Originally Posted by Boomer (Post 1126214)

It's a good thing he wasn't taxiing fast.

At 88mph, you would've seen something really cool when all those gigawatts hit that leading edge...

Originally Posted by More Bacon (Post 1126169)

He was "undisposed" during the landing.

I.e., being "attended to" by a couple of SA flight attendants. :D Can you blame him?

Originally Posted by Brocc15 (Post 1126195)

It was definitely an MD 90. I was supposed to take the airplane when it came in. That didn't happen! Had to change flight to an 88. Four hours late. By the way, was anyone else in DTW last night? the ramps(and taxi ways) were basically ice skating rinks. A Delta flight came into the ramp to park, and I heard ramp tower say "Delta ____ You may want to get towed in, I see you sliding around out there" And the Delta flight replied that they were single engine so that was why they were sliding sideways! yikes. The ice was the worst on the gate side of the zipper line. It took us 4 tries, twice with chains on the tug to get pushed back.

Originally Posted by Jughead (Post 1126132)

Originally Posted by Bucking Bar (Post 1126144)

Looked stable from here ...

FlightAware > Delta Air Lines (DL) #753 > 30-Jan-2012 > KLAS-KDTW Flight Tracker

Wonder how well the field is maintained?

!DTW 01/512 DTW RWY 3R/21L FICON FICON PTCHY THN IR 100 WIDE RMNDR
THN IR WEF 1201301821
!DTW 01/510 DTW RWY 3L/21R FICON PTCHY THN IR 100 WIDE RMNDR THN IR
WEF 1201301813
!DTW 01/509 DTW TWY ALL FICON PTCHY THN ICE WEF 1201301813
!DTW 01/508 DTW RWY 4L/22R FICON THN WTR OVR THN IR 100 WIDE RMNDR
THN IR WEF 1201301705
!DTW 01/507 DTW RWY 4R/22L FICON THN WTR OVR THN IR 100 WIDE RMNDR
THN IR WEF 1201301705
!DTW 01/502 DTW RWY 9R/27L FICON THN IR WEF 1201301323
!DTW 01/495 DTW APRON ALL RAMPS FICON THN ICE WEF 1201300536

Originally Posted by Brocc15 (Post 1126195)

It was definitely an MD 90. I was supposed to take the airplane when it came in. That didn't happen! Had to change flight to an 88. Four hours late. By the way, was anyone else in DTW last night? the ramps(and taxi ways) were basically ice skating rinks. A Delta flight came into the ramp to park, and I heard ramp tower say "Delta ____ You may want to get towed in, I see you sliding around out there" And the Delta flight replied that they were single engine so that was why they were sliding sideways! yikes. The ice was the worst on the gate side of the zipper line. It took us 4 tries, twice with chains on the tug to get pushed back.

Originally Posted by Scoop (Post 1125982)

FTB,

I do not think the junior guys will hosed with this new reserve system and this is why.

1. When I was hired the reserve system was heavily weighted to the senior guys - to the point the junior guys would max out and we would be short at the end of the month. This required more reserves and the company did not like this system.

2. The sytem that is now ending ending spread the flying out much more evenly. The company liked it because all other things being equal this required less pilots. Senior guys didn't think it weighed seniority enough.

3. Now we have the new reserve system. Junior guys are worried that they will again do all the flying while the senior guys sit at home. I don't think this will happen for the simple reason that the company desires to spread the flying as evenly as possible. If, in fact, junior guys start flying a disproportionate amount wouldn't the company just fine tune the RAW buckets?

I thought the 80 RAW point bucket was variable and could be adjusted each month - is this not correct?

We can all speculate how this might play out but we really won't know for sure until we see this play out - probably through a whole annual cycle covering both the busy and slow months.

Scoop - My 2 Cents.

Originally Posted by cornbeef007 (Post 1126256)

Why on earth would anyone even consider a single engine taxi in these conditions? I'm am no Chuck Yeager by an means, but seriously.