Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
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“I was in row 96F. You might want to get a brake job on that right (or left) main gear. I’m not a mechanic or anything, but you probably want to get that done…. roll tihde”
[Said after every other landing on the 88.]
A previous airline told me the manufacture never specified parking brake off on the quick turnaround cooling table so there's no need to release them.
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Can someone point me to the reference that requires permission from Delta for me to take a side flying gig?
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If my memory serves me....over the past several decades...the shutdown procedure on 1 (or more) of the 7 aircraft type I flew was...."chocks in, brakes released" as the expected answer on the shutdown checklist. The company 's desire was for the chocks to be installed and the brakes released prior to exiting the plane. Consequently, I'm not sure why this is even being addressed as basically "Capt's are stoopid, why the rush"? That's just the way it was done. Kinda like the lowering of flaps automatically 30 years ago, which went away after the Delta/NW merger and... surprise ....suprise....it's BAAACK. Another ridiculous question could be....Why is the FO always in such a hurry to lower the flaps?....Kinda silly to ask why ask why. So Trip....I'm still curious what the answer is, now that you know it. I provided my insight, curious if it aligns with yours....or if you are just imagining some wedge issue where you can feel superior?
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PB day question for the scheduling gurus. So thanks to advice on this forum I successfully used one of my PBs to WS and then drop an "actual" OT trip. I'm wondering if the same thing can be done for a "qualified" OT trip if the coverage is positive? Or even with a straight pickup from the P2P swap board? TIA.
PB day question for the scheduling gurus. So thanks to advice on this forum I successfully used one of my PBs to WS and then drop an "actual" OT trip. I'm wondering if the same thing can be done for a "qualified" OT trip if the coverage is positive? Or even with a straight pickup from the P2P swap board? TIA.
Another heads up along these lines, if your vacation weeks are useless to you, you can apply as much credit as you want from them to cover dropped trips in any month. You can call scheduling and some of them know how to do it. Otherwise the kosher method is Fight Ops home page and under Popular Tools select Contact Crew Resources.
You'll see VACB on your schedule and however many hours you wanted to use will be in your Time Card. For example, if you had a 25 hour trip and only really wanted to use 9 hours, you'd request 9 hours from the front or back of Primary vacation (or Secondary, etc.) be used to cover B and C days (or whatever days you want to cover the credit of).
BEWARE: Once VACB is on your schedule, you can no longer work that day, just like an actual vacation day.
If you want to maintian flexibility, you can always wait until after those days have passed and go back to add VACB later.
Last edited by LumberJack; 09-25-2021 at 08:59 PM.
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