Horizon's had 74 when I started there...and then we went to 76 shortly after. I'm sure that your's do have alittle more legroom if they only have 74.

 

2 things here. One, fatigue can easily lead to one forgetting landing bugs. Two, I go against procedure and set my landing bugs early so as not to forget....things get busy during descent and approach. If I get called out for setting my bugs early I'll let it roll of my back from now on.

 

I agree about the fatigue thing. I typcially would set my bugs during the climb, somewhere close to level-off. During IOE, I got threatened with a point deduction from a check airman because I was going to reset my bugs in the climb...this guy was a hardass, and I just "ok" and went with it.

Seattle to Bellingham is a quick flight...typically 15/20 mins in the air. So not much time to screw around.

 

THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I'm talking about. This is the exact culture that's breed at Horizon which has directly contributed to the BLI incident.

 

Apparently 6700' is a really short runway for some pilots!!!

 

I honestly don't know where/why the whole 6700' stuff started...6700' is a good size runway, but if you're not careful, you can run off the end. You can runoff a 9,000 ft runway if you screw around and land outside the touchdown zone. Point is, reguardless of runway length...if you're unstable on the approach or are going outside the touchdown zone during landing, you should go around and no push it.

The Q4 is a good size airplane with some mass behind it...it doesn't fly like the Q2's that Horizon had.

LavChange: I agree that Horizon's scheduling probably has alot to do with it. I think that BLI flight leaves at 11pm...if the crew had started at 12/1pm and had a nice "productivity" break in Seattle for a few hours, and it was back to back with previous day like that...yea, I can see how fatigue would be an issue.

 

Kinda like how I got a point taken off on a line check, when I said: "Flight Attendants John and Jane please prepare for takeoff."

After 10,000' He said I must say: "Flight attendants please prepare for takeoff." Nomore or no less. Just like the FSM in the CRJ. I looked it up and it did say that. But in the FSM for the Q400 and 200 it does say that names may be inserted. Talk about nit picky and standardisation BS.

 

Sounds like a CRJ Check Airman, those guys have a serious stick up their backsides. Atleast in the Q4/Q2 we had alot of great check airman, save for one or two...if you've flown with check airman that I talked about earlier, you know who I'm talking about!

 

Carlsbad, CA. Jumpseated on SkyWest once into there, WOW!

 

Sometimes you can't do anything right