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Old 08-14-2012 | 04:55 PM
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Originally Posted by acl65pilot
Never trust anything that needs that much crap hanging off the back end to stabilize it

Old 08-14-2012 | 04:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Timbo
Exactly! I used to call it, "The Ice Macine". Anything that needs that many extra strakes to make it fly straight...well...it shouldn't be flying in the first place!
I thought you said junk in the back was preferable?
Old 08-14-2012 | 05:17 PM
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Nobody got beyond 5-6 HS 146s, powered by 5 APUs.

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Old 08-14-2012 | 05:24 PM
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Old 08-14-2012 | 05:50 PM
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Originally Posted by galaxy flyer
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Randy as EA MEC Chair would be news to me and I was on the BOS LEC from '87-'89. Jack Bavis was MEC Chair from '87 to the end during the strike when replaced by Copeland, I think it was. Larry Schulte preceded Jack and Randy was at ALPA National during that time, because I met him there.

Yes, we did have side letters for Bar Harbor, who went bust when we did, but early turboprops and DC-3s are a far cry from today's deals. Hell, DCI's "jumbo" RJ is bigger than EA's fleet--284 to 325. Yes, the industry is bigger, but stll".....

Yes, Pan Am did right by taking Ransome, making it PAA Express. A friend of mine was #1 there, went to PAA mainline on the A310, retired from DAL.

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That's right. Mr. Babbit was speaking as former ALPA President. My post was not to place blame at Eastern's feet, but rather to point out that Contract 2000 was not the genesis of the outsourcing problem. Our union's acceptance of alter ego flying preceded C2K by nearly 20 years.

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Old 08-14-2012 | 06:13 PM
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Originally Posted by scambo1
I think what Bar is referring to is related to actually training and typing ASA pilots on the 73NG sometime around 2001-2 (if I remember correctly). It did happen, but I don't know for how many pilots it happened.
That was different (and sort of weird). But not the only strange thing which went on back then.

I was referring to the BAE.

Doug Helms, ASA's number 1 on the list and Chief Pilot's standard brief in the day was that ASA had 737's coming. Robert Priddy, one of ASA's founders then split off to start ValuJet / AirTran.
Old 08-14-2012 | 06:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Bucking Bar
That was different (and sort of weird). But not the only strange thing which went on back then.

I was referring to the BAE.

Doug Helms, ASA's number 1 on the list and Chief Pilot's standard brief in the day was that ASA had 737's coming. Robert Priddy, one of ASA's founders then split off to start ValuJet / AirTran.
Issue # 1 with this: "had 737s coming" as stated by # 1 and supposedly from the chief pilot?


Thats pretty much the top of the list on things not to believe...
Old 08-14-2012 | 06:37 PM
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^^^^ not on the 88 you won't.
Old 08-14-2012 | 07:39 PM
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Originally Posted by tsquare
You are gonna rocket thru the rest of your career. 5 years from now you will be where I am right now (in terms of seat progression). 10 years from now you won't give a rat's ass about 70 seat airplanes.

As to your musings about the pension and all... just... wow.
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My brother. Its not hard to see where you are coming from. We are humans and truly "once we have ours" we could give a R@T$ ASS about anything else.

I want to make my position clear. No matter how senior I am or get, I will never promote the further degradation of our career (future brethren need a place to go!!). I think my thought process and values are the minority, maybe 38% or so..

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Old 08-14-2012 | 07:47 PM
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Originally Posted by forgot to bid
I thought you said junk in the back was preferable?

Well...round, soft junk, yeah!

Back it up!
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