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You'll be fine. If I can pass upgrade at 2 different companies on 3 different types, anyone can. Even you.
Then again if I'd have held off 6 months I could have just stayed on the whale. [Sad trombone]
D'oh!
You'll be fine. If I can pass upgrade at 2 different companies on 3 different types, anyone can. Even you.
Then again if I'd have held off 6 months I could have just stayed on the whale. [Sad trombone]
@Derg I'm impressed you slipped expand your team in there. Did you build your nest and bid what you want and want what you bid first? Technique only. Keep your backpack on.
Unlike Derg, I'm going to an airplane that will probably have a preponderance of newbies on it, which makes for a whole other experience.
The good news is most of the new cats have jet experience, and the 717 ain't your daddy's DC-9.
That said, it's got some really goofy quirks that will kick your ass (which you can totally say here!) if you aren't aware of them.
Let me guess...a four letter word that starts with "P" ?
P-funk?
People still think they're two mutually exclusive bands. Ha!
"George Clinton? P-funk? The parliament funkadelic? That's the grand daddy of funk! What's he doing at The Pit?"
"that's got to be a cover band. George Clinton would never play the pit."
Let me guess...a four letter word that starts with "P" ?
"George Clinton? P-funk? The parliament funkadelic? That's the grand daddy of funk! What's he doing at The Pit?"
PFunk and Burning Roofs aside... not sure what you are referencing.
I was talking about some electric gremlins involving the VIAs and the MCDUs mostly, but also the TCAS.
The autothrottles are great (wahoo low speed protection) but act goofy sometimes in idle decent.
The plane has a habit of blowing through the localizer, even when it is armed, especially at speeds greater than 200 knots.
Also (and this may just be due to our frequent cycles) the engines have a habit of coming apart every once in a while.
But it really is a pretty amazing plane. There is something to be said for doing a 1:1 descent.
O-M-G! So you're telling me that Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars didn't create funk?
Great write up, especially since I'm about to go down the same path.
An old timer once told me two things:
1) Parking brake....best safety device ever invented.
2) Don't yell...you're the boss, and have already won the argument before the first word is spoken.
That time after upgrading were probably a tich easier back in the day, even when TTU (time to upgrade) was around the same amount of time. There was more orderly progression, and you probably didn't have the wild age/experience disparities that you find today. The other "issues" that exist today probably didn't happen much back then, either.
Unlike Derg, I'm going to an airplane that will probably have a preponderance of newbies on it, which makes for a whole other experience. I used to do IOE on the 727 panel. It was a fairly decent job...make sure they don't dump the fuel, trip the packs or say F@#$ on the PA, and you pretty much had it handled. OTOH, watching someone else do it while you do your job as well (on a new jet, no less), will probably be a handful. The good news is most of the new cats have jet experience, and the 717 ain't your daddy's DC-9.
Richman