Oh Alaska/Boeing

Apophis said:
Hilarious that an airplane delivered in 2023 has that mess of 1960s era-anunciators. What a compete and utter POS.

I didn’t have that much time on the Airbus before leaving my previous job but I’m honestly hoping to get it at Delta with my new hire bid next week.

I’ll even take ATL 717B before I ever touch a guppy (@NovemberEcho ) come at me, bro
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This airplane was made when the Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme was the top-selling car, Superman II was top of the box office, the Oak Ridge Boys "Elvira" was topping the charts and the world marvelled at the EICAS on this now-museum piece 42 years ago.

In those four decades, Boeing introduced roughly sixteen new variants of the 737, completely replaced the flight deck instrumentation, introduced limited computer-assisted flight controls, and replaced dozens of LRUs with new-technology software functions. But kept the same crew alerting system.

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Minuteman said:
This airplane was made when the Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme was the top-selling car, Superman II was top of the box office, the Oak Ridge Boys "Elvira" was topping the charts and the world marvelled at the EICAS on this now-museum piece 42 years ago.

In those four decades, Boeing introduced roughly sixteen new variants of the 737, completely replaced the flight deck instrumentation, introduced limited computer-assisted flight controls, and replaced dozens of LRUs with new-technology software functions. But kept the same crew alerting system.

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That ain’t no 737 flight deck.
 
Apophis said:
Hilarious that an airplane delivered in 2023 has that mess of 1960s era-anunciators. What a compete and utter POS.

I didn’t have that much time on the Airbus before leaving my previous job but I’m honestly hoping to get it at Delta with my new hire bid next week.

I’ll even take ATL 717B before I ever touch a guppy (@NovemberEcho ) come at me, bro
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Does the 717 pay the same as the 73 at Delta?
 
Roger Roger said:
Supposedly another operators 900ERs and 9Maxs have the lights for the mid exits but they are placarded inop and deactivated when the plug is installed, I would imagine the Alaska ones are set up the same
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That's true. Our 900ERs with the plug say INOP on the lights. The 33 we have with the doors still there have the real word for it there. When we bought them (gently, horrifically) used job #1 was airworthiness and standardizing the flight deck. The cabins and safety equipment are getting converted in late 2024, and that will include plugging the mid-aft door.
Apophis said:
Hilarious that an airplane delivered in 2023 has that mess of 1960s era-anunciators. What a compete and utter POS.

I didn’t have that much time on the Airbus before leaving my previous job but I’m honestly hoping to get it at Delta with my new hire bid next week.

I’ll even take ATL 717B before I ever touch a guppy (@NovemberEcho ) come at me, bro
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I've been here for less than 3 years, and I'm at about 30% in category in a senior base. It seems Boeing is all in on our gaslighting campaign to tell everybody that every other airplane is better. That's not a bug. OTH, real talk, you're going to be reminded what a fatiguing bid pack looks like. Fatigue calls on the 320 outpace the rest of the air line BY A LOT.
JDean3204 said:
I still dig the 737. Guess I have low standards
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I seem to have an attraction to ugly airplanes. It's a logical part of my personal rags to riches story, I guess.
 
Flyinthrew said:
That's true. Our 900ERs with the plug say INOP on the lights. The 33 we have with the doors still there have the real word for it there. When we bought them (gently, horrifically) used job #1 was airworthiness and standardizing the flight deck. The cabins and safety equipment are getting converted in late 2024, and that will include plugging the mid-aft door.

I've been here for less than 3 years, and I'm at about 30% in category in a senior base. It seems Boeing is all in on our gaslighting campaign to tell everybody that every other airplane is better. That's not a bug. OTH, real talk, you're going to be reminded what a fatiguing bid pack looks like. Fatigue calls on the 320 outpace the rest of the air line BY A LOT.

I seem to have an attraction to ugly airplanes. It's a logical part of my personal rags to riches story, I guess.
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The 33 (I think some of them have the door plugged or at least deactivated in place) aren’t too bad up front, they have the new hud with the as yet idiot proof takeoff pitch cue aka the TiE fighter. FAs hate ‘em though. Lucky for me they only do ATL turns. Unlucky for me scheduling seems to think SEA crews like doing ATL turns.

Plus one of them came with a dead snake in it!
 
Minuteman said:
This airplane was made when the Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme was the top-selling car, Superman II was top of the box office, the Oak Ridge Boys "Elvira" was topping the charts and the world marvelled at the EICAS on this now-museum piece 42 years ago.

In those four decades, Boeing introduced roughly sixteen new variants of the 737, completely replaced the flight deck instrumentation, introduced limited computer-assisted flight controls, and replaced dozens of LRUs with new-technology software functions. But kept the same crew alerting system.

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Don’t forget that a certain version of that 737 was specifically exempted from crew alerting requirements that would have otherwise mandated flight deck modernization as a “gift” during our messy consolidated appropriations process.

”Main bus B undervolt? CRYO PRESS? O2 FLOW HIGH? FC 1, FC 3?“
 
n156499000 said:
The 33 (I think some of them have the door plugged or at least deactivated in place) aren’t too bad up front, they have the new hud with the as yet idiot proof takeoff pitch cue aka the TiE fighter. FAs hate ‘em though. Lucky for me they only do ATL turns. Unlucky for me scheduling seems to think SEA crews like doing ATL turns.

Plus one of them came with a dead snake in it!
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I think we got the APU issues run out of them. That was rough in places like SAV, CHS and PNS over the summer, so from a flight ops perspective they're just like everything else. Works good, doesn't break. The ones with infllght entertainment just got authorized for 8 or 900NM from ATL so that puts NYC and MIA in play, unfortunately. Now the cabin...that forward galley is complete nonsense. They might as well have put seats there.
 
Minuteman said:
This airplane was made when the Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme was the top-selling car, Superman II was top of the box office, the Oak Ridge Boys "Elvira" was topping the charts and the world marvelled at the EICAS on this now-museum piece 42 years ago.

In those four decades, Boeing introduced roughly sixteen new variants of the 737, completely replaced the flight deck instrumentation, introduced limited computer-assisted flight controls, and replaced dozens of LRUs with new-technology software functions. But kept the same crew alerting system.

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Of all the people who did come with McDonnell Douglas, I guess the ones who got EICAS and a common type on the 717 weren’t included.
 
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