SWA: "3 years left of pilot shortage"
#81
Disinterested Third Party
Joined APC: Jun 2012
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Who is ‘we’ and ‘us’? And why do you post in the Airline Pilot forums? At best you’re an overweight Floridian with bad feet bumbling around in a piston single and hoping to get paid to fly a jet, for anyone for anything, denigrating the profession because you think it makes you look like a grizzled old-timer.
Stick to your wacky political posts and let the actual airline pilots talk.
Stick to your wacky political posts and let the actual airline pilots talk.
#88
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Aug 2015
Posts: 805
I get it but it's a move in the right direction...the Boeing FCOM was always 400' AFAIK and the 1000' is a Southwest-ism. The more we operate the aircraft as Boeing intended, the better.
#89
#90
Disinterested Third Party
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SWA's reputation for taxi speeds and brake use is known; but each operator does things a bit differently. It's one of the reasons that as a new hire, one is best not studying material from a different operator. There's more than one way to skin a cat or fly an aircraft, and it's important to fly it the way the employer who is paying the bills wants it flown.
If the employer allows the autopilot at 400' that's fine. Personally, I usually hand fly to 270, sometimes to cruise. If it gets busy, or there's distraction, or there's a problem, by all means, the autopilot is there, but I generally don't call for it until far above the minimum engage altitudes. Turns...depends on the location. Anchorage on 33, 600'. Guantanamo, right away. Gimpo...turn. They shoot at you not far past the airfield. Do as is appropriate.
I will admit, my respect for a pilot drops considerably when (s)he's calling for autopilot at 400. It really doesn't hurt to actually fly the airplane, and there's more than one way to fly a Boeing (correctly). More than one way an operator can call for it to be done, and it doesn't violate a sacred aeronautic ethic that it doesn't read precisely the same as the Boeing generic.
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