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Old 01-15-2019, 08:52 PM
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(one was the infamous "Candlewood crapper")
I seem to vaguely recall something about this, but don't recall the details. Can you elaborate?
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I seem to vaguely recall something about this, but don't recall the details. Can you elaborate?
Ah the infamous candle wood crapper. After he got canned he went to Mesa and has since gotten on with Delta. He turned a sh!ty sh!tuation into a less sh!tty sh!tuation.
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Not to pick a nit but I don't believe we have an 0400 show anywhere in the system. All I do is standups and the earliest van time I've ever had (not show time, but van time) is 0500.

If we do have an 0400 show outside of the training department, I pity that crew...
80% or more of the time, you brief the day before after your session for the next day. So realy its 6-12pm...and actually its one of the better time slot for strut students. Then you aren’t brieing then expected to rember and perform the maneuvers right after. Brief the day before. Gett better study direction then perfuthe manuvertthe next day. I find call out and actions/profiles are smothed out way faster that way..
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Not to pick a nit but I don't believe we have an 0400 show anywhere in the system. All I do is standups and the earliest van time I've ever had (not show time, but van time) is 0500.

If we do have an 0400 show outside of the training department, I pity that crew...
I've done them on the west coast, at least in years past. Maybe 0415-0420. I'm not a morning person, and had to drive a couple hours to base, so those definitely stick out in my mind.

Or a 0700 show on the east coast...
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Not to pick a nit but I don't believe we have an 0400 show anywhere in the system. All I do is standups and the earliest van time I've ever had (not show time, but van time) is 0500.

If we do have an 0400 show outside of the training department, I pity that crew...
We have a few 0415 shows out of the MSP system.
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Old 01-16-2019, 06:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Turbosina View Post
Not to pick a nit but I don't believe we have an 0400 show anywhere in the system. All I do is standups and the earliest van time I've ever had (not show time, but van time) is 0500.

If we do have an 0400 show outside of the training department, I pity that crew...

It was probably 10 years ago but I remember a 0345 van for a 0450 departure MKE-ORD. FAT-SFO used to have an 0500 departure.
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I seem to vaguely recall something about this, but don't recall the details. Can you elaborate?

Candlewood wasn't staffed overnight. A bunch of people went out drinking on the weekend and he ended up locked out of his room with no way to get a new key.
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We have a few 0415 shows out of the MSP system.
I've got them both nights on an upcoming three day.
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I've got them both nights on an upcoming three day.
Ouch! I stand corrected. Yikes.
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Originally Posted by Turbosina View Post
Not to pick a nit but I don't believe we have an 0400 show anywhere in the system. All I do is standups and the earliest van time I've ever had (not show time, but van time) is 0500.

If we do have an 0400 show outside of the training department, I pity that crew...
I see 04Xx show times on the West Coast, including on my schedule.

That being said, I think it’s not ideal for training as that is when you are building skills using a building block approach and it’s more efficient if the brain is firing on all cylinders. The reality is that sims are expensive and need to operate 24 hours minus maintenance, so the night and early AM sessions are a fact of life in the industry.
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