Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
12-01-2011 | 03:08 PM
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On the 320, the after start checklist can't be done until pushback is complete is the one I don't get. It's not "before taxi" anymore! So we sit there and pick our noses burning gas waiting for the waveoff that isn't on checklist anymore...
At least we don't have a super long callout at 80 knots anymore (remember "engine instruments checked"?) and don't call out every nuance of the FMA on CAT II/III...
See, I look at both sides of the coin.
12-01-2011 | 03:09 PM
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Anybody fly in or out of SLC today? Apparently there were 90 mph winds in the valley with a strong easterly wind setting up a big mountain wave over the Wasatch range
12-01-2011 | 03:09 PM
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Where do you find this information? I might take an early jump and go back and live in Asia for awhile...
12-01-2011 | 03:11 PM
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12-01-2011 | 03:13 PM
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12-01-2011 | 03:14 PM
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That's like the current philosophy of doing a QRH item by memory even though said procedure is not a QRH memory item. The concept is that you can accomplish the a QRH procedure by memory only if you are absolutely sure, and if your wrong your in trouble.
I'm all for making things easier, but gimme a break here we could use a few more memory items in our checklists.
I'm all for making things easier, but gimme a break here we could use a few more memory items in our checklists.
Why do we need more memory items. How many items are so absolutely critical, that they have to be done from memory?
12-01-2011 | 03:16 PM
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12-01-2011 | 03:19 PM
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12-01-2011 | 03:30 PM
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First page of the Korean Air thread on pprune (granted this was 2009) specifically mentions DAL pilots with western-only experience washing out of training, whereas DAL pilots with previous Asian airline experience did fine. I would think the culture would be the most difficult transition. I know a couple of guys who are flying for Asian carriers - the initial B767 course at one carrier took 6 months, and a CRJ course took 8 months.
12-01-2011 | 03:36 PM
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