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Originally Posted by FlyJSH
Out of curiosity, do some airlines record flap and gear extensions in addition to hours and cycles. Yeah, it isn't standard, but I would rather dirty up early than get spun a couple times.
You wanna talk about non-standard...coming out of Newark one evening going north off of 4L we were climbing through 2-3000, accelerating and turning west per the departure procedure when we get "Jetlink XXXX, slow to 170 turn left heading 030". Well shoot...minimum speed with the flaps up is 180kts so we had to put the flaps BACK to 9 on the departure. Nowhere in our departure profile does it say we can put the flaps out after they've been retracted. Did we still do it? Absolutely. Instead of whining about whats not on the profile, fly the airplane. Sure beats the clusterpuck that would have ensued.
And keiundraj...if instructions like "slowest practical" and a turn with a descent and a crossing restriction give you trouble you might want to think about surrendering your instrument ticket. I guess this is a case of "getting what you pay for". The airlines pay bananas and are starting to get monkeys who can't walk and chew gum (or turn and descend) at the same time. I guess the lack of experience in American cockpits and behind American radar screens is starting to become evident...