Hilarious! I underlined the word "idea" in my post just to be sure nobody could miss it. Then you quote my post. And I'm the one with the reading comprehension problem? Too funny. Here's my post again for you to re-read...since you didn't the first time:

Carl

Talking with my UAL simulator instructor neighbor over a beer between snow showers tonight and I mention the 747 thing. He says that Delta had people in last year looking at the UAL 747 sims to book training time. He thought it was because of the TA early outs. Would we need another sim if we got more planes?

Considering there is only 1 744 sim, and it is quite heavily booked, I'd say yes!

Carl's coffee mug:

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Am I sposda <--CQ Word> say 744 instead of 747 when we only have one type? It's not like those weird south guys who say they fly the 767-500 is it? :eek:

I just type what I type. As long as we understand what the other is saying, I don't care. :) I've always typed 744 as there was also a 747 "classic" category.

Northspeak: 57
Southspeak: 7-5

It don't matter.. we both get the idea.

My understanding of the 767-500 is that the 764 was the domestic 767-400 category and the 765 was the international. When they were combined, it's like the 7ER now... all that's left is the international category.

Anyone care to correct my ignorance or verify my understanding?

I think I was on the 764 when they changed it to the 765. I never paid attention to why they changed it. Nothing markedly changed in the bid pack that I recall. But, your explanation sounds reasonable.

I think most folks type the plane numbers here the way you bid them in the AE page of dbms. Except, in mixed company, it was considered gentlemanly if you were domestic 75/76 to say you were on the 75 and if you were int'l to say you were on the -er. If you were domestic and said you were on the 75/76 you were showing your ego and enough of doing that would get you nominated for totd. It's also harder to say 7576 and harder to hear it that way.

Good stuff!

I never really figured out a good way to refer to flying the domestic 767, haha. My category was the "767" by title... butIi referred to it pretty much every way you described- really whatever rolled of my tongue first. To those in the airline I always said 767 domestic since they knew what I meant. That's what the category is.

To those outside of the airline I would typically say 757 and 767 domestic and close international to mitigate the typical string of questions! Although that highly depended on how much breath I wanted to spend on them... sometimes it was just "757" ... sometimes 767 if that's what came to mind first. I prefer to spend my brain cells on underboob and more 747's. :)


... I mean, 744's!

Past tense. We are already using UAL sims in DEN for 744 initial qualification.

It does on the Internet. I suppose that is why DPA out false emails and then quiet retractions later. It goes heavily to the character of the leadership.

What?!?!
DAL sim planners think they might need 744 sim time?
Maybe Carl has CQ coming up.