Help Name Skywest, Atlantic Southeast & ExpressJet

Nick said:
And the day I flew him, hat on in the cockpit doorway and sunglasses ON...like the 'man with no eyes' in Cool Hand Luke.

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That's awesome. I saw him in the IAH crew room one morning at 6 am yelling, "FIRST OFFICER SMITH!" over and over. Like anyone meets in the crew room anymore. Everyone was rolling around in their lounge chair yelling "Shut up Three Cup!"

The man, the myth, the legend. I have even more respect for you now Nick!
 
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Three Cups' Deadhead On My Flight

Cav said:
That's awesome. I saw him in the IAH crew room one morning at 6 am yelling, "FIRST OFFICER SMITH!" over and over. Like anyone meets in the crew room anymore. Everyone was rolling around in their lounge chair yelling "Shut up Three Cup!"

The man, the myth, the legend. I have even more respect for you now Nick!
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What's funny is why he was standing in our doorway like that.

We were on downwind into BHM from IAH with a full XJT crew deadheading in the back (his crew, which would fly our plane out of BHM after landing), and multiple CAL and XJT jumpseaters going home.

Just so happened that there was a flight of two KC-135s in the pattern doing touch and gos fairly close together for that type of thing.

I was PF and the captain said "landing check complete" and stuck the checklist in the usual spot. The thing was, he was one of those that would occasionally say it was complete when it really was one step from complete, but then immediately after, make the actual F/A be seated P.A.

Well, he was going to, but the KC-135s were now abeam us on downwind while we were on final and he forgot to make the "F/A please be seated for landing P.A." altogether.

He remembered the fact that he hadn't said that announcement on short final. After a quick "d'oh!", he keyed the P.A. button and said "Christine, please be seated --- ***'MINIMUMS'*** --- landing."

Yep, the radar altitude countdown voice announced about two hundred feet AGL while he was telling the flight attendant to prepare for landing.

Of course, this on the segment where we had an unusually large crowd of pilots in the back.

I'm sure most of them found it funny and realize the captain just forgot to make the P.A. until a few seconds before landing.

And I'm sure the flight attendant heard the landing gear and saw out the windows, and was most likely in her seat already anyway.


But Three Cups did not approve.​


After all other passengers and crew were out of the cabin, he walks up to the cockpit doorway in his cowboy boots, huge flag tie, sunglasses on, moustache on 'high', and hat on.

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He pivots his head to me, a newbie in the right seat a couple months out of IOE.

He pivots his head to the left to the captain, who clearly failed checklist usage in the Three Cups Deadheader Evaluation.

He shakes his head at us like you shake your head "no", and still having not said one single word, walks off the airplane, down the steps, and over to the gate agents to get the paperwork for his return flight back to IAH.


As we were walking by the station personnel heading to the terminal to go to the hotel, they asked us what was up with the captain we flew in?

We said, what's up?

They said he ripped them a new one right then and there for handing him the flight paperwork out of a laser printer, separated into individual sheets instead of a dot matrix connected printout.

All we could do was roll our eyes and laugh and give them a quick de-brief as we continued our walk to the curb.
 
MikeD said:
SureJet? Who cares?

Pilots.....fly the damn airplane. :D

Its not like you're making a career out of a regional, are you?
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Kind of like how all of the college-bound kids spend their time slithering around the country to visit various universities?

"Oh, I don't like the atmosphere."

Sheesh, they act like they're going to live there for the rest of their lives. :)
 
Re: Three Cups' Deadhead On My Flight

Do you guys set the radar altimeter on a CAT-I approach?
 
Doug Taylor said:
Do you guys set the radar altimeter on a CAT-I approach?
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Some at XJT I remember would just set the approach plate minimums if they briefed an ILS, out of habit, no matter what the weather was. They were a minority but another bunch would set it at whatever point they felt like they should...hazy, rainshowers, whatever.

It either said "minimums" or "one hundred", I can't remember exactly now...this flight was four years ago. Whatever it said, Cap'n Three Cups was beyond pissed at the tardy P.A.


Separate story, Three Cups apparently had his wife at the training center to put his new four stripe epaulets on him, in his blank uniform shirt, at some point following the type ride sim session.
 
We set it at Skyway, but at the new carrier, the idea was that minimums are barometric and not necessarily radar altitude so it was specious information during an approach.

I don't know, I just do what the boss-man tells me to do.
 
My hat's at RVCI! DOH! Got to run the gauntlet until I get back to JFK.
 
Doug Taylor said:
We set it at Skyway, but at the new carrier, the idea was that minimums are barometric and not necessarily radar altitude so it was specious information during an approach.

I don't know, I just do what the boss-man tells me to do.
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure we'd get chewed out at ExpressJet if we didn't set the RA mins for a CAT I/VOR approach, even though it's technically not accurate. The 145 has no feature to set baro approach minima so it was either RA or nothin'. I guess the training department decided they wanted RA so that the airplane would make its "minimums" callouts. IIRC, the only time we weren't supposed to set it is on those CAT II approaches that said "RA NOT AUTHORIZED", like the one in PIT.

As for the new name, I propose: CONTINENTAL AIRLINES (hey, if PSA and piedmont can do it....), and yeah I stole that idea from someone on the pipe, but I like it.

Then again, UAL corp would probably never release the CAL name to Skywest, so how about "GulfJet". Too "regional-ey"?
 
On the 727 were technically not supposed to set it as it is not used for CAT I approaches. If you do set it, it is for reference only and should not be the basis of your go around call.

Just do what the company tells ya...
 
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A signature cocktail will be served on the Embraer Jets and Brasilias called "Amazon Jungle Juice", a mix of every type of hard alcohol you can buy in bulk for less than $5 a bottle with a splash of Keystone Light and it will be stirred with a glow-stick. CRJs will be parked in the desert and scrapped to buy more glowsticks and strobes. Pilots must wear roller skates in the terminals and mandatory retirement will take effect at age 24. Age 19 for flight attendants.

You heard it here first.
 
I kind of like JetLink Airlines. Makes sense and is easier on the ears. Skywest's Biotch Airlines was my second choice.
 
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