FYI,

After much further research and pondering, 80ktsClamp now supports and votes for:

CS and BC for CA reps

DN and PM for FO reps.



Cuss, and discuss!

 

The only difference with these is that there will be LCA input where there was none last time. The previous ones were to provide feed back to the A-Team and the guys working on the transition. This time around that still stands, but they are also going to be providing clarification to the procedures.
I say great, I am sure I will learn something new.

 

Flew with a LCA recently. The blitz, although planned awhile ago, is also trying to find out why were making more mistakes. Could it be the stress of bankruptcy, loss of pension, furloughs, 40% + paycuts, recession and 401k cut in half, stress since 9-11, merger, ect... Just curious, do you think we've had more suicides and divorces in the last few years???

 

+1

Just hand him your paystub and say "Line check this!"

 

All of those things are a safety issue. IMO, this should have been considered by management at the time they got the bright idea to decimate our profession. And, given that they obviously didn't consider it, it should have been pointed out by ALPA in the strongest possible terms. Bottom line, we need people representing us who recognize this safety issue and are not afraid to call a spade a spade. Vote accordingly.

Several years ago (right after we had taken the full 42% pay cut and lost our pension), I had something happen with a flight that I thought illustrated the inconsistency of management's focus on safety. We were taking off on runway 30 at IAD. At 60 knots on the takeoff roll, the right engine failed. We discontinued the takeoff and taxied back to the gate. No huge deal really... if you're going to lose an engine, 60 knots on the takeoff roll on a 10,000' runway is a pretty decent place for it to happen, right? Well, we hadn't been back to the gate for 10 minutes when the phone was ringing... chief pilot's office calling. They wanted to know if we, as a crew, were "okay to continue" flying that day. This is apparently standard procedure when something like that happens. I'm sure that the reason for it is two fold... safety and legal.

This bring up an interesting question. Which is more stressful and has the most potential for distraction going forward? Losing an engine at 60 knots on a 10,000' runway? Or having your pay cut by 42%, losing your pension, and having thousands of your jobs outsourced?

I guess... maybe safety is the #1 priority as long as it doesn't cost much?

 

Can someone please refresh me on the CatIII ban for ATL 10 ? I think it was originally an autoland issue, but was changed to allow CatII. Recent phase of flight changes require Autoland for CatII, so is Autoland CatII ok on Atl 10 ?......clear as mud ?

Thanks

 

It could be because of the little note that says "1. ILS Localizer unusable for rollout guidance."

I checked the notams for ATL and didn't see anything listed specifically.

 

The plot thickens :

The ATL ILS 10, and PRM ILS 10 both have a note saying " localizer unuseable for rollout guidance." Hence , Jepp only lists Cat IIIA minima instead of Cat IIIB, which requires Rollout guidance. Delta no longer recognizes this distinction, but the new terms being phased in are CatIII with rollout/ without rollout...which have different rvr requirements.

The kicker: our AM, p.3-14, under Autoland Considerations prohibits autoland if Jepp has a restictive note regarding the localizer, or glideslope.

So, our AM and Jepp conflict with the notam that is issued with our flight release , currently allowing Cat II to Rwy 10......iIthink this notam did not keep up with the phase of flight change to require autoland for Cat II

Any LCA's out there ?

 

Someone just told me that there was a program that we could use with the PBS bidding program called "bid buddy." Has any one heard of this? Is there a link you can send me? Thanks.

New K Now

 

I always hear the FA's talk about this. They are like little gaggles typically and buddy bid with the same ones. I've never seen that option on our PBS.

I think that would break a pilot manlove boundary to buddy bid.