Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
04-17-2013 | 08:59 AM
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I think the "Problem" might originate in the sim, because the instructor has to have some criteria to grade you on, they choose V2 to V2+15, so they harp on not exceding it, wich is great if you've lost an engine, but what about teaching what to do for a NORMAL takeoff??
04-17-2013 | 09:02 AM
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04-17-2013 | 09:13 AM
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04-17-2013 | 09:29 AM
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Hey now, watch it! I was an Air Guard KC135 puke! BUT....I had my ATP and over 4,500 hrs. before I joined and went to UPT.
All I had to learn at UPT was to keep my mouth shut, and I nearly flunked that!
But your point is well taken, I hated going to any SAC base, way too many "SAC Stan-Eval Copilots" walking around there, all zippers zipped, hats on, boots shined.
All I had to learn at UPT was to keep my mouth shut, and I nearly flunked that!
But your point is well taken, I hated going to any SAC base, way too many "SAC Stan-Eval Copilots" walking around there, all zippers zipped, hats on, boots shined.
Unfortunately for me, before I went to OTS, I was not aware of the Guard/Reserve avenue......
I know, what a dumb***!Denny
04-17-2013 | 09:35 AM
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I was speechless.
04-17-2013 | 09:39 AM
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+1
How many pilots have killed people due to rotating too fast and crashing either because:
a) they forgot to put out the flaps
b) they lost an engine at a critical time and couldn't save it
c) they got distracted with another issue and lost control due to low speed
d) they hit windshear with insufficient speed
Compare that number, with how many pilots have killed people because they ran off the end of the runway and/or hit something off the departure end, solely because they were rotating too slowly...
Yet, we continue to preach bad piloting, imo. This has been my biggest pet peeve with how my company tells me to fly airplanes.
How many pilots have killed people due to rotating too fast and crashing either because:
a) they forgot to put out the flaps
b) they lost an engine at a critical time and couldn't save it
c) they got distracted with another issue and lost control due to low speed
d) they hit windshear with insufficient speed
Compare that number, with how many pilots have killed people because they ran off the end of the runway and/or hit something off the departure end, solely because they were rotating too slowly...
Yet, we continue to preach bad piloting, imo. This has been my biggest pet peeve with how my company tells me to fly airplanes.
Likewise, the industry is just now beginning to come around to fixing the insane stall [negative] training many carriers/fleets have been pushing for a long time. Approaching a stall? Hear/feel the shaker? Better pull back quickly because the checkride demands you not lose more than 100 ft of altitude!
04-17-2013 | 09:41 AM
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I think I had to do 8 takeoffs my first day in the real 756 sim back in 08. It was literally too slow do it again, nope faster do it again, nope again........ then in my mind I slightly picked up the pace and got a shout from the back "whoa whoa too fast you'll hit the tail!"
So I stopped trying to learn and just tried to figure out how to get the sim over with. I think its interesting no one critiques how you put it on the pavement just how you pull it off.
FTB
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04-17-2013 | 09:42 AM
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Quick question are authorized personal drops paid?
04-17-2013 | 09:43 AM
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If we can't use it for charts, can't use it below 10000, can't connect to the internet in flight, can't do my bids or recurrent on it, then no... it's just another heavy expensive brick I have to take out at security. Make it really functional and maybe I'll find it useful. It kinda makes sense since it sounds like the 717 program is getting a bit behind. I'm sure Microsoft has a warehouse filled with unsold Surfaces they're looking to unload.
What a stoopid commercial.
04-17-2013 | 09:46 AM
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