Oh, Detroit...

Reminds me of the time when I was up inside DTW tower and someone asked how they determine the proper time to start the 27s. The answer was, "When Delta calls".
 
"Birds on and in vicinity of Wiley Post Airport. Advise controller on initial contact you have information ___."

They've ended every ATIS broadcast with that for more than a decade.
 
N519AT said:
A couple years ago coming into IAD from the west one night, there was a ton of weather on the finals for the 19s and the 1s. The airport was the only thing that was dry. United attempted the approach and went missed. Pilots were reporting hook echos and talking about tornados on Potomac Approach. We're getting delay vectors up near MRB and on one turn we were pointed at the airport and I loaded the ILS 12 just to see if the weather was close. It was relatively clear still, again with weather to the north and south of the airport. I suggested to approach that if they could get tower to stop departures for a few minutes could we sneak in to 12..fully expecting them to go all unable on me. Approach said he would check..next thing I know we're on final for the only runway I haven't landed on at Dulles with all of the airplanes that didn't divert already behind us. That was pretty cool.
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Did it feel like you were filming the next die hard?

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Not looking forward to commuting back to that mess... Geesh... And then last week I had a trip in and out of ATL thinking I was so sly getting a trip down south only to find I was participating in a rare ATL snowpocalypse... Fun times... @Derg how many times a year does ATL usually get snow storms like that?
 
JustinS said:
Not looking forward to commuting back to that mess... Geesh... And then last week I had a trip in and out of ATL thinking I was so sly getting a trip down south only to find I was participating in a rare ATL snowpocalypse... Fun times... @Derg how many times a year does ATL usually get snow storms like that?
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I really don't know. I come home and dump 90% of everything work related! :)
 
DeltaAlphaNovember said:
Anyone ever land on runway 5 in CLT? That is an odd feeling. I have only ever done it twice. Very early in the morning.
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Landings on 5 used to be pretty common before 6am and after 10pm with North winds. When the put 36L/18R in, it got less common but was still a thing. I had a few months of the early DAY-CLT flight and only landed on 5.
 
JustinS said:
And some of the other 10% trickles down to JC I would imagine.
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Pretty much.

Otherwise it'd be like playing football, going to practice every day and then on days off and breaks playing fantasy football.

Gotta learn how to turn it all off because, at the end of the day, we're only a few cogs in a big Rube Goldberg device.
 
Derg said:
Pretty much.

Otherwise it'd be like playing football, going to practice every day and then on days off and breaks playing fantasy football.

Gotta learn how to turn it all off because, at the end of the day, we're only a few cogs in a big Rube Goldberg device.
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Absolutely. Gotta have a balance.
 
Screaming_Emu said:
*pulls out a stack of magazines about flying airplanes while flying an airplane*

"If you want any of these, help yourself." :ooh:
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I wish I was that guy, but I'm not. Hell, even at ERAU, if I wasn't actually flying, I certainly wasn't talking or thinking about it! Ha! :) I didn't even want to do group study.
 
B767 said:
The print head and ink cartridge are too big and blocked by the opposite side of the printer. ;)




#noobFOpranks
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But if you type in the three letter code it prints on the whole page. Only when requesting the ATIS and typing Kxxx does it print on half.
 
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