Spirit back in chapter 11

SteveC said:
Paid ours off in 2007.
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It's a nice feeling isn't it?. I should've added the sarcasm tag. But the point of my post was true, anyone making $500k/year flying private is going to find themselves broke pretty quick. Not to mention he seems enthusiastic about flying on Spirit, I suspect that is the sort of cheapness that would turn coal into a diamond in his dirty spot if he couldn't find the absolute cheapest airborne conveyance for he and his family for the holidays. What holiday is he and his family celebrating? It can't be the birth of Jesus right? In an case I'd imagine he's probably making his regular payment and padding it with a bunch of money that gets applied directly to the capital on the mortgage. That sort of financial scrutiny reminds me of a stereotype about another group of people...
 
knot4u said:
I'd bet your $1M house in LA will be paid off before his. You can turn being financially responsible into a dick swinging contest if you want. My house is paid off, it's just those pesky taxes.
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I got 299k principal left. Aiming to pay it in 18 months. 30 yr mortgage trying to pay off in 3.5 yrs. 2 yrs in, on track so far.
 
Skåning said:
Not really a flex when you inherited your money.
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Not a flex. You have no idea what you're talking about. I bought my first house at 30 years old without any help from the trust, just a strong back and a weak mind. I'm not going to claim I've never received any benefit from it but it's not what you imagine.
 
CoffeeIcePapers said:
I thought mortgages were against your religion? Interest is forbidden, right?
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I think it's encouraged to hide in plain sight and acting against the teachings of Mohammed when in the company of infidels is okay as long as your true heart is dedicated to Islam. Subterfuge is considered admirable.















I just made up everything I just wrote.
 
WacoFan said:
Ohhhh - I completely missed that episode!
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19 October 2021. Houston Executive Airport. Velocipede walking from the burning wreckage following a takeoff overrun of his MD-87 due to elevators jammed in the full down position.


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Skåning said:
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Okay, so. The whole glorious disaster has to be told for maximum appreciation.

Mid summer and I’m junior but holding a line, and I’m looking for the last half of the month off, so I’m on my second 6 day block of back-to-back-to back shortbacks. On the commute down a 4 day with HNL layover pops up in open time that reports just late enough that I can do it instead of my last 2 shortbacks. Naturally I swap into it. Do my first redeye, then show up for the Hawaii 4 day. Airplane is (naturally) late so I’m chilling in the boarding area waiting and the captain walks up. Old guy, sub-300 seniority. This is 5ish months prior to the new uniform launch and he’s already wearing the new shirt, no tie. Introduce myself, say something about how I traded into this from some redeyes. “There’s nothing for captains! I can’t work enough! I’m gonna go broke! I wrote the union complaining about it!”

Okayyyy.

Day 1 is 3 legs SFO-somewhere in Mexico (Cabo?)-LAX-LAS. He takes leg 1 and complains the whole way about how his ankle is •ed up and he’s just coming off sick leave for it. Even as PF hes got some weirdness, wants to do weird • with the secondary FPL when we get a route change, big sharpie writing stuff on the ATIS printout. I fly to LAX and I don’t remember him micromanaging too much but I’ve probably suppressed that memory. Anyway, we get off the plane at TBIT and apparently his ankle is bothering him so much that he has called a wheelchair. So, here he is getting pushed in a wheelchair in uniform with all the pax through that whole mile-long hallway to customs. Meanwhile I’ve never been outside the 60 gates at LAX so I have no idea how to get to our next gate, so I can’t really leave his ass, so I’m just walking behind him cringeing the whole way. After customs, he takes the handicap bus to the normal terminal. Anyway, he flies the last leg of the day into LAS, absolutely crushes in a flaps 40 landing, and bangs out sick at the hotel. Next morning the reserve captain for our leg to SEA (a dude from my crashpad coincidentally) asks me “who was your captain? The FAs said they were really happy to see me instead of him.”

Turns out he was one of the VX “Fab Five”.
 
Roger Roger said:
Okay, so. The whole glorious disaster has to be told for maximum appreciation.

Mid summer and I’m junior but holding a line, and I’m looking for the last half of the month off, so I’m on my second 6 day block of back-to-back-to back shortbacks. On the commute down a 4 day with HNL layover pops up in open time that reports just late enough that I can do it instead of my last 2 shortbacks. Naturally I swap into it. Do my first redeye, then show up for the Hawaii 4 day. Airplane is (naturally) late so I’m chilling in the boarding area waiting and the captain walks up. Old guy, sub-300 seniority. This is 5ish months prior to the new uniform launch and he’s already wearing the new shirt, no tie. Introduce myself, say something about how I traded into this from some redeyes. “There’s nothing for captains! I can’t work enough! I’m gonna go broke! I wrote the union complaining about it!”

Okayyyy.

Day 1 is 3 legs SFO-somewhere in Mexico (Cabo?)-LAX-LAS. He takes leg 1 and complains the whole way about how his ankle is •ed up and he’s just coming off sick leave for it. Even as PF hes got some weirdness, wants to do weird • with the secondary FPL when we get a route change, big sharpie writing stuff on the ATIS printout. I fly to LAX and I don’t remember him micromanaging too much but I’ve probably suppressed that memory. Anyway, we get off the plane at TBIT and apparently his ankle is bothering him so much that he has called a wheelchair. So, here he is getting pushed in a wheelchair in uniform with all the pax through that whole mile-long hallway to customs. Meanwhile I’ve never been outside the 60 gates at LAX so I have no idea how to get to our next gate, so I can’t really leave his ass, so I’m just walking behind him cringeing the whole way. After customs, he takes the handicap bus to the normal terminal. Anyway, he flies the last leg of the day into LAS, absolutely crushes in a flaps 40 landing, and bangs out sick at the hotel. Next morning the reserve captain for our leg to SEA (a dude from my crashpad coincidentally) asks me “who was your captain? The FAs said they were really happy to see me instead of him.”

Turns out he was one of the VX “Fab Five”.
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I don’t understand guys screwing around with that secondary FPL in the 737. The A320 one was useful. This one just isn’t. It’s just a VX carry over technique thing. I don’t do it on the 737, it’s nearly useless. And easy to get yourself in trouble.
 
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
I don’t understand guys screwing around with that secondary FPL in the 737. The A320 one was useful. This one just isn’t. It’s just a VX carry over technique thing. I don’t do it on the 737, it’s nearly useless. And easy to get yourself in trouble.
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I cant even remember how to do it anymore, but if you (just say) wanted to input a diversion routing, you’d cycle to RTE 2, and then after route entry just NOT hit execute, but rather go back to RTE 1 at which point the exec light goes away, correct? And then *in theory* you could re-select RTE 2 and the exec light would be waiting for you? Or maybe I’m just thinking of the way to turn off the fwd coffee makers and blow up the 1/c lav…..

This all being said, I have literally no clue what other weird Easter eggs swapping to a new route mid-flight would introduce with the FMC, ACARS, whatever. It probably opens the cross feed valve and selects manual pressurization too
 
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
I don’t understand guys screwing around with that secondary FPL in the 737. The A320 one was useful. This one just isn’t. It’s just a VX carry over technique thing. I don’t do it on the 737, it’s nearly useless. And easy to get yourself in trouble.
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///AMG said:
I cant even remember how to do it anymore, but if you (just say) wanted to input a diversion routing, you’d cycle to RTE 2, and then after route entry just NOT hit execute, but rather go back to RTE 1 at which point the exec light goes away, correct? And then *in theory* you could re-select RTE 2 and the exec light would be waiting for you? Or maybe I’m just thinking of the way to turn off the fwd coffee makers and blow up the 1/c lav…..

This all being said, I have literally no clue what other weird Easter eggs swapping to a new route mid-flight would introduce with the FMC, ACARS, whatever. It probably opens the cross feed valve and selects manual pressurization too
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I always throw the next flight plan into RTE 2, if only to kill a few mins of abject boredom in cruise. Just don’t hit the EXE button, and it takes active thought not to. Go back to RTE 1 and the EXE light goes out. In fact, never hit the EXE button until you know exactly what it is you are executing.

For us, we are usually making a quick turn and saving some time on that turn, with either no change or maybe a slight change to the Route, allows us to get on with the rest of the box programming, usually just waiting on takeoff speed inputs if still fueling up, and getting that done so the rest of our useless paperwork can be done that needs to be before running the before start abbreviated checklist.

Flew out of KSLI the other week. Made an all manual takeoff, because the clearance had us climb to 1000 MSL and a departure end left turn to head low level out through seal beach, climb to 2000 turning southeast once reaching the oil platforms off the coast then to 3500 near Huntington Beach before incrementally climbing more before turning east inland north of Dana Point and climbing to BLH. That was fun for about 10 mins.
 
Made it to airport 3.5 hrs from departure. Check in terminal 2 for bags, 1 hr right there. Leave terminal 2, walk to terminal 1 for security. Then after security, walk to terminal 2 to then take a bus to the international MSC gates. Got there 50 minutes before the flight.

Initially oversold by 5 with 5 nonrevs. In the end, I got a big front seat 1F, as the gate agent stated there were so many people still missing. Yeah no crap, I’d say anyone getting to the airport 2.5 hrs or less missed their flight.

I’m rooting for Spirit. But their LAX operation right now is a complete dumpster fire.
 
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