Most certainly not; that would require the ground crews to actually work.

The best thing about the Dornier 328... ACARS was off the door and the parking brake. Load up, close the door. Do the paperwork, then hand it out of the hamburger hole located right beside the captain's knee. Out on time, and didn't have to rush to get the paperwork done!

Spoken like someone whose been doing a lot of Airways flying...

how a little bit of circuit breaker action? :D

Pop CBs to get an ACARS out/in time? Never! Who would condone such an action!?! :eek:

Nice. I don't have to deal with ACARS, so I only hear the second-hand stories about "adjusting" the times manually...

Not to mention you're in Newark, with 90 other company aircraft calling up ramp at the same time. And you have that a$$hat ramp controller that chews you out for pi$$ing the wrong way back at the hotel. Makes your sphincter quiver just a wee bit. :D

BTW, the Honeywells are junk, as is the Universal... the only decent FMS i've used on an RJ is the Collins 4200- now that's a nice unit.

all this talk about IOE and nobody's brought up flight attendants yet.... isnt that the best part? theres some decent ones out there

Your first day, you'll take off get half way there, and your @ss will still be back on the runway. It's perfectly normal, everyone goes through it. About your 2nd or 3rd day, you'll find your way into the airplane. You'll also have a blast, just remember fly standard, the IOE Captain will tell you what you need to know as you go.

And one more thing, good luck with the slam dunk approaches, I know you don't practice them in the sim. Don't be affraid to use the speed breaks, they're there for a reason. Have fun and learn a lot, it will come with time.

Yeah, when I was a new hire at ASA back in '98, I did E-120 IOE out of DFW and Chris Avery kept trying to get me laid by the F/A's.. none of whom where attractive mind you! That guy was a riot!