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Originally Posted by EmbraerFlyer (Post 548616)

Maybe the tire had a slow leak

Maybe the Captain needed to take a slow leak and skipped the walk-around.

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Originally Posted by TheDashRocks (Post 548672)

Maybe the Captain needed to take a slow leak and skipped the walk-around.

At what airline do the CA's do the walkarounds???

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Originally Posted by cencal83406 (Post 548676)

At what airline do the CA's do the walkarounds???

I dont know about other airlines but the one I'm at the FO does the preflight and the CA does the postflight.

I should have done this as a survey, so far we have (open to interpretation): 2 people thing they did the post flight and something may have changed or different opinions, 4 think they didn't do it or didn't have to, and 2 would like more info. I think this is kind of sad.

For those that want to know, at that company the FO is required to do both walk arounds and the weather was light rain at departure and sun at arrival, no runways under 8k.

With the current opinions, my opinion is, it would be nice if FedEx could use some of that extra capacity for pax ops, at least I know MX delays would be minimized.

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Originally Posted by BenFluth216 (Post 548687)

I dont know about other airlines but the one I'm at the FO does the preflight and the CA does the postflight.

The PIC is the one most responsible for all of that. Then most delegate it or the Ops state that the FO may/will conduct the Walkaround if the PIC delegates.

Either way I have seen many CA and FO do the walk around. When I was new I even had a few do it with me to show some areas that pose issues at times that were not covered in the initial training.

There are some great mentors out there. And they still walk around, share their experience, and help transition you to the left seat.

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Originally Posted by APM145 (Post 548702)

In my (meager) experience of 1 year and 1 month, 500+ hours of flying, I have had a CA do a walkaround once.

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Originally Posted by cencal83406 (Post 548676)

At what airline do the CA's do the walkarounds???

Horizon.. At least when i was there

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Originally Posted by BigBallzMagee (Post 548622)

What NWA is that? Some other NWA's do.

As far as I know,for the time being there is only 1 NWA.

For all you know, the crew did catch it on the post flight, wrote it up, and depending on the regional, going through dispatch, then maint, then the moon, and waiting for Jupitor to align with Venus, They finally got around to fixing it, and by that time the other crew was there so it seemed like they were the ones to catch it.

Most of these companies just are not run very well these days, and even when crews are pro active about things, they call it in to dispatch, and that dispatcher does not even know what aiport there at!!!! Im not trying to monday morning QB here at all.

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Originally Posted by NZNV (Post 548595)

I thought I get an opinion from the peanut gallery about a situation I had as a passenger. I won't give out what airline but it was a CRJ. The aircraft arrived about 1 hour prior to the departure and there was a crew swap. It was raining out. The next crew was delayed and arrived at the aircraft about 15 minutes after scheduled departure and found a tire that needed to be replaced. Now my question comes that had the previous crew done post flight walk around wouldn't they have found a tire that was bad enough that it needed to be replaced? I have a few thousand hours in the CRJ and wasn't very happy this was left to the next crew as my experience is that bad tires are obvious. Post flight should be as thorough as pre-flight, aren't we are all on the same team?

If the tire had a leak it's possible and very likely that it happened on the landing which could mean it wasn't noticeable on the taxi in or at the gate. That being said at CHQ we do walkarounds between every leg as well as when taking a new aircraft or retiring one for the day. I actually enjoy it since it gives me a moment to stretch my legs after being cramped in that cockpit.