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Roger Roger said:
Everyone keeps saying this, it must not fly at all like the sim if that’s the case.
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The thing hand flies fine. Having everything off and taking it around the pattern is easy, even keeping a respectably tight pattern. Of course, the -100/200 was the true sports car of them, especially when empty.
 
Autothrust Blue said:
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?“
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What crew alerting requirements? :)

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MikeD said:
The thing hand flies fine. Having everything off and taking it around the pattern is easy, even keeping a respectably tight pattern. Of course, the -100/200 was the true sports car of them, especially when empty.
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People here definitely miss the 15 second engine starts
 
Richman said:
Heck, on the DC-9 you just rolled it downhill and popped the clutch.
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“Just make sure to park her in roll start position.”

I sure hope they add an extra section or two to clear out the SAs between SEA-ANC or the commuters are going to be sweating.
 
alaskadrifter said:
“Just make sure to park her in roll start position.”

I sure hope they add an extra section or two to clear out the SAs between SEA-ANC or the commuters are going to be sweating.
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Back in the day, the SoDak, NoDak and Montana terminals were all "pull out". You'd park parallel to the terminal, and they'd wheel the jetway up. When it was time to go, they'd pull the jetway back you'd fire up, and pull out. Easy peasy lemon squeezy. Those cities were WAY senior for the ground folks. I think the junior guy in Bismarck had like 25 in.
 
trafficinsight said:
People here definitely miss the 15 second engine starts
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I remember the first time I did engine runs on a BR710 (G5/550/Global) and I'd done some studying, there's a range of N1 they do not want you to stay in during the start. It takes forever to spool up, happily the computers take care of any issues and after a few runs my anxiety floated away, next thing was taxiing and wingtips. Driving Learjets around is pretty straightforward, taxiing bigger airplanes around is completely different. No push backs, no asking for engine start from ground or anyone else. I've had to call KVNY Ops at midnight, long after the curfew for running any airplanes, and beg for permission to at least allow us to start and idle an engine for a couple of minutes. I remember when I was doing that thinking back to the early '90s when we'd finally put the Bearcat back together and we'd work late into the the night and need to run it. We didn't call anyone, we pulled it out of the hangar (sometimes with my truck) chain it to a spot at the end of the hangar row and run it, hard. I can recall despite our best efforts to chain it down sometimes it seemed as if the right gear was trying to get airborne. Everyone in the immediate area knew the Bearcat was running again. I reminisce about those times because it seems so foreign now. Aviation wasn't just a job, it was fun and I woke up everyday looking forward to what I'd get into. I was talking with a friend who's just as jaded as I am and we agreed that the airplanes are bitchin' but the people around them aren't. The folks currently trying to make money from corporate jets don't fly or work on them and they don't give a damn about the people that do. I'm opting out, no one can force me to work on anything, if their business fails that's certainly not my fault. So long suckers...
 
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ASpilot2be said:
I was hoping the company couldn't find me a seat so I could just stay home. But no such luck. Currently stuck in the exit row on the way to Anchorage.
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I found an open jumpseat this afternoon :) zero open seats anywhere for the family who I was trying to bring though
 
ASpilot2be said:
I am impressed! I saw a lot of standbys today. Things were packed.
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Yeah, the backup flight I had listed us on to IAD went from 20+/infinite open seats a few hrs prior, to fully booked with a waiting list of revenue standbys thanks to a cancelled earlier IAD and also a BWI. I basically just told my wife to take the kids home......they weren't gonna get another non rev seat to DC for 2-3 days. It was my fault though, admittedly. The second I saw this pop up on the news Friday night, I should have realized what that was gonna mean for our plans today.
 
///AMG said:
Yeah, the backup flight I had listed us on to IAD went from 20+/infinite open seats a few hrs prior, to fully booked with a waiting list of revenue standbys thanks to a cancelled earlier IAD and also a BWI. I basically just told my wife to take the kids home......they weren't gonna get another non rev seat to DC for 2-3 days.
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Damn! This has made me remember how much I hated commuting, and really enjoy my confirmed seats.
 
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