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04-08-2020 | 05:27 AM

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Buck Rogers

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I’m in that boat and am wondering what they will do with hundreds of people losing landing currency in June.

At Delta, they applied for and were granted an FAA waiver for 2 months I believe. Pilot can refuse it, but....that might be coming down the pipe. Can you imagine the liability(personally and company) if there is an “incident” and you are on a waiver?

04-08-2020 | 05:33 AM

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I can see them loading up an airplane with 15 or 20 guys, flying it to Pease AFB, and giving everyone three touch and goes. That’s what they did with the 767-400 before the sim was landing certified.

04-08-2020 | 05:57 AM

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That would be a great solution as long as I first get training in the simulator on performing a “touch and go” maneuver. I can’t find that one in the flight manual.

04-08-2020 | 06:11 AM

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Really??? At a time when we’re trying to protect cash, you think that they’ll take an airplane that is parked and go blow $100 bills out of the back of the engines? A sim is vastly more inexpensive and I seriously doubt that the L/D curves ever intersect regarding this.

04-08-2020 | 06:15 AM

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I’ll take things United will never do for 500, Alex.

04-08-2020 | 06:16 AM

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How simple is it going to be to get a few thousand people out to DEN and back? The EWR 757 base is going to potentially have hundreds of pilots go non current all at once.

04-08-2020 | 06:33 AM

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How simple is it going to be to get a few thousand people out to DEN and back? The EWR 757 base is going to potentially have hundreds of pilots go non current all at once.

There’s not exactly a bunch of demand for 756, 777, or 787 pilots right now. Nonqual on a decimated fleet isn’t that big of a threat to the operation.

04-08-2020 | 07:15 AM

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There’s not exactly a bunch of demand for 756, 777, or 787 pilots right now. Nonqual on a decimated fleet isn’t that big of a threat to the operation.

Exactly, there are still a bunch of qualified pilots left.

04-08-2020 | 09:00 AM

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Exactly, there are still a bunch of qualified pilots left.

I’m not talking about now, I’m talking about June if the same handful of people (remaining lineholders) keep getting what little landings are left. Almost 90% of the EWR 757 base, which is around 800 guys will lose currency in June.

04-08-2020 | 09:16 AM

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That would be a great solution as long as I first get training in the simulator on performing a “touch and go” maneuver. I can’t find that one in the flight manual.

Check under "rejected landing"