Airline Pilot Central Forums - Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?

If there is a need to narrow the field down, a college degree can be used as a screening tool. It has nothing to do with the ability to fly an airplane. There are numerous examples of outstanding pilots who never got a college degree. Chuck Yeager, Wiley Post, Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart. Dick Rutan got his college degree 16 years into his USAF Career - well after his many military flying accomplishments.

Amelia Earhart got lost! I don't see why people always say what a great pilot she was. She flunked navigation 101.:):):)

Ftrooppilot

07-22-2013 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by hoserpilot (Post 1449634)

Amelia Earhart got lost! I don't see why people always say what a great pilot she was. She flunked navigation 101.:):):)

She had a highly experienced navigator who got lost.

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80ktsClamp

07-22-2013 05:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Ftrooppilot (Post 1449656)

She had a highly experienced navigator who got lost.

Fred Noonan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

She obviously asked for directions from someone who wouldn't ask for directions. :cool:

Ftrooppilot

07-22-2013 05:50 PM

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Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp (Post 1449661)

She obviously asked for directions from someone who wouldn't ask for directions. :cool:

I wonder how many forum participants can honestly say they have flown over long ocean routes using a sextant for navigation. We are dwindling in numbers. Makes me wonder what will happen when the GPS system goes down.

80ktsClamp

07-22-2013 05:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Ftrooppilot (Post 1449678)

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That being said, all the planes at DL have inertial nav as well. No biggie. :)

Red Five

07-22-2013 06:09 PM

Trying to figure this out from the PWA but looking for carification... does a seat freeze began as soon as the AE results are released, or does it really start when you convert to the new category? I THINK "awarded" must mean when the results show up but I'm not sure...

80ktsClamp

07-22-2013 06:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Red Five (Post 1449692)

Freeze goes off your award date, not conversion.

flyallnite

07-22-2013 07:18 PM

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Originally Posted by iceman49 (Post 1449633)

[QUOTE. Now, if I don't use an S2 to get to WORK, I'm not getting there.

Doesn't the call in honest program provide the ability to get to work.....? Remember commuting. is a choice:rolleyes:[/QUOTE]

The Call In Honest policy is to be used only a few times in a pilot's career, and only after a well planned commute goes to pot, which this summer, was a weekly occurrence. Hardly a free ticket to work, and only used at the company's discretion. You are still on your own as a commuter.

GBU-24

07-22-2013 07:19 PM

Can you fly a trip from a month on a regular line into a month on reserve?...those days would be on-call days in the follow-on month...

flyallnite

07-22-2013 07:21 PM

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Originally Posted by GBU-24 (Post 1449729)

Can you fly a trip from a month on a regular line into a month on reserve?...those days would be on-call days in the follow-on month...

You can't pick up open time that does that, if that's what you're getting after...

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