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I NASAw what you are doing here.

That's tectonically correct.

Seems like the kind of deal where they would be able to put out bullet points from the AIP almost right away, but I don't know the politics of the situation... there are always "reasons" why you would release or withhold info. Feels like the pilots are inbetween a rock and a hard place. The...

And as an addendum to my last post, I hope the SPA NC was/is able to put a lot of backstops, guardrails, triggers… etc. and that they were able to approach this bargaining session very creatively for any sort of recovery and how things will snap back.

Can the pilot group vote no? My shop’s policy manual forces a pilot wide vote for pay consessions.

Fake News. I can't make heads or tails of the rest of this 9 page thread of - well, whatever it is. But, this... this grinds my gears. What sort of bougie upper class McDonalds are you going to that doesn't have signs all over the place with sauce distribution charts and saying that extra sauce...

I got the electronic scale - an awesome Withings one that I've had for more than a few years now. It rewards and shames me. I'll check out the apps - amazingly enough as soon as I started talking about this out loud all my socials started pushing ad's at me for shot tracker apps...

My experience on day 2 is… different. Maybe the placebo effect? (Placebos work when you know they are placebos…) I already think I feel the appetite decrease.

I believe this is a Flying Hot Dog Shop fetish. See the storied history of the UflyMike.

Thanks. I'm just trying to collect as much anecdotal data as I can before I dive in. We all literally have the worst possible job for a healthy relationship with food. Heck, today I was texting back and forth with a friend who was on a delayed flight in the PR talking about how he was "lucky"...

Can you talk a bit about how it affected your relationship with food? Was it the nausea that kept you away from eating... making it easier to change your lifestyle/eating plan etc.? I'm just trying to figure out what I am in for vs. the whole placebo effect and the normal effects of writing down...

Yep... Rule 34 applies. This feels like an ad generated by, I don't know, a 1980's premium cable package (*cough* cinemax after dark *cough*) burned into your adolescent brain set of search terms? Rich parents or friends with well-to-do parents that could afford the 'premium cable'?

Brightline... it's got pockets, and more pockets. And more pockets. The amount of random stuff I've managed to cram into that thing is amazing. I even use some of it too on a regular basis. The old saying goes, it's easier to get forgiveness than permission. And you don't have a backpack -...

Thanks! It’s tough (mentally) when you realize that pure "willpower" isn't gonna cut it... or to use a meme/tweet to explain it better: Anyhoo, I still have to give AMAS a call to go over the paperwork and triple check everything, but my regular doc said I'm a great candidate and cleared me...

Ok, I get the whole anti-better living through chemistry thing. Here's the thing about that. What you are doing does work. Walking, food tracking... apps... weight watchers, my fitness pal - whatever. The whole world has literally crowdsourced every food into those apps. I've done it - 3+...

Congrats! One of my crashpad-mates did it a couple of years ago and he had huge success, now he's on a maintenance dose. I've pretty much done everything too, but somehow with the lifestyle of changing circadian sleep cycles, airport food, layover food, and career uncertainty I bounce my weight...

It hasn't been all thanks for coming to work and free food... I can feel things ready to burst at the seams on the radios. For instance here is one small moment in time... Didn't get a check this week center controller: "Hey, CFTO... can you make FL370" CFTO: Sorry (I'm in a super stretched...

It’s hard to read, but it pretty sure that I flew like 15 legs with the name at the bottom of that sign back @ Mesa like a million years ago.

In related news, when this was being talked about on the "socials" I made a suggestion that everyone post their age prior to their opinion just so that my fellow pilots and I could correlate the inherent bias. Amazingly no one took me up on it and the biggest comment was, "WHaT DOes ThaT haVe to...

Weird thread hijack/intermission: as it turns out I'm going to need more LOR's to get into a NYC co-op than my current job - or a job at any major or legacy carrier. And I think the application is going to turn out to be longer and ask for more obscure information. Crazy.

I volunteer as tribute… as soon as I can wear a flight suit to work.

You win the internet today. I totally forgot about that with all my old bags - i literally ground off the front feet thanks to the miles and miles I've dragged it through the various terminals. That bothers me a gazillion times more than any ripped ballistic nylon or zipper shenanigans.

3 more years down the road I still have the same complaints. The handle is still moving around and my food bag still jams up... I never sent in any of my old ones, but now that I'm gonna be sent back to prison in JFK I think that I will refurb one of them to take back and forth with me if I need...

On a lark I recently did the math... there have been/are/will be many times I can legit say "I have more time in the Lav than you have in the jet." And if you add in the years and years of transcon commutes... that number shoots up.

Well, that's a bummer.

You probably still have a copy of the working agreement on your computer still - what does Spirit's Sec. 1 have to say about pilots being 'sold' with the assets? 25%+ and you have to take the peasants with the planes and etc.? I'm just thinking out loud but if I were facing Ch. 7 I'd be hoping...

I'm so entrenched at my job that it makes zero financial sense to even think about moving... (top of scale, 30-something %, even though I'm being displaced into a transcon commute till Halley's Comet shows back up again, etc. ) I still 1.) Keep a very accurate logbook. (except I still can't...

This is the most disgusting thing I have ever heard. I never ever... and by never ever I mean never ever... got cold sores till the first week on the line at our carrier and used a ship set and the mic muff touched my upper lip accidentally. NEVER AGAIN.

After a particularly long day of grinding in the NorthEast recently I was sitting in the lobby of the world famous TWA Hotel heating up my TJ Chicken Tikka and Naan before my short overnight. Nearby - amongst the branded retro baggage handling equipment was an ancient steel monstrosity (mosly...

I had to look this up in my logbook, but back in '23 when everyone here was talking about "that" incident I had the exact same thing happen to me a day or two or three later in SFO. Here's how I immortalized it in my logbook: "Got the last min runway switch the JC folks were talking about this...

Sorry. I get it... I still can't look at Catalina Island (every damn time I depart from LAX, BTW) without thinking about my ex-"boss" and him flying into the side of a hill and taking out 4 other people last year. I'm still waiting for that final NTSB report to come out on his accident, but it...

It's Midwest Express Express.

I think that sometimes you can just be grumpy (or douchy) because you are grumpy. Or... because you can't even imagine how you somehow got into a situation where you couldn't be more disappointed with how your career is going. FOMO, or what ever comes after FOMO when you are yoked to an...

Just wanted to say that I did a graveyard turn on Fri. Night -> Sat morning... Red Eye Transcon to EWR (Self DH home on the same plane) and it was smooth as can be. (Except for the whole not sleeping in a bed for 39 hours...) Got in without a problem. (Other than LA or ABQ giving us dir. SLT and...

Maybe it was "gO hoMe DaY!" :)

I think it's a great idea to leave it parked in the "secure airport employee lot" for days at a time. Maybe a moving blanket and put your bag in the pax seat?

What really makes me proud of my industry and all the volunteer work I've done to help individuals is that how quickly that sense of pilot cohesion falls apart when it’s actually tested. Pilots talk about being brothers, sisters, siblings—like we’re all in this together. Fighting for the...

I hope they got EA for the 2 segments.

I am pretty good at operating the Sky Carriage, but I have no idea what these charts mean... more context please for another "flying potato" of the lower right chart.