Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
12-14-2013 | 11:33 AM
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If he's a 777B, he should have enough experience whether previous civilian job or the military. I'm by no means Chuck Yeager, or NewK but I went from the widebody world to my first capt checkout on a plane I never had flown as an FO. For that matter neither of my capt. gigs have been on planes I flew as FO. It's not rocket surgery.
12-14-2013 | 11:39 AM
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I looked at them. They reminded me of my DC-9 days.
Hopefully, that will change when more of the 717's come on line.
12-14-2013 | 11:41 AM
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12-14-2013 | 11:43 AM
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If he's a 777B, he should have enough experience whether previous civilian job or the military. I'm by no means Chuck Yeager, or NewK but I went from the widebody world to my first capt checkout on a plane I never had flown as an FO. For that matter neither of my capt. gigs have been on planes I flew as FO. It's not rocket surgery.
Rocket surgery sounds easy compared to all this weird laws you have to learn on that French thing you flew.
I mean, how hard can it be to operate on a rocket?
12-14-2013 | 12:12 PM
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From: Douglas Aerospace post production Flight Test & Work Around Engineering bulletin dissembler
IMHO there is an awful lot of oddball stuff about the MD88 that is really only teachable by experience.Ask Iran?
Oh, that was Carl's point.
12-14-2013 | 12:17 PM
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As a copilot there's a lot of craziness. As a captain, you just look over at the copilot sweating and huffing and puffing as he's pushing and pulling levers, warming up the steam engine, and feeding the horde of angry monkeys in the avionics bay. You take a sip of your coffee, use both hands to turn the tiller, and ask the copilot if he's busy or something.
12-14-2013 | 12:23 PM
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Goggles,
I think a first time Captain bid is a freebie on any aircraft. Can anyone confirm- no seat lock for first CAPT bid?
Disregard - I think from Scambos post above the answer is no seat lock for first CAPT bid.
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12-14-2013 | 12:26 PM
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From: Douglas Aerospace post production Flight Test & Work Around Engineering bulletin dissembler
As a copilot there's a lot of craziness. As a captain, you just look over at the copilot sweating and huffing and puffing as he's pushing and pulling levers, warming up the steam engine, and feeding the horde of angry monkeys in the avionics bay. You take a sip of your coffee, use both hands to turn the tiller, and ask the copilot if he's busy or something.
Since Douglas is kinda big on this aspect ratio ... how does this land in a crosswind?
"Wings do nothing but cause parasitic drag, we're eliminating them as much as we can" ... Mr. Donald Willis Douglas.
12-14-2013 | 12:26 PM
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12-14-2013 | 12:28 PM
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Delta back into Juneau in May. First time since what... 1995?
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