Morbid curiosity. Upgrade times?

Stone Cold said:
Physically. In the Queen, if comm 2 is on guard, you cannot physically deselect it, you can only turn it down.
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MEOW!

Flew with a really cool, legit laid-back C/A (not the guys who say they're laid-back then give you "feedback" every time you touch something) last week and we spent most of a crossing plotting the demise of the Guard Barnyard. It's so maddening. Because you know you're just scratching whatever infantile, perverse itch they have (because they're 12) when you yell at them about it. I feel about them much the same way that I feel about people who blast up to a busy merge, then put their turn signal on to join. To wit, they should be drug out of their cars and shot on the side of the road. Freaking sociopaths. I look forward to the day when our Tech Overlords can use voice recognition to circular-file anyone's application who has ever meowed on guard.
 
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Boris Badenov said:
MEOW!

Flew with a really cool, legit laid-back C/A (not the guys who say they're laid-back then give you "feedback" every time you touch something) last week and we spent most of a crossing plotting the demise of the Guard Barnyard. It's so maddening. Because you know you're just scratching whatever infantile, perverse itch they have (because they're 12) when you yell at them about it. I feel about them much the same way that I feel about people who blast up to a busy merge, then put their turn signal on to join. To wit, they should be drug out of their cars and shot on the side of the road. Freaking sociopaths. I look forward to the day when our Tech Overlords can use voice recognition to circular-file anyone's application who has ever meowed on guard.
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I’ve noticed that every domestic leg I fly, guard is pretty quiet until I disconnect the autopilot to land and actually have to concentrate.
 
mikecweb said:
I mean Im one of 3 people that wasn't terribly impressed by the 747 and forgot it like a bad habbit but I don't remember that at all.
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Maybe yours were broken? I mean I don't really care about the airplane one way or the other. The standout characteristics from my perspective are that it tends to go really fast on approach/departure if it has any load at all and you have to keep flying it once the wheels are down (which I guess you should probably be doing anyway). But you for sure 100% cannot deselect #2 if it's on Guard. Which it must be, by our SOPs. So MEOW. Yay.
 
Boris Badenov said:
Maybe yours were broken? I mean I don't really care about the airplane one way or the other. The standout characteristics from my perspective are that it tends to go really fast on approach/departure if it has any load at all and you have to keep flying it once the wheels are down (which I guess you should probably be doing anyway). But you for sure 100% cannot deselect #2 if it's on Guard. Which it must be, by our SOPs. So MEOW. Yay.
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Hey. Do they normally cater you guys only with instant coffee or do they just hate the leased carriers?
 
Screaming_Emu said:
Hey. Do they normally cater you guys only with instant coffee or do they just hate the leased carriers?
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Instant coffee??? Seriously? That sucks!

It's nice not doing any of that UPS or FedEx Express flying again this year. I only had to do it once in my first year. I've bid away from it since.

Of course, I probably jinxed myself. C'est la vie.
 
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Stone Cold said:
Of course, I probably jynxed myself. C'est la vie.
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Stone Cold said:
Instant coffee??? Seriously? That sucks!

It's nice not doing any of that UPS or FedEx Express flying again this year. I only had to do it once in my first year. I've bid away from it since.

Of course, I probably jynxed myself. C'est la vie.
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I did UPS last week, it was prison like. I do FedEx next week and I’m really looking forward to it.

Brown crews were awesome in helping us figure out our car to bus to van to airplane transportation, but the ramp doesn’t seem like it was designed for airplanes and I always felt like I was going to hit stuff.

I did purple flying last year and it felt a lot more like an airline. Every day was the same, so we knew what to expect. Also, the catering was incredible.
 
Screaming_Emu said:
I did UPS last week, it was prison like. I do FedEx next week and I’m really looking forward to it.

Brown crews were awesome in helping us figure out our car to bus to van to airplane transportation, but the ramp doesn’t seem like it was designed for airplanes and I always felt like I was going to hit stuff.

I did purple flying last year and it felt a lot more like an airline. Every day was the same, so we knew what to expect. Also, the catering was incredible.
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I've heard good things about Purple flying from our guys. I did Brown flying in '18. I didn't care for it. I'll leave it at that.

I still avoid all that crap while I can.
 
Rent a car and goto Fat Larry's in Bartlett if you appreciate great bbq. Assuming Larry didn't die of Covid and obesity.
 
Screaming_Emu said:
I did UPS last week, it was prison like. I do FedEx next week and I’m really looking forward to it.

Brown crews were awesome in helping us figure out our car to bus to van to airplane transportation, but the ramp doesn’t seem like it was designed for airplanes and I always felt like I was going to hit stuff.

I did purple flying last year and it felt a lot more like an airline. Every day was the same, so we knew what to expect. Also, the catering was incredible.
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Holy crap. Are you talking SDF? Ramp 9 is an accident waiting to happen.
 
Screaming_Emu said:
Hey. Do they normally cater you guys only with instant coffee or do they just hate the leased carriers?
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Instant coffee is the smart call for coffee-drinkers. I'm not one because half a cup of decaf and I'm grinding my jaw down to tooth-stubs with my eyes rolling around like a cartoon crack-addict. Genetically vulnerable, I guess. I can drink fourteen cokes and feel fine. Who knows, you figure it out.

That said, they will cater coffee packets for our on-board coffee pot but they use ship's "potable" water and I don't think those tanks are ever cleaned. It's UPS, if it's not in the contract, it's not happening. Oh, you'd like some air? Negotiate for it on the next contract. The coffee aficianados all bring their adorable little French-presses and have Byzantine rituals in which they prepare the crack *just so*.

Which is not to say they don't hate the leased carriers. They hate you, too. But it's a dry hate.
 
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