Airbus is getting rather nasty

[BobDDuck]

I'd fly a 150 for a living if the pay and QOL were right...

Not me. My personal rule is air conditioning and a bathroom.

 

[SlumTodd_Millionaire]

Not me. My personal rule is air conditioning and a bathroom.

I think I could learn to do without them if it meant I could sleep in my own bed every night of the year and still make good money.

 

[dasleben]

I think I could learn to do without them if it meant I could sleep in my own bed every night of the year and still make good money.

This is why I often miss Cape Air. Dearly.

 

[Tommay85]

I've told him this. Personally I wouldn't allow a center load unless it was very light. Didn't trust it.
"But we always do it this way."
"Don't care in the slightest unless you're going to fly this thing."

As far as not having scales, I believe it's company policy to have a scale in the back of all the airplanes.

I haven't seen a scale in the back of any 99.

 

[scooter2525]

Biggest complaint about the 99? Pilot loading. Or a FO on a rainy day that doesn't know to not step on the captains seat.

 

[z987k]

Biggest complaint about the 99? Pilot loading. Or a FO on a rainy day that doesn't know to not step on the captains seat.

Or an FO at all. I wouldn't mind having a real SIC, but I am just so much happier flying now that I'm back to single pilot.

 

[Hacker15e]

Not me. My personal rule is air conditioning and a bathroom.

I have a whole career thusfar with the majority spent strapped into seats with explosives in them and having to urinate in a plastic bag, and for flights as long as 12 hours.

So far as comfort goes, even a 150 is 'up' from there.

 

[ComplexHiAv8r]

I wish. My first car was a 68 with a 289 FWIW. It was 30 years old at that point. I remember my dad being totally on board telling my mom that if little Genot didn't kill himself in that car within a year he'd be fine for life on the road. Well I'm still alive, its snowing out, and I go to work tomorrow in a 400+ HP Mustang.

Got a pic of the stang? The 66 GT I posted is mine. 8)

 

[ComplexHiAv8r]

Not me. My personal rule is air conditioning and a bathroom.

Window does open and a Johnny tube?

 

[genot]

Got a pic of the stang? The 66 GT I posted is mine. 8)

You still have the 66?

 

[ComplexHiAv8r]

You still have the 66?

Yep! 8). Correct A code 66 GT hardtop.

Nice looking 68.

 

[Mike Wise]

I'd fly a 150 for a living if the pay and QOL were right...

Amen.

 

[Autothrust Blue]

I have a whole career thusfar with the majority spent strapped into seats with explosives in them and having to urinate in a plastic bag, and for flights as long as 12 hours.

I'll never gripe about the contortions that I do to get into/out of the 120 again.

 

[Hacker15e]

I'll never gripe about the contortions that I do to get into/out of the 120 again.

Be glad you don't have to fly wearing a 'poopy suit', either. A 12-hour flight from Las Vegas to the UK, including an Atlantic crossing, wearing a poopy suit, strapped to an ejection seat and unable to stand up and stretch your legs, is a truly character building experience.

Here's a NSFW song that explains part of the experience of being on such a pond crossing and having to figure out how to pee in a bag while also wearing the immensely bulky exposure suit.

 

[MikeD]

Be glad you don't have to fly wearing a 'poopy suit', either. A 12-hour flight from Las Vegas to the UK, including an Atlantic crossing, wearing a poopy suit, strapped to an ejection seat and unable to stand up and stretch your legs, is a truly character building experience.

At least you had someone else in the jet with you to yap with or take the stick for a bit. And you had a fast enough jet to where the Azores to Massachusetts wasn't a 14.1 sortie.

 

[mtrep09]

Speaking of long flights, here's something I saw over on Baseops.

http://jalopnik.com/5971433/how-a-s...lew-150000-miles-over-64-days-without-landing

 

[A-300F4-622R]

This is why I often miss Cape Air. Dearly.

You mean you don't like being gone for weeks at a time flying to some god forsaken third world cesspool? But you are in a "heavy", albeit a "light heavy". At least they compensate you well for all the time on the road.

 

[aviator147]

It's like watching two special Olympians compete in a calculus contest. Lockheed.

Bring back the TriStar!!

 

[aviator147]

Aircraft in American "colors" always looks stupid and extremely dirty to me. To me its just one more example of why American sucked so bad (still do-yes, I am a stock holder) is that everybody changed color over the years except American. Get with the time. I don't care if it saves 2 cents a minute on gas-YOUR LIVERY IS UGLY. End of rant.

the livery is iconic

 

[aviator147]

A little bit of fish food...

holy •!! I love it!! Reminds me a bit of Aero Mexico, but it has a cool look to it!