Polar742

Derg said:
I missed my second walkaround my entire captain career (all 15 months of it).

It was raining, the FO thought I was crapping him about always walking around on his leg and snuck away and did it.

It was a regular occurence when I was a domestic FO. I guess I'm the weird one when it comes to walking around on my first officers leg. Oddly, it's a big deal because it's not even that big of a deal. I really don't get why more skippers don't do them.

Plus, recurrent is hilarious. They'll tell the FO to go get an iced tea from the "speedline" and attempt to pick on the captain on the walk around slides. Bring it, @PeanuckleCRJ!
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I just learned where N'Djamena is thanks to this thread. That looks quality!

I actually had a CA in recurrent last week say "I don't do walkarounds, I've only been on the plane 9 months" recently. :ooh: My favorite trick question in the slides is looking at the aft cargo bin. "what's missing?" Watch both of them twitch for a bit, particularly when posed to the CA... usually the FO is a happy helperton and tries to jump in.

It's missing the sleeping ramper, of course!
 
Greg01 said:
I wish more captains here would do the walk around when it's the FOs leg. Nothing like a two man crew and the FO is flying. You get up to the cockpit and the captain is sitting there with his legs crossed drinking his coffee. Then he looks at you and asks, "what took you so long?" Oh just had to run around the airplane, check out the cargo, look for the boogeyman on the upper deck, catering, check the pubs, make coffee, get water, get charts...."hey you ready for me to check the box?" When you have even sat down for one second.

Sorry. Rant not to be taken the wrong way. Life could be worse, much worse.

On a different note, is possible to consider any water from Africa as "potable"?


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You wish you flew with less hammersacks. Those guys are the sole reason I upgraded. Well, that and the ANA flying.

You'll like the RJ. Easy to set up. Even when you fly in the right seat, not near the amount of walking as the whale
 
Polar742 said:
You wish you flew with less hammersacks. Those guys are the sole reason I upgraded. Well, that and the ANA flying.

You'll like the RJ. Easy to set up. Even when you fly in the right seat, not near the amount of walking as the whale
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At this rate, we'll all be -400 captains before you get off your lock. And you'll deserve it. :D
 
I try not to let it bother me but after day 14 all bets are off. The -400 is so hard to fly that it takes both the capt and FO on the controls to take off and land (when the FO is PF...because FO).

One more day.
 
Greg01 said:
I try not to let it bother me but after day 14 all bets are off. The -400 is so hard to fly that it takes both the capt and FO on the controls to take off and land (when the FO is PF...because FO).

One more day.
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That's one great thing about the twin... It's a smaller community, so the tools are well known and quickly become social pariahs if they don't knock it off. :)
 
Greg01 said:
I try not to let it bother me but after day 14 all bets are off. The -400 is so hard to fly that it takes both the capt and FO on the controls to take off and land (when the FO is PF...because FO).

One more day.
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Yes. All of us can not wait until they retire. Say no to #blackvelcrosneakers
 
I can't wait either. Anybody that uncomfortable with the airplane should be downgraded until they become comfortable enough to just let go unless stuff's about to go down. Ok, I promise I'm done ranting now haha.
 
Sweet, didn't know I was headed back to an rj although I've never seen one with this big round shaped speed tape-like thing, wtf? Also I feel vindicated since I still would not have held 747 ca in the latest bid, lol.
 
Greg01 said:
I can't wait either. Anybody that uncomfortable with the airplane should be downgraded until they become comfortable enough to just let go unless stuff's about to go down. Ok, I promise I'm done ranting now haha.
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If it makes you feel better I had someone ride the controls on one of my landings too. Oh, did I mention it was an autoland?
 
Alchemy said:
Sweet, didn't know I was headed back to an rj although I've never seen one with this big round shaped speed tape-like thing, wtf? Also I feel vindicated since I still would not have held 747 ca in the latest bid, lol.
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You'll like this fleet... My standing bid is such that they'd have to displace me to the -400 right seat. ;)
 
How's y'all's quality of life commuting to CVG on the 76? Is it worth moving to the hub?

Also, on the micro-managing/nervous nelly pilots on the 747, it's a simple byproduct of 10-20 years flying so few legs in my opinion. When you operate only 6-10 legs per month, at least a few of which you probably aren't even in the seat for to/lndg, flying is a lot less routine and people understandably get pretty worked up sometimes. Also on the 747, probably 25-30% of the legs are into an airport that you've either never been to before or haven't been to in 2-3 years. I'm looking forward to a bit of predictability on the other fleet, even if it is interspersed with the occasional foray into passenger charter ops (and am expecting to sit right seat a lot as a jr. captain due to the way they seem to be staffing the airplane).
 
Seggy said:
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Last I checked they have about 140 captains and 110 F/O's on the airplane which is a bit heavy on the captain side (12 767's in the fleet), especially when you consider 3 man crews; granted you do need more captains due to the extra vacation of the more senior pilots. That compares with about 400 captains and 500 F/O's on the 747 fleet (about 40 airplanes).
 
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Alchemy said:
How's y'all's quality of life commuting to CVG on the 76? Is it worth moving to the hub?

Also, on the micro-managing/nervous nelly pilots on the 747, it's a simple byproduct of 10-20 years flying so few legs in my opinion. When you operate only 6-10 legs per month, at least a few of which you probably aren't even in the seat for to/lndg, flying is a lot less routine and people understandably get pretty worked up sometimes. Also on the 747, probably 25-30% of the legs are into an airport that you've either never been to before or haven't been to in 2-3 years. I'm looking forward to a bit of predictability on the other fleet, even if it is interspersed with the occasional foray into passenger charter ops (and am expecting to sit right seat a lot as a jr. captain due to the way they seem to be staffing the airplane).
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QOL takes a bit of a hit with the uncommutable trips out of CVG (I have a 0350L show Wednesday morning, so I'm giving up all of tomorrow to commute in), but for me, it works due to the SAN layovers. I'm averaging 18-19 days at home during the months I bid SAN... Now I just hope we don't lose it again!

Alchemy said:
Last I checked they have about 140 captains and 110 F/O's on the airplane which is a bit heavy on the captain side (12 767's in the fleet), especially when you consider 3 man crews; granted you do need more captains due to the extra vacation of the more senior pilots. That compares with about 400 captains and 500 F/O's on the 747 fleet (about 40 airplanes).
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Looks like the latest vacancy award shows 105 CAs and 149 FOs in CVG on the 767 for 15 airplanes (increasing to 17 shortly)... I sure wish they'd bring it up to 150 CAs; that'd potentially be my upgrade. :D Based on those numbers though, I'd expect them to award more CA vacancies within the next few months to even it out (my guess is 130-140 CAs). Tell all your friends on the -400 not to bid over... They should totally hang out as -400 FOs until they can hold -400 CA. ;)
 
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