That's procedure now. Saw it in "Standard Text".

 

Speaking of engine starts. I gassed this knucklehead up one day. Tried to start the second engine on takeoff....

Takeoff Ad Absurdum

In the vast hierachy of stupid pilot tricks, perhaps none surpasses an accident caused by intentional operation of an aircraft with a serious known mechanical defect. Case in point: the attempted takeoff of an Aerospatiale SN-601 bizjet last March at Portland, Oregon, despite the pilot's inability to get the right engine started. The aircraft never got out of ground effect before it crashed

At 0916:00, the pilot said, "should be able to compression start it once it gets in the air." The copilot's seat occupant replied, "seriously?", and the pilot stated, "yeah." The copilot's seat occupant asked, "why would, why would you say that? I mean is there something that the air will do that you can't do here on the ground?" The pilot replied, "yeah it ah it turns the blades over." The copilot's seat occupant asked, "when will, when will you start it?" The pilot replied, "well we're gunna pull the ignition on as soon as we start ah as soon as we get rolling." (NOTE: The SN-601 AFM abnormal procedures section specifies that N2 RPM be greater than 50% for use of the immediate engine relight procedure, and the minimum airspeed in the normal relight envelope for a normal engine relight without starter is 200 KIAS.) At 0916:48, the pilot called the tower, stating he was ready for departure. The tower cleared the flight for takeoff on runway 10L at 0917:01.

 

For the PCS gurus. I have a 3 day trip next weeek that I would like to do a swap with the pot for a better value 3 day or a 4 day. There is nothing in open time now but I would like to put in a blind swap with the pot, is there a way to do it?

 

Not a guru by a long shot but I can think of just one way to do what you want to ensure a better trip.

Go to the bid package and find every trip you would swap it for (and their start dates). Then go to the PCS swap page, list your trip to drop and then list every trip you would swap it for. If you do the "any" 4 day trip option, you could screw yourself by getting a low time trip. The only way to avoid that for sure is to list specific trips or be in an international category and do an "any" swap for a 6 day or longer trip (that's about when trip credit kicks in).

Denny

 

No Guru either--> put your rotation on the drop portion and for the add rotation put down *4, *5, *6 etc. (4,5,6 day trip-which might or might not be worth more than the 3 day)

Good Luck,

TEN

 

That was a sad day in stupid history.

 

In the early '90s I got displaced off the 767b. When things started turning around and I got the bid back to 767b, I went through the full course training with HP. What an experience! And I have to say, it was the BEST time I ever had in a training event! Thank goodness I had been on the plane before so the training was pretty easy. That guy knew every joke in the book and always bought the drinks. Since we both lived north of Atlanta at the time, we would always stop and get a couple of beers after training in hopes of avoiding traffic. I remember driving home (at the time I lived in West Cobb) getting stuck in traffic and having to pee like a race horse!! Ahhh, the good ole days!!

Denny

 

I just got back from CQ in ATL. Word there from someone close to the hiring process is that no decision has been made yet about pilot hiring this year.

 

I just noticed today there's a mention of a 'pilot job fair' coming up in ATL, on the DL Net page. But then it says it's being put on by FAPA, with the link to their site.

"Focus on the Future" will be the theme of a pilot informational seminar scheduled for 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday Sept. 22 at the Renaissance Concourse Atlanta Airport Hotel.

At first I thought it might be the start of something good happening at DL, but since it's actually a FAPA event, I have my doubts.

I'm wondering why it's on the Delta Net home page though, since most of us with access to that page already have jobs at Delta...

Any ideas?

 

HP was funny. We had a flt att JS-er who came up to the cockpit, he tells her, spin around, I gotta see if I'll let you on.

I know where the line is, and sometimes dance right up to it, but this was over it. He could get away with that stuff somehow.

Heard he had a neighbor that he thought was a weenie. He had one of those surgical tubing water balloon shooters. He used it to launch raw potatoes at the guys roof.