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This is one of those rules that needs to go away or at least made more grey. Let's say your in LGA and there's 50 airplanes on the ground with various fixes ground stopped. ATC needs to get someone from back of line out to runway and someone up front "got someone up". So the whole world has to wait as Joe passengers finishes his break so they can move up two hundred feet to stop again. Seems to mainly be RJs. I think the FAs are quick triggered to make the immidiate call up to the front as soon as the person stands. You don't see a 767 stop bc they got someone up.
Meanwhile if you are riding Amtrak you can get up as you please whenever you please as the train rocks back and forth down the tracks.

Add the rediculous required FA briefing of how to use the seatbelt. Can we all agree that if you managed to exist to whatever age you are that you can operate a seatbelt. Do we need a briefing on putting one front in front of the other? Again, no briefings, no seatbelts on highspeed rail.
 
Kingairer said:
This is one of those rules that needs to go away or at least made more grey. Let's say your in LGA and there's 50 airplanes on the ground with various fixes ground stopped. ATC needs to get someone from back of line out to runway and someone up front "got someone up". So the whole world has to wait as Joe passengers finishes his break so they can move up two hundred feet to stop again. Seems to mainly be RJs. I think the FAs are quick triggered to make the immidiate call up to the front as soon as the person stands. You don't see a 767 stop bc they got someone up.
Meanwhile if you are riding Amtrak you can get up as you please whenever you please as the train rocks back and forth down the tracks.

Add the rediculous required FA briefing of how to use the seatbelt. Can we all agree that if you managed to exist to whatever age you are that you can operate a seatbelt. Do we need a briefing on putting one front in front of the other? Again, no briefings, no seatbelts on highspeed rail.
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Only been doing this 5 years and already have had to explain to a pair of passengers as I made a pre departure walk of shame how to operate their seatbelt. Can't make this stuff up.
 
Kingairer said:
This is one of those rules that needs to go away or at least made more grey. Let's say your in LGA and there's 50 airplanes on the ground with various fixes ground stopped. ATC needs to get someone from back of line out to runway and someone up front "got someone up". So the whole world has to wait as Joe passengers finishes his break so they can move up two hundred feet to stop again. Seems to mainly be RJs. I think the FAs are quick triggered to make the immidiate call up to the front as soon as the person stands. You don't see a 767 stop bc they got someone up.
Meanwhile if you are riding Amtrak you can get up as you please whenever you please as the train rocks back and forth down the tracks.
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Perhaps as it seems to be limited to the regionals, can some of our resident regional pilots shed some light on what your company policy is concerning stoping when a passenger stands up...
 
Kingairer said:
This is one of those rules that needs to go away or at least made more grey. Let's say your in LGA and there's 50 airplanes on the ground with various fixes ground stopped. ATC needs to get someone from back of line out to runway and someone up front "got someone up". So the whole world has to wait as Joe passengers finishes his break so they can move up two hundred feet to stop again. Seems to mainly be RJs. I think the FAs are quick triggered to make the immidiate call up to the front as soon as the person stands. You don't see a 767 stop bc they got someone up.
Meanwhile if you are riding Amtrak you can get up as you please whenever you please as the train rocks back and forth down the tracks.

Add the rediculous required FA briefing of how to use the seatbelt. Can we all agree that if you managed to exist to whatever age you are that you can operate a seatbelt. Do we need a briefing on putting one front in front of the other? Again, no briefings, no seatbelts on highspeed rail.
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Book of Derg, chapter 6, page 119: "Shizzle I Really Don't Think About"
 
ctab5060X said:
Perhaps as it seems to be limited to the regionals, can some of our resident regional pilots shed some light on what your company policy is concerning stoping when a passenger stands up...
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My guess is it's not left up to discretion. At my previous airline it was so ingrained in the FAs that it's their immediate reaction when it happens. Rather than handling anything themselves they put it in the laps of the captain.
 
Autothrust Blue said:
Sort of. The pay for a segment is the greater of historical block, or actual.

(This is apparently the way it is, and has been.)
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granted i have no first hand experience with it...but i've heard that it's not or better. I've heard guys have over blocked and only been paid the historical block.....again, no first hand experience just what i've heard.
 
ian said:
granted i have no first hand experience with it...but i've heard that it's not or better. I've heard guys have over blocked and only been paid the historical block.....again, no first hand experience just what i've heard.
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Not how it's supposed to be. If you exceed historical by even one minute, the difference is paid out. (Unless you're on an MDG or duty rig day, or the TAFB guarantee applies.)

I've never had it not show up.
 
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ian said:
granted i have no first hand experience with it...but i've heard that it's not or better. I've heard guys have over blocked and only been paid the historical block.....again, no first hand experience just what i've heard.
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People either lied to you or they don't know what they're talking about. It's "or better." Pink is all "or better."

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Kingairer said:
This is one of those rules that needs to go away or at least made more grey. Let's say your in LGA and there's 50 airplanes on the ground with various fixes ground stopped. ATC needs to get someone from back of line out to runway and someone up front "got someone up". So the whole world has to wait as Joe passengers finishes his break so they can move up two hundred feet to stop again. Seems to mainly be RJs. I think the FAs are quick triggered to make the immidiate call up to the front as soon as the person stands. You don't see a 767 stop bc they got someone up.
Meanwhile if you are riding Amtrak you can get up as you please whenever you please as the train rocks back and forth down the tracks.

Add the rediculous required FA briefing of how to use the seatbelt. Can we all agree that if you managed to exist to whatever age you are that you can operate a seatbelt. Do we need a briefing on putting one front in front of the other? Again, no briefings, no seatbelts on highspeed rail.
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Amtrak doesn't have a history of getting tagged by heavy aircraft taxiing by and tossing them 90 degrees.

 
I knew someone would post that, and that's such a freak incident it's hardly something that can justify the existence of the rule. Amtrak derailed today killing 2.
 
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