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12-03-2012, 09:09 PM
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Hey LAX guys, specifically of the 737 flying variety.
Just checked our CPO gouge from where to park at ONT. Looks to me like a change since my last time flying outta there and also heard it might be bad gouge. Can someone PM me the real deal. I've got such an early sign in, I'll need to do a hotel room as well. Any advice is greatly appreciated. Last time I did this ( which was a long while ago ) the Ayers manager offered me a good rate. Still a deal?
Thanks guys,
Buzz
Just checked our CPO gouge from where to park at ONT. Looks to me like a change since my last time flying outta there and also heard it might be bad gouge. Can someone PM me the real deal. I've got such an early sign in, I'll need to do a hotel room as well. Any advice is greatly appreciated. Last time I did this ( which was a long while ago ) the Ayers manager offered me a good rate. Still a deal?
Thanks guys,
Buzz
12-03-2012, 09:54 PM
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Hey LAX guys, specifically of the 737 flying variety.
Just checked our CPO gouge from where to park at ONT. Looks to me like a change since my last time flying outta there and also heard it might be bad gouge. Can someone PM me the real deal. I've got such an early sign in, I'll need to do a hotel room as well. Any advice is greatly appreciated. Last time I did this ( which was a long while ago ) the Ayers manager offered me a good rate. Still a deal?
Thanks guys,
Buzz
Just checked our CPO gouge from where to park at ONT. Looks to me like a change since my last time flying outta there and also heard it might be bad gouge. Can someone PM me the real deal. I've got such an early sign in, I'll need to do a hotel room as well. Any advice is greatly appreciated. Last time I did this ( which was a long while ago ) the Ayers manager offered me a good rate. Still a deal?
Thanks guys,
Buzz
Buzz.
This has confused more than a few people.
PM Sent. For anybody else who needs LAX parking information use the LAX Welcome aboard packet, same page on the DELTANET as CPO Parking information, but the information is correct.
The CPO Parking information is correct for LAX, but wrong for ONT and SNA. For whatever reasons the ONT and SNA parking options listed are just options that are available to the public - if you want employee parking it is in the LAX welcome aboard packet.
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12-04-2012, 08:18 AM
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Anyone have any recommendations, or horror stories will do also, on the purchase of an 3-D, LED TV, w/ 240Hz refresh rate?
Looking for a dependable, 55" or 60" with above features. A fan of Samsung, but have seen good reviews on the brand "LG". So decided to come here to learn from a place where everyone is an "expert"!!
Thanks in advance for the replies.
GJ
P.S. Notice the two "laughing" emoticons behind the comment of "everyone being self-proclaimed experts". Nobody take that comment personally, it's too close to Christmas to get into a pi$$ing match about hurtin' someone's feelings!
Anyone have any recommendations, or horror stories will do also, on the purchase of an 3-D, LED TV, w/ 240Hz refresh rate?
Looking for a dependable, 55" or 60" with above features. A fan of Samsung, but have seen good reviews on the brand "LG". So decided to come here to learn from a place where everyone is an "expert"!!
Thanks in advance for the replies.
GJ
P.S. Notice the two "laughing" emoticons behind the comment of "everyone being self-proclaimed experts". Nobody take that comment personally, it's too close to Christmas to get into a pi$$ing match about hurtin' someone's feelings!
We were early adopters and have been through several generations of this technology ... I'm somewhat agnostic when it comes to brands, but I do like VIZIO because at least it is a US based Company if you need something.
VIZIO's current line up is not as strong as it has been in years past. So, if you need something now, the brands you mentioned wouldn't be "bad." (today there really isn't a bad, particularly at these price points)
Costco extends the one year manufacturer's warranty to two years. In our experience the power efficient LED TV's are much more sensitive to voltage spikes which can knock out their delicate electronics. We used Costco's warranty this year for an event which was no fault of the TV (lightning). In about three days a service team (two folks to get the TV off the wall) replaced the circuit boards and had it back up and running like new. Without Costco that service would have cost me $500 and we probably would have replaced the TV.
You'll end up using the "Smart TV" features more than you think. Considerations:
- Remote with an alphanumeric keypad
- Matte screen (to avoid reflection from your ceiling lights)
- Comfort of the 3D glasses (most people don't use the 3D because the glasses are uncomfortable)
- Wireless Networking (unless you have at least Cat 5e to the wall)
http://store.vizio.com/xvt553sv.html
Also try clicking around CNet for reviews & AV Forums
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12-04-2012, 08:21 AM
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12-04-2012, 09:42 AM
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That was just wrong, on so many levels!
Here, wash your ears out with this! Stick with it, at about 3:00 Jimmy goes off on a two minute solo:
Led Zeppelin - Earl's Court (1975) - "Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp" - YouTube
Here, wash your ears out with this! Stick with it, at about 3:00 Jimmy goes off on a two minute solo:
Led Zeppelin - Earl's Court (1975) - "Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp" - YouTube
12-04-2012, 10:03 AM
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When they wrote the PA's in the gatehouse memo, they just had this mistaken impression that their pilots look like this...
In reality we look more like this...
In reality we look more like this...
12-04-2012, 10:31 AM
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On the subject of gate house PA's.
Back in 2000 at Continental Express we had a pamphlet written on how to make good PAs and it had some canned PAs we could use. The person who wrote it was a bit... well... see the big picture above. Went so far as to use their name as the example name in the pamphlet which led many pilots to make PAs using his name.
Anyways, I'm trying to find some good canned speeches we can use and I think I found one. It's from Mark Twain called Our Fellow Savages.
We'll replace some of the text to make it applicable to our gate house situations.
CAPTAIN GATE HOUSE SPEECH TEMPLATE:
"Ladies and gentlemen: The next PA in this concourse will be delivered this evening, by [use real name], a gentleman whose high character and unimpeachable integrity are only equaled by his comeliness of person and grace of manner.
And I am that man!
I was obliged to excuse the gate agent from introducing me, because he/she never compliments anybody and I knew I could do it just as well.
The [mechanical/weather/staffing issue] will be the subject of my lecture--when I get to it. And I shall endeavor to tell the truth as nearly as a pilot can. If I embellish it with a little nonsense, that makes no difference; it won't mar the truth; it is only as the barnacle ornaments the oyster by sticking to it.
Unfortunately, the [insert delay issue] is a repulsive one. It was a case of [delay issue] leprosy, of so dreadful a nature that I have never been able to get it out of my mind since I heard about it a few minutes ago. I don't intend that it shall give a disagreeable complexion to this lecture at all, but inasmuch as it is what is keeping us delayed.
It is a very hard matter to get a disagreeable object out of one's memory. I discovered that a good while ago. When I made my way down the jetway today I was shown some very interesting things, and I expected to recollect every one of them and pass them along to you-- but I didn't. I forgot every one of them--except one-- and that I remembered because it was unpleasant. It is [delayed issue].
I've never been so sick in all my life than I am now to have to tell you that, [dramatic pause, consider putting head down on gate counter] we are going to be delayed today because of it.[consider pounding fist 3 times on counter, do not lift your head]
But I am losing time; what I have been saying don't bear strictly on the [delay issue], but one reminiscence leads to another, and I am obliged to bring myself down in this way, on account of that unpleasant thing that I first saw there. It is not safe to come to any important matter in an entirely direct way. When a young gentleman is about to talk to a young lady about matrimony he don't go straight at it. He begins by talking about the weather. I have done that many a time.
My next remarks will refer to the [delay issue]. Now if an impression has gotten to you that this issue will cause us to go cartwheeling down the runway in a ball of flames, that is the error I wish to combat.
But I must run at this point. I'll be back to talk to you more about the [delay issue] in 15 minutes.
Back in 2000 at Continental Express we had a pamphlet written on how to make good PAs and it had some canned PAs we could use. The person who wrote it was a bit... well... see the big picture above. Went so far as to use their name as the example name in the pamphlet which led many pilots to make PAs using his name.
Anyways, I'm trying to find some good canned speeches we can use and I think I found one. It's from Mark Twain called Our Fellow Savages.
We'll replace some of the text to make it applicable to our gate house situations.
CAPTAIN GATE HOUSE SPEECH TEMPLATE:
"Ladies and gentlemen: The next PA in this concourse will be delivered this evening, by [use real name], a gentleman whose high character and unimpeachable integrity are only equaled by his comeliness of person and grace of manner.
And I am that man!
I was obliged to excuse the gate agent from introducing me, because he/she never compliments anybody and I knew I could do it just as well.
The [mechanical/weather/staffing issue] will be the subject of my lecture--when I get to it. And I shall endeavor to tell the truth as nearly as a pilot can. If I embellish it with a little nonsense, that makes no difference; it won't mar the truth; it is only as the barnacle ornaments the oyster by sticking to it.
Unfortunately, the [insert delay issue] is a repulsive one. It was a case of [delay issue] leprosy, of so dreadful a nature that I have never been able to get it out of my mind since I heard about it a few minutes ago. I don't intend that it shall give a disagreeable complexion to this lecture at all, but inasmuch as it is what is keeping us delayed.
It is a very hard matter to get a disagreeable object out of one's memory. I discovered that a good while ago. When I made my way down the jetway today I was shown some very interesting things, and I expected to recollect every one of them and pass them along to you-- but I didn't. I forgot every one of them--except one-- and that I remembered because it was unpleasant. It is [delayed issue].
I've never been so sick in all my life than I am now to have to tell you that, [dramatic pause, consider putting head down on gate counter] we are going to be delayed today because of it.[consider pounding fist 3 times on counter, do not lift your head]
But I am losing time; what I have been saying don't bear strictly on the [delay issue], but one reminiscence leads to another, and I am obliged to bring myself down in this way, on account of that unpleasant thing that I first saw there. It is not safe to come to any important matter in an entirely direct way. When a young gentleman is about to talk to a young lady about matrimony he don't go straight at it. He begins by talking about the weather. I have done that many a time.
My next remarks will refer to the [delay issue]. Now if an impression has gotten to you that this issue will cause us to go cartwheeling down the runway in a ball of flames, that is the error I wish to combat.
But I must run at this point. I'll be back to talk to you more about the [delay issue] in 15 minutes.
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12-04-2012, 10:36 AM
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Thanks FTB!
This is the only part I'll be able to remember, but by god, I'm using it!
"I've never been so sick in all my lifethan I am now to have to tell you that, [dramatic pause, consider putting head down on gate counter] we are going to be delayed today because of it.[consider pounding fist 3 times on counter, do not lift your head]"
This is the only part I'll be able to remember, but by god, I'm using it!
"I've never been so sick in all my lifethan I am now to have to tell you that, [dramatic pause, consider putting head down on gate counter] we are going to be delayed today because of it.[consider pounding fist 3 times on counter, do not lift your head]"
12-04-2012, 10:42 AM
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Hey, we have to be as good as lawyers and really never get to the point while also making sure nobody wants us to either.
12-04-2012, 10:46 AM
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Here, we'll give an example:
CAPTAIN GATE HOUSE SPEECH, MD-90 LEFT HYDRAULIC OVERHEAT EXAMPLE:
"Ladies and gentlemen: The next PA in this concourse will be delivered this evening, by Captain Tim Bo, a gentleman whose high character and unimpeachable integrity are only equaled by his comeliness of person and grace of manner.
And I am that man!
[pause for laughter to stop]
I was obliged to excuse the gate agent from introducing me, because he/she never compliments anybody and I knew I could do it just as well.
The MD-90s hydraulic system overheating will be the subject of my lecture--when I get to it. And I shall endeavor to tell the truth as nearly as a pilot can. If I embellish it with a little nonsense, that makes no difference; it won't mar the truth; it is only as the barnacle ornaments the oyster by sticking to it.
Unfortunately, the hydraulic overheat problem is a repulsive one. It was a case of hydraulic leprosy, of so dreadful a nature that I have never been able to get it out of my mind since I heard about it a few minutes ago. I don't intend that it shall give a disagreeable complexion to this lecture at all, but inasmuch as it is what is keeping us delayed.
It is a very hard matter to get a disagreeable object out of one's memory. I discovered that a good while ago. When I made my way down the jetway today I was shown some very interesting things, and I expected to recollect every one of them and pass them along to you-- but I didn't. I forgot every one of them--except one-- and that I remembered because it was unpleasant. It is that one of the two hydraulic systems [tears] overheated on taxi.
I've never been so sick in all my life than I am now to have to tell you that, [dramatic pause, consider putting head down on gate counter] we are going to be delayed today because of it.[consider pounding fist 3 times on counter, do not lift your head]
But I am losing time; what I have been saying don't bear strictly on the [look down at notes] hydraulic overheat, but one reminiscence leads to another, and I am obliged to bring myself down in this way, on account of that unpleasant thing that I first saw there. It is not safe to come to any important matter in an entirely direct way. When a young gentleman is about to talk to a young lady about matrimony he don't go straight at it. He begins by talking about the weather. I have done that many a time.
My next remarks will refer to the hydraulic overheat issue. Now if an impression has gotten to you that this issue will cause us to go cartwheeling down the runway in a ball of flames, that is the error I wish to combat.
But I must run at this point. I'll be back to talk to you more about the hydraulic overheat problem in 15 minutes.
CAPTAIN GATE HOUSE SPEECH, MD-90 LEFT HYDRAULIC OVERHEAT EXAMPLE:
"Ladies and gentlemen: The next PA in this concourse will be delivered this evening, by Captain Tim Bo, a gentleman whose high character and unimpeachable integrity are only equaled by his comeliness of person and grace of manner.
And I am that man!
[pause for laughter to stop]
I was obliged to excuse the gate agent from introducing me, because he/she never compliments anybody and I knew I could do it just as well.
The MD-90s hydraulic system overheating will be the subject of my lecture--when I get to it. And I shall endeavor to tell the truth as nearly as a pilot can. If I embellish it with a little nonsense, that makes no difference; it won't mar the truth; it is only as the barnacle ornaments the oyster by sticking to it.
Unfortunately, the hydraulic overheat problem is a repulsive one. It was a case of hydraulic leprosy, of so dreadful a nature that I have never been able to get it out of my mind since I heard about it a few minutes ago. I don't intend that it shall give a disagreeable complexion to this lecture at all, but inasmuch as it is what is keeping us delayed.
It is a very hard matter to get a disagreeable object out of one's memory. I discovered that a good while ago. When I made my way down the jetway today I was shown some very interesting things, and I expected to recollect every one of them and pass them along to you-- but I didn't. I forgot every one of them--except one-- and that I remembered because it was unpleasant. It is that one of the two hydraulic systems [tears] overheated on taxi.
I've never been so sick in all my life than I am now to have to tell you that, [dramatic pause, consider putting head down on gate counter] we are going to be delayed today because of it.[consider pounding fist 3 times on counter, do not lift your head]
But I am losing time; what I have been saying don't bear strictly on the [look down at notes] hydraulic overheat, but one reminiscence leads to another, and I am obliged to bring myself down in this way, on account of that unpleasant thing that I first saw there. It is not safe to come to any important matter in an entirely direct way. When a young gentleman is about to talk to a young lady about matrimony he don't go straight at it. He begins by talking about the weather. I have done that many a time.
My next remarks will refer to the hydraulic overheat issue. Now if an impression has gotten to you that this issue will cause us to go cartwheeling down the runway in a ball of flames, that is the error I wish to combat.
But I must run at this point. I'll be back to talk to you more about the hydraulic overheat problem in 15 minutes.
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