Does the captain fly the first leg?

BobDDuck said:
We used to play Star Wars in the CRJ doing the same thing. I haven't tried it yet in the current whip though. The legs are too short to get a game going.
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An actual cruise segment makes me wonder if I missed something, if there's something more I should be doing.

Code: 
(FPL-SKW6321-IS 
-E120/M-SDGRZ/S 
-KSAN1618 
-N0251F080 PEBLE4 SLI DCT 
-KLAX0030 KONT 
-PBN/C2 NAV/RNVE99 REG/N294SW)
 
My experience at Eagle was most Ca's would fly the first leg. With a few who would ask what you wanted to do.
 
dasleben said:
It was more like "Let's draw everything on the fix page that I think is important on a straight in ILS in VMC." It wasn't @Polar742, though.
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I really think that some Boeing guy's sole job is to go into airline's training departments when they are selling them on a new jet and say "look at all the cool stuff you can put up on the screen!" And through the wonderful game of telephone it ends up as "Boeing recommends we put up all this cool stuff on screen when we are flying the plane!" I swear, some days there is so much crap up there I almost would rather be flying steam gauges. Almost.
 
rjmore said:
Ahhh good old fix page Battleship...
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I wish. I think some people take pride in the amount of clutter with which they can imbibe a nav display.

I guess it's the same group that flies with the range at 320 miles while flying IMC with embedded boomers (whale tech only allows us to the low 30's on mid range legs that are profitable - TMYK)
 
Polar742 said:
I wish. I think some people take pride in the amount of clutter with which they can imbibe a nav display.

I guess it's the same group that flies with the range at 320 miles while flying IMC with embedded boomers (whale tech only allows us to the low 30's on mid range legs that are profitable - TMYK)
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#millionlbMGTWproblems
 
Polar742 said:
I wish. I think some people take pride in the amount of clutter with which they can imbibe a nav display.

I guess it's the same group that flies with the range at 320 miles while flying IMC with embedded boomers (whale tech only allows us to the low 30's on mid range legs that are profitable - TMYK)
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We have our share of range ring heroes as well! Some take quite a bit of time to build these elaborate hieroglyphics. I don't see it as much on the younger and cooler light, but still heavier than @Derg's, twin.
 
Something that annoys me is when Captain anal will center the heading bug to track when it's only off by one degree when you're flying pilot.

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OneNineHundy said:
Something that annoys me is when Captain anal will center the heading bug to track when it's only off by one degree when you're flying pilot.

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Or when you cross a fix and start a turn and the captain turns the heading knob to align with the next track. Really? Can't wait till wings level and press the center of the button once? Lot less work, same pay.
 
B767 said:
Or when you cross a fix and start a turn and the captain turns the heading knob to align with the next track. Really? Can't wait till wings level and press the center of the button once? Lot less work, same pay.
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Oh, I do that, but that stems from a sim instructor way back who'd give us a rudder hardover if we didn't. :D It was all in good fun, and anyway, pressing the center of the knob for us is heading select.

Monkey spin the bug, get a banana!
 
Or the guy that puts there hand next to the flap lever "flap 1"? Ah no thanks champ we're still 20 miles out.

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OneNineHundy said:
Something that annoys me is when Captain anal will center the heading bug to track when it's only off by one degree when you're flying pilot.

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Two things:

I always make it a habit to immediately turn the heading bug 15 degrees off center just to passive aggressively make it known not to touch the AP while I'm flying.

If you do that to them, it will generally lead to a 20 min 4yr old hissy fit and an overall degradation of the remainder of the trip. Tool bags!
 
Seggy said:
Another fact they brought up is the point that once you set up an approach set up to a runway, and have it all briefed, don't change it last minute.

Obviously airport conditions and traffic patterns can change and you need to adapt to those changes, but if you set up an approach just fly that one if you can. There are a higher increased number of incidents that occur after a last minute approach/runway change.

@CaptBill and I almost had a last minute runway change happen last night, as ATC wasn't sure what they were going to give us. We just requested what we had set up and they obliged.
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I don't have many ASAP reports filed, but a majority of them involve last minute runway changes.
 
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