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Burrito
You ARE Freaking out. Man.
Just a few from a bit of Sunday's continued airport touring as the day went on. JetBlue has had 605 in a battleship grey style Red Sox color for quite some time; the plane looked good, but was certainly starting to look tired. This new version of the livery came outta the Jacksonville paint shop not too long ago, but New England weather until now has been fickle as a bad Foghorn Leghorn metaphor. The Pilatus was tucked up on the Terminal B side near where United and Southwest park, and looked extra sharp in that light. As for the FedEx birds, both are uncommon visitors to this part of the world, and both are as old as -- if not older than -- me. And both have some really, really cool histories.
ASpilot2be
Qbicle seat warmer
Beautiful morning in Cincinnati after redeye. Time for bed.
Got to fly an airplane less than two weeks old. Minimal fart smells in the seat.
Got to fly an airplane less than two weeks old. Minimal fart smells in the seat.
Burrito
You ARE Freaking out. Man.
Guess it wasn't you I got to see in what may have been the most spectacularly awful pushback. Ever.
ASpilot2be
Qbicle seat warmer
Haha! Wasn't me. And that statement is impressive, because I have seen some terrible ones.
ASpilot2be
Qbicle seat warmer
Had to get out of the house, so went to one of my favorite places on earth. Had a hamburger from one of my favorite burger places, listened to the baseball game, and enjoyed the sounds of the ocean.
ChasenSFO
hen teaser
Started on B21...
Ended in the aircraft envelope for B20. No other traffic. Tried to dump it there. There was much laughter. Only the best ground handlers will do. How they gonna do Lance the Ocelot like that?
Note the only wing walker is at the nose of the tug, the other was riding inside the tug. No one to stop them at B20, as Frontier had 1 ground crew. Also note the fuel truck in the envelope. Just SFO things.
EDIT: I'd also like to point out that if you follow the bridges with your eyes, you can see that all 3 gates (including Bravo 19 to the left) were attached to one long bridge which was attached to the terminal for maybe 2 years during a construction phase of the new T1. When I flew out to LAS on F9, they didn't have any guidance down there at all, super confusing. I'm sure people got on the wrong aircraft all the time unless the crew actively stopped them.
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stroboli62
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Burrito
You ARE Freaking out. Man.
Baaaahston, MA.
@ChasenSFO That's a fantastically terrible job -- but hey, with one wingwalker probably staring off into space and the other scrolling on their phone in the pushback, I'd say good job to that driver for getting the safety zone near perfectly mirrored. Except, you know, trying to drop there and leaving.
As for the fuel guy, unless that company's got its own styling, an Airbus of any size requires the need for liftgate trucks nowadays. Because fuelers get scared of ladders or something. I still remember using a stepladder and a chair for a 757 back in 2014...
BobDDuck
Island Bus Driver
Funny story about the Sutro TV tower...
On my 320 sim ride (we were the last crew to go through N & O before they went to AQP), I did a single engine missed approach off of 28R. The procedure has you fly through the gap in the hills and out over the water and hold. Our checkride profile had us getting tight vectors around for a single engine visual pattern to land, to finish the ride. So the APD (who was also the fleet captain) gave me a right turn off the missed approach to bring me back around for the visual, while still in IMC. I lived in the Bay Area for a few years, and know the geography pretty well and was thinking that where he was sending me, there was a big ass (which you can totally say) tower. My seat support had terrain up on his ND and sure enough there was a red square right on the heading I was supposed to be turning to. I asked the APD if I could get a better heading and he said no, so figuring it was part of the checkride, I told me seat support to refuse the turn until we got over the Sunset and out of the hills. The APD starting yelling at us to just take the damn turn an there was nothing there and then cleared all the weather in the sim... and then got very quiet as we watched an exceedingly nicely rendered Sutro Tower go gliding by our right wing about a mile away. The upshot was I got to do a low level tour of downtown SF in clear weather on the way back to the airport for the visual.
ChasenSFO
hen teaser
LOL! I too have a Sutro story, for beers and\or Vegas.
Capt. Chaos
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Random shots from Ketchikan
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ChasenSFO
hen teaser
Recently a new membership only airline started up called Set Jet on the West Coast, operated by Elite Airways. They have a few planes, but looks like HWD keeps getting the same bird over and over, though sometimes it comes from SAN and sometimes from LAS with plans for big expansion. Caught them arriving 2 weeks ago at golden hour. Very cool as this is the first scheduled passenger service to HWD ever that I know of, and first scheduled service period since Ameriflight left years ago.
Interior is all VIP configured. Looks like they've now opened up one-way fares. More here: Set Jet - Private Jet Membership - Private Jet Charter
Interior is all VIP configured. Looks like they've now opened up one-way fares. More here: Set Jet - Private Jet Membership - Private Jet Charter
Screaming_Emu
Joe Conventional
Recently a new membership only airline started up called Set Jet on the West Coast, operated by Elite Airways. They have a few planes, but looks like HWD keeps getting the same bird over and over, though sometimes it comes from SAN and sometimes from LAS with plans for big expansion. Caught them arriving 2 weeks ago at golden hour. Very cool as this is the first scheduled passenger service to HWD ever that I know of, and first scheduled service period since Ameriflight left years ago.
Interior is all VIP configured. Looks like they've now opened up one-way fares. More here: Set Jet - Private Jet Membership - Private Jet Charter
I always feel bad seeing people with the CRJ-200 being used as a biz jet. I bet they miss a LOT of meetings.
Screaming_Emu
Joe Conventional
FloridaLarry
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Chasen SFO, I can't find any information on an arrangement between Elite Airways and Set Jet. I think you have been confused by Set Jet's premium service which they call 'Elite.' The aircraft you show is not owned by Elite Airways but by a bank in Salt Lake City, and does show flights to/from Set Jet's route layout.
All but one of Elite's A/C have registration numbers ending in EA, the lone exception ends in MW (probably dating from their announced partnership with the rebirth of Midway. Hasn't happened yet). One of their CRJ200s is configured for 16 PAX in an executive layout, and used for charters (sports teams, rock bands, etc).
Elite is a combination charter (ACMI) and scheduled airline, operating from Maine to Florida. They currently show 6 aircraft active: CRJ 100, 200, 700, 900.
Since SetJet says they don't own or operate any aircraft but lease them, It's possible that they might occasionally lease an Elite A/C but I suspect it would be a maintenance replacement, not the regular fleet. Deadheading between the coast is a lot of non-rev flying!
But pretty pix!
All but one of Elite's A/C have registration numbers ending in EA, the lone exception ends in MW (probably dating from their announced partnership with the rebirth of Midway. Hasn't happened yet). One of their CRJ200s is configured for 16 PAX in an executive layout, and used for charters (sports teams, rock bands, etc).
Elite is a combination charter (ACMI) and scheduled airline, operating from Maine to Florida. They currently show 6 aircraft active: CRJ 100, 200, 700, 900.
Since SetJet says they don't own or operate any aircraft but lease them, It's possible that they might occasionally lease an Elite A/C but I suspect it would be a maintenance replacement, not the regular fleet. Deadheading between the coast is a lot of non-rev flying!
But pretty pix!
Burrito
You ARE Freaking out. Man.
A couple days ago, a Herc dropped in for a visit from Long Island. The plane looks like it's out of Abilene, but I'd guess these were just a couple folks in town for food or a ball game. The VP paid NH a visit recently, but most of that support fleet went to Manchester or Pease. 16-5880 if anyone here's interested. I don't know much military, but I'm sure there's a few readers who do.
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