MORE CRACKS FOUND IN AIRBUS A380 WINGS:


More cracks found in Airbus A380 wings | Reuters

I grew up in Vermont...in a house built by one of ancestors over 200 years ago. Vermont used to be a staunchly conservative state. For example, former (Republican) Senator George Aiken once spent $17.00 on his re-election campaign, and most of that was return postage to his supporters. Now the state is a bastion of liberals...

Live out west now and would never go back. I noticed no one mentioned living in Montana or Utah. I completely understand why... No mountains or scenery at all, lots of a**holes, ridiculous taxes, the weather sucks, cost of living is obscene. You get the point. Don't even think of moving here.

Like I said, I welcome the transparency to assignment of SC's. I just hope the language leaves some flexibility in there to allow schedulers to continue to use guys with multiple days of availability. I figure it will as I have a hard time believing that they would sign anything that did otherwise.

I think you are correct in your assertion that when things pick up the system will make more sense. As a junior guy I just hope that slow times are slow for everyone not just a few :) I think the use of YS'ing will be even more important now for the junior rsv pilots.

Especially with almost the entire domestic coast and all those 73N-A positions outsourced.

...The A380 -- developed at an estimated cost of 12 billion euros and built in Britain, France, Germany and Spain -- has enough room on its wings to park 70 cars and a wingspan of 79.8m (261ft 10in)...


No wonder the wings are cracking - the idiots are parking cars on them.

I agree, although that very same savings is raising our over all costs and pushing the myopic managers to outsource even more as those we outsource to expand and lower their costs because of the outsourcing in the first place.

Its brilliant for the next quarterly report but completely unsustainable for the long term and a horrible financial move in the long run.

I live minutes away from one of the more liberal cities in the country, yet I pay no state income tax, and most times, no state sales tax - and my property taxes are reasonable. Oh, and the city has more breewerys than any other in the country. But, of course, theres no mountains or scerery here either, and it rains 24/7/365 - so its a crappy place to live. To bad its no longer a DL pilot base.

Live in Vancouver.....buy everything in Portland. Just don't get caught buying a car in Portland and not registering it in Washington!!! The cops used to hang out on the 205 bridge when I was based there.:eek:

Atlanta is cheap and I have cool neighbors. I don't really like it here though. My snowboards are just collecting dust. Anything in sight of the Rockies, Sierras, or Cascades is perfect. Heck, if I can see a volcano and ski on it I'm happy. The year they closed Mt. Baker to dig out the chair lifts was epic....1000 inches of snow!!! Left coast is the best coast.

SEA is a great place to live........well maybe not for the last couple of days!:eek: Six inches of snow at my place yesterday and we are currently experiencing freezing rain. The airport now has one runway open and ALOT of cancelations. Glad I'm not flying until saturday!!

Denny

But it's cold up there! For max freedom, move down here to Louisiana: plenty of laws, but people don't obey them; high insurance, but people don't buy it; politicians are sleazy, but so are the voters.... :p