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Originally Posted by Karnak (Post 1756704)

Got to my "room" at the Roosevelt last night.

A bed. A lamp. A TV bolted to the wall. Bathroom door wouldn't open all the way because the bed was blocking it.

This "room" is so small, I have to go outside to change my mind.

Well, still a good location. I forgot where I went not long ago but it was a Crowne Plaza and it was close to this:

http://ourlighterside.com/stuff/plum...l/ATT00011.jpg

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Originally Posted by Karnak (Post 1756704)

There is one room there that the bed literally goes from wall to wall. You have to climb over the bed to get to the desk and lamp on the other side. I've got that room twice. I'm sure it is reserved for airline employees only.

You must have gotten the Hobbit-accessible rooms.

Seniority at retirement calculator

A while ago someone showed me a calculator that would show you your seniority at your retirement date. I can't remember where it was..

Anyone know?

Thx,
MCFlyer

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Originally Posted by MCFlyer (Post 1756740)

A while ago someone showed me a calculator that would show you your seniority at your retirement date. I can't remember where it was..

Anyone know?

Thx,
MCFlyer

Ezopenboard.com/delta

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Originally Posted by Karnak (Post 1756704)

Why do we stay there? Its absurd IMO. Nothing like an all nighter to JFK to get stuck in early a.m. traffic for an hour trying to go "downtown." ALPA's downtown fetish might need to be tweaked in a few locations.

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Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp (Post 1755538)

787's are their major order. I'm assuming there is a "FLY" button there, too. ;)

It'll totally work becuse they make up for actual flying experience with inhuman quantities of bookwork and theory. :rolleyes:

all we did was invent the entire industry, although to their credit they beat us to the punch with the Comet. So, yeah.

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Originally Posted by Mesabah (Post 1756135)

I'm not a fan of using batteries to replace internal combustion. I would rather focus on fusion, or the production of artificial oil.

Theoretically, there is enough Thorium that if it were used in molten salt breeder reactors, there would be enough excess energy to produce hydrocarbons. If the government stopped wasting money on entitlements, and invested in three key technologies, Thorium molten salt reactors, Indium antimonide fast semiconductors, and coal liquefaction/bio fuels using nuclear heat. It would not only eliminate our dependence on foreign oil, it would stabilize the economy for several generations.

You know they would just monazite that stability into more entitlements. Until we change the politics of voting yourself other people's money and limit the power of the state, the state will continue the eliptical cycle of boom and bust economics, bailouts, wars abroad and police states at home. Tyrrany is the natural order of society. Freedom through vigilance is the exception, and we've lost our vigilance long ago.

The closest we might come WRT revolutionary tech in this regard IMO is either abiotic oils or bio fuels. Real bio fuels though, like algae petrol, etc. Not the insane corn lobby nonsense that sucks up more petrol than it saves. :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Mesabah (Post 1756353)

Single pilot will be viable in 5 years.

Not even close. Single and even no pilot tech is technically available now. Just scale up a Citation/King Air/Predator. Big deal. But no one cares if those crash. To get true single pilot "one heartbeat away" redundancy in an airliner sized plane carrying paying pax will require a massive network of 10 autopilots, 10 auto throttles, full redundant hacker proof remote controls, several self contained autoland systems capabile of any airport anywhere (including numerous redundant steering, reversing, remote circuit resetting tech and everything else) and so much other stuff. They could easily do all of that today, but it'll be a very, very, very long time before all that is cheaper than the laughable block hour costs of an FO.

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Originally Posted by Doug Masters (Post 1756760)

Actually NYC is one area where it has been "tweaked." It takes a layover of 15 hours or more to go into Manhattan. Otherwise you will be at the airport hotel.

As always submit a hotel FCR and cc ALPA on it if your hotel stay is unacceptable. It really is the only way that change will happen.