On the emp bus in the Atl and on walks a super hot 20 something FA in a skirt and heels. I almost forgot where I was.

 

Completely false statement. The Delta pilots many years ago decided they were tired of contract progress and decided to not fly overtime unless it was a greenslip with conflict. Pilots schedules were publicly posted of those pilots who continued to fly overtime. In response the company allowed any pilot to block his schedule so other pilots could not view it and find out who was flying over time. DALPA filed a grievance because being able to check another pilots schedule was past practice and essential to insuring contract compliance.
DALPA won the grievance and the company had to allow all schedules to be viewed. The company added the snitch feature at that time so a pilot could tell who might have viewed his schedule if he was harassed.

 

Did you get his name?

 

OK. I refuse to use the lame "LOL", "ROTFL" thing but,
That one really did make me laugh out loud.

 

 

So....South West is using Delta's Parking in ATL now??

 

Hey, Delta Poster Boy, did I just finish a 4 day silent as hell 4-day trip with your lame a$$?

 

No, not like that, for once I was being serious!

I had a 30hr. RSW layover years ago, at a Holiday Inn in the middle of nowhere, so the F/O and I rented Harleys for the day and put over 220 miles on them, went straight to the beach, then down to Naples, Marco Island, Everglades City, etc.

Great fun, but we nearly missed pickup at 5pm when we got stuck in traffic on the way back to the motel. We were fully sunburned as well, arms, neck, face, the F/A's had a lot to say about how bad we looked but it was more fun than sitting around the room for 30 hours.

 

So talking to one of the mechanics, it's interesting the part that Delta played in the Denzel movie. If he heard his story right, they did send cameras over to the training center to film the screens (I'm guessing 737?) and it was our pilots who tried to match what they were looking for. It was a guy at the TOC they used to make the close ups on the annunciator panel. What I don't understand is whether they used a retired airplane sliced up for the cockpit scenes. Something about the control column wouldn't move and Denzel threatened to walk off the set since he was struggling to move it around. One of the mechanics figured out what the hang up was and hacked a line somewhere to free up the column and they were back in business filming. I guess Denzel costs $500K a day. Director was very happy with the particular mechanic.

However, of the mechanics did have the guts to ask about the Director's Cast Away movie. He wanted to know, hey, when that airplane hit the water why did Tom Hanks go backwards instead of forwards, wouldn't the inertia sent him forward? Evidently, that was not appreciated.

All second hand, but at least I got an answer on my problematic MD90 from the other day from the dudes tasked to fix it. They're not real big fans of the 90.

Once again... damn you...

 

FO: Captain, I can't agree with this. The AWABS said 27R at Lima Bravo, we're at Lima Alpha.

Captain:




Um... big discussion about this on the radio the other day. Taxi to 27R according to the supervisor (or at least that supervisor) in the cab is a clearance to 27R-LA. fwiw.