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01-19-2019 | 07:18 AM
#81
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Not yet because he can't hold what he wants for QOL. Top half or bust. Bidding strategic reserve and working the OE and GSs pay about the same but the flying (or lack of) is waaaaay better. Comfortably "wasting" my time at home. Our kind of money goes a long way where I live so I'm not in a hurry. 7 years left seat 121 in a jet before Delta has given me perspective.
Again, 95% of what I put out there is with my tongue firmly lodged in the side of my mouth.
Again, 95% of what I put out there is with my tongue firmly lodged in the side of my mouth.
01-19-2019 | 09:02 AM
#82
Gets Weekends Off
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01-19-2019 | 09:31 AM
#83
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Cloudbase
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I think it's fleet/base specific for sure. In a Midwestern base in a French airplane I NEVER once had a CA offer to do a walk around. Not even in Bermuda, where the weather was WAY above Captain walk around mins. Yet NY 7ER I saw captains do a lot of them. 717 I think most of the A's take walk arounds as a PM. Heck I even did it in the rain recently! Voluntarily!
01-19-2019 | 10:56 AM
#84
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I think it's fleet/base specific for sure. In a Midwestern base in a French airplane I NEVER once had a CA offer to do a walk around. Not even in Bermuda, where the weather was WAY above Captain walk around mins. Yet NY 7ER I saw captains do a lot of them. 717 I think most of the A's take walk arounds as a PM. Heck I even did it in the rain recently! Voluntarily!
01-19-2019 | 11:07 AM
#85
Da Hudge
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From: Poodle Whisperer
I’ve only missed one walkaround when the FO was PF, and that was first flight of the day walking on a plane with some pretty atrocious MEL errors.
FO looked at me, said “boy that looks like a lot of fun... I’m gonna go for a walk while you enjoy being a captain.”
FO looked at me, said “boy that looks like a lot of fun... I’m gonna go for a walk while you enjoy being a captain.”
01-19-2019 | 03:03 PM
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Keep in mind that at NWA the CA never did the walk around(when I got hired the only person qualified to on the 727 was the FE and the first flight of the day the FE pre-flighted both the CA's and FO's sides of the cockpit. They drank coffee, read the USA Today and Bs'd with the FA's). Wasn't their job. Speaking for myself only, when the merger happened, I was told by FO's that at Delta the CA did, my replay was "yea right". I've since learned to embrace the walk around as the longer I stay gone, the more gets done, like everything
Just remember it's still the FO's job. We have had lots of complaints of the assumption that walk arounds will be shared.
Just remember it's still the FO's job. We have had lots of complaints of the assumption that walk arounds will be shared. I think it's fleet/base specific for sure. In a Midwestern base in a French airplane I NEVER once had a CA offer to do a walk around. Not even in Bermuda, where the weather was WAY above Captain walk around mins. Yet NY 7ER I saw captains do a lot of them. 717 I think most of the A's take walk arounds as a PM. Heck I even did it in the rain recently! Voluntarily!
01-19-2019 | 03:35 PM
#89
Gets Weekends Off
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From: Looking left
In my case, 100% of the Capts that did not do walk arounds were former NW.
Yes I know at NW the Capts didn’t do them.
At Delta Init Qual, we were told the PM was responsible for walk around....no I can’t find that written in ink.
Vol1 says “Exterior Inspection - Captain or First Officer”
Yes I know at NW the Capts didn’t do them.
At Delta Init Qual, we were told the PM was responsible for walk around....no I can’t find that written in ink.
Vol1 says “Exterior Inspection - Captain or First Officer”
01-19-2019 | 04:22 PM
#90
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From: Douglas Aerospace post production Flight Test & Work Around Engineering bulletin dissembler
Just saying.
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