You are making choices based upon unrealistic expectations. Delta owes you nothing beyond contractual obligations. They have contracted you to do a job. Profits from that contract are obliged to shareholders. If you go through this career as I’ll do it like I always have cause I’m safe,and I’m always on time. You are missing the keys to a fantastic future, possibly putting yourself in jeopardy. Guess what? It ain’t about you. Try some servitude and professionalism and you might get out of a regional. What an emotional rollercoaster you display. I know they don’t teach how to be mature in ground school but you need to learn it somewhere.

Years ago, at the old company, we had a crew distracted by a single engine taxi wander onto an active runway with an aircraft taking off. If that had resulted in an accident, would the FAA have come down on SET?

Well said. I second this statement.

Also, mainline averages one attempted takeoff with only one engine running, per year. I can kind of see that other person’s point but perhaps he was a bit extreme. Point taken though, distractions definitely clip wings.

Someone has been reading their Delta rules of the road! Kudos to you. You are a gentleman AND a scholar.

Theyre in the swa study material too, been in there since the 80s though.

You forgot the word "indentured" :D

Is SET apu off taxi in or out?

At least that won't be a problem for us, "Takeoff Config OK" includes both engines running as a criteria for posting the advisory message.

The MD-88 takeoff config warning does not include that. It presupposes that the pilot has verified both engines are running and you'd like to check all of the other system configurations.

Remember sir back in the day the captain did all the engine starts, so I guess someone not paying attention to taxiing the airplane while ensuring a proper start could lead to a taxi mishap. Having said that on the 900 there is absolutely no difference between starting an engine with the APU while taxiing and starting the engine via a cross bleed. The Captain focuses on taxiing FO starts the engine. :eek:

I know for a very very short period a cross bleed start was preferred. However, too many pilots were forgetting to bump the thrust on the operating engine to 67+% N2 but instead starting the engine at flight idle. The engine trends were coming back with higher than normal temps 700deg+ on the starts.

If you guys are correct and the proper method for a cross bleed start is to bring the aircraft to a dead stop, alert the A380 behind you that hey look out I am doing a cross bleed start, which BTW requires less thrust than it takes to taxi the aircraft on one engine than someone in the flight department needs to get out an fly the line a little more because that policy is plane stupid.:mad: