Delta Family
 

I know there are a lot of lurkers on this thread here as well as the regular posters. So I apologize for the thread drift, but I figured this would get maximum exposure.

I wanted to call everyone's attention to a recent posting on the deltanet main page regarding a DCCU account set up for the son of a fellow Delta employee who lost his life while at work. Let's really show this kid what it means to be a part of the Delta Family!

If it's ok with the captain, it's ok with me. ;)

Any way for you to attach it somehow to one of these posts? It's been so long since I've seen the WorldFlight plans, I'd like to keep a copy.

Carl

Schoolhouse in the '70s
 

newK,

DALsouth geezers appreciate the Virginia Avenue complex because they remember how training used to be 30+ years ago. Ground school was in the CDC building (Centers for Disease Control, no kidding), a short hike to the Northeast. No computers, just slides and overhead projectors. Sims were a cab ride away (in a questionable neighborhood) at the Greenbriar office complex. Ditching training was at a local YMCA pool. Housing was at the infamous Admiral Benbow hotel.
It's much better now, but probably less fun. :p

Less fun than that? :eek:

Sounds like you got out just in time. :D

For Satch and other soccer lovers:

For the ESPN empire and Univision, any questions about the return on their investment in the World Cup are being answered by viewers. On Saturday, the United States’ loss to Ghana was seen by 14.9 million on ABC — an American record for the tournament — and an additional 4.5 million on Univision.

That’s 19.4 million viewers for a Round of 16 game on a Saturday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. Eastern — the same number that Fox averaged over six prime-time games for last year’s World Series.

NY Times Article

I'm an American football fan and not very interested in the world cup, and there are some things that irritate me like the clock and I guess bad officiating, but even Colin Cowherd is saying ripping on soccer is very 1980/1990s. Ouch. Go Brasil!

Go %@*# yourself!

Sorry Scoop...couldn't resist. :D

Carl

I'm right there with you Moon - reserve is getting old. The remaining conversions to the MSP 88 category should be done by early fall (take a look at the projected conversion list) - hopefully the unfilled vacancies will have new hires in them by the end of the year. The first "new" 90 (ship 9217) should be on line this week if it isn't already. Not sure about the schedule for the rest.

Having said all that, I don't think that the excess staffing in MSP is a result of not having the 90's - there are plenty of 88's for us to fly! At this point it's still a base in transition. SLC is still drawing down and our flying in MSP hasn't stabilized yet.

As a side note - we need to push the powers that be into placarding the weight limitations on the 88/90 fleet. Having to memorize tail number specific limitations is ridiculous.

Thanks man. On it.

Carl

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