I think CAL dumbed theirs down, no speed tape. The beauty of big screens.

Delta jet lands at remote AK airport as preca
 

Delta jet lands at remote AK airport as precaution - Yahoo Finance



ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- A Delta Air Lines flight made an emergency landing in a remote Alaska community near the Aleutian Islands Wednesday morning after a warning message flashed on an engine control panel.
San Francisco-bound Flight 208 landed safely at Cold Bay at 6 a.m. with 167 passengers and 11 crew members on board, Delta spokesman Michael Thomas said.
The Boeing 767 made the unscheduled landing after crew members received an engine warning message in the cockpit, according to Thomas.
"Because of that warning indication, out of an abundance of caution and safety they elected to divert to Cold Bay," he said. "But at no point was the engine shut down in flight."
No injuries were reported aboard the plane that had departed from Tokyo.
Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Allen Kenitzer said the Delta crew declared an emergency and headed to Cold Bay.
Delta was sending another aircraft to pick up the passengers Wednesday afternoon from the treeless, wind-swept community of about 60 people. Delta also was sending maintenance crews to Cold Bay, which is 625 miles southwest of Anchorage.
While the passengers waited to depart, they were initially required to stay on the plane other than a few who were allowed to get out and stretch their legs, said Mary Martin, owner of the Cold Bay Lodge, where crew members who might remain overnight could stay. The airport has no customs or Transportation Security Administration presence to handle an international flight, Martin said.
TSA and customs representatives flew to Cold Bay to process the passengers, according to Jill Reese, a spokeswoman with the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities.
Passengers got off the plane early Wednesday afternoon and were taken to a few locations, including the community center, to wait for the arrival of the replacement aircraft, said Dawn Lyons, the city clerk and administrator.
Cold Bay — on the Alaska Peninsula 40 miles from the start of the Aleutian Islands — was built up as a key World War II staging area and once had a military population of 30,000. The state continues to maintain its 10,000-foot runway, Alaska's third largest.
It's not the first time a passenger jet has made an emergency landing at the remote location.
A Delta flight from Los Angeles to Tokyo with 220 passengers made an emergency landing at the community in March 2001.
Until Wednesday, the 2001 incident was the last time an emergency landing involved passengers, according to Martin. Despite Cold Bay's tiny population, however, the airport is a regularly active place where cargo aircraft occasionally make quick emergency landings, or smaller planes stop to refuel or obtain supplies.
"They have high, high traffic all the time," Martin said. "Twenty-four hours a day, we have aircraft coming and going to different places of the world."

That's the conundrum, if the Cards lose, do you blame Delta?

Sounds like an expensive day for Delta. I assume they sent another airplane on a rescue mission? Also, this lady is really trying to talk up cold bay. I used to fly there and there's probably 2-3 flights in and out of there a day, if that, and the international traffic would only be diversions which is pretty rare. That being said, CDB is a pretty good option if you have to set down on the Aleutians, there's probably the best support available there of anywhere in the near vicinity.

In the 777 all of our screens are touch screens...Apparently.

They don't work, but they sure do have a lot of fingerprints.

A few months ago, someone started stocking some screen cleaner in the side cubbyholes. I tried to clean a screen with it, but the cleaner hardened like gooey syrup as soon as it touched the screen. So, I wipe away at it with a paper towel and now my whole screen is a gooey messy blob of fingerprint residue, paper towel shreds and syrup...brilliant.

Hadn't thought about the TLV...makes sense.

That's not how ASA put the CRJs into service. After a month of training in Montreal, I sat around for close to two months waiting for the planes to show up and for proving runs to be completed. At least we got to do IOE on the proving runs. Was the best summer ever!

My understanding is AA got their first 319 in June and started service in September with six of them.

We got our first 717 around the 10th I think and flew it on the 25th, but it was just one jet for a few days then a second will or did start and so on.

Not sure when AA began their pilot training but we started ours in May I think and a few pilots got to do touch and goes in an AirTran 71 calling themselves Citrus the whole time.

GJ,

I do both at Costco. Very reasonable.

ATL

That's awesome! I have not had good luck with touch screen avionics either. Some things just aren't a good idea, IMO.