Is it true?

[JustinS]

I set my alarm on the iPhone and for reasons I still can't quite understand the alarm was going but there was no sound. I had just happened to wake up 10 minutes before show call the other crew member and apologize and still make it down 10 minutes late max. Now I set a minimum of 3 alarms on the iPhone. It has been one of the few times I've been late.

I've had my iPhone do that too. It's unnerving to not know why it does that sometimes. On my phone I set alarms for every ten minutes from the time I want to wake up to my van time as a result. I set the alarm on the clock in the hotel room as well always verifying the clock's time is set to PM and the alarm to AM. I also sign up for a wake up call as a last resort. The goal is that the Swiss cheese holes never line up having all 3 alarms never get me up. Fortunately I have not been late once... Being on time is a big deal to me. It says a lot about a person. However, I understand every once in a while someone is late for one odd reason or another, and some grace should be extended because I know I've had my moments too and have been extended that same grace in my former jobs. Now if it's habitual tardiness rather than a rare one time fluke, then something needs to be said about it.

The van being late.... Common occurrence. They act as if it's a surprise that we requested a specific van time even though they have crews probably leaving at the same time every day for the most part...

 

[Richman]

Speaking of iPhone irritations...how about those EAS warnings in the middle of the night.

I was SOUND asleep the other day...a sleep fit for the dead when my iPhone went off for some EAS weather alert. Woke me out of that sleep with a noise than can only be classified as "impressive" for anything that wasn't hardwired to a 10kW generator sitting on top of a telephone pole.

I was unamused.

Richman

 

[GypsyPilot]

True but I was a 10 year captain at that point with thousands of hours pic in the crj. I was on a descent out of 10,000 for an approach. I could see maybe being close to the ground but at 10,000 feet??? Idk

Oh. Yeah, that's absurd.

 

[Autothrust Blue]

Yea, training is one area that needs some PWA protection. Sometimes departments can become cults of personalities or hidey holes for buddies or "friends of management".

Best thing to have is an objective review system and program managers not afraid to cull the herd when it's clear there is a problem. Having a petty tyrant scream at you in the sim is unacceptable in this day in age.

Unfortunately I've seen other shops go in completely the opposite direction.

Richman

Agreed.

 

[KLB]

Yea, training is one area that needs some PWA protection. Sometimes departments can become cults of personalities or hidey holes for buddies or "friends of management".

Best thing to have is an objective review system and program managers not afraid to cull the herd when it's clear there is a problem. Having a petty tyrant scream at you in the sim is unacceptable in this day in age.

Unfortunately I've seen other shops go in completely the opposite direction.

Richman

It doesn't really happen at the flight safety's and simuflites, but their was a lot of techniques vs procedure going on at that freight operator I worked at!

 

[derg]

Yea, training is one area that needs some PWA protection. Sometimes departments can become cults of personalities or hidey holes for buddies or "friends of management".

Best thing to have is an objective review system and program managers not afraid to cull the herd when it's clear there is a problem. Having a petty tyrant scream at you in the sim is unacceptable in this day in age.

Unfortunately I've seen other shops go in completely the opposite direction.

Richman

I had one guy bark at me in the 330 sim about something idiotic.

I just glared at him and gave him the "Bender from Breakfast Club".

"Are you finished?"

I ran into him at the bar in AMS and I had to mess with him out of spite, "Man, you seemed so much taller in the simulator… Odd".

 

[ppragman]

Yea, training is one area that needs some PWA protection. Sometimes departments can become cults of personalities or hidey holes for buddies or "friends of management".

Best thing to have is an objective review system and program managers not afraid to cull the herd when it's clear there is a problem. Having a petty tyrant scream at you in the sim is unacceptable in this day in age.

Unfortunately I've seen other shops go in completely the opposite direction.

Richman

There shouldn't be any screaming or really any hostility at all in the simulator - people don't learn well when you poop on them. People learn from experience - even if you think someone is doing something stupid in the simulator, don't yell at them, take a second or two to set up the simulator in such a way where you can show them that the particular thing they're doing will get them killed or violated.

 

[doug_or]

Airplane mode.

Speaking of iPhone irritations...how about those EAS warnings in the middle of the night.

I was SOUND asleep the other day...a sleep fit for the dead when my iPhone went off for some EAS weather alert. Woke me out of that sleep with a noise than can only be classified as "impressive" for anything that wasn't hardwired to a 10kW generator sitting on top of a telephone pole.

I was unamused.

Richman

 

[Richman]

Now you tell me...

 

[derg]

Now you tell me...

I turned my Amber Alerts off too. Seems like whenever I landed in a large metro area, that phone would go nuts.

Custody battles and angry ex's man.

 

[Richman]

I turned my Amber Alerts off too. Seems like whenever I landed in a large metro area, that phone would go nuts.

Custody battles and angry ex's man.

Yup. Like your very own mobile version of "Cops".

 

[derg]

Reeeeeeeeeal man pay his child support, MaurEEEEE.

 

[MikeD]

I turned my Amber Alerts off too. .

MQAA feels uncared for now.

 

[Cal Goat]

The sheer amount of information we crammed on the Brasilia was warranted. Other than a handful of specific blade angles, that information was all useful. The operational approach, for a modern airplane, is far superior.
.

Max nose wheel tire speed when it's higher than main tire speed? F you! That one will always piss me off.

 

[Cptnchia]

Max nose wheel tire speed when it's higher than main tire speed? F you! That one will always piss me off.

Ha! I had to remember which direction the P3 valve moved to open the A3 orifice in the HMU to increase speed. My attitude was, "Who gives a turd. Push forward on the throttles, engines go fast. Pull back, engines go slow."

 

[derg]

It is......... The "shaddup" makes you sound like you're from Jersey.

If I were from Jersey, I'd be typing this on a 486 with an AOL account, constantly referencing an old copy of:

 

[Cal Goat]

Who hasn't had "a call from nature" 5 minutes prior to having to go down stairs and catch the shuttle? Sometimes there are things that you just can't rush.

Early AM van? As soon as my belt has been buckled and my shoes are on, my butt says "OH HEY IT'S TIME TO POOP RIGHT NOW! EMERGENCY!"

Every. Single. Time.

 

[skyw82]

The best line I heard in the sim at OO was, "NEVER GO FLIGHT IDLE IN JET POWERED AIRCRAFT". Terminator Taylor. I'm still scratching my head at that one.

S. Taylor?

Is the other • still there? You know the one I'm talking about...

 

[scooter2525]

Is the other still there? You know the one I'm talking about...

I don't. But I guess who i am thinking of is sometime else.

 

[ProtegePilot]

Oh man ST. Yeah, he's not a popular DPE, the two flight schools I worked at both unofficially banned him from doing any more check rides with students.

On the other hand, some of the other sim instructors are a hoot. DM starts his briefs with something like "It's my goal today to make this a hostile work environment..."