I arrive in ICN in the morning from Guangzhou. Bringing a 767 home after a FCF. Been a journey getting out here…
Haven't you heard, you're not supposed to meet your heroes!
I lurk in the shadows. I’m an unknown, just how I like it…Haven't you heard, you're not supposed to meet your heroes!
Yeah this was my first one ever. Thankfully no flight control checks so that cut about half of the items on the checklist off. We do most of our heavy checks out here in CAN, so lots of trips coming out here. Great for efficiency and commuters. Deadhead around. Fly a couple legs. Cover 7-12 days of work to do like 3 legs. Can’t beat it.I dont do a a lot of FCF's (at least not in airliners), but when I do, I do them on the way to China.
Haven't you heard, you're not supposed to meet your heroes!
Are you with Cargo Air Management? They move ATSG 76's around. Been trying to get an interview there.Yeah this was my first one ever. Thankfully no flight control checks so that cut about half of the items on the checklist off. We do most of our heavy checks out here in CAN, so lots of trips coming out here. Great for efficiency and commuters. Deadhead around. Fly a couple legs. Cover 7-12 days of work to do like 3 legs. Can’t beat it.
DALAre you with Cargo Air Management? They move ATSG 76's around. Been trying to get an interview there.
Look... I've been trying to make this friendship connection happen for quite awhile now. Lol.
Friends don't let friends work for ATSG.Are you with Cargo Air Management? They move ATSG 76's around. Been trying to get an interview there.
Too funn,y I had a weird feeling last night that someone near and dear to me was close, but couldn’t figure it out. Which is why I thought I’d create this thread to see if anyone was around.
Woke up, procrastinated a bit, then headed down to a late breakfast. Low and behold, it’s @JaceTheAce!
I knew someone was in town! Gotta trust your ‘spidey sense’ sometimes!
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Yeah this was my first one ever. Thankfully no flight control checks so that cut about half of the items on the checklist off. We do most of our heavy checks out here in CAN, so lots of trips coming out here. Great for efficiency and commuters. Deadhead around. Fly a couple legs. Cover 7-12 days of work to do like 3 legs. Can’t beat it.
Friends don't let friends work for ATSG.
Fairly easy for us. No ground checks, not sure if they do that or what.Out of curiosity, what does an airliner FCF look like, footprint wise? I have done my share of them in my other job, and it is not a flight hour generator.....somewhere around an hour of ground checks, sometimes damn near 2, and sometimes doesn't even pass enough to get airborne.....and in that case, if you aren't available the next day, congrats tomorrow's pilot, I just cocked your FCF for you to do a normal start and go straight to runway But it is a fart and a s***tstain of a flight, takeoff, do a couple random checks, then go real fast, do a 7G/limiter pull, pop up into the 30's and do some throttle slams in and out of afterburner, a few more throttle slams with the gear and flaps down, and then come into the break. I don't think I've logged one that was more than a 0.7.