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You can call it an AIRPLANE. It won’t make you seem less manly. I promise.
They still love calling it "the jet"
This is an airline that has operated jets for like 50 years...
A pilot has been indicted for allegedly threatening to shoot the captain if the flight was diverted
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They still love calling it "the jet"
This is an airline that has operated jets for like 50 years...
ZapBrannigan
If it ain’t a Boeing, I’m not going. No choice.
Not officially anyway.
one retired SWA guy I fly with asks for Flaps 5 as his first setting when inbound.
We’re so loose at my part time gig, and with guys from many other airlines, that I just flex to whatever someone else does when they’re flying. None of it is unsafe, it’s just different technique that gets to the same end point.
Some pilots turn on the igniters when the crossfeed is on. I never do, but whether someone does or doesn’t is fine. Doesn’t hurt anything.
Now, some old heads who still do a standby power check/test, that’s not really good to do anymore on these ancient airframes. Unless one enjoys frying other electrical items.
trafficinsight
Well-Known Member
I do, sometimes.
ASpilot2be
Qbicle seat warmer
That's what is happening on Bigfoot at Air Beachball unfortunately.
"But on the 747...."
poser765
Well-Known Member
I’ll take “the jet” over “good bird” any day vYou can call it an AIRPLANE. It won’t make you seem less manly. I promise.
Screaming_Emu
Joe Conventional
I’m glad we still let FOs taxi on the 747. I think all “captain only” stuff is stupid because I’d rather be sitting next to someone who has done something before vs “I’m a new captain, let’s see how this goes!”
The whole reason for wanting to take that away was “not all 767s have tillers on the right side.” They also don’t have engines 1 and 4 and the body gear. Can we still use that?
They literally train you to fly the new airplane…
Screaming_Emu
Joe Conventional
Generally I’ve found that the vets who actually did cool stuff have been fantastic. The ones who drove a bus and never left the US are the ones who struggle with the fact that their previous experience means very little.
Screaming_Emu
Joe Conventional
Eeeeexcellent.
Boris Badenov
Fortis Leader
Screw that. Driving the thing around is surely the most statistically-likely-to-be-career-dinging thing we do. That's why you make the Big Bucks, El Jefe! Clear right!
BobDDuck
Island Bus Driver
Do you really think you won't suffer from the same enforcement/discipline action if you "allow" a captain to put the wing into something?
Boris Badenov
Fortis Leader
I mean, post mostly made in jest. But F/Os aren't allowed to do the driving, here, so you can be damned sure that I do not accept when some of the more eh "free-spirited" Captains offer to let me take the tiller.
Edit: Ok, that's not entirely true. I did, once. Of course I did. And it was cool. And then I started having the mental movie of the nosewheel going in to the dirt and me getting an all-expenses-paid ride to the guard shack as my pension grew little wings and flew west.
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Let me tell you about my trip to the "Big Brown Desk".
If you have a type rating, the FAA will literally ask:
"I see that you're a type-rated 767 first officer"
"Yessir"
"Was that an SIC type rating?"
"No sir"
"A PIC type rating?"
"Yes"
"So, as a PIC type rated first officer, you let your captain do (something moronic?)"
"Well, he's the captain but I said..."
"YOWER CAPTAIN QUALIFIED, SON, let me ask again..."
ALPA attorney in the room, ALPA representatives in the room, company chief pilot in the room, HR in the room, FAA in the room: "Answer the question"
SurferLucas
Southern Gentleman
Your hearing will improve at your hearing…Let me tell you about my trip to the "Big Brown Desk".
If you have a type rating, the FAA will literally ask:
"I see that you're a type-rated 767 first officer"
"Yessir"
"Was that an SIC type rating?"
"No sir"
"A PIC type rating?"
"Yes"
"So, as a PIC type rated first officer, you let your captain do (something moronic?)"
"Well, he's the captain but I said..."
"YOWER CAPTAIN QUALIFIED, SON, let me ask again..."
ALPA attorney in the room, ALPA representatives in the room, company chief pilot in the room, HR in the room, FAA in the room: "Answer the question"
BobDDuck
Island Bus Driver
Let me tell you about my trip to the "Big Brown Desk".
If you have a type rating, the FAA will literally ask:
"I see that you're a type-rated 767 first officer"
"Yessir"
"Was that an SIC type rating?"
"No sir"
"A PIC type rating?"
"Yes"
"So, as a PIC type rated first officer, you let your captain do (something moronic?)"
"Well, he's the captain but I said..."
"YOWER CAPTAIN QUALIFIED, SON, let me ask again..."
ALPA attorney in the room, ALPA representatives in the room, company chief pilot in the room, HR in the room, FAA in the room: "Answer the question"
If I recall you shared that experience with another FO who was married our former ALPA LRC.
Boris Badenov
Fortis Leader
Let me tell you about my trip to the "Big Brown Desk".
If you have a type rating, the FAA will literally ask:
"I see that you're a type-rated 767 first officer"
"Yessir"
"Was that an SIC type rating?"
"No sir"
"A PIC type rating?"
"Yes"
"So, as a PIC type rated first officer, you let your captain do (something moronic?)"
"Well, he's the captain but I said..."
"YOWER CAPTAIN QUALIFIED, SON, let me ask again..."
ALPA attorney in the room, ALPA representatives in the room, company chief pilot in the room, HR in the room, FAA in the room: "Answer the question"
"It all happened so fast! You can hear me on the CVR saying 'woah, let's slow down!'...and I *resent* the unproven and *baseless* allegation that this was in to my cellphone to my girlfriend, who, yes, *does* occasionally earn some extra money at the 'Cat's Meow Club', which is *no way* germane to this hearing..."