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You CAN rip the 145 off the ground, just like you CAN "positiverategearupselectHDG". It always feels nicer when you take your time with rotation. And you can pretend you're flying something, err, bigger ;)

Brocc15

04-18-2013 12:01 PM

Have you guys ever non revved to Europe in the summer? Are the loads pretty bad? I'm thinking of planning a trip to barcelona in August. Any advice?

newKnow

04-18-2013 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Wasatch Phantom (Post 1393803)

Completely agree! Thank you for the detailed explanation.

Gotta admit putting myself in the newbie F/O's shoes I'd feel awful. I'm glad "cooler heads prevailed".

Having flown in Russia (during my 727 days) Russian controllers mastery of the English language is marginal at best. Add in the metric altimetry and everything else going on and the poor guy was set up for failure.

In my original post I said that after reading his post, I was all geared up for CQ. But, then I remembered that I always get A periods, so I edited it. It was a good post, but not THAT good. :D

flyallnite

04-18-2013 12:37 PM

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Originally Posted by newKnow (Post 1393773)

Cohiba,

Great post. Pretty informative.

Ditto that. Saw that poor crew come dragging back to the hotel with most of the pax, a pitiful sight. Hearing that it was a new hire and they were to DH to ATL the next day, I felt even worse for the poor crew knowing there would be a gaggle of suits meeting them. Good to hear they are emphasizing that qualification standard less and putting more on flying the jet.

So, any new rumors? Isn't that what this thread is all about? What happened to the A319/320/321/330/777/747's we would be getting? New refinery? Crude oil tanker? Pipeline? Tablet device with Beats by Dr. Dre?

DAL73n

04-18-2013 01:50 PM

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Originally Posted by nwaf16dude (Post 1393611)

I saw a lot of F-16s with tail damage from landing. Very easy to hit the speedbrakes if you got too slow. I also saw guys hit the strakes, nozzle, and the horizontal stab...took some serious ham-fisting to make that happen.

Everyone things the F-16 is always that lean, clean air-air machine. Try flying the old F-16A model with two wing tanks, centerline ECM pod, 6 mark 82s (over 35,000 GW). Even with full A/B you had a long roll and flew it carefully off the ground.

Sink r8

04-18-2013 01:57 PM

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Originally Posted by flyallnite (Post 1393832)

So, any new rumors? Isn't that what this thread is all about? What happened to the A319/320/321/330/777/747's we would be getting? New refinery? Crude oil tanker? Pipeline? Tablet device with Beats by Dr. Dre?

As part of Standard Text, rumors will no longer be fleet specific. In case of operational necessity, individual fleets may ask for their own, specific rumors, but as of now now exceptions are being granted.

For cost reasons, rumors will also will be chronologically and quantitatively de-identified, so that they may be recycled.

I was just at the CPO, and I hear we're getting/got/have [aircraft], and we're going to need/need/don't need to hire/not hire/furlough pilots as early as last/this/next year.

Jack Bauer

04-18-2013 02:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Sink r8 (Post 1393889)

As part of Standard Text, rumors will no longer be fleet specific. In case of operational necessity, individual fleets may ask for their own, specific rumors, but as of now now exceptions are being granted.

For cost reasons, rumors will also will be chronologically and quantitatively de-identified, so that they may be recycled.

I was just at the CPO, and I hear we're getting/got/have/getting rid of [aircraft], and we're going to need/need/don't need to hire/not hire/furlough pilots as early as last/this/next year.

If fixed the standard text recycling options for you.

nwaf16dude

04-18-2013 02:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Brocc15 (Post 1393811)

Have you guys ever non revved to Europe in the summer? Are the loads pretty bad? I'm thinking of planning a trip to barcelona in August. Any advice?

No load advice, but Barcelona is hot as hell in August. I'd aim further north;)

Wilbur Wright

04-18-2013 02:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Delta1067 (Post 1393792)

Are there qualifiers for white slips like there are for yellow slips? I wanted to put in an open white slip but only wanted to designate international layovers.

You can't say "International Only," but you can list the cities you'd like to layover in. (Or cities to avoid.)

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GunshipGuy

04-18-2013 03:14 PM

6 Green Slips for ATLM88B today. Yeah, I'd say we're pretty overstaffed for the summer.

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