I did it, and it was a blast.

"La Guardia tower, Jetlink 3333 over the lady, VFR to Hartford...", "Jetlink 3333, cleared into the Bravo via Central Park, overhead the tower cab, bridge, at 2000".

 

Almost 20 years ago, my newhire sim partner was a FO on a COEX Brasilia that did the exact same thing to the same airport. Said it was a clear night,, center was pushing them to call the field for a visual. The saw the wrong one and landed. He was on probation and never got his job back. Feel bad for the crew.

 

Being an airline guy prior to going to UPT, I found it comical that the USAF taught/approved us "direct" to a fix, using DME, an RMI, and the bottom half of your pencil. In a T-38, doing 10NM/min.

I didn't explain that method very well. Probably about as well as my "directs" looked on a radar scope.

If you remember doing this, I guess you understood it, sort of.

 

At this point the trajectories of Bombardier and Dornier start to overlap.

For Bombardier the C-Series is the corporate equivalent of the DO 728/928
LH was again the launch customer, but few other orders trickled in.
For Dornier, just like for Bombardier the bread-and-butter plane orders dried up. At this point Bombardier's order backlog is minuscule and the promised profits from the C-Series are far away...

Boeing doing the 737-7MAX just put another nail in the coffin for the C-Series.

Bombardiers saving grace is the Q400 and the corporate portfolio...

Cheers
George

 

How do you do a blind swap? I thought a blind swap was just putting in for trips that are not in open time yet.

 

 

I believe I speak for everyone when I say that I prefer Friday afternoon underboob over creepy clapping guy.

 

80,
I thought you had training.... Do not tell me you are already done for the day.

 

AF is reducing capacity over the North Atlantic not increasing capacity on routes covered by the JV agreement. The share of flying each can do is carefully spilled out in the agreement and our section 1. That is why we are picking up AF's route from ORD to CDG. They had to move it over to Delta to keep within the contractual limits until we pick our flying back up in the spring.

There was a meeting back in July where they hammered out the JV cuts.
"Meanwhile, the announced 9 percent cut in combined transatlantic capacity across Delta, Air France-KLM and Alitalia operations "reflects an evolution of where we are in the running of the joint venture," said Delta senior vice president of Europe, the Middle East and Africa Perry Cantarutti, "and running it not just as a conglomeration of four networks but as its own business."

 

On my DC-9 rating ride, the APD cleared me direct to a fix to enter holding. When he commented "I don't know how you did that", I replied "Neither do I."