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Old 11-12-2015, 07:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Paid2fly View Post
The economy seats in the 175 are horrible "in terms of passenger comfort"! They have zero padding and no lumbar support.
Have you tried riding in a Cathay 744 across the western pond? Talk about uncomfortable seats...

I find the 175 to be superior in terms of comfort to narrowbody mainline aircraft. The huge windows give it a bright, airy, open feeling, and Delta's economy seating in the 175 feels more roomy than a SWA 737. And you know that seating is the airline's choice, not the airplane manufacturer's...
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Old 11-12-2015, 08:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Turbosina View Post
...and Delta's economy seating in the 175 feels more roomy than a SWA 737.
Take it from a guy who is at this very second crammed into one of those seats on my airline, it doesn't freakin' take much work to be more roomy.
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Old 11-12-2015, 08:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Turbosina View Post
Have you tried riding in a Cathay 744 across the western pond? Talk about uncomfortable seats...

I find the 175 to be superior in terms of comfort to narrowbody mainline aircraft. The huge windows give it a bright, airy, open feeling, and Delta's economy seating in the 175 feels more roomy than a SWA 737. And you know that seating is the airline's choice, not the airplane manufacturer's...












I've flown all over the planet on many different carriers and all I'm saying is the economy seats are horrible in the 175. Might be okay for a 30 minute flight, anything beyond that and the seats are completely inadequate(not talking about the amount of space, but the complete lack of any lumbar support or cushioning for the posterior).
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Old 11-12-2015, 09:48 PM
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Originally Posted by AFflyer View Post
Is this out of the sim class? The class in ground school lost one this week because she separated her shoulder... Other then that, everyone's hanging tough.
Week ending 10/23 two of the top 10 in the TRG group no longer show up on the seniority list. An additional guy that week that is 40 in seniority. Out of the top 10 pilots one guy has the same first initial as his last and if he had a third initial that was the same, he may be accused of being in some type of group that wears white hoods. The other guy has the same initials as a religious figure that has a famous father and the last guy has the same initials as the shipping company DHL minus the L.

Week ending 10/30 we lost one more that was around 28 seniority and has the same initials as Lawrence Taylor.

Week ending 11/6 we have 6 more pilots that were on the list the previous week that are no longer on there. Domicile seniority is in the 60 for the two that share initials with Tom Brady and Chris Rock. Two more have their seniority in the 80's and share initials with John Rockifeller and Aaron Hernandez. The last two have seniority numbers in the 120's and initials similar to Don Undertaker and Kim Anderson.

These could be people that no-showed and just got taken off the list, but everyone I list as missing was on our seniority list at some point. I'm not sure what is okay to post or not, so please forgive the riddles and pseudonyms.
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Old 11-12-2015, 10:19 PM
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Originally Posted by FaceBiter View Post
Was it KA with a broom stick in the flight safety briefing room? Amirite??
Winner winner!!
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Old 11-13-2015, 08:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Utah View Post
The outstation bases (PSP,FAT, TUS, COS) typically have very early morning departures and very late arrivals at night. Most of the pairings either start real early or get off really late(or both). It would put you commuting in the day before, or going home the day after a lot of the time. Living in domicile would be fine if you don't mind 5am shows or 11pm releases.

The recently added TAFB rig actually helps these folks a lot. Start early + end late = lots of TAFB. You can do a "crappy" three day but get paid like a four day. So yeah you get to bed at 0100 or 0200 but you're home...and you don't have to fly more legs when you wake up. I'm good with it.
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Old 11-13-2015, 02:19 PM
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Anybody transition from the CRJ to the ERJ recently? I'm curious how long training is.
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Old 11-13-2015, 02:23 PM
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Originally Posted by turboflyin View Post
Anybody transition from the CRJ to the ERJ recently? I'm curious how long training is.
Two weeks of ground then 5 FTD sessions and 6 Sim session a checkride and two lofts.
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Old 11-13-2015, 02:23 PM
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Originally Posted by turboflyin View Post
Anybody transition from the CRJ to the ERJ recently? I'm curious how long training is.
2 weeks of ground and roughly 3 weeks of sim. I had 5 weeks off before IOE. I heard they were getting caught up though.
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Old 11-13-2015, 02:26 PM
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I heard getting the Ejet as a new hire you could be waiting months. I have a 170 type. Thoughts?
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