15 cents?
It's ALL Fiddy Cent these days. Maybe you need a refresher course!
And, just for the record, "Y'all" must have an apostrophe!
121 guys, how does this happen? (AKA,Oh Delta)
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It's ALL Fiddy Cent these days. Maybe you need a refresher course!
And, just for the record, "Y'all" must have an apostrophe!
SeanD
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15 cents?
It's ALL Fiddy Cent these days. Maybe you need a refresher course!
And, just for the record, "Y'all" must have an apostrophe!
It was a ship number for an infamous POS at XJT years ago that collected MELs and had a surprise on a daily basis.
LOL! Yeah, I used to fly a few planes like that too. Every flight, half the equipment on the plane was broke. After takeoff, it was my job as a pilot to determine which half.
Old joke about a couple of old cousins. Both originally lived in Vermont on the family farm. Early in life, one moved to Texas. The other cousin stayed put on the farm in Vermont. Much later, in their old age, the cousin who had never left Vermont bought an airline ticket to go see his cousin in Texas. The Texas cousin came down to the airport to pick up his Vermont cousin.
A couple hours later, as they were crossing the cattle guard to enter the ranch, the Texas cousin went all Texan and started bragging just how Yuge his Texas ranch was.
"Why, Cuz, my ranch is sooooo gaddddumm Yuge, it takes me a whole day just to drive from one side of 'er to the other!"
The laconic Vermont cousin perks up and replies, "Ahhhyup! I used to have a truck like that too!"
///AMG
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I think it is a toss up between me or the CA, as to who fires off the APU prior to push. I've immediately fired it off when the gals say it is hot (once I do the safety check mind you, this isn't nam, we have rules). It burns 100# / hr right? Barely even moves the needle, especially since the fueler is probably on the jet for half the time/or just tops you off after running it for a while. I have only flown with one (single) dude who was weird about it, and only on the taxi in (like you read about, he had a position approaching the gate where he wanted me to throw the switch). Didn't GAF about when we started it up on the way out. I do appreciate Beef saying he would hold it until the FO finished the walk around. That is next level service. I'm used to jet blast coming from every direction, and some dumb a** telling me to wear my gloves, and then telling him to f*** off. This precious FO preflight without noise is commendable. I'm actually not being sarcastic. I don't really want to finger plug my ears in the wheel wells either.
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BEEF SUPREME
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I have some nice Bluetooth earbuds that I use and bonus music during the walk around. 10/10 recommend.
Of course I’m doing the walk around if you’ll let me…
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///AMG
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That is a good idea. I put them away after the bus ride in. I should probably use them more. I won't let you do the walk around though. That isn't CA stuff you crazy old man.
Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
I mean, that’s not insignificant. One flight saved 200 lbs. Now imagine millions of flights annually. It adds up.
Skåning
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We need to change that. VX it was Pilot Monitoring stuff. PF did the box. We need to bring that back
Skåning
Well-Known Member
oh I remember! XJT was also some weird "power by the hour" with the APUs where they were leased, not owned by the company (CAL). So I think thats why they were weird about using them.
BEEF SUPREME
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I guess it all depends on if it’s indication error or not.
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SeanD
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Good grief. What a mess that place was after that CAL/UA/ASA merger. Apparently triple nickel is still in service somewhere in Indonesia. I looked it up once thinking it would have surely been scrapped but was horrified to learn it was still flying.
trafficinsight
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We have 800 airplanes, if they all save 30 gallons a day it's 24,000 gallons saved daily....
Which is nice but balance in all things.
Which is nice but balance in all things.
Soul Brotha'
Off to go do Black guy stuff
I don’t give a ish what the temp is. I fire up the APU soon I step on. Don’t care if the Chief Pilot, CFO, and CEO are sitting in the back. Not worried about $$$ or fuel.
SurferLucas
Southern Gentleman
Using ear buds to listen to music during the walk around is an incredibly stupid idea.
If I have to explain why it’s a stupid idea, then you need to reevaluate your risk management strategy.
If I have to explain why it’s a stupid idea, then you need to reevaluate your risk management strategy.
Autothrust Blue
Welcome aboard the Washington State Ferries
Even ignoring the obvious unsafe aspect of jamming to your tunes on the ramp when you should be paying attention to your surroundings because it’s expletive dangerous down there, you oblivious chumps, most ANR buds probably don’t have enough noise reduction to keep the air cycle machines from splitting your ears at close range.
Autothrust Blue
Welcome aboard the Washington State Ferries
At the fOOrmer employer, I had the VPFO on the jump seat with no APU and no ACARS once, and this was when manual performance was still very much a thing, and the horrible weight and balance worksheets for the 175 provided at least some discussion of “so if you want to fix something, fix this. And thanks for the high workload MEL, but at least it’s only 54 degrees freedom out.”
God bless Aerodata though.
nocturnalaviator
AI Jedi
Pulls in 200-360/yr… makes people bake in the plane to save a few pennys. Pennies not for him though -oh no, but for the company he continuously bitches about. Probably drives around with no AC for the fuel savings. Pilots are the cheapest muddas around. Make such a big deal about leaving kids and animals baking in a hot stale car but it’s acceptable to do it with 50+ in an airplane for hours? Suffering for suffering sake ain’t fun. Don’t be a dick. Air conditioning is a wonderful invention, friggin use it.
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BEEF SUPREME
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Oh man. You caught me doing something stupid. Now you’ll get to rejoice in said stupid thing and you can give me grief about it every time I post. Rejoice! Let’s see how many years you can get out of this one.
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