Delta announces 75 CS100 purchase

B767 said:
Same stuff. Different aircraft and/or airline. "The announcement is just around the corner that we'll be doing flying for Southwest!"

Ok. You hold on tight to that while I go ahead and finish my degree and update my logbook/apps.
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To this day, I get text messages from friends who are Captains at Skywest and it usually goes like this: DUDE, WTF. If I see one more of my copilots getting hired at UAL/DELTA/AMERICAN I'm gonna effin quit. Then about 2-3 months later I get the same text from the same guy but the words have been changed a little. If your copilots are moving past you, maybe it's time you asked them questions on how they're doing it instead of complaining like a 5 year old.
 
mrivc211 said:
To this day, I get text messages from friends who are Captains at Skywest and it usually goes like this: DUDE, WTF. If I see one more of my copilots getting hired at UAL/DELTA/AMERICAN I'm gonna effin quit. Then about 2-3 months later I get the same text from the same guy but the words have been changed a little. If your copilots are moving past you, maybe it's time you asked them questions on how they're doing it instead of complaining like a 5 year old.
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What I don't think they realize, is it seems completely random.
 
mrivc211 said:
To this day, I get text messages from friends who are Captains at Skywest and it usually goes like this: DUDE, WTF. If I see one more of my copilots getting hired at UAL/DELTA/AMERICAN I'm gonna effin quit. Then about 2-3 months later I get the same text from the same guy but the words have been changed a little. If your copilots are moving past you, maybe it's time you asked them questions on how they're doing it instead of complaining like a 5 year old.
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"Well, if I had boobs or a tan..."

Half the guys that say that haven't even applied yet.
 
mshunter said:
What I don't think they realize, is it seems completely random.
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I don't think it is.

Out of my cadre of people from my IAD base I can only think of one bad apple that moved on. The rest have been some of the best people I've worked with, and they were the first to go.
 
mshunter said:
What I don't think they realize, is it seems completely random.
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It's not.

Remember, we were sold the "one thousand hours of PIC turbine at ALL COSTS!!!1!" for the last decade, but it's not a reliable metric and with the traditional flow of a couple years in the right seat followed by a couple years in the left not working so well, there are a lot of sharp cats in the right seat that wouldn't even be on your radar scope for another six or seven years if the industry continued to use 1000 PIC turbine as a gateway.

So you're in the left seat. Congrats. Are you "done" or have you sought leadership opportunities.or are you just showing up to work and doing the minimum?

If you've been in the left seat for a significant period of time, there better be some 'check airman', 'instructor', 'safety', "something" there. I'd say a good percentage of people my friend has talked to has at least some union or operational leadership.

Some guys are like "Well I have six kids, no time, my wife's got a third eyeball in the middle of her forehead and I don't have time" — cool, however, what makes you an exceptional candidate other than your grid 'o flight time?

Opinions are my own, yadda yadda 'disclaimer' yadda.
 
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Derg said:
Sadly, when "Bitchin' Betty" stops talking, something's wrong! :) "We have an AC bus offline or something?"
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With a last four of "01XX", I get the feeling Betty and I are going become very close. Very much looking forward to it...
 
JetDoc said:
Yeah I get it. It's an antique. Too bad that state of the art airframe Delta picked to replace it doesn't even have one. I know for some it could be considered a minor detail but I like the option to being able to air out the electronics saturated greenhouse we sit in on the ground when it's needed. It also comes in handy when one might forget to hand out the security sheet first thing in the morning before one has had their coffee too. :D:D:D
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Pop the door, ride down the slide, and hand them that. Go get coffee while you wait for them to stuff the slide back in. You get your coffee, make the news, AND had fun!
 
AAPalmTree said:
Saw a comair dude burning a dart from the crj hatch when stacked in the LGA line.
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I opened the hatch on a nice day one time during an lex turn. How surprised I was to find that it comes off the hinges! Ended up blocking out to get the on time while we figured out how to get the damn thing back on the hinges so we could close it.

I said to the tug driver "uhhh... you guys got your on time, give us a minute while we work on.....something."

Screaming_Emu said:
Best I saw on the CRJ was 47C in the flight deck. I think my balls permanently stuck to my leg.

Actually, sorry. I misspoke. Was only 37 on the flight I was thinking of, but then I remembered one where it got up to 43 on a plane with no APU.

ATLPWM 025 by Joseph Riegel, on Flickr
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We know you got the flt deck cooled down.... what happened to your balls? Don't leave us hanging.
 
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Derg said:
It's not.

Remember, we were sold the "one thousand hours of PIC turbine at ALL COSTS!!!1!" for the last decade, but it's not a reliable metric and with the traditional flow of a couple years in the right seat followed by a couple years in the left not working so well, there are a lot of sharp cats in the right seat that wouldn't even be on your radar scope for another six or seven years if the industry continued to use 1000 PIC turbine as a gateway.

So you're in the left seat. Congrats. Are you "done" or have you sought leadership opportunities.or are you just showing up to work and doing the minimum?

If you've been in the left seat for a significant period of time, there better be some 'check airman', 'instructor', 'safety', "something" there. I'd say a good percentage of people my friend has talked to has at least some union or operational leadership.

Some guys are like "Well I have six kids, no time, my wife's got a third eyeball in the middle of her forehead and I don't have time" — cool, however, what makes you an exceptional candidate other than your grid 'o flight time?

Opinions are my own, yadda yadda 'disclaimer' yadda.
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I'd consider someone that has six kids, and a spouse with a third eye in the middle of their forehead to be a hero!
 
Skåning said:
IF you really need air just crack a window for takeoff:

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This made me go searching for info... Which lead me to he A.net thread on this from back then...

edit, replaced the original video with an actual Boeing video that doesn't have music...


And people say the 737 cockpit can't get any louder
 
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PeanuckleCRJ said:
I opened the hatch on a nice day one time during an lex turn. How surprised I was to find that it comes off the hinges! Ended up blocking out to get the on time while we figured out how to get the damn thing back on the hinges so we could close it.

I said to the tug driver "uhhh... you guys got your on time, give us a minute while we work on.....something."
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That required a MX signoff for us.
 
Beep said:
I'd consider someone that has six kids, and a spouse with a third eye in the middle of their forehead to be a hero!
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Or that he simply flies and has a lot of sex. No one mentioned anything about six "well adjusted" kids. My cousin VT probably has seven… however...
 
Seriously, if I were a recruiter, I would take a sharp, motivated 3000 hour FO over a 8000 hour captain who hasn't done much more than simply pass recurrent for the last ten years, any day.

Any day.
 
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