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shiznit 07-19-2010 10:18 PM


Originally Posted by Carl Spackler (Post 843487)
Had a guy do that to me once too. I took the book out of his hands and closed it. Then I said, "now lets do the rest of them."

Surprisingly enough, he didn't know very many more.

Carl

That is worthy of much praise. All hail the whale!!

I'm not that creative, but boy would I love to have been the training partner for that recurrent!

newKnow 07-19-2010 11:28 PM

Woah,,,,,

What is all this stuff?

Just like a DC-9. :)

http://i970.photobucket.com/albums/a...riffin/787.jpg

forgot to bid 07-20-2010 01:52 AM


Originally Posted by hockeypilot44 (Post 843491)
Delta's training sounds like a joke. It reminds me of my former regional. It's a shame that it wasn't scrapped completely in favor of NWA's.

My former regional asked things that were not in the book, gave engine failures while doing steep turns, full maneuvers and approaches plus ground stuff with Easter eggs in a 2.5 ride with no slew and full blown jeopardy orals on recurrents.

Deltas training is very laid back, very enjoyable as long as you study what they asked you to study. The limitations and memory items are nearly non existent. Like 80 said, just wait til you try it, you'll like it. I think if someone goes off the reservation then they'll have more explaining to do then the pilot being checked.

forgot to bid 07-20-2010 02:14 AM


Originally Posted by Ferd149 (Post 843462)
You guys crack me up..............love it.

I can just picture FTB throwing MMs and me catching them in my mouth as I head down that single engine glide slope.

"approaching minimums"
"gulp, toss me another one for the landing"

"what do you mean go around"??

50... 40.. 30.20.M&M!!!! AWWW...

Actually, you want to go to training with 80, without my picture search engine and Internet idiom double checks I'll probably come off as lame. Of course the question is do you want to look like you're the smart one? If so, don't fly with 80. :D

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Best part of the 88 training, the day you meet that little yellow worm thing that pops up on the FO's yoke for an overspeed. My sim partner said it looked like a monkey penis. I laughed. I told my wife, it looks like a monkey penis. My wife says "gross!... you don't have to touch it do you?"

NO!, welll I don't know, but I'm not touching it.

forgot to bid 07-20-2010 02:17 AM

new, all that technology is to make up for what a well experienced 9 pilot has in their head. Its a handicap.
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This is for Check, more Dahlonega Nudist Retreat:

http://static.stuff.co.nz/1253431876/810/2883810.jpg

Does that cat look, perturbed on the right? Like its just figuring out something ain't right?

scambo1 07-20-2010 03:34 AM


Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 843555)
new, all that technology is to make up for what a well experienced 9 pilot has in their head. Its a handicap.
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This is for Check, more Dahlonega Nudist Retreat:

http://static.stuff.co.nz/1253431876/810/2883810.jpg

Does that cat look, perturbed on the right? Like its just figuring out something ain't right?

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Isn't Dahlonega where it was discovered that Ned Beatty had a "purty mouth?"

FTB it's a foul to post pictures like this even with perturbed cats. It is probably a bigger foul to quote them.

hockeypilot44 07-20-2010 04:09 AM


Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 843553)
My former regional asked things that were not in the book, gave engine failures while doing steep turns, full maneuvers and approaches plus ground stuff with Easter eggs in a 2.5 ride with no slew and full blown jeopardy orals on recurrents.

Deltas training is very laid back, very enjoyable as long as you study what they asked you to study. The limitations and memory items are nearly non existent. Like 80 said, just wait til you try it, you'll like it. I think if someone goes off the reservation then they'll have more explaining to do then the pilot being checked.

You're making me feel a little better. Still, I haven't taken an oral or had hard memory items in years.

acl65pilot 07-20-2010 04:15 AM

There is a push to go to a Hard Card for the Recall Items but to date that has not occurred.

Also think of it this way. We are not required to know a/c weights just fuel capacities. It is a "big boy" course. I have taken a few PC's here and a few other events and a few full training courses. It is probably the best way to get the required checks in em boxes with the least amount of pain. Of course I would like a little more class work on the systems, but we as pilots have proven that a bare bones course works and that we can be successful with it. It will be really hard to convince the finance guys to throw millions that way, so the onus is on us to make it work.

DAL4EVER 07-20-2010 04:56 AM


Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 843555)
new, all that technology is to make up for what a well experienced 9 pilot has in their head. Its a handicap.
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This is for Check, more Dahlonega Nudist Retreat:

http://static.stuff.co.nz/1253431876/810/2883810.jpg

Does that cat look, perturbed on the right? Like its just figuring out something ain't right?

The one on the right looks like Stalin reincarnated in this life as the cat to some nudist goofballs. The look says, "and if I was half the pus*y I was in a former life you'd be in a worker's camp not a nudist camp right now." Kharma takes a nasty turn here.

DAL4EVER 07-20-2010 05:01 AM


Originally Posted by hockeypilot44 (Post 843491)
Delta's training sounds like a joke. It reminds me of my former regional. It's a shame that it wasn't scrapped completely in favor of NWA's.

The sim portion is fine. But the systems (100 series) is a joke now. I understand the reasoning behind it, but my last full course involved 1.5 hours of actual systems review. Nothing like the "old days". That said, they don't go into the minutia of the old days.

No, "what's your favorite system?"

"Electrics."

"Great, I'm an electron, now show me everywhere I will travel over the next three hours of the oral."

In memory of the 727.


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