Technique Only…

[ASpilot2be]

two words:

Erasable pen.

No, I get it and agree with you. I just love my Pilot Frixion pens. We still fly in the stone ages and have to populate ETAs on every fix on the flight plan based on our off time. The few times I have to do them I can screw them up as much as I want, and nobody will know. I could do it in pencil, but at least I still project the confidence of doing it in pen.

Took me 30 minutes to populate ETAs for each fix between Leipzig and Hong Kong. There's no need for a fix every two miles!

 

[Richman]

The only thing I write down is stuff I want right in front of me, or something I don’t want to have to dig for if I need it:

Airline/Flt number (have to remind myself sometimes)

SOBs

Planned fuel/min takeoff fuel/actual fuel (really just for reading the checklist)

Anything else is either right in front of me, or easily accessed.

The rest of the space is for taxi routes, clearances and whatnot.

 

[Screaming_Emu]

Paying for pens is a bold move. I end up leaving a pen in the plane every other leg.

My in-laws got me a nice pen for Christmas with my initials inscribed on it. “Thanks, you got me an obligation!”

 

[killbilly]

There was a thread about this on the company page. The most complicated response was this monstrosity -

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And this was my response -

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The first one is basically our TOLD card.

 

[DeltaAlphaNovember]

I flew with a captain in the Airbus that had a TOLD card of sorts that he laminated. He would us a dry erase marker to fill it in and could wipe it and put in new numbers as needed.

 

[Screaming_Emu]

I flew with a captain in the Airbus that had a TOLD card of sorts that he laminated. He would us a dry erase marker to fill it in and could wipe it and put in new numbers as needed.

Man, we are a weird group of people.

 

[phill1174]

I flew with a dude who used one of those, and he, no exaggeration, spent 25 minutes writing stuff down before each flight. He also asked me to print everything from acars and he saved it all and took it home with him. “To cover his ass,” he explained. Captained just fine and was otherwise relatively normal, but wow.

Reminds me of a certain DTW CA at 9E. Stuff that was junk he somehow felt it had value.

 

[BEEF SUPREME]

Internally screaming

 

[Cherokee_Cruiser]

I flew with a captain in the Airbus that had a TOLD card of sorts that he laminated. He would us a dry erase marker to fill it in and could wipe it and put in new numbers as needed.

So would it be fair to say…


he TOLD you so?

 

[CFI A&P]

I flew with a dude who used one of those, and he, no exaggeration, spent 25 minutes writing stuff down before each flight. He also asked me to print everything from acars and he saved it all and took it home with him. “To cover his ass,” he explained. Captained just fine and was otherwise relatively normal, but wow.

There's a guy in the charter world that's keeps every "top page". Whether company dispatch, or FltPlan dot com or whatever system he's worked with for the last 20+ years. I can only imagine his garage is full of metal filing cabinets.

 

[Screaming_Emu]

Took me 30 minutes to populate ETAs for each fix between Leipzig and Hong Kong. There's no need for a fix every two miles!

My first leg of OE we had to make the extra flight plan the master because I screwed it up so badly.

 

[ASpilot2be]

My first leg of OE we had to make the extra flight plan the master because I screwed it up so badly.

Haha. I was told that was always an option.

 

[Soul Brotha']

Pretty much all that information is on the Aerodata page that we print out. I get why some put the ramp/ops frequencies on the yoke.

 

[ASpilot2be]

It’s cute that the NOTAMs section is so skinny.

They must fly international. All the notams for multiple countries I fly over will be less pages than Chicago Ohare.

 

[Screaming_Emu]

They must fly international. All the notams for multiple countries I fly over will be less pages than Chicago Ohare.

Incheon is the best for that. Once they’re done resurfacing 33L there will be MAYBE 3 notams.

 

[ASpilot2be]

Incheon is the best for that. Once they’re done resurfacing 33L there will be MAYBE 3 notams.

Love it. The most sobering NOTAM I have seen is for a minute of silence in Hiroshima on the anniversary of the bomb drop.

 

[Ajax]

Mine just says “send it”

 

[ASpilot2be]

Mine just says “send it”

Did you get it off a box in the back?

 

[Screaming_Emu]

Love it. The most sobering NOTAM I have seen is for a minute of silence in Hiroshima on the anniversary of the bomb drop.

Incheon had my favorite notam ever a few years ago.

 

[JordanD]

Incheon had my favorite notam ever a few years ago.

I’m too lazy to find the picture, but the NOTAMs for LAS a couple years ago had one that was just “.”
Also for a while 70% of the NOTAMS kept calling it “Henry Reid”, whoever that is.