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Originally Posted by Omniscient
(Post 2839574)
7 summers here, 3 CEOs, the operation always collapses in summer. It’s the “summer stress test,” as they call it, and they always fail
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Originally Posted by LloydBraun
(Post 2839534)
a ND deferred
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Originally Posted by Sherpa
(Post 2839646)
At least we're not getting sued this time. I feel like we had about as much control over their May disaster where they scapegoated the pilot group during negotiations. Bad weather, full schedule, higher utilization = low tier operation.
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Originally Posted by skypest
(Post 2839892)
Sorry to change the subject, but do you or do you not have the ability to refuse an aircraft?
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Originally Posted by LloydBraun
(Post 2840016)
It's a legitimate MEL. 10 day item. Might be hard to justify canceling a flight over it. My comment was more along the lines of I felt maybe in the past it would have been fixed sooner. Wondering if Ted's background as a numbers guy isn't pushing more fix it later mentality. it did suck flying the arrival into LAX without it.
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You can’t fly an arrival without a moving map?
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Originally Posted by MO4SHO
(Post 2840090)
You can’t fly an arrival without a moving map?
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Yeah what the heck, who needs any of that new fangled stuff. Let's go back to the days of that all B737 operator. Put a metal tab on VNAV, deactivate the Auto Brakes, go to one FMS on the Capt. side and do FO only approaches into Burbank with stable call at 50 feet.
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Originally Posted by skytrekker
(Post 2840248)
Yeah what the heck, who needs any of that new fangled stuff. Let's go back to the days of that all B737 operator. Put a metal tab on VNAV, deactivate the Auto Brakes, go to one FMS on the Capt. side and do FO only approaches into Burbank with stable call at 50 feet.
I bet if you were on go home leg and the ND went out, you would be praying for a pilot deferral Nice hysterics though |
Originally Posted by skytrekker
(Post 2840248)
Yeah what the heck, who needs any of that new fangled stuff. Let's go back to the days of that all B737 operator. Put a metal tab on VNAV, deactivate the Auto Brakes, go to one FMS on the Capt. side and do FO only approaches into Burbank with stable call at 50 feet.
Like when people rant without quite knowing what they’re talking about... 🙃🙃 |
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