Originally Posted by Sink r8 (Post 1605552)

It would be a more comfortable world for all, but I don't see how it could be implemented. We only have it because A lines are posted first, so you know you're avoiding a trip awarded to that Captain. When A's are awarded, you don't know what B is on the trip.

Originally Posted by hoserpilot (Post 1605444)

Pm me your email and I'll send some pics. Super easy. I bought my stuff from the local growler store. He had extra commercial taps and a quality regulator. The CO2 bottle gets replaced/refilled after a few kegs by him for $20. One tap handle I bought off eBay (Dogfish) and the other I made from my sons hockey stick. Homey's Depot had the 3/8 adaptor for a dollar to attach the stick to my tap. Now I'm looking for a thrust lever to make another tap handle.

Originally Posted by buzzpat (Post 1605371)

It's not just Fox. At least FNC is interviewing actual pilots. They've got an active CA and an FAA guy on right now.

It's been horrible across the board. You think MSNBC is doing it better?

Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 1605560)

the awkward part would be when the FO looks at the reasons report and sees he was denied a trip because he was on a Captains avoid. then he manages to trade for it.


i get the reason for it, my problem is eventually i wont be able to hold a line. :D

Originally Posted by badflaps (Post 1605574)

They are all horrible. When they talk about something you have some knowledge of, and they are so off, it makes the rest of their information on other subjects suspect. PAN? PAN? Who the he// uses PAN......

Originally Posted by hoserpilot (Post 1605381)

The poor Captains get to deal with "Fumes".

I had my one experience with the "Hermanator". What an a$$. I actually just put my seat all the way back and my feet up on the foot rests. Didn't say a word until a checklist was required.

Only later did I find out he was infamous. If I ever fly with that jerkoff again we will have a closed door brief where he shuts his pie-hole and listens to me. If he screws up even a teenie tiny bit were heading to pro-stans. I will not let this jerk treat a new-hire the way he "tried" to treat me.

He asked a question and I gave him the answer. He didn't believe me so he started a three-way call with dispatch and the duty pilot. Shortly after the call ended and ACARS message came through. The message stated, "your FO is right". No $hit sherlock!!!! Our FO's, myself included, have a couple decades experience before we show up here. That guy is a major tool!!!!! This was just the first thing he did. This tool didn't even know that you could have the localizer set off of the actual course and still fly it straight down the pipe. He was all worked up over a recent runway redesignation that was 2 degrees different than the ILS course. I turned mine 30 degrees off and showed him my centered needle. Duh!!

The icing on the cake was when we landed in fog and he missed not one but TWO taxiways. I told him both times but he shushed me, pointing his finger in my face. F U you jerk. I finally told him he could get lost on his own, in the fog, in MKE.

Later I flew with a 4th floor bubba. I told him, without names, about my experience. He stated, "you must've flown with the Hermanator". Yup. We have an extensive file on him.

Why the H E double hockey sticks do we not fire people like this. New-hire's do not deserve to deal with this turkey.

Originally Posted by badflaps (Post 1605574)

They are all horrible. When they talk about something you have some knowledge of, and they are so off, it makes the rest of their information on other subjects suspect. PAN? PAN? Who the he// uses PAN......

Originally Posted by sinca3 (Post 1605591)

Originally Posted by Bucking Bar (Post 1605589)

Pan Pan Pan is a notification of an urgent situation (like pax medical) in the we've got some time bucket. Pan x 3 means that craft is to be treated with urgency, but does not require immediate assistance. (go to the gate)

Mayday is a distress call. A notification that the craft and people aboard are in imminent danger and call for anyone who can to render assistance. (roll the trucks)

Although we lump both terms into "emergency," some might prefer use the correct verbiage to avoid a lot of conversation about what you need and what time bucket your "emergency" is in. As you know, it is a common IP trick to try to distract you from checklists with questions over your simulated radio. This usually answers their questions and shuts them up (both simulated and in real life).