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There have been current flying pilots from United (and maybe others) who have been hired in the past 2 years or so. Not many, and at least one had a brother who is an ACP, but the code has been cracked.

Keep plugging and who knows what may happen.

01-29-2007 | 03:08 PM

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From: Capt: Lav Truck

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I know for a fact that we have hired some guys that have left Continental and American...
Don't know how they got on, but both have done the Purple Nugget thing. So to say we do not hire them is absolutely false. We just aren't hiring a lot of them!

Purple Nugget?

Is that what you drop in your pants when you've crossed the ETP and realize youre about 20,000 lbs short to make it to destination?

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01-29-2007 | 04:42 PM

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Purple Nugget?: Is that what you drop in your pants when you've crossed the ETP and realize youre about 20,000 lbs short to make it to destination?

Nah, that's a brown nugget. When the above happens, the really sharp pilot will set fuel flow to match fuel remaining, and then he'll be able to fly forever.

But this Purple Nugget thing has got to go away. What an absolutely derogatory, demeaning, miserable, ill-thought-out term. Whomever came up with that term, well, they picked a really bad week to stop sniffing glue.

This is one "custom" that should be nipped in the bud (IMHO.)

01-29-2007 | 04:56 PM

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Nah, that's a brown nugget. When the above happens, the really sharp pilot will set fuel flow to match fuel remaining, and then he'll be able to fly forever.

This is one "custom" that should be nipped in the bud (IMHO.)

LOL! I've had a couple of those over the years

I'm still at a loss, whats a purple nugget? Is that like telling an FDX guy that he's a turd?

01-29-2007 | 05:48 PM

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Originally Posted by viktorbravo

LOL! I've had a couple of those over the years

I'm still at a loss, whats a purple nugget? Is that like telling an FDX guy that he's a turd?

In Navy-ism Nugget = New Guy

01-29-2007 | 06:18 PM

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In Navy-ism Nugget = New Guy

Hummm.........Well I guess at UPS we would call them brown nuggets

Yeah, I agree, that nugget thing is not exactly a flattering way to welcome the new guys on the property. Kind of like when the UPS call sign was Brown Tail. What freaking rocket surgeon thought that up?

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