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Scarebus

Scarebus

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Just curious - how often do you read the remarks on the release? Pretty often someone will call with a question about something that was already explained in the remarks. Even more often crews will overfuel themselves without looking at the weights and the giant remark ******PLANNED TO MAX LDG WEIGHT******
 
phill1174

phill1174

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Scarebus said:
Just curious - how often do you read the remarks on the release? Pretty often someone will call with a question about something that was already explained in the remarks. Even more often crews will overfuel themselves without looking at the weights and the giant remark ******PLANNED TO MAX LDG WEIGHT******
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I always read them. That’s one of the first things I was taught by line captains when I started as a FO. It was also said repeatedly during upgrade training. Is it newer guys/gals that are not reading the notes? It may be that they’re rushing, or it needs to be something that’s reminded during upgrade training.
 
Autothrust Blue

Autothrust Blue

Did Not Grow Up
Scarebus said:
Just curious - how often do you read the remarks on the release? Pretty often someone will call with a question about something that was already explained in the remarks. Even more often crews will overfuel themselves without looking at the weights and the giant remark ******PLANNED TO MAX LDG WEIGHT******
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100% of the time when I ran my own ship.

With @Nark, I’ll read them and go “hey mate, y’all see that, your airworthiness sir?” And I’m sure the answer will be “you bet I did, probie!”

Also you must work for SKW - overfueling themselves! Horse hockey!
 
Cherokee_Cruiser

Cherokee_Cruiser

Bronteroc
Scarebus said:
Just curious - how often do you read the remarks on the release? Pretty often someone will call with a question about something that was already explained in the remarks. Even more often crews will overfuel themselves without looking at the weights and the giant remark ******PLANNED TO MAX LDG WEIGHT******
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Every flight. You can't really miss it, I mean it's right there on page 1 staring at you.
 
Autothrust Blue

Autothrust Blue

Did Not Grow Up
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
Every flight. You can't really miss it, I mean it's right there on page 1 staring at you.
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Less is more for remarks. If they’re not remarkable then why are they stored under remarks?

I don’t want to be told the RAIM Check works every flight, nor do I need the auto-attendant number every flight, and I knew full well max ops altitude was 370, reference FOIB-whatever.

Useful remarks include “planned to max landing weight,” “precautionary alternate added due to no confidence in TAF,” “have a great day, Captain” or anything that Joe D.L.S. had to say regarding the weather.
 
spitfire5181

spitfire5181

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I always go through the remarks but the biggest problem with remarks are the canned ones for certain airports. As an example "LAX can not receive early departures, plan to T/O with an ETA within 5 minutes of scheduled Arrival!" or "Request South approach into LAX for parking purposes." I don't really care about these when I'm departing LAX. And this is from two different companies.
 
Maurus

Maurus

The Great Gazoo
I rarely see anything in the remarks that is overly useful beyond notes for MEL requirements. Most of the time there are no remarks at my airline.
 
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