DCI Shuffle Part 2
 

Saw them moving that plane to the TOC on Tuesday. Not sure where they lost it, if they did, but they were coming off of ramp 1. Maybe someone pulled the wrong switch to lower the aft stairs??

Are these all Comair's? Thought they couldn't get new 76 seaters until we started taking delivery of the 717's...

No. Comair had only 13 CRJ900's. But Pinnacle had 16 CRJ900's operating under the DCI banner before they merged with Mesaba. Those leases were rejected in Pinnacle BK. I suspect that's where the additional 16 are coming from. The CRJ 700's are from Comair.

Damn straight. Hollywood can't put Newk's skillz in a 1:45 movie. The whole movie is a trailer.

I just heard about this the other day. The crew had noticed the tailcone wasn't seated right on the walkaround. Called mx who ended up taking the whole tailcone off to inspect it and see why it was seated wrong. This was at an outstation and ended up ferrying it back to ATL like that to fix it.

Showed up at gate one dark and stormy night to find mtx playing around the Mad Dog's behind.....come to find out the all the pins that held the cone there were not engaged and that it had flown into ATL that way....must have been a typical Mad Dog pilot's greaser to keep it from coming off when touching down in Hooterville.... Hear about the poor FO that blew the tail off in Roatan a few years back.....?

Opening the aft air stairs from inside should be something trained in the real airplane on the ramp.

737? I immediately recognized it as an AirBus cockpit and when the aural alert sounded, "Mon Dieu!" my suspicions were further aroused. The real clincher for me was when parts started flying off the thing ... yep, AirBus.

Besides, with those trim tabs that merely suggest which way the MD88 might roll if you turned the yoke upside down in one direction or the other, there is no way that thing would roll. If someone tried it would take the rest of the movie to get it over the top. Everyone knows the only way to roll a Douglas product is to hold at the FMC recommended holding speed, at which point the airplane enters an uncoordinated stall towards the inside of the turn, does a half snap roll to a nose down recovery, or if your unfortunate, an inverted flat spin.

It must be reoverable ... no MD88 sized holes in the dirt around SINCA or Rome, Georgia.

NEWK told me to never use the yoke. Rudder pedals, power, flap handle & trim. The rest really has no effect on the flight path of the jet.