02-18-2017Quote:
Kind of reminded me of my 737 capt oral. We had a Fed come in who was a SWA Fed. First thing he did was give me a runaround chart problem. I sharpened my pencil and worked through it in about 10 minutes. Showed it to him, he consulted his notes and said " wrong answer". 45 minutes later after reworking it 6 times and getting the same answer he said "well, it looks like you will have to take a fallure on this". I said, can I see what you have and it turned out that he was applying a SWA procedure that we did differently at AWA. The difference was the difference between my answer and his. The rest of the switch/light systems quiz was cake after that scare.
I would never reset a CB in flight. But I will use what I know and what MX control gives me to get the jet off the gate. Mexico and Canada flights don't always have easy access to MX control, and I do a lot of those overnights.
R57, I agree with you about the need for balance, and I expect that is the direction we will be going.
That's just plain cruel, I don't think the fed liked you :-)Originally Posted by cactusmike
No BS. The check airman/designee giving me the oral was being observed by the lead Fed, Dick Julian, from the PHX FSDO. Bob had me finished after two hours on mostly what if scenarios but Dick said, well, you didn't cover this, pointing to a switch, which led to the extra 2. Plus, as I said, the potty breaks.Kind of reminded me of my 737 capt oral. We had a Fed come in who was a SWA Fed. First thing he did was give me a runaround chart problem. I sharpened my pencil and worked through it in about 10 minutes. Showed it to him, he consulted his notes and said " wrong answer". 45 minutes later after reworking it 6 times and getting the same answer he said "well, it looks like you will have to take a fallure on this". I said, can I see what you have and it turned out that he was applying a SWA procedure that we did differently at AWA. The difference was the difference between my answer and his. The rest of the switch/light systems quiz was cake after that scare.
I would never reset a CB in flight. But I will use what I know and what MX control gives me to get the jet off the gate. Mexico and Canada flights don't always have easy access to MX control, and I do a lot of those overnights.
R57, I agree with you about the need for balance, and I expect that is the direction we will be going.
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