Originally Posted by acl65pilot (Post 990336)

No Pre-takeoff. :D

Originally Posted by Ed Harley (Post 990373)

I know this rumor comes and goes on here and it's usually debunked, but I've heard recently from some mid level tech ops guys that delta and southwest are engaged in serious talks about a deal involving us getting their 717's for some of our B737's and some gate swaps in atl. Again, just rumor but this seemed interesting.

Originally Posted by Ed Harley (Post 990373)

I know this rumor comes and goes on here and it's usually debunked, but I've heard recently from some mid level tech ops guys that delta and southwest are engaged in serious talks about a deal involving us getting their 717's for some of our B737's and some gate swaps in atl. Again, just rumor but this seemed interesting.

Originally Posted by Ed Harley (Post 990373)

I know this rumor comes and goes on here and it's usually debunked, but I've heard recently from some mid level tech ops guys that delta and southwest are engaged in serious talks about a deal involving us getting their 717's for some of our B737's and some gate swaps in atl. Again, just rumor but this seemed interesting.

Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 990141)

My experience, half do PA's, half don't, most all of the southies A on the 88 do the descent PA. A few don't and when I'm PM you can bet the FA's don't get their 20 min warning because I assumed the Captain was gonna do it...

Of the half that do them, maybe a third or so shouldn't and of those many need to read the FOM on silent hours.

Of that half that don't, maybe 2/3rds should pick it up? Because some really great A's should speak more often, they do it really well.

However, there are those who do a bit too much pilot lingo. And I was deadheading on a plane once and the Captain did a full 5-8 min talk (time that out, that's very long on a PA) to explain something about global warming and fuel saved collectively by flying on an airliner versus if everyone had driven or something, anyways, solves global warming. It was a long PA and the A has my permission to do whatever he wants without hearing me question it, but I do tend to favor the right wing of the airplane so it was a tad longer.

The more you ride in the back the less PA's you make because frankly all you hear back there is one FA PA after another.




Depends, what's on the back? :D

I did join Toomers for Tuscaloosa.

By the way, I'm sure other organizations are doing this too but one way my church has decided to help is for us to go to Walmart, Target, Lowes or Home Depot and buy gift cards. They distribute them to those who need them or to those helping those who need them.

Originally Posted by Red Five (Post 990394)

For what its worth, I flew with that guy and I thought it was a great PA :)

Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 990388)

The SWA management types recently told their pilots that there is no plans to "sell 717s to Delta... In 2011."

If I were SWA and DAL, I'd look at swapping all of DALs D gates to C gates and moving SWA out of C to D, that way they have the whole terminal and we can condense our domestic ops.

Originally Posted by JobHopper (Post 989983)

You'll find 1Password at agilebits.com and Dropbox at Dropbox.com extremely useful. Other than that, iWorks is all I've needed for years. iLife might be in order if you're creative, but the App store lets you selectively download any additional programs you might want like iPhoto, games, etc.

Don't bother with the Windows stuff; totally unnecessary.

DO NOT use Firefox 4; download 3.6.17. I haven't heard if they fixed version 4 yet.

Welcome to the Age of Enlightenment! "Once you've had Mac, you'll never go back!" :D

Originally Posted by Nosmo King (Post 990069)

When you get Firefox, get versi9on 3.6 instead of 4.0 it will work better with iCrew.

The $9 version of Office also applies to Mac if you haven't already used it for Windows.

Google Chrome.

Handbrake if you want videos on layover unless you are going to carry an external DVD drive cuz the Air doesn't have an internal one.

Skype.

Inkscape if you want a free graphics proggy, but you will have to learn it on your own.

TInkertool if you want to tweak stuff behind the scenes in MacOS.