Led Zep was a great band- I listen to their stuff at least once weekly usually at the gym. Very motivational.

But for my vote for best band is Pink Floyd. Outstanding music. And I heard David got his job from Syd by dynamic attrition.

No kidding.

Witnessed a nonrev story today.

Family of 4 nonrevs get on. Dad gets a seat in first class. Mom and kids are stuck in coach. Turns out that we are short one seat in coach. Mom and kids will have to get off. Dad remains on and enjoys his first class seat leaving his young family at the airport. What do you think he will get for Father's day?

That's funny...I guarantee the next child she has won't belong to him. :D

http://files.sharenator.com/epic_fai...x700-43385.jpg

http://www.sabinabecker.com/images/dad-bar-fail.jpg

There's more but I can't post them.

Maybe they look like the UPS man?

I was there that day and had just pushed back. When they came rolling by, all I could say was yikes.

Ha! Did you ever fly the DC-9? :D

The radar in the CRJ was just awful. I always prioritized visual first, then radar and compare notes with ATC.

There were a number of times where I just dropped down to 10,000 or so and visually shimmied my way around. One of those times, I was fat dumb and happy down at 12,000 or so cruising by the waistlines of the storms in smooth air. All my buddies going into the same area either went hundreds of miles around or got the crap kicked out of them.

I was very thankful growing up hearing stories and techniques from the old Southern Airways bubbas at times like that! They have proven themselves over many times though many have either forgotten or never heard the art.

The radars on the Delta fleets are good enough where we can do just fine on our own outside of visual.. and I think the Airbus has the worst one, but it still is better than what was on the CRJ. Regardless.. no excuse to go through an area even if ATC is being obtuse. If we require a vector, I always state that we require that heading, we're not asking.

I'll be interested to see if we hear something about this incident in the coming weeks. I'll never forget at Pinnacle I ended up having to repo a plane that had half the winglet blown off from a lightening strike... I asked the captain what happened. "ATC wouldn't give us the deviation we needed so I went through the cell." Cue wide eyes and facepalm.

Knowing Delta, probably not!! They seem (most likely legal) to keep these type events very hush hush, which is ridiculous, as line pilots could learn a lot from someone elses mistake or decision!