Dust off your resume my friend and submit it to corporate. You are management material! Juuuust jokin.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your-online-secrets/201409/internet-trolls-are-narcissists-psychopaths-and-sadists

I'm betting yours will be the first.

Useful read... just discovered my wife is a psychopath... that explains a lot.

True, but we never know what can happen

Current PDT CA here. No. Never even heard of someone getting any sort of pushback from a dispatcher about it, or experienced it myself. When I've asked for more fuel in the past, we just amended the release and called the fueler.... that was it....

Also, for those who don't know yet. If you are in CCI go to more -->FOS Outage-->and then from there you can type in DEP/DEST for any AA/ENY flight in the system. This is just a quick sampling that I did, but almost EVERY mainline flight has some sort of BUFR fuel added by dispatch and way more arrival fuel. Check mainlines arrival fuel compared to ours. Just because they are mainline and we're Envoy doesn't mean we should be arriving with less fuel than them.

Example: RDU-DFW
ENY 3355 Today (4/8) , Planned Arrival Fuel 01/10 mins (1713 Departure)
**Release Notes: Filed FL280 to avoid forecast upper turb.
AAL 2753 Today (4/8), Planned Arrival Fuel 02/02 mins (1545 Departure)
**Release Notes: Add fuel for possible taxi out delays/ ride improvements. Flight plan altitude capped due to turb.

Notice the difference? Both dispatchers noted the enroute upper level turbulence. Only one added additional fuel for ride improvements. The envoy release had no buffer fuel or anything. Just a casual hey, we filed you lower but you still have minimal arrival fuel. If you are working a flight that also has a mainline flight, start comparing the releases. Just because we are flying a smaller plane doesn't mean we should be arriving with an hours less fuel than mainline. If I was flying my family on a flight I sure as sh**t wouldn't want that.

That is not the point, nor even remotely the reason for carrying adequate fuel or Captains adding fuel.

If you really don't get that, please go find a desk to fly somewhere, or a job writing stupid shyt that actual pilots can ignore.

Next time, if you read something that sounds too stupid to be serious, the it probably is someone just kidding around. He doesn't mean or believe anything he actually writes. It's taking up a persona that hyper stereotypes a millennial.

It's 2018, they make all these cool emoji-thingies to indicate sarcasm, humor, wonder, etc...

In the dark ages mb posters who desired to be understood would sometimes indicate those sort of things that might easily be misconstrued in a print only format by actually typing out the words, thusly... {sarcasm alert...} or such.

That will be up to me to decide when I get LCE on this bid buddy.:rolleyes:

You're probably right. Come to think about it, he only makes random comments but never actually argues with anyone about the statement he made which means he can't actually believe it otherwise he'd stand up for it. It's like hardlemonade, there's no way he's actually bob Ross. Bob Ross' a painter not a pilot.:D

None. How many diverted? How many landed with amber fuel qty? Is there checklists in our AOM Vol 1's/QRHs for amber fuel?

How accurate is dispatch flight planning? What altitudes do you actually cross Beree/Seever/Vktry at? What altitude does the release say?

How much taxi fuel do you really use? Deicing today? Landing north or south today? Will you accept that flight plan all the way down the 1400 mile front or deviate?

Better get a handle on this stuff quick, "Captain". Smarter people have flamed out their careers on less stuff than this.

Does anyone know the difference between razor burn and herpes? Asking for a friend...

If you haven’t shaved in a month then it’s herpes

This is so true

RW Letter
 

Fuel Planning
April 5th, 2018
RE: Fuel Planning

I want to apologize on behalf of the entire Flight Operations Management Team. Recently a message went out from one of our Fleet Managers that had a threatening tone with regards to the use of CAPT ADD. This Manager was immediately reprimanded, because this is not in line with the guiding principles of our company and contrary to our culture of respect where Envoy’s goal is to maintain a workplace free from any attempt to intimidate or coerce another person.

For all of us at Envoy, our first – and top – priority is the safety of our co-workers and customers.

The Captain and Dispatcher are jointly responsible for all aspects of pre-flight planning, including fuel requirements. It is company policy to dispatch with the minimum quantity of fuel necessary after considering of safety, regulations, customer service and operating economics. However, if the judgement and experience of the Captain and Dispatcher indicate a need for more fuel, it is vital both parties clearly agree and understand the reasons why.

It is important that each of us, Captain and Dispatcher, understand the assumptions by which our flight plans are built to effectively execute the mission above. We accomplish that through training. To that end, Flight Operations Management will be working in conjunction with representatives from ALPA to collaborate on improvements to our fuel training curriculum.



Respectfully,



Ric

Captain Richard Wilson

Vice President Flight Operations

^^^^^ that’s old

Heard the person in question was fired.

Definitely didn't want that to happen.

As they should be...

The one(s) who made that person feel like those policies were acceptable should be fired. I'm not sure the person that sent the HI6 should have been the one fired. They just exposed a culture problem with management policies.

Speaking of which anyone catch 60 minutes about Allegiant? Seems like poor management culture is catchy.

Highly doubt it was higher up than the fleet manager. Otherwise why would only one fleet manager send it to one fleet instead of all fleets? I dunno, maybe I am being too optimistic but I hope it was an isolated case with him.

That HI6 didn't read to me like he was the one that came up with the policies. He was just the one dumb enough to not realize how the rest of us would react to such policies. Maybe I'm wrong, just the way it sounded to me.

He was dismissed from his mgmt position, but not fired from the airline.

Agree. Either that was the one fleet manager that lacked the stones to carry managements water or it was a personal crusade. Either way, poor form and no way to gain the respect of others.

I’m pretty laid back but when it comes to adding gas,( if you want it)either it’s in the wings or we don’t push.

Good. I think that is an appropriate step. If you are dumb enough not to know to send an email out like that, then you shouldn't be in management.

Well, I bet it will be a while before he ask for CA add.

I agree. The company CA add list is a strong indicator that this conversation has taken place before at the management level. Pretty sure a phone call from the CP is all that the company is willing to do for the CA add list.

Ask any fo who has flown with him, he is a nightmare.

Probably what needed to happen to keep the FAA off their case.

Agreed.

I think he should be removed from his current position but still be employed as a CA to fly the line.

But what happens when he needs CA add!

He certainly better use it!

Im guessing they determined who to add to the list by auditing flight releases and seeing which flights requested CA add fuel.

Dispatchers have a RF form they send when captains add fuel that goes to the CPO. I don’t remember the name of the specific RF but it’s been posted here before.

I know that some flight planning software has a specific CA ADD FUEL line where you put in how much fuel the CA wants and it just adds that number to the rest of the fuel on the plan. Might be a reason box too to explain why. Some programs also auto append a message to the flight release under the remarks section such as

REMARKS
=============
CA REQUESTED 1000 (OR 10.0 DEPENDING ON PROGRAM) OF CA ADD FUEL DUE TO (INSERT REASON SUCH AS WX,ATC, ETC ETC)
another way it could appear is
ADDED XXX POUNDS OF FUEL AT CAPTAIN REQUEST DUE TO (REASON)

ive never heard of a actual form being sent to the CP for additional fuel, usually they would just pull random audits of OFPs.

I had a dispatcher in my jumpseat. I asked and they confirmed that dispatch has to report it to the chief pilot every time a captain adds fuel.

Im surprised it isnt just automatically sent to the CP when the flight gets released.

That would make it to easy for the FEDs to go after. Auto notification as opposed to a little more labor intesive way makes it less of a red flag to the FEDs...my $.02