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Old 08-31-2021, 12:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Aero1900 View Post
If you get hired today, and wait for a DEN upgrade you will fly at least 5.5 million miles in the right seat before you upgrade.

That's the distance to the moon and back 10 times
Close - it’s actually the distance between the center of the earth to the center of the sun. One thing I remember from astronomy class .
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Old 08-31-2021, 12:36 PM
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Thanks for the info! Upgrade time less important to me than being in Denver.
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Old 08-31-2021, 12:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Salukipilot4590 View Post
Isn't that a unit of distance not time?
A parallax arcsecond, or parsec, is indeed a measure of distance, not time, but a certain pilot in a galaxy far, far away claims to have “made the Kessel Run in twelve parsecs”. How can this be correct?

Possibly we all misunderstood his brag. The smuggling pilot might not have been referencing time, but in fact distance, as his ship was claimed to have the best Sat-Nav database in the galaxy. Able to plot a shorter path through hyperspace, without celestial collisions, using black hole-adjacent paths and exploiting what WE call “Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity.”

Soooo, the unit of distance reference might, in fact, have been appropriate.
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Old 08-31-2021, 09:43 PM
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One could speak of speed of movement in my favorite velocity units, furloughs per fortnight. You could also use that for your aircraft speed, as well.
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Old 09-01-2021, 05:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Sebastiaen View Post
It’ll taken a good 16 years to be able to be DEN Captain on RSV.
Yikes. It's under 7 years currently at UAL and I've got to assume under 16 at SWA. Just food for thought. Everyone's looking for good pilots and good people right now.
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Old 09-01-2021, 06:41 PM
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Originally Posted by ipdanno View Post
A parallax arcsecond, or parsec, is indeed a measure of distance, not time, but a certain pilot in a galaxy far, far away claims to have “made the Kessel Run in twelve parsecs”. How can this be correct?

Possibly we all misunderstood his brag. The smuggling pilot might not have been referencing time, but in fact distance, as his ship was claimed to have the best Sat-Nav database in the galaxy. Able to plot a shorter path through hyperspace, without celestial collisions, using black hole-adjacent paths and exploiting what WE call “Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity.”

Soooo, the unit of distance reference might, in fact, have been appropriate.
Be careful. The LIDO databases have multiple asteroid fields. Some may be duplicated....
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Old 09-02-2021, 08:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Chuck D View Post
Yikes. It's under 7 years currently at UAL and I've got to assume under 16 at SWA. Just food for thought. Everyone's looking for good pilots and good people right now.
plug in DEN is a 2010 hire for SWA CA. Should come down quite a bit, hopefully, as the base doubles in size next year with the new gate expansion.
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Old 09-02-2021, 09:24 AM
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For any FO’s that are frustrated with seniority issues in DEN I highly recommend they go to United or SWA
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Old 09-02-2021, 09:35 AM
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Originally Posted by flyguy81 View Post
plug in DEN is a 2010 hire for SWA CA. Should come down quite a bit, hopefully, as the base doubles in size next year with the new gate expansion.
Yeah..... im not so sure we are going to double the DEN base. Unfortunately
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Old 09-02-2021, 12:00 PM
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Yeah..... im not so sure we are going to double the DEN base. Unfortunately
I took that as SWA doubling DEN not us….could be wrong though.
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