Skyward

That’s no different than SWA. FOQA is alive and well, and so is a strict srabilized approach policy. I’m thinking you saw a turn or something above 1000’ that you’re calling an S turn on short final.

Fast90

Dam lighten up. Challenging conditions at Eppley. Bad Karma to bad mouth fellow pilots without facts. Seems to be some envy. Be happy. No I am not with SWA.

Learflyer

That BUR Landing in +RA was smart.

Selfmade92

Oh no, Southwest called tower and asked to do S-Turns and they did them...

Opakapaka

Hey Troll. What say you about United at ORD? Thought so.... idiot. Embarrassed to have you as a swa pilot. Had you been on probation for a year you’d never have made it. Boyyy

CanWeGetTheLeft

“Jesus people. Can’t we all just take up fly fishing or something and chill?!”

-WHACKMASTER, TOTD thread

2StgTurbine

Next time someone thinks they saw a Southwest 737 do s-turns inside of 3 miles, post the flightaware track here. Otherwise, stop posting what you think happened when you were 10 miles behind them.

maxjet

I love Southwest. Love most of the culture. Love the service, and many complements to the employees and how they treat non-rev and jumpseaters.

When I was flying 1900’s, taking shortcuts, breaking off of Runway 32 and landing 3/4 of the way down 28L in PIT to avoid the taxiing, being put on the pararell taxiway so that we could taxi extremely fast we thought it was cool. We thought all the major pilots who rode on us and told us we were unsafe were full of crap. We were in the culture and could not see our problem. We never had an accident so we must know what we are doing, right? It was a huge culture shock when I went to my first large jet and had to become a professional pilot.

Perhaps a little of this exists at Southwest? The problem with this mentality is that in the right hands, 90 degree turns to final in El Paso at 100 feet is not incredibly dangerous. (Personally observed and at the time thought it was pretty cool). In the wrong hands, not so much.

To the posters who seem so offended, as long as that doesn’t represent you, then, ...sticks and stones... If it is you, then please stop, as I may have a loved one on your aircraft that day.

Peacock

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WF8kE8Eby1Q

Braking action reported good immediately before landing. They reported it good during roll out. Tower asked them to take it to the end, and apparently there and upon further inspection by airfield management it was not good. Sounds like those SWA cowboys thought they could land with braking action good. I bet the check airman was showing off his high speed ice taxiing to indoctrinate the new FO in the daredevil culture, amirite?!?!

RckyMtHigh

It doesn’t exist. That’s what everyone that works here besides one disgruntled ex-Air Tran pilot are saying. To imply that it does on a public forum gets people a little worked up. Did it? Yeah, probably (I don’t know, before my time but the stereotype comes from somewhere). Does it? No. Have I seen s-turns here? Yep, once in three years and that was miles out at several thousand feet after getting held up by atc. Not because someone is trying to get the airplane on deck 30 seconds earlier though. Bottom line is the rush rush culture of 15 minute turns does not exist anymore and especially not at the expense of safety. It’s insulting to the professional pilots at SWA when people perpetuate old stereotypes that say otherwise.

The only time I’ve seen an approach that I went “whoa” at was a United heavy coming into SFO. Does that make United’s culture messed up? Nope. That’s an individual making a poor decision.