I don't know about dinner, but if you're flying the ER in New York, and you don't do walk-arounds on the other guy's (domestic) leg, you've earned your membership into the 5% club.

Then there is Tsquare: I hear he buys dinner, does walk-arounds on the F/O's leg, then tips the F/O for walk-arounds on his own leg.

 

There's only one guy on the 73 in LA that won't do the walk arounds. He doesn't buy drinks or dinner either. Since we have 60 CAs I guess that means he's our .0167%. You'll see his name most often in open time.

 

Anyone live in Hidden Lakes outside Brighton in MI? PM me please thinking of moving there.

 

1.67%

/10char

 

As junior, nobody, FO, I expect to get garbage bags and walk arounds. In Atlanta on the Boeings, I'd guess CA's get 10% of the walk around inspections, unless it is a LCA. They usually do 50%.

But what is annoying is getting back in from the Post Flight, shutting down the APU and securing the jet, grabbing my crap and walking out of the jetway to find a huddle of flight attendants and a Captain all asking if I've called the hotel van. ... I turn on the phone, wait for it to load its version of linux, find a signal and start diffing out my rotation while trying to move fast enough that the rest of the crew doesn't stop and begin complaining (for FA's anything from 1/2 a degree temp change from the jet to jetway, to any percieved slight by a passenger or another FA is reason for a tirade ... I don't like being the recipient of their wrath).

Eventually I get the call in to Cheapocrewtransport, or the front desk of the Sherd-I-don'tgiveacrap'ton to tell them our flight number three times and wait to hear, "they'll be there in a minute" and clarify whether a "minute" is "now," "fifteen minutes" or, "I really have no clue."

It is annoying as hell. ... Am I just doing it wrong?

When I was a Captain I used to call the hotel so as to not cut into our beer break / rest. But here, no, huh, huh. First trip off of IOE, I thought the Captains were trying to hook up, but the target selection quickly disavowed the rational man of that notion. Then I thought it was perhaps the Boss was trying to be polite. I am now beginning to think after a day of hearing my genius level pontifications on scope that talking with a group of folks about feline menopause really is mesmerizing.

 

Bar, just tell them your phone is dead.

 

I've never had a problem with the Captains I fly with, but I've been MSP based. Once I'm ATL based, I'll check back with you.

UCAL talks are not going well at all. Pilots are about to break off negotiations on April 30th, see the "April 30th release date" thread. There's a lot of rage over management slow-rolling negotiations.

 

Thanks for the download, but still not working with Firefox 11.0.

I can read pdf files if I use the Safari browser, but not with Firefox.

 

I thought you weren't going to tell anybody about that

 

For forgetting to unplug a phone they were charging? Unless this mystery phone was wrapped in red tubes with an alarm clock attatched to it, it sounds like a massive overreaction that isn't anywhere near reasonable. I'd still back the flight crew because we need to do more of that, but the last thing we need to be doing is spending big time lawyer money going after someone for forgetting a phone they were charging unless there were some very mitigating circumstances, and so far there has been no mention of anything like that.