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Autothrust Blue said:
Come out of reverse.

Come out of reverse.
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The Poodle gave me a surprise a few weeks ago with asymmetric thrust reverser deployment and I was convinced I was going to be on the news. If it was icy, I certainly would been
 
BobDDuck said:
I've only had one or two leaky window experiences, although we don't tend to get snow piling up and then melting along the outside edge of the frame so much.
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Here's a leaky window experience for ya then.

Big college game weekend. Upgauged jets coming in Friday night, sitting all day Saturday game-day and taking the masses out Sunday morning.

Big storms rolling through Oklahoma Friday night and again Saturday night after the game. Hours of heavy rain.

One #notreallyaboeing sitting out on the ramp amongst the 757s, 320s, 739s.

Sunday mid-morning, the -95 is being towed to the gate from the remote stand.

Power up the jet; everything's good and it's go-home day.

Almost done boarding when a spoiler electronic control unit fault appears. The message does not clear despite multiple attempts to reset various electronics via a phone conversation with MX.

De-plane, and contract MX comes out. He's never worked on one of these before and is about to head down while on the phone with MX to open the electronics/avionics bay. I decide to walk down with him as I'd never peeked in there before.

The door opens down towards the ramp and what appears to be ten gallons of rainwater spills out.

A few minutes later, he pulls out the spoiler control computer that had the fault. It's dripping water out like it just had a fishing hook and line taken out of it. He even held it up and grinned at me like you see someone in a picture holding a nice big catch on a boat.

Yep, that's the culprit. We'll take one new SECU please. And a day room.

Amazing what a little crack in a window seal positioned just right [or wrong] can result in during a good 'ole weekend-long Oklahoma crapstorm.
 
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Derg said:
The Poodle gave me a surprise a few weeks ago with asymmetric thrust reverser deployment and I was convinced I was going to be on the news. If it was icy, I certainly would been
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The -200 has a nasty habit of spooling asymmetrically as well.

** BRAKES ARE USED TO STOP THE JET **, while reverse makes noise and announces your arrival...

This tendency is controllable, but it's still an "oh!" when it occurs.
 
Autothrust Blue said:
The -200 has a nasty habit of spooling asymmetrically as well.

** BRAKES ARE USED TO STOP THE JET **, while reverse makes noise and announces your arrival...

This tendency is controllable, but it's still an "oh!" when it occurs.
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Pop 'em.

Waiiiit for iiiiit.

Okay now.

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mastermags said:
It's a right of passage for new SJI pilots who don't fly the 88 to make fun of pilots that get the 88... yet they trip over themselves to fly the 717 which pays less, does longer days, and still didn't fix my second biggest gripe about the 88.
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I'm glad I initially flew the 88. But after flying the 73 I wasn't going to go back to an ancient operation of no autoupload of flightplan and WDR.

BobDDuck said:
The TRs on the #notreallyaboeing are fine insofar as they tend to come out evenly (mostly) and you can't over epr them. They don't do much more than make noise though.

I've only had one or two leaky window experiences, although we don't tend to get snow piling up and then melting along the outside edge of the frame so much.
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Haven't had much issues with leaky windows either unless the Deicing crew really drowns the nose of the plane in fluid.

As far as the reversers I find them to be pretty good. Unless it's a short rwy hardly ever touch the brakes before 80kts.
 
I gotta jump on this bandwagon... so if someone only applies to DL on airline apps, that is the only way it counts??

I guess mine didn't count, either. :eek:
 
PeanuckleCRJ said:
Hey, if you're going to be a grumpy bear, you gotta realize that some of us can't resist poking at the bear and smiling.
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Not grumpy, just trying to point out that the pool is not nearly as deep as some people think. Also a lot of those doing the poking and smiling happen to have "gotten theirs" . No dog in this fight. #notmainlinematerial
 
I really doubt anyone participating in this thread has any information over and above what they read on the internet or surmised on the flight deck.

If you have a license, you're mainline material, but it doesn't mean holding a license entitles one to every mainline job.
 
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JetDoc said:
Not grumpy, just trying to point out that the pool is not nearly as deep as some people think. Also a lot of those doing the poking and smiling happen to have "gotten theirs" . No dog in this fight. #notmainlinematerial
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With that attitude, you are ensuring you are not mainline material demise.
 
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Being among the first of the wave, I got to witness the inferiority complex in play first hand in the jumpseat. We didn't make anywhere near what we make today, but still....

"So you're at delta, huh? worried about being furloughed?"

"nah... "

"so, you on the md-88?"

"767...88 through 767 are available to newhires"

"huh? so, how are you dealing with the paycut to go there?"

"I'm second year and on pace for 90, not exactly a pay cut"

...and that was back in 2007.
 
A lot of guys at my shop seem to not even make the jump to jetBlue. They top out here at 103K doing the bare minimum (75 hour guarantee). How much time would they have to put in at jetBlue to make what they're making? I'm assuming only a year or two and year one they can probably make as much if not more if they pick up stuff?
 
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