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Boeing v Airbus catfight... it's ON

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Originally Posted by johnso29 (Post 1148192)

Bingo! Don't know why it freaks guys out. Anyone flying at Delta should be able to tell if the engines are spooling without referencing the thrust levers.

Oh yeah? Well anyone flying at Delta should know when to pull 'em back without some gay Frenchman yelling "retard, retard, retard" at ya. :p

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Originally Posted by johnso29 (Post 1148296)

It's nice. TOE was great! 2nd trip I had 48 hours in Prague. Venture to say I won't see a layover like that for a min of 6 years.

Now the real fun begins though. Commuting to reserve in NYC covering 3 airports! :eek: :D

You probably don't have to worry about EWR. Those trips are mostly covered by guys living over in PA, and the never seem to call in sick.. at least on the CA side anyway. Good thing. That and Africa are all high time so those are always covered too... yay!!

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Originally Posted by Roadkill (Post 1148314)

So sick of reading anything posted by More Bacon... actually clicking around trying to find how to ignore people, and hoping no one quotes any of his childish posts so I have to read them. Losing enjoyment reading this thread...

+1 No more bacon..

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Originally Posted by johnso29 (Post 1148192)

Bingo! Don't know why it freaks guys out. Anyone flying at Delta should be able to tell if the engines are spooling without referencing the thrust levers.

Having 10 years of bus experience and working towards 4 years on a Boeing with AT, I personally prefer the Boeing flavor of the thrust levers moving...... But what I really prefer is the immediate ability to just grab and move/hold the levers if the thrust isn't exactly where I want it.

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Originally Posted by Gomerglideslope (Post 1148168)

And the retired guys always buy the beer, right?

Sometimes. I usually take their skin money so I end up buying a lot of beer! :D

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Originally Posted by tsquare (Post 1148359)

Oh yeah? Well anyone flying at Delta should know when to pull 'em back without some gay Frenchman yelling "retard, retard, retard" at ya. :p

He only yells "retard" if you don't pull them back. It's a reminder, not a command. You'll learn this when you come to the mighty A330. (and I get to do your OE)

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Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp (Post 1148284)

Why not to bid to ATL, by 80ktsClamp:

Let's play which one of these is not like the other! My approximate % in each of the 320 bases:

DTW: 61%
MSP: 63%
NYC: 38%
SLC: 68%

...and ATL??? 94%

Trust me I know, ATL is getting more and more senior.

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Originally Posted by georgetg (Post 1148332)

Delta cancels American Eagle codeshare from LAX effective April 12, 2011:

Los Angeles – Fresno
Los Angeles – Monterrey
Los Angeles – San Jose CA
Los Angeles – Santa Barbara
Los Angeles – Santa Fe

Cheers
George

Didn't know they coded on eagle. 2011 or 2012?

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Originally Posted by BlueMoon (Post 1148391)

Didn't know they coded on eagle. 2011 or 2012?

Eagle is a pro-rate code share, not a fee for departure.

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Originally Posted by trico (Post 1148180)

I agree, however after a certain amount of time on the airplane(for me about 6 months)your eyes go automatically to the engine gauges to see what the jets are up to - does take gettin' used to, though.

Maybe this was back in my prop days but remember when an engine or prop runaway meant you needed to look at the gauges and not necessarily react to what you're feet were feeling? As in your good engine is the one that feels dead? I still do that when I see a throttle split with auto throttles on. Look at the gauges. Flew with someone once who freaked and just matched the low to the high, to which you have to ask, how did you know that was the bad one?

Of course speaking of auto throttles... "n2 at cruise varied between 77 and 82% n2..." "auto throttled forwarded to MEL." really?

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Originally Posted by BlueMoon (Post 1148391)

Didn't know they coded on eagle. 2011 or 2012?

The eagle code was one way to say we can't go after rah as a scope violation because while yes Rah owns DCI carriers under the same umbrella as Frontier, we never did anything about Eagle which is owned by AMR and blah blah blah. Get rid of em all, simplist solution.

Although go to Delta.com/investors and grab an annual report and keyword search American Eagle. It'll explain how their code worked vs a regular DCI.