Current upgrade time

Cptnchia said:
Child's play!

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Ungh. Thanks for the nightmares
 
Taking an upgrade completely depends on where you are and what you want for you QOL. At my current shop I will take the first upgrade offered, I don't care where I have to commute too, esp with a merger looming (ever closer it appears) on the horizon. However if I was at a legacy and making as much there as an FO as I would be here as a CA and I lived in base, I would probably wait to upgrade until I could hold what/where I wanted. It's all personal perspective.
 
Hacker15e said:
It's too bad I can't post a pic of the tables used to design a GBU-24 bombing attack. Makes See Gee look like a kindergarten toy.

@ryan1234, do you guys even use the "triple sticks" (the -34-1-1-1) anymore?

Thank god we have computers for this crap nowadays.
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Yes, we do.. that and JMPS, CWDS, etc...
 
Upgrade times can be hysterically inaccurate and can vary wildly depending on which way the wind blows.

At Northernjets, just during my tenure, it went from 6 years, to 4 years, to 10 years, to infinity, back to 17 years. And that's not even the 50 percentile mark, as Derg pointed out.

At one point, I was actually in the process of being awarded a upgrade...but before it was published the Age 65 thing happened and the whole thing got changed.

Don't count on:

1) The way the numbers are now
2) "Fleet Plans"*
3) What people tell you
4) See number 3

Richman

* always pronounced with a "pfft" and dismissive chuckle at the end
 
Richman said:
Upgrade times can be hysterically inaccurate and can vary wildly depending on which way the wind blows.

At Northernjets, just during my tenure, it went from 6 years, to 4 years, to 10 years, to infinity, back to 17 years. And that's not even the 50 percentile mark, as Derg pointed out.

At one point, I was actually in the process of being awarded a upgrade...but before it was published the Age 65 thing happened and the whole thing got changed.

Don't count on:

1) The way the numbers are now
2) "Fleet Plans"*
3) What people tell you
4) See number 3

Richman

* always pronounced with a "pfft" and dismissive chuckle at the end
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Did you mean hysterically or historically? I gotta admit, both work.
 
Ajax said:
I'm skywest's red-headed stepchild
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I forget what Craig Barrett (Intel) was apologizing for - I think it was for the nightmare that was the Pentium IV-Prescott, but this image comes to mind for some reason.

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(this made sense when I thought of it)
 
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
Did you mean hysterically or historically? I gotta admit, both work.
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The former. I've seen all kinds of wild numbers promulgated by the "over optimistic" that have HISTORICALLY proven to be HYSTERICALLY inaccurate.

My point is anyone selling you on a number is selling you a load.

Also, never go to an operator on the sole basis of a crew base.

Richman
 
Screaming_Emu said:
Especially as a newhire. CA is staring at you, flight attendant is in the door staring at you, gate agent is looking over their shoulder. My ability to math is inverse to the amount of eyeballs pointed in my direction.
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Find forward limit.
Find aft limit.
Pick a reasonable number somewhere between the 2.
Rinse, repeat.
 
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