Jesse

Hey, Delta Poster Boy, did I just finish a 4 day silent as hell 4-day trip with your lame a$$?

Timbo

No, not like that, for once I was being serious!

I had a 30hr. RSW layover years ago, at a Holiday Inn in the middle of nowhere, so the F/O and I rented Harleys for the day and put over 220 miles on them, went straight to the beach, then down to Naples, Marco Island, Everglades City, etc.

Great fun, but we nearly missed pickup at 5pm when we got stuck in traffic on the way back to the motel. We were fully sunburned as well, arms, neck, face, the F/A's had a lot to say about how bad we looked but it was more fun than sitting around the room for 30 hours.

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So talking to one of the mechanics, it's interesting the part that Delta played in the Denzel movie. If he heard his story right, they did send cameras over to the training center to film the screens (I'm guessing 737?) and it was our pilots who tried to match what they were looking for. It was a guy at the TOC they used to make the close ups on the annunciator panel. What I don't understand is whether they used a retired airplane sliced up for the cockpit scenes. Something about the control column wouldn't move and Denzel threatened to walk off the set since he was struggling to move it around. One of the mechanics figured out what the hang up was and hacked a line somewhere to free up the column and they were back in business filming. I guess Denzel costs $500K a day. Director was very happy with the particular mechanic.

However, of the mechanics did have the guts to ask about the Director's Cast Away movie. He wanted to know, hey, when that airplane hit the water why did Tom Hanks go backwards instead of forwards, wouldn't the inertia sent him forward? Evidently, that was not appreciated.

All second hand, but at least I got an answer on my problematic MD90 from the other day from the dudes tasked to fix it. They're not real big fans of the 90.

Once again... damn you...

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FO: Captain, I can't agree with this. The AWABS said 27R at Lima Bravo, we're at Lima Alpha.

Captain:




Um... big discussion about this on the radio the other day. Taxi to 27R according to the supervisor (or at least that supervisor) in the cab is a clearance to 27R-LA. fwiw.

XtremeF150

Well I haven't seen those awesome charts that usually pop up (I think FTB or 80) so I did a little figuring. The numbers of the most junior person holding a position (used August Seniority #'s)

NYC M88B - 11991
ATL DC9B - 11986
NYC 7ERB - 11971
DTW DC9B - 11940
NYC 320B - 11926
ATL M88B - 11854
NYC 73NB - 11806
DTW 320B - 11799
MSP M88B - 11782
CVG M88B - 11733
MSP 320B - 11655
SLC 320B - 11606
CVG 73NB - 11591
DTW 7ERB - 11517
SLC 73NB - 11512
ATL 320B - 11455
LAX 73NB - 11430
ATL 73NB - 11369
DTW 744B - 11313
ATL 7ERB - 11078
LAX 7ERB - 11052
MSP 7ERB - 11031
SLC 7ERB - 10911
NYC 765B - 10900
SEA 7ERB - 10730
ATL 767B - 10482
SEA 330B - 10214
DTW 330B - 9373
ATL 330B - 8630
NYC M88A - 8398
ATL 765B - 8248
DTW DC9A - 8212
ATL M88A - 8124
ATL DC9A - 8038
DTW 777B - 7916
MSP M88A - 7484
ATL 777B - 7178
NYC 320A - 7104
NYC 73NA - 7045
NYC 7ERA - 6651
DTW 320A - 6570
MSP 320A - 6509
CVG M88A - 6284
SLC 320A - 5935
LAX 73NA - 5730
SLC 73NA - 5681
DTW 7ERA - 5423
ATL 73NA - 5394
ATL 320A - 5359
LAX 7ERA - 5150
SLC 7ERA - 4863
ATL 7ERA - 4768
MSP 7ERA - 4576
CVG 73NA - 4545
ATL 767A - 4097
SEA 7ERA - 3954
NYC 765A - 3284
DTW 330A - 3127
ATL 330A - 2837
SEA 330A - 2809
DTW 744A - 2059
ATL 765A - 1997
DTW 777A - 1777
ATL 777A - 1625

lolwut

XtremeF150

Yeah I'm sure our training footprint is insane compared to other airlines. Seems like they would try to narrow it down to like 4 or 5 types

tsquare

Wanna be a hero? Kick him real hard in the pills on your way out the door Boomer.

8 Cherry Garcia

DTW 744B - 11313

that one seems a little out of whack...even with the fence....by like 2500 #'s.... anyone know the story?

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Billie



speaking of which, I was working with a coworker the other day that was the quintessential Pat. I minded my thoughts to make sure I didn't say yes ma'am or yes sir.