Sloooooowwwww down!

jtrain609 said:
So how did this happen? Were you listening to your scanner while non revving and you heard ATC say, "SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW DOWN!!!!" and the pilots were like, "NO!!! $%(* YOU AND SQUAWK VFR!!!!"
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I'm glad I'm not the only one that thought of this when I read the thread title.
 
jtrain609 said:
So how did this happen? Were you listening to your scanner while non revving and you heard ATC say, "SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW DOWN!!!!" and the pilots were like, "NO!!! $%(* YOU AND SQUAWK VFR!!!!"
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Roger said:
I'm glad I'm not the only one that thought of this when I read the thread title.
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Actually now that you mention it.... it reminds me of the RiddleThirst video.

But no; I was sitting in the back, and I was quite surprised at the perceived speed that we had on a contaminated taxiway.

When is "backseat" observation not accurate? When should something be mentioned (for example) on a forum? If the guy was leaking fuel, I guess I'll keep it to myself, since I'm just being the dreaded backseat driver.

Again, this is merely a Public Service Announcement.... no need to call any crew or carrier out - just a "hey watch your speed" on a taxi...

Sometimes you just have an evening where you think - "man I'm here, and I sure as heck don't want to be exiting via the wing doors.
 
cencal83406 said:
Sometimes you just have an evening where you think - "man I'm here, and I sure as heck don't want to be exiting via the wing doors.
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At least you'd fit through them.

That is if you got there before 95% of the other passengers (and probably the FA) get there without their lard spread, and can't get their fat asses through the door.
 
OldTownPilot said:
At least you'd fit through them.

That is if you got there before 95% of the other passengers (and probably the FA) get there without their lard spread, and can't get their fat asses through the door.
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Put butter on them. They'll slide right through. Fat is flexible.

-mini
 
OldTownPilot said:
At least you'd fit through them.

That is if you got there before 95% of the other passengers (and probably the FA) get there without their lard spread, and can't get their fat asses through the door.
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Oh gawd, I see where this gonna lead. . .and I'm so looking forward to it. . .haha

:pop:
 
I wasn't on the flight so I can't comment about speed... What I find unprofessional is you putting this out on a public message board. It goes beyond
a PSA when you purposely mention the flight details. If anyone deserves a call from pro-standards, it's you. Hopefully you never upgrade before me so I don't have to fly with you.
 
av8sean said:
I wasn't on the flight so I can't comment about speed... What I find unprofessional is you putting this out on a public message board. It goes beyond
a PSA when you purposely mention the flight details. If anyone deserves a call from pro-standards, it's you. Hopefully you never upgrade before me so I don't have to fly with you.
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:eek: So many sensitive guys here. Get over it. PM me and I'll be happy to give you my information if you don't already know it.

in fact. you see the little walking man below my avatar. feel free to contact me in REAL time!
 
cencal83406 said:
:eek: So many sensitive guys here. Get over it. PM me and I'll be happy to give you my information if you don't already know it.

in fact. you see the little walking man below my avatar. feel free to contact me in REAL time!
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Sensitivity is going around man, don't worry.

BTW - How many feet are between taxi way edge lights?
 
ATN_Pilot said:
You know as well as I do that if you clock a random sample of DAL, UAL, and AMR planes, you won't come anywhere close to the same taxi speeds as a random sample of SWA planes. Why are you trying to make excuses for it?

(For the record, I think many of our captains taxi far too fast, though few of them come close to average SWA speed.)
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Don't add AMR in there... they'd jack up the average.

We were taxiing into LAS tonight at 270,000 pounds on one of our domestic 767 slowpokes and had to ride the freaking brakes! What on earth. I got a nice reading on the stab height of a MD80 compared to the 767, though haha.


In all irony...there was a WN jet poking along at just about the same speed on the parrallel. Typically you're spot on.

The worst was flying with a guy at a regional whose sole desire was to get hired by WN. Hyper freaking maniacs that taxiied at 40 knots or more. Braking around corners? What's that? I learned what the sound of a skidding nosewheel was long before I was a CA thanks to those idiots. My only call to pro standards was prompted by one of them. You probably knew him...
 
kellwolf said:
Agree 100%. If the taxiiways had been contaminated, I'd have just caught the next DH and grumbled something about "FML, that's the last time I accept an extension that I'm able to refuse because I want the comp day for later blah blah blah." However, MSP did a great job of cleaning up, and the runways and taxiways were totally clear.

On the two engine thing, I ALWAYS taxi 2 engines on contaminated surfaces. I've had FOs look at me strangely when I start up #1 to go get deiced sometimes and tell me "Aren't we gonna be burning a lot of gas this way." Yep. That's why they gave us 600 lbs of taxi fuel, too. I want that second engine if I need it. And I REALLY want that second thrust reverser if I need that.....
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I don't know if it still is, but it used to be that on contaminated surfaces 2 engine taxi was required in the CFM (FCOM then...). Always remember your taxi burn in Worldflight is calculated off 2 engine taxi. Whatever you don't burn is yours to use or not use at your discretion.
 
ATN_Pilot said:
There's never a reason to be scooting around at SWA speeds, contaminated surface or not. If you're breaking 30 knots during the taxi, you're going too fast. A call to Pro Standards would be warranted.
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Scooting around for me was 30 knots max in the straights... I probably annoyed everyone around the airport poking around at idle single engine thrust.

Go home leg or running really late and I'd pick up the pace. Other than that it was idle single engine and LRC cruise. I'd land with oodles extra gas (bonus since you never knew when one of those things was gonna hang up a gear or flaps) and still be A14 everytime. Flying fast burns gas.
 
Don't need any reminders or instructions on how to do my job, thanks. MYOB.

I must be doing something wrong, since I seem to be the only person on this website with enough to do in my own life without "reminding" everyone else of how they ought to be living theirs. For the Kids! :rolleyes:

Hugs,
Boris
 
FYI, SWA has maximum mandated taxi speeds in their FOM. 30 knots in a straightaway, 20 knots in a turn. I've jumpseated on them many, many times, and never see this "insane taxi speed" that is the "norm" at SWA. Now, I have seen pilots at other majors take their sweet time taxiing around. Nothing like landing 27R at ORD only to taxi for 20 minutes to the gate.
 
FlyChicaga said:
FYI, SWA has maximum mandated taxi speeds in their FOM. 30 knots in a straightaway, 20 knots in a turn. I've jumpseated on them many, many times, and never see this "insane taxi speed" that is the "norm" at SWA. Now, I have seen pilots at other majors take their sweet time taxiing around. Nothing like landing 27R at ORD only to taxi for 20 minutes to the gate.
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You know there's not always a whole lot we can do about that, right?

You could be prepared to haul keister down the dread Charlie, Papa, Echo, Zulu, short of Tango (the PEZ route as it's become known..) and get stuck behind a few other guys taking their times with the corner.. or an AA MD80.
 
Boris Badenov said:
Don't need any reminders or instructions on how to do my job, thanks. MYOB.

I must be doing something wrong, since I seem to be the only person on this website with enough to do in my own life without "reminding" everyone else of how they ought to be living theirs. For the Kids! :rolleyes:

Hugs,
Boris
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Thank you. :clap:

And yeah, if I had a jumpseater who was complaining about my taxi speed, he wouldn't enjoy my response.
 
Boris Badenov said:
Don't need any reminders or instructions on how to do my job, thanks. MYOB.

I must be doing something wrong, since I seem to be the only person on this website with enough to do in my own life without "reminding" everyone else of how they ought to be living theirs. For the Kids! :rolleyes:

Hugs,
Boris
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You and me both.

What next, someone who thought the airplane stalled in flight? Oh wait...we had that one last week.
 
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