z987k
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Something about being about 4 hours long yet having only 5-7 minutes of play. IDK, I can't watch that many commercials.Facebook is full of this thing called Football. No idea what it is. Sounds boring.
Something about being about 4 hours long yet having only 5-7 minutes of play. IDK, I can't watch that many commercials.Facebook is full of this thing called Football. No idea what it is. Sounds boring.
Not very many people think like that if the upgrade on the 190 at US Airways is any indication. Every bid there goes unfilled CA slots on it, IIRC one bid had 12 or so. They won't let anyone under a year bid into it and that's typically the guys that get the newly awarded slots, but there aren't very many of them.
From what I have seen the work relationship between CA/FO at a legacy is vastly different than one at the regionals, where FOs are treated more as hired help by the CAs.
People outside of aviation don't fly $100,000,000 jets, have age 65 retirement, take a potentially career-ending medical twice per year and make decisions multiple times per day that can bring a multi-billion dollar company to extinction.
Never feel bad about the money you worked your ass of for.
I dig the avatar.
On a side note, I was sort of wondering how many folks would notice the slight modification.
"How @Derg dressed to go to his young Republicans meetings in high school"
I got a big surprise when I was told that your avatar checked in yesterday morning at JFK ! At first they weren't sure who 'ASA' was and had to turn around and ask.(With 2 medical emergencies on board...not serious though...and no they weren't a diversion). I had to Google it to confirm. I was always wondering if Alaska would ever fly to Jfk but figured...they already fly to Newark. So...you gonna be bidding Jfk overnights? Although I think coming here is a red eye.
Thank the great maker. This, this, a million times this.
And for the record, the 717 rocks. Any design which has made speedbrakes obsolete rules in my book.
Richman
ZapBrannigan said:Seems like in the '9 we used slats and 5 when you needed to come down in a hurry. But that was a lifetime ago.
Which variant? I always found that slats alone are enough to come out of the sky like a brick in the 717 (which is really a -30). Flaps were overkill.
Which variant? I always found that slats alone are enough to come out of the sky like a brick in the 717 (which is really a -30). Flaps were overkill.
It was the 30. Can't remember what the circumstances we used were, but I remember hearing the call "slats and 5" with some frequency.
I miss the 9. Maybe it was just because it was my first jet, but I sure loved that machine. Coolest part was that when I was in middle school I would cut class and ride my bike to the airport. Sit at the end of 28R in PIT and watch the Allegheny / USAir DC9s landing. Then, years later, I was flying those very same airplanes.
That was in the era before the RJ scourge... when an armada of those little locusts darkened the skies stealing mainline jobs.
Or scenes like this:
I think he was thinking something more like this...
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True with the company, but I always think of that DTW NWA under the lights lineup photo as the ultimate DC-9 fleet shot.
I think he was thinking something more like this...