Originally Posted by buzzpat (Post 921210)

Christmas in Newark....living the dream baby!

Originally Posted by satchip (Post 921222)

Are you at the crew hotel? A classmate friend of mine is there too.

Originally Posted by newKnow (Post 921216)

Merry Christmas, Gentlemen. For those who worked today, I hope it was by choice and/or very profitable.

Originally Posted by Ferd149 (Post 920719)

The whole FLCH discussion is much more fun over too many beers. First time I saw it come up was in the NRT Sports Bar where we had a transplanted ALT to MSP capt with an old head MSP FO, me and my LAX Capt. The other FO, trying to get over/around some weather at one of the islands had asked for "FLCH, continuous thrust, bug me to XXX Knots" to which the answer was, "what?" I would have asked for "mountain climb mode":D

My instance was that it must be "FLCH." If it's "flight level change" then the button above it would have to be "vertical navigation" :p

Like I said, a much better story over beer:cool:

I think most of the differences are driven by something else. For example, the radio head differences are due to the crazy town that is ATL. AWABS procedures and where it is in the checklist drives the Capt to setting the TO trim. Etc, etc.

Ain't no big th'ing.............it's all 6 of one, half dozen of the other. As for the FMC, when in Rome do as the Romans do.

Ferd

Originally Posted by Cogf16 (Post 921241)

All in fun Ferd.....but "the crazy town that is ATL? Course being a Southie my perspective is skewed but I think DTW (with all the ramp and grd/twr freqs) is no different than ATL. Again, its what you're used to, but using Left radio for departure (one head) and ground then tower(for the other head) and the right radio for ramp, atis, etc makes perfect sense to me. I know that a portion of the smaller North 75 fleet has that different radio head but thats just a small %.

Frats,

Originally Posted by Ferd149 (Post 921249)

Oh I know, yes in good fun for me too:D

Shoot, DTW is nothing now. Should have been there for the old terminal!! Now that was crazy town. I had a Capt years ago tell me you'll never understand DTW until you're base there.....he was right and I assume ATL is the same.

As far as the departure freq is concerned, we had an ATIS/clearance card that fit nicely up on the dash that had the dept freq easily seen by both guys, on that rare occasion when it didn't get put in. No biggie, I like the printer better and, of course, Ill do it how ever ya want it done;).

Good to see ya back on here Cog.........tell Mike I said hi if ya see him.

Ferd

Originally Posted by Cogf16 (Post 921251)

So how is ATL confusing? Each ramp has a freq and you call ground at specific, easy to see/find spots. I guess the only confusing thing might be the tower freqs being diff for ldg and t/o. Oh and enjoying the valley of the sun right now. Missed out on 3 calls from crew sked for IA's! Hiking South Mountain or Camelback tomorrow.