A350-1000 and other Fleet News
03-07-2024, 06:36 PM
#2642
Gets Weekends Off
Thread Starter
Joined APC: Dec 2007
Posts: 5,598
Flew the ER as a FO so it's been basically an easy long course. 44X on Wednesday.
Won't miss LGA.
Better legroom in the ER (I'm tall)
I hated the Airbus FMS and MCP. I will take VNAV/LAVS/FRAG but the FMS can deal with a tailwind over "managed" anyday.
I can actually stand straight up in the 757 1st class Lav.
Bottom 1/3 of the bid pack sucks less. (I'm 80%ish ER, 77% 320 last I checked)
Manning was far worse on 320. I could basically do 2-3 GS a month on the 320. So better money. But never a blue day on the RES grid to move/drop a trip or move Xdays.
No blue days now on ER but everything is above 75% reserves required. Maybe 2 days over 30% on the 320.
Won't miss LGA.
Better legroom in the ER (I'm tall)
I hated the Airbus FMS and MCP. I will take VNAV/LAVS/FRAG but the FMS can deal with a tailwind over "managed" anyday.
I can actually stand straight up in the 757 1st class Lav.
Bottom 1/3 of the bid pack sucks less. (I'm 80%ish ER, 77% 320 last I checked)
Manning was far worse on 320. I could basically do 2-3 GS a month on the 320. So better money. But never a blue day on the RES grid to move/drop a trip or move Xdays.
No blue days now on ER but everything is above 75% reserves required. Maybe 2 days over 30% on the 320.
As someone who went A320 to 7ER all of this is very accurate. I miss the comforts of the Bus. Hated the box and disliked the performance on the A321 though. I’m much more junior on the ER than I was when I left the Bus, but it seems like the 7ER is a better staffed category compared to the Airbus.
4 years FO on the bus, 2 months FO ER before upgrade. I like everything about the 7ER more. The layovers, the plane, the trips, no LGA. The box/VNAV/logic and how the plane thinks I feel is way more intuitive than the bus.
it’s perfectly fine as far as comfort goes. Yeah the tray table is “nice” I guess but it’s way down on the list of things I care about. I much prefer flying a yoke than a stick. It makes you feel more involved in actual task of flying.
I know most people at Delta love the Airbus. To each their own though!
as an aside, from the little kid in me, it’s cool to fly a 756/767 for a legacy airline before they go away.
it’s perfectly fine as far as comfort goes. Yeah the tray table is “nice” I guess but it’s way down on the list of things I care about. I much prefer flying a yoke than a stick. It makes you feel more involved in actual task of flying.
I know most people at Delta love the Airbus. To each their own though!
as an aside, from the little kid in me, it’s cool to fly a 756/767 for a legacy airline before they go away.
03-07-2024, 07:40 PM
#2643
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Feb 2015
Position: LAX ER
Posts: 1,606
“start em both”??? Is that because you’re a weak captain and have no clue how to manage the cockpit while taxiing or you just don’t give 2 ****s about saving any gas? There’s obviously a time and a place to go out on 2 motors, but that’s the exception. You know how much wasted gas we would have as an airline if every single plane on every single flight went out on 2 motors?
03-07-2024, 09:47 PM
#2645
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jul 2022
Posts: 930
“start em both”??? Is that because you’re a weak captain and have no clue how to manage the cockpit while taxiing or you just don’t give 2 ****s about saving any gas? There’s obviously a time and a place to go out on 2 motors, but that’s the exception. You know how much wasted gas we would have as an airline if every single plane on every single flight went out on 2 motors?
03-07-2024, 10:01 PM
#2647
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Mar 2007
Posts: 630
“start em both”??? Is that because you’re a weak captain and have no clue how to manage the cockpit while taxiing or you just don’t give 2 ****s about saving any gas? There’s obviously a time and a place to go out on 2 motors, but that’s the exception. You know how much wasted gas we would have as an airline if every single plane on every single flight went out on 2 motors?
dont drink and apc captain planet
03-08-2024, 03:59 AM
#2648
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Oct 2015
Position: Gear slinger
Posts: 2,961
“start em both”??? Is that because you’re a weak captain and have no clue how to manage the cockpit while taxiing or you just don’t give 2 ****s about saving any gas? There’s obviously a time and a place to go out on 2 motors, but that’s the exception. You know how much wasted gas we would have as an airline if every single plane on every single flight went out on 2 motors?
03-08-2024, 04:15 AM
#2649
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Nov 2017
Position: NYC 7ERA
Posts: 2,057
Yep. Company has no problem saving $1000+ a month by denying coverage for an in formulary medicine my wife needs because of lingering effects from brain surgery.
I'm not going to risk my certificate or others safety to save them $400 of JetA when the next leg Im just gonna burn 3x that holding out for a 2 engine gate.
There's a time to single engine taxi. How often is fleet and engine type dependent.
321 NEO? Almost never.
Light 757 #32 in line for takforf? Probably.
412,000 pound ER going to Argentina? No.
03-08-2024, 05:01 AM
#2650
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jun 2015
Posts: 321
“start em both”??? Is that because you’re a weak captain and have no clue how to manage the cockpit while taxiing or you just don’t give 2 ****s about saving any gas? There’s obviously a time and a place to go out on 2 motors, but that’s the exception. You know how much wasted gas we would have as an airline if every single plane on every single flight went out on 2 motors?
