777 slide #18
09-23-2018, 01:02 PM
#21
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Joined APC: Mar 2009
Position: 11CA
Posts: 5
Originally Posted by cliffnd
I don’t disagree whatsoever with your points on the issue at hand. I just disagree with posting the dirty laundry in a public setting. It doesn’t help one bit and just comes across as standard complaining with no action. If you really wanted to make a difference, you could’ve chosen to give your suggestions to the company safety department or management, ALPA, or in a private forum like jetflyers where only FedEx pilots have access. But posting it here inevitably make us and the company look like a JV squad. Just saying, there are better and more effective places to talk about this and make a difference.
On a side note, I don’t know you from Adam, so the “domestic” comment was completely rhetorical. It was meant to highlight the next line to cross in acceptable posting behavior.
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On a side note, I don’t know you from Adam, so the “domestic” comment was completely rhetorical. It was meant to highlight the next line to cross in acceptable posting behavior.
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"... but what is consistant is the pilots failure..."
What is also consistent is the system doesn't work.
09-23-2018, 06:23 PM
#24
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Joined APC: Jun 2006
Posts: 2,223
I really don't understand why we keep screwing this up when the 757 has so many more evolutions each day.
On the 75 you're tired. But you're never 16-hour-duty-day-that-started-at-3am tired. Yeah there's bunks. Bunks don't help much when there's turbulence. The physiological effects of 12+ hour legs are amazingly bad. Put two or three long legs together on a round-the-world flight and you've compounded the problem.
I bid off that plane when I realized I was getting 48-hour layovers in Paris and HKG and never leaving my room except to eat....
09-24-2018, 01:29 PM
#25
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Joined APC: Jan 2007
Position: 777
Posts: 866
Originally Posted by Huck
I've flown both the 75 and the 77.
I bid off that plane when I realized I was getting 48-hour layovers in Paris and HKG and never leaving my room except to eat....
I bid off that plane when I realized I was getting 48-hour layovers in Paris and HKG and never leaving my room except to eat....
Huck,
To each his own. With that being said, I'd take 48 almost anywhere on the Triple rather than 12 in any of the Greats or Grands!
Then again, I sleep like a baby. And turbulence? Just rocking me to sleep!
09-24-2018, 04:00 PM
#26
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Joined APC: Mar 2007
Posts: 331
Originally Posted by Huck
I bid off that plane when I realized I was getting 48-hour layovers in Paris and HKG and never leaving my room except to eat....
YGBSM! Really? That's sad. Even lunch @ Nomads or dinner in the French Quarter is WAY mo' better than most layovers in the US with a 10 hour layover and night hubturn. Get outta the friggin' hotel dude. Plus I make mo' money than a 75 Capt (which isn't right IMO). Sorry this has NOTHING to do with blowin' slides. Musta been an LCA
"THE HATCH JUST BLEW"
09-24-2018, 05:06 PM
#27
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Joined APC: Feb 2013
Posts: 608
Originally Posted by Dakota
YGBSM! Really? That's sad. Even lunch @ Nomads or dinner in the French Quarter is WAY mo' better than most layovers in the US with a 10 hour layover and night hubturn. Get outta the friggin' hotel dude. Plus I make mo' money than a 75 Capt (which isn't right IMO). Sorry this has NOTHING to do with blowin' slides. Musta been an LCA "THE HATCH JUST BLEW"
"THE HATCH JUST BLEW"
09-26-2018, 06:12 AM
#28
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Joined APC: Jul 2007
Position: 1 on big twin
Posts: 324
On the slide topic...
Been on the 777 for 6 years... Slow and deliberate is how I handle the door. Just like confirmation switches during a non normal. Slow and Deliberate. No amount of extra cheeseburgers/beers is worth interrupting my slow and deliberate flow in door operations.
Just seems to work for me.
As to Long Haul vs Short Haul...
If you can't sleep well on the plane (even with some turbulence), the 777 is a miserable existence. Part of what I enjoy about the plane is finding cool things to do all over the world. But I know it's not for everyone. That's one of the great things about the airline, there is a lot variety in the type of flying you can do, once you have seniority... And I'm glad that different people enjoy different things.
Be safe out there ladies and gentlemen.
JP
Been on the 777 for 6 years... Slow and deliberate is how I handle the door. Just like confirmation switches during a non normal. Slow and Deliberate. No amount of extra cheeseburgers/beers is worth interrupting my slow and deliberate flow in door operations.
Just seems to work for me.
As to Long Haul vs Short Haul...
If you can't sleep well on the plane (even with some turbulence), the 777 is a miserable existence. Part of what I enjoy about the plane is finding cool things to do all over the world. But I know it's not for everyone. That's one of the great things about the airline, there is a lot variety in the type of flying you can do, once you have seniority... And I'm glad that different people enjoy different things.
Be safe out there ladies and gentlemen.
JP
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