Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
11-26-2013 | 07:06 AM
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I agree with TS. I think these guys just found something better.
I came from the military and had very little interaction with people who had what we would call regular jobs. Once I was at DL I saw there were a lot of ways to make money.
We have a good job but not a great job. I have been lucky in when I was hired so I haven't been furloughed, but I always said that flying is not the only thing I could do. Perhaps that is what these guys have done.
I came from the military and had very little interaction with people who had what we would call regular jobs. Once I was at DL I saw there were a lot of ways to make money.
We have a good job but not a great job. I have been lucky in when I was hired so I haven't been furloughed, but I always said that flying is not the only thing I could do. Perhaps that is what these guys have done.
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11-26-2013 | 07:55 AM
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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
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
11-26-2013 | 08:07 AM
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11-26-2013 | 08:09 AM
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One good thing about being an airline pilot, is you can run the family business and fly*.
*As long as you don't commute.
*As long as you don't commute.
11-26-2013 | 08:19 AM
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I gave Capt OE to a guy who was also a dentist. He said he was the black sheep in is family because both his sister and brother were doctors and lawyers. After the second day I asked him to stop asking me questions about the 330 because he was making me feel really stupid.
11-26-2013 | 08:29 AM
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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.
I didn't know that those rockets need to launch fully loaded with fuel for structural reasons. They're most vulnerable structurally at MaxQ, and fuel at that velocity is well below full.
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11-26-2013 | 08:34 AM
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11-26-2013 | 08:55 AM
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You're right. I was thinking of the Atlas, which had to have the tanks pressurized if not full of fuel to prevent collapse from its own weight.
11-26-2013 | 09:03 AM
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11-26-2013 | 09:08 AM
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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.
(Grasshopper is the Falcon 9 first stage, this is obviously a landing test. The last Falcon 9 first stage did perform the powered return test over water...)
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