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Old 08-02-2012 | 07:16 PM
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Originally Posted by SOTeric
That EFIS set up is idiotic.

And they say UAs 757s are dumbed-down?
I'm not sure I understand. The 757 instruments are identical to the 737-500. I'll take the NG instruments any day.
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Old 08-02-2012 | 07:18 PM
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Originally Posted by WS01
how come the feds would ok the 757 and 764 with their cockpit difference but not the 733/5 and NG
Yea, I was surprised too. I'd fly the 757 for a year then hop into the 767-400 to fly one trip. Can't believe it's legal. It's not safe.
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Old 08-02-2012 | 07:30 PM
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Originally Posted by WS01
how come the feds would ok the 757 and 764 with their cockpit difference but not the 733/5 and NG
Didn't Alaska have it that way with their -400s and the NGs? I know the -200 was a separate category, but I thought the -400 and NG pilots were interchangeable.
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Old 08-02-2012 | 08:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Ottopilot
Yea, I was surprised too. I'd fly the 757 for a year then hop into the 767-400 to fly one trip. Can't believe it's legal. It's not safe.
That's why every MV/LOE we have to touch both.....The Fed's get away with calling that safe and signing off in allowing the none-split fleet.

Is the B737 MV/LOEs allowed to go all NG without having to see the NG and -500 every time to the School House??
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Old 08-03-2012 | 04:36 AM
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Originally Posted by SoCalGuy
That's why every MV/LOE we have to touch both.....The Fed's get away with calling that safe and signing off in allowing the none-split fleet.

Is the B737 MV/LOEs allowed to go all NG without having to see the NG and -500 every time to the School House??
Nah. Only the jerks with alot of juniority have to fly the 500 stimulator. The rest get to skate through on the 800 sim.
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Old 08-05-2012 | 09:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Ottopilot
I'm not sure I understand. The 757 instruments are identical to the 737-500. I'll take the NG instruments any day.
Are you f-ing serious?!?! This NG package is the WORST EFIS I've ever seen! I thought only SWA had it, and now I hear even they don't use it anymore. I prefer the -500 half-a$$ glass over this crap. At least it has a speed tape, for God's sake.

I actually had a training captain (can't remember what you guys call it - the guy who gave us our check at the end of training) tell me this was "the most advanced cockpit other than the 787". He IMMEDIATELY lost any and all credibility he might have had when he uttered those words.

I still can't imagine anyone with a brain buying new airplanes and then turning the EFIS into steam gauges. I for one can't wait to get out of this little POS.

JMHO
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Old 08-06-2012 | 12:27 AM
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Originally Posted by maybsav8
Are you f-ing serious?!?! This NG package is the WORST EFIS I've ever seen! I thought only SWA had it, and now I hear even they don't use it anymore. I prefer the -500 half-a$$ glass over this crap. At least it has a speed tape, for God's sake.

I actually had a training captain (can't remember what you guys call it - the guy who gave us our check at the end of training) tell me this was "the most advanced cockpit other than the 787". He IMMEDIATELY lost any and all credibility he might have had when he uttered those words.

I still can't imagine anyone with a brain buying new airplanes and then turning the EFIS into steam gauges. I for one can't wait to get out of this little POS.

JMHO

Holding out for the Q400 or the E145?
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Old 08-06-2012 | 06:52 AM
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Originally Posted by SoCalGuy
That's why every MV/LOE we have to touch both.....The Fed's get away with calling that safe and signing off in allowing the none-split fleet.

Is the B737 MV/LOEs allowed to go all NG without having to see the NG and -500 every time to the School House??
B737 MV/LOE can be done solely in the NG sim. Not required to touch the -500 sim at all.
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Old 08-06-2012 | 02:49 PM
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Originally Posted by EWR73FO
Holding out for the Q400 or the E145?
ROFLMAO!!!
No thanks, but I will take ANYTHING else on the property.

You can have the guppy.
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Old 08-07-2012 | 08:16 PM
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Originally Posted by maybsav8
ROFLMAO!!!
No thanks, but I will take ANYTHING else on the property.

You can have the guppy.
Obviously a L-UAL returning furloughee calling it a "guppy". Seems as though the only ones in the industry that call it that are the UAL guys. You guys use that term like it's Kleenex, Coke, or Xerox. It's not exactly the industry name for it, just y'all's, just so you know. Welcome back to flying, btw, now quit griping about the avionics.
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