Oh, American...

BobDDuck said:
"Radio" is something you talk on to people outside the aircraft and is an object that FOs have been allowed to use at pretty much every carrier since the dedicated radio operator left cockpits.

"PA" is something you use to talk to the people in the cabin. It is something that at some carriers the captain is responsible for using, while at other places both the captain and the FO use depending on what is happening.

Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
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Thanks for educating me. I do stand corrected. Comms were scratchy on your first transmission.

...Good Ted Talk! :)
 
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Would love to see this guy at a military field. I taxied out once in VPS and sat holding short for 30 minutes waiting on all the T-38s and F-22s to land. The landing process certainly takes a lot of time for the fighter folks out there.

Oh yeah, didn't even get close to running out of gas.
 
Maurus said:
Would love to see this guy at a military field. I taxied out once in VPS and sat holding short for 30 minutes waiting on all the T-38s and F-22s to land. The landing process certainly takes a lot of time for the fighter folks out there.

Oh yeah, didn't even get close to running out of gas.
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Not necessarily a lot of time, but if you have recovering formations in the overhead to a single runway, there’s nowhere to squeeze in departures during that time using the same runway. Nor even the perpendicular runway. Parallel runways would be a different story.
 
ngl after 10 minutes of watching the Hobbs meter rollover at the hold-short line I would start to do the dollar math, wonder if I’m fouling plugs and bemoan that “There’s got to be a better way!”
 
Bob Ridpath said:
Damn.

I guess it wouldn't work on the flight deck but I sure love zoomies in a dog. Even my eldest, at nearly 14, occasionally enjoys them and they are wonderful to behold.
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The cat equivilent is "crazy time". In my house, it happens twice a day. Once about 9am, and the other at 11pm.

It happens EXACTLY like this, right down to the cat sigh at the end. Only in my house, there are more cats.


View: https://youtu.be/sqTl-0JAU7o
 
Richman said:
The cat equivilent is "crazy time". In my house, it happens twice a day. Once about 9am, and the other at 11pm.

It happens EXACTLY like this, right down to the cat sigh at the end. Only in my house, there are more cats.


View: https://youtu.be/sqTl-0JAU7o
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Yeah that pretty well sums up the zoomies in cats. The only complaint I have with the video is the painting falling and breaking would 100% instigate a shorter round two of insanity.
 
MikeD said:
Not necessarily a lot of time, but if you have recovering formations in the overhead to a single runway, there’s nowhere to squeeze in departures during that time using the same runway. Nor even the perpendicular runway. Parallel runways would be a different story.
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Well, when you’re holding for FREAKING HELO TRAFFIC in Tucson…. :)
 
BobDDuck said:
Some. Why?

Unlike long sleeves, I've seen no correlation between beards and asshats.
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Just a joke. I keep hearing how “Hawaiian has beards, why can’t we?”

And I look at the avg guy and think, you can’t pull a beard off. Heck, I know I can’t. Not without looking like someone on a top 10 wanted poster.
 
We already look pretty stupid in our white short sleeve shirts and ties. I don’t think a beard is going to damage our already comical appearance.
 
poser765 said:
We already look pretty stupid in our white short sleeve shirts and ties. I don’t think a beard is going to damage our already comical appearance.
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I think we look good. I don’t know what the big deal is with shirts and ties. Beards aren’t necessary. Very few people can pull off a good beard look for a pilot.



What does look silly are un-ironed shirts that are only half tucked into their waistband.
 
Richman said:
The cat equivilent is "crazy time". In my house, it happens twice a day. Once about 9am, and the other at 11pm.

It happens EXACTLY like this, right down to the cat sigh at the end. Only in my house, there are more cats.


View: https://youtu.be/sqTl-0JAU7o
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Probably a trait common to all caged mammalians. Kids and dogs and even whales act very similarly when confined.

However, with cats, I suppose it's a bit like assessing the function of certain folks after a massive head injury. You run the CT. You run the cognitive tests. You run the behavioral battery. You get results and compare them to the pre-accident state, and you realize: "I'm not seeing any difference between the pre- and post-accident states."
 
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Cherokee_Cruiser said:
I think we look good. I don’t know what the big deal is with shirts and ties. Beards aren’t necessary. Very few people can pull off a good beard look for a pilot.



What does look silly are un-ironed shirts that are only half tucked into their waistband.
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I guess style is subjective. I think we look like Norman missionaries.
 
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