amorris311
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Are you scared?
Southwest 1st Day at LGA a failure
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mrivc211
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Sshhhhh! Don't be nice to other pilots, it gets contagous(sp?)
ChasenSFO
hen teaser
I noticed that in AUS, the AA MD80s were all taxiing about half speed for whatever reason and of course WN was going double speed. AUS ground would just put the MD80s on a separate parallel taxiway so everyone else could zip around em.
My question is, is it a union dispute or something?
kellwolf
Piece of Trash
Probably b/c of spacing issues. On busy days, we'll normally get slowed between BNA/BWG/PXV and LTOWN.
BobDDuck
Island Bus Driver
It's called the Crandall Crawl.
kellwolf
Piece of Trash
That's it. I'm taxiing slow and calling it "The Trenary Two-Step." 'Course if they don't want Pinnacle Corp involved, I can bust out the "Seal Shuffle."
mtsu_av8er
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BobDDuck
Island Bus Driver
Lloyd, sorry man... you just lost a whole lot of cool points for using Haterade.
Orange Anchor
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I think in PHL the SWA guys use the "Min fuel" as some sort of SWA/ATC code word for let us get in first.... Never fails that during a hold at BUNTS you will hear at least one SWA guy who is just entering the hold declare to threaten to declare min fuel....I have a hard time thinking, that all of them truely are that low... But I could be wrong.
IF ATC is giving preferential due to someone calling 'min fuel' then the fault is with ATC. 'min fuel' gets you zip in handling. "emergency fuel' sends you to the front of the line but don't plan on calling it often and don't do it without first having called 'min fuel'. One carrier was routinely calling min and then emerg fuel going into a major airport in the NW and the FAA said, "keep it up and you're going to pay.' It stopped.
Orange Anchor
New Member
10) they like the snappy leather jackets
9) they like the pleasing colors on the airplane
8) they believe 'you're free to move about the country' ads.
7) they like the jargon the SWA pilots use
6) Herb sends them a carton of Marlboros each month
5) Herb sends them a case of Wild Turkey at Thanksgiving
4) Occasionally the SW FAs drop by the center and do the evacuation demonstration
3) they like listening to the other airlines whine
2) SW will do 190 to the marker
And number one reason ATC favors Southwest...
It's not that they like SW and favor them. They just hate everyone else.
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SlumTodd_Millionaire
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No, it's a safety issue or something. Taxiing around at 40 knots is blatantly unsafe, and I'd love to see the day that the FAA cracks down on SWA for it.
joliet
New Member
Goonie
Never say die
I've flown out of DAL quite a bit and have NEVER seen taxing at an unsafe speed. In fact most of the time they are going slow enough that both crew members wave at me when they go by.
Shame on them for enjoying their gig!!
USMCmech
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Not quite. As with all things in aviation the answer is "it depends".
Skidding around a corner in the ramp area at that speed is unsafe. However getting some momentum when you have two miles of straightaway is prefectly reasonable.
My problem is that some pilots seem to make no distinction between the two.
SlumTodd_Millionaire
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Nope, still unsafe. I represented a pilot at Pinnacle who was called in to the office for discipline because he injured a flight attendant after slamming on the brakes during taxi. He was on a very long straightaway that parallels runway 22L in DTW. According to the FO, he got it up to about 40-45 knots. A Spirit plane was holding short of the taxiway waiting for the Pinnacle plane to pass. ATC made a mistake and told the Spirit plane to join the parallel and taxi to the runway. Thinking that the Pinnacle guy would stop, the Spirit plane started to taxi and pulled out onto the parallel. Unfortunately, the Pinnacle plane was moving too fast and he didn't hear the direction to follow Spirit. When the Spirit plane started to pull forward, the Pinnacle Captain had to slam on the brakes to prevent a collision. The FA was doing her walk through and was picked up off her feet and thrown backwards when he slammed on the brakes. She was injured as a result, thankfully not too seriously. The Captain got to do a serious carpet dance, and I had to beg and plead to keep the guy from getting suspended.
Fast taxiing is dangerous. Keep the speed under 20 knots.
The only problem with taxiing too fast is that if you have a taxiway incursion, you probably don't have the time to stop. Lots of folks blow taxi instructions and jet aircraft don't have the best brakes on earth.
No, I'm not a Southwest basher, they're a good airline, but no I'm not dying to work there or have any interest because they don't do the flying that I want to do.
No, I'm not a Southwest basher, they're a good airline, but no I'm not dying to work there or have any interest because they don't do the flying that I want to do.