I gotcha:)

Yeah I hear ya man. I want to make it clear though that I'm not angry at anybody. I was just trying to make a point about FA's. But I agree with you, management is where we need to look to, to make things "right".

Still havent done them. Now that we merged with NWA and they have the mod, they are "talking more strongly" about it, haha.

I never had to do a pole check but had to learn how since I qual'd initially on the 88. That's gotta be the most ghetto procedure I've ever heard at an airline!

LOL...

It took us MONTHS on the north side to figure out what the heck you guys were doing fiddling with the 757 APU bleed values. Off, unless your doing this, then it's on, unless it's in icing, except on alternate tuesdays during a leap year....

The answer, which they could have told us up front, is that the DAL 757 APU bleeds don't have the "smart" mod, which basically turns them off automatically if there is another bleed source available. Thus the northside procedure was to leave them on all the time.

Of course, we started the right engine first so we could get the ac/heat going sooner, but hey, that falls into the realm of "captain's discretion" now, I guess.

As for the DC-9 "pole", we had yet another solution...we trained the rampers to do it. Call into ops for an "upper wing inspection", and he/she'd come up and say "all clear", and that was done.

As for the center tank pump mod...sheesh, that's been done 5 years now. You guys musta been hiding the plans for that in the 8" floppy disk box that holds the program for DBMS.

Nu

Yeah, I remember doing them as an FO on the 88 hoping no one was watching this unusual procedure. After we got the heater blankets several years later, I don't remember ever having to do them again. We had finally turned into a REAL airplane. Well, it's been a pleasure, but I must get up early to study for my IA recurrent tests. It's an FAA mechanic thing. Later everybody. I still liked the cat thing. Ha HA

OK, one more before I leave. We sometimes had the rampers do it, but most of the time it was just easier and faster to do it ourselves.

As far as my 757 comments, sorry but I haven't flown that aircraft for about 11 years, so sort of out of the loop on it.

Topic seems to be FAs not flying with anyone but NWA pilots. If that is true and if it is also true that we don't have any NWA pilots doesn't that result in FAs(cat ranchers) who can't fly. Therefore we are severely under"manned" in the FA department and we should immediately hire hot young FAs?!!!!

I nominate Super to handle the selection process with strong emphasis on underboob!

Why the 2x3 to 3x2 seat swap
 

When we got the first MD-82/-88s, the Douglas instructor told us the aisle had to be "shifted" so it wouldn't be blocked by the large rear galley Delta had purchased. He pointed out that the F/O would have to crawl under a seat to use the gear-inspection periscope. :rolleyes:

In training they mentioned the galley was the reason and then linked it to one of the previous CEOs who had to have some sort of signature thing to hang his hat on - personally I would love to have that signature thing be profitability but I guess I'm just crazy that way.

I gotcha covered ;) :D