The Dude, memorialized by my Avitar was a Douglas Electrical Engineer who like Steve Jobs, physically went to the Stanford campus, mostly because the acid & weed were cheaper there. Then, as you know he met the Nihlists, who changed his life. Nihlism is a philosophical doctrine that suggests the negation of one or more putatively meaningful aspects of life. Most commonly, nihilism is presented in the form of existential nihilism, which argues that life is without objective meaning, purpose, or intrinsic value. Electrical nihilists assert that electricity does not inherently exist, and that any established values (voltage, cycles, amps) are abstractly contrived. Nihilism can also take epistemological or ontological/metaphysical forms, meaning respectively that, in some aspect, knowledge is not possible, or that reality does not actually exist.

The term is sometimes used in association with anomie to explain the general mood of despair at a perceived pointlessness of existence that one may develop upon realising there are no necessary norms, rules, or laws of physics. (or in Minnesota speak ... Captain ... "that's different", First Officer "...,whatever")

Now that you know Jeffrey Lebowski, who was one of the most distinguished nihilistic electrical engineers who ever graduated from a correspondence course in California, designed the system, this thoughts and madness you can better appreciate why schematics do not begin to explain the continuously variable, unknown, and unknowable electrical system he designed.

Wozniak, on acid, probably could figure it out. You or me? We just take these things on faith in little blue lights.

Recall the difference between a new MD88 pilot and an experienced MD88 pilot.

• New pilot: Delta 1407 what's your assigned...? [LEFT]"Holy Crap! Did you see what it did?"[/LEFT
• Experienced: it did that again ... Delta 1407 what's your assigned XXX ?... "whatever"

I bought a bike from one of those over the weekend. Said he doesn't care what name is on the check as long as it doesn't bounce. :D

Did said electrical engineer move to Boeing after the merger with McDonalds Douglas and design the 787? :D

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According to his monthly column in Flying, Les is still a 777 pilot and check airman.
Why don't you 777 guys come join us in the GA world? You will get lots of landings. And while your women in sail boats lounge around in bikinis, our women climb up on wings in mini skirts to check fuel. :p

Heyas Clamp,

I would hesitate to discuss something like this or treat it flippantly. Training issues are a serious affair, best left to the individual, the company and the Training Committee/Contract Administration.

There are a lot of other things to talk about.

Nu

CASS is down again. Trying to JS on DAL metal to EWR to go to CDG and the agent is goving me the run around. I had to go to the CPO to get the clueless moron to understand that Cass doesn't apply to Delta metal if you are an employee. I tried to show her the FOM.

I agree. I find the Navtech PBS Desktop Application to be much easier to deal with than Easybid. Easybid was the bomb for Line of Time bidding, but not so much for PBS.

Perhaps, but inside all of us there is that little man who would love to do just what he did. He had a good run, become a legend.

Here's a simple guide for avoiding "Training Issues" if you are a moderately skilled, medium intelligence, or just plain unmotivated pilot (jeesh, guess how I know this). So you show up at the Sim and the LCA is this:

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Then you have choices:

Choice A:

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Probably not going to work very well.

Choice B:

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Probably will work ... works best while saying something like "that's the best aviation advice I've ever received, thank you, yes, I will do it just like that when I fly single engine raw data NDB approaches with a flap abnormal into DCA on the line ... ." Added points for, "have you been working out? Jeesh you look good for a 72 year old F4 driver" or "your wife is the prettiest 310 lb bald woman I've ever seen."

That's some funny stuff Bar. Both funny and true.