Aloha from a Hawaiian Pilot
06-08-2024, 01:16 PM
#83
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Oct 2017
Posts: 464
I'm sure you're right.
Forgot to mention our first engine took 2 minutes 20 seconds to start. The second one took 2:15. Both of them motored for a little over 90 seconds.
Doesn't seem much different while I'm here on my computer but it sure feels like an eternity in the airplane.
Forgot to mention our first engine took 2 minutes 20 seconds to start. The second one took 2:15. Both of them motored for a little over 90 seconds.
Doesn't seem much different while I'm here on my computer but it sure feels like an eternity in the airplane.
06-08-2024, 04:54 PM
#84
Respek
Joined APC: Jul 2010
Posts: 2,635
I'm sure you're right.
Forgot to mention our first engine took 2 minutes 20 seconds to start. The second one took 2:15. Both of them motored for a little over 90 seconds.
Doesn't seem much different while I'm here on my computer but it sure feels like an eternity in the airplane.
Forgot to mention our first engine took 2 minutes 20 seconds to start. The second one took 2:15. Both of them motored for a little over 90 seconds.
Doesn't seem much different while I'm here on my computer but it sure feels like an eternity in the airplane.
06-11-2024, 11:56 AM
#86
Line Holder
Joined APC: Sep 2023
Position: 737 FO
Posts: 72
the argument that +/- 2-4 minutes of engine startup time financially justifies operating a completely seperate fleet type doesn't hold up. We do basically the exact same thing (with the dimension of mountains, snow, ice, non-radar airspace, wind storms, short runways, RNP, etc etc etc) up and down SE Alsaka all day long, 365 days a year in a 737 (to include the Max)..... works fine.
06-11-2024, 12:07 PM
#87
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Mar 2022
Posts: 696
I still don't understand why a certain group of AS pilots are always in such a rush? We get paid by the minute. Also I haven't done a trip where I wasn't waiting on a gate or the hotel van in years. I did a trip yesterday out of Cargo 5 and it was a complete disaster.
Who cares how long it takes to start the engines? Everything else takes ages.
Who cares how long it takes to start the engines? Everything else takes ages.
06-11-2024, 12:07 PM
#88
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Mar 2011
Position: 737 FO
Posts: 2,618
the argument that +/- 2-4 minutes of engine startup time financially justifies operating a completely seperate fleet type doesn't hold up. We do basically the exact same thing (with the dimension of mountains, snow, ice, non-radar airspace, wind storms, short runways, RNP, etc etc etc) up and down SE Alsaka all day long, 365 days a year in a 737 (to include the Max)..... works fine.
06-11-2024, 12:09 PM
#89
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Mar 2011
Position: 737 FO
Posts: 2,618
I still don't understand why a certain group of AS pilots are always in such a rush? We get paid by the minute. Also I haven't done a trip where I wasn't waiting on a gate or the hotel van in years. I did a trip yesterday out of Cargo 5 and it was a complete disaster.
Who cares how long it takes to start the engines? Everything else takes ages.
Who cares how long it takes to start the engines? Everything else takes ages.
06-11-2024, 12:13 PM
#90
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Joined APC: Mar 2022
Posts: 696
So the operation interisland will somehow magically function better than the operation now? It won't. Being a hero and saving 2 minutes doesn't matter when you have to wait 2-5X that to get rampers.
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