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03-04-2015 | 02:40 PM

#179071

RetiredFTS

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From: 7ER Costar

Anyone else having trouble logging into secure content locker on efb? Flight Deck working fine!

03-04-2015 | 02:44 PM

#179072

Check Essential

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From: 737 ATL

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Originally Posted by forgot to bid

I've also known plenty of guys on this forum who were within a couple of days of training on a plane and held something else and got out of it.

I'm one of those.
Three days from training on a mandatory displacement I got a reinstatement.

03-04-2015 | 02:57 PM

#179073

CheapTrick

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From: A350

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Originally Posted by Purple Drank

$4.7 million for enhanced FOQA mods

So management can measure with a micrometer what some fleets' FMSs can't even perform within a yardstick.

Here's an idea. Use the money to update aircraft horizontal and vertical nav performance... not to compile an arcane data trove.

Purple, why don't you do a little research on the mod before pulling out the six shooter and shooting from the hip? Talk to someone. Make a call. Find out why the enhanced FOQA mod was pulled from the 2015 budget and then put back by RA himself when recent circumstances showed the benefit to all of us.

You really are a piece of work. Just buy a dog you can beat.

Last edited by CheapTrick; 03-04-2015 at 03:34 PM. Reason: Had to by a "u".

03-04-2015 | 03:05 PM

#179074

Purple Drank

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From: Record-Shattering Profit Facilitator

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Originally Posted by CheapTrick

Sounds like you have that information. Elucidate. I want to be enlightened.

I'm an idealist. I want everything to deliver as promised, and work as well in practice as it does in theory. Show me the way.

Last edited by Purple Drank; 03-04-2015 at 03:39 PM.

03-04-2015 | 03:25 PM

#179075

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Originally Posted by Timbo

No, I'm thinking it should be...

Ass Imilate!

Or perhaps, an Ass in ten, not nine.

That would be a cat ass trophy.

03-04-2015 | 03:32 PM

#179076

Check Essential

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From: 737 ATL

Quote:

Originally Posted by CheapTrick

Purple, why don't you do a little research on the mod before pulling out the six shooter and shooting from the hip?
You really are a piece of work. Just buy a dog you can beat.

Love me some Purple Drank.

But sometimes I get the feeling that all the neighbor kids stay off his lawn.

Last edited by Check Essential; 03-04-2015 at 03:49 PM.

03-04-2015 | 03:37 PM

#179077

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03-04-2015 | 03:41 PM

#179078

CheapTrick

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From: A350

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Originally Posted by Purple Drank

Sounds like you have that information. Elucidate us. I want to be enlightened.

I'm an idealist. I want everything to deliver as promised, and work as well in practice as it does in theory. Show me the way.

I do have the pertnits, but so do a whole bunch of others. This isn't the venue yet. Just ask someone in your cpo. It is so easy. Just call them up and ask, instead of disparaging others with your paranoia. It will destroy ya.

Btw, idealists work for the common good. You skew toward anarchy.

03-04-2015 | 03:59 PM

#179079

Hillbilly

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From: 7ERA

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Originally Posted by forgot to bid

I've also known plenty of guys on this forum who were within a couple of days of training on a plane and held something else and got out of it. But then again, I've heard of people who weren't allowed out and went through 2/3 of their training on the new airplane.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Check Essential

I'm one of those.
Three days from training on a mandatory displacement I got a reinstatement.

That's a little different. Mandatory Displacements do not incur a category freeze that begins on the date of the award like an AE or new hire pilot assignment. MDs never prevent a pilot from being awarded something on a subsequent bid.

The pilots I am aware of that have gotten out of AE awards and the associated category freeze in the past all had some personal family issue/crisis that they presented to the company requesting the release from the award as a one off. Even then, they were only granted if the company could make the staffing work. These days, I'm not confident they have much staffing flexibility to work with in that regard.

Last edited by Hillbilly; 03-04-2015 at 04:00 PM. Reason: grammar

03-04-2015 | 04:01 PM

#179080

TheManager

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Originally Posted by sailingfun

FOQA is one of the best safety tools around. A significant number of Delta aircraft do not have FOQA. It's time to get all aircraft equipped.

I know there are plenty of ASAPs out there concerning the noise level, communication issues, and the lack of intercom in the 757 replacement jet.

The .005 cent rubber solution has been declared verboten! How about a damn intercom switch!?!?

They are making billions right? But FOQA for an 88. Crap, shouldn't they spend the money to enhance the AP and FMC so that the chance of it capturing altitudes is actually 100% first?

Vent over.