Ya cause you were born knowing the in's and out's outta every airport you operate into from day 1....

 

I'm glad it comes sooo naturally to you bud, but DTW is not the easiest place to taxi around, especially if you're not there on a very regular basis. The actual operation looks significantly different than the Jepp diagram and lots of crews can experience a missed turn or temporary disorientation. I've seen more than one Delta main liner do the Exact same thing.

Were you born with inertial navigation in your brain making you superior to all??? Glad to see you find comedy in guys doing the best they can.

 

Why is this thread still open?

 

Way too many high-horsed, juvenile riders in this playground.

+1, close this one up.

 

There would defiantly be more than a few failed CRJ Orals in this thread.

The only time single engine your going to have a fuel imbalance problem, is if auto x flow is inhibited or mel'd, while running single engine.

In which case single engine taxi will lead to a rapid imbalance, counter-intuitively dumping the excess fuel into the operating engines side (someone actually said it correctly than got called out as being incorrect).

The most likely scenario to get to an extreme imbalance, is to inhibit fuel cross flow on your before take off checklist (2engines), and then subsequently have your clearance cancelled go into a ground stop and go back to single engine forgetting to reselect auto x flow. It will happen fast and become quickly imbalanced.

Same thing can happen with the Mel if you don't heed the warning and decide to taxi out single engine with auto x flow disabled/mel'd, a rapid imbalance.

Other than that the auto cross flow works pretty well as long as its on.

 

I love when people defend the indefensible. I guess GoJetZ doesn't issue Jepps and require pilots to reference the airport diagram while taxiing? Why bother reviewing your taxi route before pushing back? Guess it's all just done on "familiarity" over there. Quality. But hey, all DAL cares about is the cheapest feed available.

I had a GoJets jumpseater last night and she showed me her schedule. Can someone explain to me how the block for the month can be higher than the credit? She said they constantly fight payroll for trying to screw them, have to pay claim all day sits, fight over perdiem, etc. How embarrassing.

 

I only see ORD about 3-4 times a year, and guess what? I've never once had an issue there finding a taxi way or where I'm suppose to go, even in a crap storm.

I can understand missing 1 turn, but turning onto the WRONG taxi way that is AWAY from the deicing equipment, then blocking operations, then finally figuring out where you're suppose to go and then going RIGHT past that spot is beyond excusable.

And hey, when someone crashes a plane because they weren't sure what they were doing and kills 69 people, I guess you can just chalk it up to "they were just doing the best they can."

 

I've seen it with my own eyes. Auto cross flow doesn't transfer enough fuel if you are taxiing single engine for extended periods of time.

 

Stop making sense! The GoJetZ Street CA with a whopping 3 years of airline experience KNOWS his systems cold! Auto X-Flow ALWAYS works exactly as advertised! Bombardier's engineers are just stupid... they are French after all...

 

Come on, DTW isn't bad at all. And the airport looks exactly the right way on the charts. At least ours do. I can't tell you how many times we've been 5 or 6 for takeoff and tower is screaming at GoJet to get their attention only to find out they weren't on any DTW frequency for the previous 10 minutes. I've been in DTW for 7 years and haven't seen anyone have as much trouble as GoJet, although I did witness a 777 almost cruise right over 22L on 9L while trying to get to the gate; figure that one out. Too many breadsticks...

Its not a generalization if its true. Just like our MEC made it near impossible for anyone else to negotiate a good contract.