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Old 01-19-2012 | 06:52 AM
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MORE CRACKS FOUND IN AIRBUS A380 WINGS:


More cracks found in Airbus A380 wings | Reuters
Old 01-19-2012 | 06:57 AM
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Originally Posted by KC10 FATboy
The problem with the Northeast is the overall high total tax burden and lack of liberty freedoms EXCEPT for New Hampshire. New Hampshire is near the top of the list of states for both freedoms and low taxes ... a huge surprise and plus in my opinion.

The northeast, except NH, is a ripoff. I'd gladly live in a flyover state and keep my money.
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.
Old 01-19-2012 | 07:00 AM
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Originally Posted by RonRicco
When it comes down to your last day of availability and SC, it should not make you any more likely to sit SC approaching and X day anymore than it does now. Schedulers are still going to use multi day pilots on SC all things being equal.. But even then, if the senior guy was able to get his short calls out of the way to not have one approaching an X day, is that a problem? Oh yeah, that can't happen because only junior pilots are going to get short calls (tic)
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.
Old 01-19-2012 | 07:31 AM
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Originally Posted by LandGreen2
LOL!! me too!! just can't afford to live there on DL pay!
Especially with almost the entire domestic coast and all those 73N-A positions outsourced.
Old 01-19-2012 | 07:33 AM
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MORE CRACKS FOUND IN AIRBUS A380 WINGS:


More cracks found in Airbus A380 wings | Reuters
...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.
Old 01-19-2012 | 07:38 AM
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Originally Posted by FlyZ
I have no doubt some of our profit comes at the expense of pilot stagnation due to outsourcing.
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.
Old 01-19-2012 | 07:43 AM
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Originally Posted by Wasatch Phantom
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.
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.
Old 01-19-2012 | 07:56 AM
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Originally Posted by Dash8widget
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.

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.
Old 01-19-2012 | 08:12 AM
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Originally Posted by acl65pilot
Love the Pacific Northwest and the SAN area. SFO is not too bad, but Southern LA is not for me. I would move to SEA tomorrow but the MRS is not quite there yet.

SEA is a great place to live........well maybe not for the last couple of days! 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!!

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Old 01-19-2012 | 08:13 AM
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Originally Posted by KC10 FATboy
The problem with the Northeast is the overall high total tax burden and lack of liberty freedoms EXCEPT for New Hampshire. New Hampshire is near the top of the list of states for both freedoms and low taxes ... a huge surprise and plus in my opinion.
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....
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