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Very anti pilot. @Avgirl If your want to see just how bad he is for pilots, look at how the opinions of LAA pilots about Kirby have changed in just under 3 years.

Every time I've done a g around at a busy Class B, I've been sequenced back on to the downwind. Always at a speed less than 250 knots. The vast majority of the time, I've been given 210 knots.

20 years, 3 airlines, multiple bankruptcies, and the AA BoD makes a "succession" change one month from the biggest single event of the AA/US merger... Something smells about this. But in all honesty... sucks for United.

The truth will come out eventually. I want to know what he did to result in termination, if that is indeed what happened... OR I want to know what a happened to split up Parker and Kirby after 20 years.

Prisom? Change one letter and you have Prison...

I say no scope relaxation. Even at the freight carriers. FedEx once operated Falcon 20s. Why not CRJs?

Especially since it was effective immediately at both companies. Robert Isom is taking over as President at AA...

... and in as President of United Airlines. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/scott-kirby-named-president-of-united-airlines-300319527.html

Definitely a case of Mad Cowl Disease!

In normal operations, yes. But if agricultural aircraft avoided every charted obstacle, a fair portion of crops couldn't be treated by air, forcing farmers to go to a less efficient and potentially yield impacting ground rig. If one recognizes and respects the risks involved, one can safely...

A motivated inspector can find something wrong with any airplane.

Wonder where this fits in with their bankruptcy reorganization plan?

@Stryker172 Now an AA dispatcher...

Some forget it is a two way street. Don't give me what I need... I don't sign the release and the flight goes nowhere. :D

@Flagship_dxer Have you seen any of this type stuff from your side of the desk? I'm out on leave so I'm not fully in the loop.

Who knows. I think yes, simply because of the liability potential.

'flagman' That is old school, right there! Crazy to think that in under a decade, the industry went from flagmen to highly accurate, GPS-based guidance...

Yeah... Used to fly in that segment of the industry. While more dangerous than airline flying, it is safer than most realize. Accident rates are way down from where they used to be.

Not the first time, won't be the last. Used to be a lot more common back when there were more operators when smaller capacity aircraft were the hot item of the day.

@wannafly Can you post both charts in their entirety?

Great write up! Too bad most of the pictures are post AVG era. Most are from after mid-1942 after the AVG was disbanded and the operation became a part of the USAAF.

At least it is more accurate! :D

I hate the LA abbreviation for Lower Alabama...

Even though their manual requires them to list a jumpseater that isn't pre-listed.

That's what in hoping to hear. That it was an inaccurate indication. It was nice to see Doc fly this morning, even if it was sitting at the breakfast table. :)

That's not good. Isn't that what grounded Fifi for so long some years ago?

Nicely done!

First flight. Live stream

They're also good at getting a response. Pull up short of the parking area and pull the power levers just over the ground idle gate. Rampers come running for nothing else than to shut up the loud noise!

Yet nobody calls maintenance to look at / clean / lubricate the seat rails...

Why does that not surprise me. Maintenance was going downhill fast when I left.

Got a little time in both those birds. Although I never flew 331 as 331, but as 430XJ :) I know 361 was a leased aircraft, and I think 331 was as well. Miss that airplane... but not the paycheck!

If it is functional, that is the new box. Limited by the capabilities of the aircraft. What tail numbers did Pen Air acquire from Silver?

They deactivated the units that were installed after Universal stopped supporting that particular unit. They slowly installed the new Universal units, and if you were based outside of Florida in the first year or so after they started installing the units, you rarely saw one with an FMS. As...

Fixed it.

Bingo! Lets put it this way. LUS has been teaching TEM for decades. It was such a good program and model that the nAAtives adopted it over their own CRM program.

Not sure how the nAAtives have it structured, but on my fleet, the line check and Fed ride are part of IOE. Usually sometime in the last couple of legs and all I've known about or seen is a CKA in the right seat and an APD on the jumpseat. Different airlines, different methods of achieving...

More so than normal! I'm trying to decide if I want to venture over or wait for the Homecoming show in November.

Or someone with the company that represents the FAA, i.e. an APD. I've only had a Fed on my jumpseat once when they were required to be there. Fed ride at a small 121 operator.