Delta off the Runway - LGA

Being based in ORD we get more of the east coast flying. Boston, Washington, and NY centers aren't a fan of those Cost Index speeds either.

"SkyWest, say Mach number?"
"Roger, increase to Mach .77 or better for spacing!"

Been to DFW in a while? World's largest VFR only airport. Their 123 rule is: 1 cloud, within 200 miles, 3 hours of flow. Slow to 210 knots 100 miles out? You guys aren't THAT busy. ORD would have me doing 300 for another 50 miles...
 
Idiot in fur coat!

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Been to DFW in a while? World's largest VFR only airport. Their 123 rule is: 1 cloud, within 200 miles, 3 hours of flow. Slow to 210 knots 100 miles out? You guys aren't THAT busy. ORD would have me doing 300 for another 50 miles...
It's gotten that bad at Dee Eff Dub?! I haven't been there in well over a year, and I don't remember it being that bad. Meanwhile you better not be doing anything less than 280 climbing out of IAH!
 
Idiot in fur coat!

I'll agree. You know that thing is too large to be in the lap, or under the seat. It was definitely in the overhead. So they had to grab it out before jumping on the slide. Society is stupid.
 
It's gotten that bad at Dee Eff Dub?! I haven't been there in well over a year, and I don't remember it being that bad. Meanwhile you better not be doing anything less than 280 climbing out of IAH!

I don't know. I avoid that place like the plague. That was the running joke when I was at Eagle. You know our current overnight hotel there was used as a meth lab?
 
It's gotten that bad at Dee Eff Dub?! I haven't been there in well over a year, and I don't remember it being that bad. Meanwhile you better not be doing anything less than 280 climbing out of IAH!
I don't know. I avoid that place like the plague. That was the running joke when I was at Eagle. You know our current overnight hotel there was used as a meth lab?
It's a total disaster when there's anything snowy happening. That said, maybe I am just used to the existing level of suck from being based there at The Beagle.

I didn't actually operate into or out of it this week...I was SUPPOSED to, though...

edit: I tend to miss most of the "fun" - I missed the hailstorm, for instance, in '12, couldn't even get there if I wanted JRM and by the time I commuted in all was more or less squared away. I don't think DFW, honestly, was that much of a disaster, although I don't have any experience with the New American(tm)(R).
 
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Being based in ORD we get more of the east coast flying. Boston, Washington, and NY centers aren't a fan of those Cost Index speeds either.

"SkyWest, say Mach number?"
"Roger, increase to Mach .77 or better for spacing!"
"For sequence over Modesto maintain .79 or better."
"With pleasure, sir (sound of speed selector)."
 
Not too soon.

Damn, son, you're subtle with the humor! :)
Nobody was seriously injured and airplanes, in the grand scheme of things, are largely expendable, as long as they are expended to protect their occupants. That means it is (or should be) okay to have a good chuckle. My particular/peculiar/perverse/whatever sense of humor demands that as long as nobody gets banged up, you have to laugh.

Or, equivalently, do what this guy did at the end of the movie:
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(that is, look up at the motor mount, let out a sigh of relief, look at the chief pilot, say "So long, chum," and walk away whistling.)
 
I hear that as long as the keel beam isn't bent, this aircraft should be back in service in 6 months.
 
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