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Originally Posted by BrasiliaDriver (Post 1694519)

Yes to paper charts. The whiz wheel is during training only because the simulators do not incorporate ACARS.

Forgive my ignorance to airline SOP (I'm 135) but I only know what the acronym for ACARS stands for. I'm assuming it a wt & balance computer program used by airlines?

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Originally Posted by alphasierra01 (Post 1694642)

Forgive my ignorance to airline SOP (I'm 135) but I only know what the acronym for ACARS stands for. I'm assuming it a wt & balance computer program used by airlines?

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Originally Posted by alphasierra01 (Post 1694642)

Forgive my ignorance to airline SOP (I'm 135) but I only know what the acronym for ACARS stands for. I'm assuming it a wt & balance computer program used by airlines?

It's an air/ground communication system. Wt & balance numbers are just one example of the data which can be sent to the aircraft. Other examples are weather warnings, reroutes, etc. Crews can request information from the dispatcher or report passenger problems, and block times are automatically sent in.

SKYbrary - Aircraft Communications, Addressing and Reporting System

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Originally Posted by alphasierra01 (Post 1694495)

Just curious…. sounds like PSA has not incorporated the use iPads yet? So are they still using whiz wheel and paper charts at this point?

iPads will be in the future. They have a few instructors in the training department working on the implementation. I would say within the next year

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Originally Posted by tomgoodman (Post 1694712)

Get outta town!!!! .... Is that in "Uncle Tom's Bathroom Reader?"

any one else here I have talked with get a call for an interview yet? I had 3 guys call me today who did. 859-466-7226

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Originally Posted by comair8904 (Post 1694918)

any one else here I have talked with get a call for an interview yet? I had 3 guys call me today who did. 859-466-7226

Now if I call is that by the half hour or full hour? This sounds so much cheaper than what I've been using in Dayton.

Make sure he splits that $1000 bonus with you if he gets you hired!

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Originally Posted by Lovemywife (Post 1694559)

"3 or 4 take off briefings before getting to runway", not! One Departure brief at gate before door is closed to confirm correct flight plan/runway and a take off brief at runway stating 5 important items, runway,altitude,fix,engine fail procedure, heading assigned.

As stated W&B acars unless deferred.

That's not what they taught in class. It may be different on the flight line which I had hoped it would be. During ipt they taught us to repeat the name of the airfield and the intended runway of departure three times during the taxi checklist. The procedures weren't hard. I never said they were. There is too much mandatory talking going on in a PSA flight deck and a good bunch of call outs that could be avoided, more so than average. I thought the training staff at PSA were extremely helpful and generous. The W&B was easy. If you can't pass PSA ground school you don't need to be flying 121. I went to Compass for other reasons.

Hah yeah you definitely do not have to brief the airport you are taking off from to the guy next to you three times. You just have to check once that the ACARS data is not only for the correct runway but correct airport as well. If you don't initialize the airports properly you could get takeoff data for 23 in CLT instead of 23 in OAJ for example.

The extensive briefings and taxi checklist are a cause and effect result of the CRW overrrum incident a few years ago.