Ok. Now that's funny. I'm going to be laughing at that one for awhile....

 

'Pickled' US Pilot loses the plot

Published: 06 Nov 2010
A BOOZY pilot was hauled off a jet after naming the wrong city as his destination, it was claimed last night.

First Officer George La Perle, 48, was said to have given off a whiff of alcohol as he told Heathrow security guards he was flying to NEW YORK.

Cops followed him and found him boarding a US plane with 213 passengers bound for DETROIT - nearly 500 miles away from the Big Apple.

La Perle, who was said to have been found in the cockpit with his laces undone, was taken off the Delta Air Lines Boeing 767 as it sat on the tarmac at Terminal 4.

At the airport police station he allegedly gave a reading almost five times the drink limit allowed for pilots. He was held in custody overnight and appeared in court in nearby Uxbridge the next day.

La Perle was said to have given a reading of 89mg of alcohol in 100ml of blood. The limit for pilots is 20mg, a quarter of the maximum for drivers. The case was adjourned until November 16.

Delta Air Lines said La Perle, of Boston, had been suspended. Scotland Yard said: "He is charged with performing an aviation duty while exceeding the alcohol limit."

Read more: ‘Pickled’ U.S. pilot lost the plot | The Sun |Home Scotland|Scottish News

 

I just got my manuals in the mail and is the 320 VII supposed to be a full size document that requires four binders?

 

If your in the stone ages and don't know it, everything is just fine. We know because we ask for things to be done that we had in the past that we can't get done now with FPS. The FPS system just plain sucks. Why can't you guys admit it and move on. Hopefully we get something newer and better than both previous systems. Example, my last flight a volcano blew off on the nopac routes. After 3 hours the dispatcher gave up trying to reroute us with FPS- simply could not get it done. We need a new system, rest my case. It will save us millions in fuel alone.

 

It wasn't me. Even though I got lucky more often than not, the last trip I did was one one of those where I left Detroit on day 1 and didn't get back until day 5, where the FO did the DTW landing. It was all in and out of ATL, which should increase those ATL DC-9 base rumors. It even had two FAA line checks where the Fed actually sat up there with us! Good times.

 

never mind, not a joke, despite the silly prose of the reporter.

On another topic:

Nu,

What did the FAA think of the battery powered GPS on the glareshield?

 

That sounds like it. Staples has a single binder that will hold the hole thing comfortably for 32 bucks. They told us to read the 10 pages (e.g. 23.10.XX) I'm about 2/3 the through. Happy reading.

 

Ok. I've looked and I can't find it. Can anyone tell me how many reserve days I would have to sit in a month with 4 days for training included? Thanks in advance.

 

I was there... were we sitting together?

 

You have it backwards, how did fNW used to fly airplanes until we were told to use FPS and AWABS and here is your training in the form of bulletins and videos?

We used to have a lot more INTERNATIONAL flexibility. As recently as last September I can recall flying a transpac random route filed 60nm south of the published track to avoid moderate turbulence. The DL 7ER was filed ON the published track and they got the crap beat out of them. Watched him on TCAS all the way across the pacific and they couldn't join us because the waypoints we filed were NOT in the FPS database.

As far as on-time performance, there is speculation that WDR problems were masked until fNW aircraft were mixed in with fDL because fNW the DOOR HAD TO BE CLOSED to generate an out time. Some people I have talked to think that some fDL were turning on the beacon early to generate the out times and thus creating a false dataset for d0 performance. I don't have any way of verifying that theory.

By all accounts FPS worked fine for domestic flights. It's international where FPS really costs us time, money and passenger comfort.

Still waiting for an answer to my three questions. Maybe alfa is the guy that wrote FPS?

1. Is the author of FPS still working at DL?
2. If so, is the author in charge of the FPS Department?
3. Is the author receiving royalties from DL for tthe use of FPS?