Originally Posted by captjns (Post 693755)

Why are you frightened?...............

Originally Posted by Gomerglideslope (Post 693956)

At the risk of dating myself....your boasting reminds me of a cartoon character from the 60's named Commander McBrag (if I recall correctly);)

Originally Posted by captjns (Post 693755)

Why are you frightened? Who I fly for... well I'll tell you that it ain't AA, DAL, CAL, or AS... but we do operate a fleet of over 200 -800s;).

Originally Posted by Sink r8 (Post 694036)

Really? There is an airline out there with a fleet of over two hundred -800's?


Are those numbers also being derived from, you know... the seat of your pants? :rolleyes:

Originally Posted by captjns (Post 694072)

Wow... you must have spent many hours or even days composing that your comment... and I'll bet without help. Good for you;). Keep at it.


Anyway that's a comment I would expect from an ignorant Journo, Tyro to the business, or a pass by the bare minimums wannabee. So Stink... err sorry Sink... which one are you:rolleyes:?

Originally Posted by Sink r8 (Post 694081)

Tourrete's flaring up again?

Originally Posted by captjns (Post 694084)

.....................Nah... You you just ain't worth the response. Cheers.

Originally Posted by captjns (Post 693556)

Been doing it in the bush and back country off and on since the '70s... Not all of us conventional geared flyers have been privileged to fly out of airports with weather reporting systems. But tell you what... why don't you PM your mobile phone number so next time I'm in the hight country landing in an open field, I can call you on my sat phone for wind information and proper landing techniques to avoid those dreaded ground loops:rolleyes:;).



Our newbies have an average of 250 hours before the commencement of their line training. But headwind component additives are not the issue here... its flying the airplane after the additives for wind and ice, as appropriate, have been input into the CDU, and keeping the big picture in mind.



Don't know if it's Boeing specific, but our company observes crosswind limitations for our -800s, of which all are winglet equipped.

35 knots on dry runways and 30 knots on wet runways. These limitations are reduced for runway widths of less than 150 feet by 1 knot for each 3' of width.

Originally Posted by tsquare (Post 694274)

We're not worthy!!! Oh.. and what kind of additive do you apply for ice? Just wonderin'

Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp (Post 694319)

You don't! You just feeeeel the ice. The CVR subsequently goes something like this:


CAM-1 [1825:01.3]: #.#.#.#.#.#.#.#.#.#.#.