The fat lady is singing...
06-08-2013 | 11:52 AM
#31
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Totally interchangeable? No.
The two basic versions of the GEnx have a different diameter fan (the 747-8 is the smaller one) and the 747-8, unlike the 787, still needs "old style" bleed air.
Besides, we've been told time and again on this very forum that no sCAL pilot has any interest in flying a jumbo. Your secret is safe with us.
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06-08-2013 | 02:15 PM
#32
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06-10-2013 | 08:36 AM
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Similar core and accessories? Yes.
Totally interchangeable? No.
The two basic versions of the GEnx have a different diameter fan (the 747-8 is the smaller one) and the 747-8, unlike the 787, still needs "old style" bleed air.
Besides, we've been told time and again on this very forum that no sCAL pilot has any interest in flying a jumbo. Your secret is safe with us.
Totally interchangeable? No.
The two basic versions of the GEnx have a different diameter fan (the 747-8 is the smaller one) and the 747-8, unlike the 787, still needs "old style" bleed air.
Besides, we've been told time and again on this very forum that no sCAL pilot has any interest in flying a jumbo. Your secret is safe with us.
06-10-2013 | 08:51 AM
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The guppies are for the pilots that either choose to fly it or it's all their juniority can hold.
06-11-2013 | 02:16 AM
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Don't say Guppy
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From: Guppy driver
I forgot what flying a Guppy was like. My back hurts again, my ears are ringing, and I just bruised my ankle on the engine nacelle on my last preflight. The only good thing I can think of is that I get to look my marshaller straight in the eye, at the same level.
Even worse, UCH now is taking huge deliveries of "New" Guppies(NG). 5 years from now, when everyone else is taking delivery of NEO's and MAX's, UCH will be flying a fleet of fairly new old generation airplanes, trying to compete with "real" new airplanes using a lot less gas. And we will be flying them for the next 20 years. Not good.
Even worse, UCH now is taking huge deliveries of "New" Guppies(NG). 5 years from now, when everyone else is taking delivery of NEO's and MAX's, UCH will be flying a fleet of fairly new old generation airplanes, trying to compete with "real" new airplanes using a lot less gas. And we will be flying them for the next 20 years. Not good.
06-11-2013 | 04:53 AM
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I forgot what flying a Guppy was like. My back hurts again, my ears are ringing, and I just bruised my ankle on the engine nacelle on my last preflight. The only good thing I can think of is that I get to look my marshaller straight in the eye, at the same level.
Even worse, UCH now is taking huge deliveries of "New" Guppies(NG). 5 years from now, when everyone else is taking delivery of NEO's and MAX's, UCH will be flying a fleet of fairly new old generation airplanes, trying to compete with "real" new airplanes using a lot less gas. And we will be flying them for the next 20 years. Not good.
Even worse, UCH now is taking huge deliveries of "New" Guppies(NG). 5 years from now, when everyone else is taking delivery of NEO's and MAX's, UCH will be flying a fleet of fairly new old generation airplanes, trying to compete with "real" new airplanes using a lot less gas. And we will be flying them for the next 20 years. Not good.
Walk Around Captain's criteria:
1. First Officer has to be very pretty and the outside Temp >70.
2.?
3.?
06-11-2013 | 03:19 PM
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I forgot what flying a Guppy was like. My back hurts again, my ears are ringing, and I just bruised my ankle on the engine nacelle on my last preflight. The only good thing I can think of is that I get to look my marshaller straight in the eye, at the same level.
Even worse, UCH now is taking huge deliveries of "New" Guppies(NG). 5 years from now, when everyone else is taking delivery of NEO's and MAX's, UCH will be flying a fleet of fairly new old generation airplanes, trying to compete with "real" new airplanes using a lot less gas. And we will be flying them for the next 20 years. Not good.
Even worse, UCH now is taking huge deliveries of "New" Guppies(NG). 5 years from now, when everyone else is taking delivery of NEO's and MAX's, UCH will be flying a fleet of fairly new old generation airplanes, trying to compete with "real" new airplanes using a lot less gas. And we will be flying them for the next 20 years. Not good.
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