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Tool of the day

Old 04-23-2012, 03:06 PM
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Originally Posted by MrBigAir View Post
No joke, one day coming out of HPN- when the F/A asked a woman what she wanted to drink, the wife told her husband, "Tell her I don't talk to the help."

Also out of HPN, I climbed out into the cabin as pax were deplaning and a business man in a suit opened his briefcase and emptied all its contents (mostly trash) in the aisle, closed up the briefcase, and walked off the airplane. Incredible. Super Tool.

Actually, there are a lot of Tools coming out of HPN. I have more issues with pax there than anywhere else.

There can't be a correlation, can there?
C'mon, don't be so harsh on these good people, after all they are the job creators.
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Old 04-23-2012, 04:01 PM
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Originally Posted by NuGuy View Post
This.

I've found it invariably the case that when someone is hardover on something, either in person, or on a forum, it is because theiy are selling something or have some other financial angle they are trying to work, whether its juicers, exercise tapes, gold bars or whatever.

They'll deny, deny, deny, right up until the end, when they try sell you a Super Deluxe Shakemaster 2000, or worse, try to get you to sell them.

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Could you lose maybe 54 pounds with some of this stuff?
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Old 04-23-2012, 04:42 PM
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And nine inches in waist size?
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Old 04-23-2012, 04:50 PM
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I nominate this pilot who filmed himself flying an airbus, with his hat on! I probably deserve a tool award for finding this gem on youtube!

the captain's face during approach and landing at congonhas/SPaulo - YouTube
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Old 04-23-2012, 04:54 PM
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Originally Posted by lolwut View Post
King Tool of the Guard Police...

Was flying along one day monitoring guard and some Cessna down below gets on Guard and says very frantically that he's lost his engine and he's going to land in a field. Pretty stressful and time sensitive situation right?

Some moron gets on there, blocks him and goes "YOU'RE ON GUARD". Then he tries to repeat himself and other planes are trying to get information out of him.... where he's landing, souls on board, that kind of stuff, to pass along. A couple idiots keep responding to these guys with "ON GUARD" and the like.

For once, guard is being used for what its there for, and the guard police are so worked up about it that they can't even process that fact. Luckily the guy was able to get a transmission out that he was on the ground with no injuries.
Once worked on helping a guy at night that was smart to call for help on guard, but sounded really out of his depth for night flying. Completely lost, worried about gas, etc. A couple of us were talking to him, trying to glean his aproximate location, and get him connected with some appropriate controller. The guy sounded a little like a fresh, elderly private pilot that hadn't flown at night since his license, and got caught out late. IOW, like a sixty-four year old airline captain, but minus the confidence (just kidding).

Some genius gets on there, and starts telling the guy to go down to 500' and look for railroad tracks, and identify the name of stations, etc. In the vicinity of PIT. Our student's out there acknowledging him, then one of the sane ones tells him to disregard, and keep a safe altitude, and genius starts with another joke, a really knee-slapper. I can't even remember what it was, but it had a reasonable chance of killing the guy. Before he had a chance to finish him off, we got a controller up, had the guy squawk something useful, and got the student out of the clutches of the Tool.
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Old 04-23-2012, 05:19 PM
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Just realized, if this is Tool of the Day, we need to be more current. For Today, I nominate Mr. "I make over $500,000 a year but we need to save money by replacing union workers" and his host of so called "Experts." For starters, his resume is the destruction of our profession:
Mr. Gallagher has served as Special Labor Counsel on behalf of the debtor in Delta Air Lines (S.D.N.Y. 2005); Northwest Airlines (S.D.N.Y. 2005); and Comair Airlines (S.D.N.Y. 2005); ATA Airlines (D. Ind. 2004); United Airlines (N.D. Ill. 2002); Continental Airlines II (D. Del. 1991); Eastern Airlines (Ionosphere) (S.D.N.Y. 1991); and Continental Airlines I (S.D. Tex.1983). He has also represented other major air carriers in preparing for bankruptcy proceedings which were avoided by settlement with the unions involved.
Here is the recap of his work to make the World a better place today. He might have the physique of Winnie the Pooh, but he's more stuff than fluff.
Jack Gallagher, an attorney for AMR, said the company needs 20 percent across-the-board reductions in employee costs, half of which must come from employee benefits.
"It's not the unions' fault we're in bankruptcy, but it's not about whose fault it is," Gallagher said. "It's about the facts of our business."
AMR spends three times as much annually on medical benefits as the average lower-cost carrier, like Southwest Airlines, Gallagher said.
Hundreds of people, including lawyers and airline workers, filled a courtroom and two overflow rooms in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan, while outside, hundreds of members of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants and Transport Workers Union, which represent AMR's flight attendants and ground workers, respectively, held a spirited rally.
Cordoned off by police, workers held signs and chanted for fairer work terms and against AMR's plan to cut about 13,000 union jobs.
EXPERT TESTIMONY
The airline brought two of its expert witnesses to the stand on Monday, with more slated to testify later in the week.
Daniel Kasper, a Boston-based airline economics consultant, testified that deregulation in the airline industry has tied airlines' economic viability to a strong cost-structure.
Jerrold Glass, president of airline labor relations consultant F&H Solutions Group, said AMR's labor contracts are not as cost-effective as those of other major airlines.
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Old 04-23-2012, 05:44 PM
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Im flying with a guard cop now, im amazed how quick he can flip switches. I cant spot tge exact technique because by time hes done saying you're on guard i just realize a person has transmitted on guard. Also we we're next to a 777, 737, 757, he said "that is pretty plane", i say witch one he says the crj700. I said nothing. There was also a a319 there but i knew he wasn't talking about that ugly duck. Finally he steps down on the arrival and app into LAX.
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Old 04-23-2012, 05:45 PM
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/nyregion/06plane.html

This guy is hands down in the top ten tools of all time.
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Old 04-23-2012, 06:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Royer View Post
And: I knew a flight instructor with the license plate "PILOT". He once walked into the instuctor's lounge where we were all chatting and said, "Ask me something I don't know". True story.
Should asked him to describe a nude female. Bet he's never seen one.

At NJA we carry (maybe "carried" if they have the ipads yet) one set of charts for the airplane. We pull the charts we need before we takeoff and mark where they were in the binder with multi-colored plastic paper clips. On more than one occasion I heard the story of one particular goon who wanted the clips color coded, or matching. Something along those lines. Never flew with that guy, but I did have one raise holy hell on short final because I didn't type the landing clearance in the scratchpad. He took it upon himself to do so, finishing about the time we were crossing the fence. He was flying.....
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Old 04-23-2012, 08:31 PM
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Originally Posted by All In View Post
LIKE !!
haha
No and No. Ascot boy was doing neither.
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