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06-02-2013 | 06:43 AM
#511
Don't say Guppy
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From: Guppy driver
I much prefer Boeing to Airbus, except the guppy. All that being said, an 800 is a decent compromise, and probably the penultimate guppy. The 900 and ER is too limited. It is very good if you have 13K foot sea level airports, and less than 6 hours to fly. Shorten the runway, or raise the runway above SL, and the superguppy is a catastrophe.
A new 320 or 21 is a vastly less compromised airplane, and after 8 years, my back isn't killing me.
2 months back in a guppy and I am googling massage shops.
I will take a 57 any day over anything without twin tails and wingtip 'winders'.
A new 320 or 21 is a vastly less compromised airplane, and after 8 years, my back isn't killing me.
2 months back in a guppy and I am googling massage shops.
I will take a 57 any day over anything without twin tails and wingtip 'winders'.
06-02-2013 | 07:04 AM
#512
Gets Weekends Off
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IF stalling once per month in your fleet is true, then I agree there is a big pilot problem. So a few idiots are responsible for this alarming rate of of occurrence, it should be easy to identify the idiots and fired them before we top Air France performance. I say fire them, because you can not retrain an idiot!
What was your source for this? We had 3 stalls in 2012. One a month seems like a bad rumor. All crew had to be "retrained" and shown the proper way to employ the 737.
06-02-2013 | 07:08 AM
#513
(retired)
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From: Old, retired, healthy, debt-free, liquid
The better solution is to not hire them in the first place. However, all that changed 35 years ago with the advent of deregulation...the "race to the bottom" also includes brain power and qualifications.
06-02-2013 | 07:17 AM
#514
SLI best wishes!
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From: B767 Capt
I was simply quoting the poster's reply to a previous post. Just go back up a few post and read from there. Hence my disclaimer "IF"
06-02-2013 | 07:18 AM
#515
SLI best wishes!
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From: B767 Capt
06-02-2013 | 07:23 AM
#516
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I much prefer Boeing to Airbus, except the guppy. All that being said, an 800 is a decent compromise, and probably the penultimate guppy. The 900 and ER is too limited. It is very good if you have 13K foot sea level airports, and less than 6 hours to fly. Shorten the runway, or raise the runway above SL, and the superguppy is a catastrophe.
A new 320 or 21 is a vastly less compromised airplane, and after 8 years, my back isn't killing me.
2 months back in a guppy and I am googling massage shops.
I will take a 57 any day over anything without twin tails and wingtip 'winders'.
A new 320 or 21 is a vastly less compromised airplane, and after 8 years, my back isn't killing me.
2 months back in a guppy and I am googling massage shops.
I will take a 57 any day over anything without twin tails and wingtip 'winders'.
The Guppy is a good airplane for short-haul and a very good replacement for the RJ's covering those markets. United was a Guppy airline before we got cal -
06-02-2013 | 07:25 AM
#517
Gets Weekends Off
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You caught me. I just scan some of this stuff since it gets out of control and just try and insert facts or statements that help explain something. Stalling a plane a month would have any POI standing on the table screaming at the company. The safety dept and flight ops would be addressing this ASAP too. Thanks for the IF and sorry for putting you as a negative poster.
06-02-2013 | 07:25 AM
#518
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06-02-2013 | 07:31 AM
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3 stalls in 2012 - Fred and the heads of the training department along with the pilots should have been fired - You can't fix stupid just hide it. That appears to be what happened if TRUE.
06-02-2013 | 09:33 AM
#520
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From: 757 Capt
IF stalling once per month in your fleet is true, then I agree there is a big pilot problem. So a few idiots are responsible for this alarming rate of of occurrence, it should be easy to identify the idiots and fired them before we top Air France performance. I say fire them, because you can not retrain an idiot!
It may be a pilot problem - or it may be an education problem.
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