This is annoying, every time I go fly, this happens. I think the company is starting to get p'd off about it too.

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Love that place. Spent many nights there is college!

Are you wearing pants? I often find that if I wear pants the pandemonium is stifled.

Pandemonium = abject fear

It's such a burden, isn't it. :D

Carl

You're my hero!!!

And I haven't had a hero since Macgyver.

Don't know anything about the company's current position, but in the past they were more receptive of two year PLOA requests than three year requests.

Asked a CP about them, they did not seem opposed, but hinted that a year would be about the absolute max. Of course one would not know until they applied. The form is on the CPSC web page.

Thanks for the update Jesse and acl65pilot. One year wouldn't do, two would be okay, but of course, three would be perfect. Now just to wait and see how the company will handle attrition. Attrition will either create hiring or result in further reductions.

However- they had that airplane pitched up to 18 degrees at FL370. The senior FO deep stalled the crap out of that airplane and held it in it. All instruments were back to functioning normally the last 15,000 feet or so of their descent. Only when they were descending through 2000 feet at 40 degrees of AOA and below 100 knots of indicated airspeed did the captain recognize that the FO was holding full back stick the whole time. He let go and they started to recover, but it was too late and they pancaked in at almost 10,000 feet per minute.[/QUOTE]

If all the instruments were functioning "normally" at the last 15000 feet, what were the instruments doing the previous 15000+ feet? Plus what was the stall computer logic below a certain speed? Remember it that fooled everyone involved, and provided a contributing factor to the accident. It got so bad that it shut off, but corrections actually turned it back on, during a recovery attempt once the speed reset the logic.
It appears that pitch/power relationships that are basic fundamentals to our work were indeed overlooked, but to play devils advocate, one must consider again airbus engineer logic disconnect with the human-computer interface in regards to this accident. This accident chain was started with a faulty pitot/static probe heater.

Obviously in kindergarten, you learned about sharing. I didn't, mine, mine mine!!!:D