Scambo,

Dude, you are light years ahead of me. I wish I had your skills, shop & time. Thank you for what you do. For every guy like you, there are a hundred guys like me with two young kids (no time) who appreciate your work.

 

Scambo and Buckingbar.....can I just come and hang out in your garage and learn by osmosis? I'll bring the IPA. I love early 60's Lead Sleds. Have had 3 '64 Impalas. Want a 4th one, but this time want an SS and also semi "looking" for a '64 Thunderbird.

 

FOM is available to anyone who has access to DeltaNet. Same as IFS's red book. As for what's in it, the look on a FA's face when you tell them they are wrong about something and reference them to section XX of their book to prove it is priceless!

 

Actually they complain all the time. Just read your own rumor has it's every week and you'll almost always see something about pilots on there and it's usually wrong. The difference between us leaving the aircraft while passengers are still on board and the working FA's is the FAA requirement. We are not required by the FAA to be there.

 

It was the merger sub forum. Merger is over. AirTran no longer exists. No need for it any longer.

 

So I don't always tell the passengers goodbye, but here's why.


I fly a DC-9 with a CRJ200 galley. In that galley will be two FAs. Typically one will take position at the cockpit door while the other stands in the galley.

So I need to move them back into the galley, so I stand up. And breath down their necks until they move. Which doesn't always happen, sometimes they stay. But if I can get them to move I now have two FAs in the galley. Which is about the time the caterer shows up and he wants to be not only where they are standing but also where people are exiting.

Which is a problem. Because the place where people are exiting has now been commandeered by cleaners who look as if their lives have been threatened if the airplane is not cleaned before everyone gets off.

So it's crowded. And there's also another problem. According to Jughead when I come out of the cockpit it looks from the back like the 717 cockpit is giving birth to FTB. Complete with some struggling. And I come out head first. I try not to do the breached baby look. You see my shoulders are wider than the door. Which is a common problem if you're over 5'9 on the 717. But it's a big problem for me.

Plus I can't stand up straight in the door way so as people walk up I'm actually hunched over leaning forward towards them. It looks like a dog in a kennel one size to small for the purpose of teaching that dog a lesson. So that means to give everyone some space I need to go the jetway. Where the cleaners are.

And I'm not sure if you folks realize but there's a garage like door on the jetway about four feet from the fuselage. So I need to stand beyond that door area where there's free and open space... But of course that area is already taken by four cleaners and their bags, a mechanic who has shown up hoping there's nothing that needs to be done, and possibly two unattended wheelchairs.

So all I can do is stand right next to the door, which means as people round the corner to leave the airplane they are suddenly greeted by me as if it's the tarmac in Honolulu and I'm going to present them a lay. I'm not. Or I'm there to hold their hand, which they do occasionally reach for as they trip off. But really I'm just there to say thanks for flying with us, but unfortunately I feel as if I jus jumped out of a cake and surprised them:



I think it's better if I just never try.

 

So to prove this FA was using her phone illegally during deplaning, the other FA used her phone to take a pic?

 

Pretty sure Continental hasn't existed for longer and that merger forum is still there.

 

That merger hasn't been completely finished. Have they combined the groups yet into one and flying mixed?

 

I call BS on this one. Any attorney could get someone out of this one. She could have been 'turning off her phone.' etc. Unless the terminated FA had one huge file, I doubt more than a notice would have gone in her folder.

Baja.