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When Crew Scheduling has their Christmas party this year and decides to play the best calls of 2015... I might be one off them.
http://terriblycute.com/files/2012/0...ny-632x355.jpg It was like 2am and my wife wakes me up. At that moment, I didn't who she was. She said it was Delta. I had no idea who that was either. She said it was scheduling. This isn't getting any better. Then I don't know what I said. My wife the next day said she was listening to me talk and felt like saying "WAKE UP! WAKE UP!" He mentioned a green slip. So I told him didn't I just pick up a 2 day white slip? he said no. And he was right. I have no idea why I said that. He told me it was a green slip. I said okay. And I'm not sure what happened next. Or how it ended. But I did do the trip. For the record, I don't drink. And I never will. |
I just double posted. Everything is going wrong.
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On that topic....is there an official wait time they need to wait before moving onto the next in line for a GS? I believe it's 10 minutes, but not sure if that is an official number.
I guess GS w/conflict has no wait time....basically you don't answer, scheduling moves on. Still learning the hard way after all these years. |
Originally Posted by Klondike Bear
(Post 1946079)
Letting us get on the Internet and pull up a radar map on the surface would go along way to mitigating these issues. When you have two holes to go through and you just have to pick one is a gamble. We need to stack the cards more in our deck. They could give us a password to use today for the wifi.
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Originally Posted by badflaps
(Post 1946100)
That would make too much sense, they would be worried that abuse would follow and guys and girls would be watching the "View."
And crews chomp at the bit to throw each other under the bus when it could easily happen to anyone. Meanwhile our 30-300M airliners have less resources and SA available to them than single engine piston aircraft, or our passengers in the back. :mad: |
I remember when the back page of USA Today was the weather briefing......
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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CLzbSj6UYAEcGtG.jpg Who knew... the usa today still existed? http://www.usatoday.com/story/todayi...ille/31279093/ |
Originally Posted by gloopy
(Post 1946132)
Its a function of superficial liability more than anything. If they give you something new there's a possibility it might not work out. Therefore its better to do nothing and rely on the same out dated "technology" like long lines of code with no vowels and asinine TP's that cover most of the country most of the time and are borderline meaningless. That way if something happens they can say "oh well you know you should have avoided that general area because it was possible". :mad:
And crews chomp at the bit to throw each other under the bus when it could easily happen to anyone. Meanwhile our 30-300M airliners have less resources and SA available to them than single engine piston aircraft, or our passengers in the back. :mad: |
Originally Posted by jamesrhatcher
(Post 1946066)
A good conservative rule of thumb that I use is never fly downwind of a cell if at all possible. On occasions where flying upwind of the cell isn't possible, I use 1 nm per knot of wind coming off the cell for minimum distance for avoidance. For example, if winds coming off a cell are showing 85 knots, I'll pass at least 85 nm from the cell, but never less than 25 when above FL250. Also, I read that the flight was running about 90 minutes behind schedule. I wonder how much, if any, the pressure to make up time and get back on schedule played in this event. Here's an excellent tool I use in my flight planning: Storm Prediction Center Convective Outlooks
I hope some of this is helpful. |
Badflaps,
"It's forecast to be yellow" |
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