I'm getting ready for Christmas already out here in the southwest. Don't have any pine trees, but plenty of palm trees in the yard. What do youz all think of my xmas lights job?
http://www.airlinepilotforums.com/me...-xmas-palm.jpg

Looks explosive

Nice dick....:D


Isn't that what you yell when you walk into the men's room and all the urinals are taken?

I believe that a rocket launched from the Kourou (French Guiana) site can handle a geostationary payload about 15% greater than if launched from Canaveral. Perhaps this satellite isn't heavy enough to require the extra performance, and they already have infrastructure in place at the Cape. If they moved the same rocket to Kourou it would still have to be fully fueled, for structural reasons, so they'd just schedule a shorter burn.

You're a bit premature. Try to wait until after Thanksgiving, please. :(

Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: What is your major malfunction, numbnuts?! Didn't your mommy and daddy show you enough attention when you were a child?!

I see what you did there, Touche'.


Scoop :)

I wouldn't read too much into guys or gals electing to not return. Sometimes there are equities in life that go beyond the mere W-2.

A common theme I've seen is going to work at the family business. Mom n Pop sends you to school, and you get the flying bug. You give it a whirl and make it to the big show. Money's good and responsibility is pretty light....until the BK hits.

While on furlough you go back to work with the family, and you come to realize that owning your own business is really the only way to become truly in charge of your destiny, and one of the few ways to generate true wealth.

Or someone may have married into, or had their SOs work develop into a good situation.

Or perhaps parenting became a priority.

Or they found something they just like better.

Look, I don't deny it's a good gig that pays a fair number of quatloos, but it's hardly the center of the universe.

Nu

Ah, picture fail.

I think the reality of those returning is comparing their DAL career to where ever they went. I came back in the 1st Recall class in 10'. We had pilots from Alaska, Fed-X, UPS, Net Jets, Frontier, Spirit, Jet Blue, and Foreign Carriers.

For me it was the decision to be near the bottom of a a small 737 airline w/ 4 years Sen or return w/ 10 years to DAL and have more opportunities down range.

Happy TG to all - I'll be in Central America as my 13+ years can't hold Holidays off.

Baja.