Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
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Here's my problem, I live in FL, but I love the Bruins! So I can't watch the B's on local FL TV, unless they are playing the Lightning or Panthers.
BUT...at least the Lightning are playing well this year, fun to watch Marty St. Louis, and Vinny and Stamkos, but tonight, the B's LOST, 7-4 to the much hated Sabres!
So...I'll just have to wait until it's the B's agains the L's again in the playoffs. That was fun, Marty vs. his old VT room mate, Thomas.
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Well, you're very precise. I guess I'm a measure once and cut twice type. But a few minutes here or there I just chalk that up to traffic (short final to 28 or way out there by Alabama landing on 8L). I've looked down and seen the ETE entered into the ACARS be pretty spot on but it'd be a good question to know if they're using favoring winds to determine approaches and therefore landing times. I'd say taxi times can be way off, but vast majority of the time that's in our favor.
I don't do a full HOWZITHANGIN unless I'm bored or it's a CUN type flight. When I do it I've never really seen a 600 lb difference that cannot be explained. I just run the CI that's on the flight plan though unless there is a good reason to go higher. Of course sometimes you go 3 hours staring at a yoke in a bank and those fading white indicators out of trim, but I don't tell anyone how to fly. Probably doesn't help fuel burn.
Next time I fly I'll watch it but I can't say I've seen anything that jumped out at me.
In the Sabre flight planning software you could tweak how much extra time and gas each airport got. Chicago and Atlanta was 10-12 minutes, Jackson, MS was 0. You just tracked the overtime and overburn and...
Ahhh forget it.
Random story, but it kind of reminds me of when I was at Coex and we had a pilot only rule of thumb of 3000lbs as the sort of kinda min fuel on the E145. The company wanted to a) take us out of the loop on ordering fuel and b) start using the real min fuel of 1800 lbs or somewhere around there. For good reason.
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Notice how I don't care if that's 10 gallons or 10,000lbs?
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Just boredom. I like to split hairs on stuff like that. The FAA interpretation of "planned fuel burn" and the process in use at most carriers is night and day.
In the Sabre flight planning software you could tweak how much extra time and gas each airport got. Chicago and Atlanta was 10-12 minutes, Jackson, MS was 0. You just tracked the overtime and overburn and...
Ahhh forget it.
In the Sabre flight planning software you could tweak how much extra time and gas each airport got. Chicago and Atlanta was 10-12 minutes, Jackson, MS was 0. You just tracked the overtime and overburn and...
Ahhh forget it.
When I was flying KC135's out of PSM, I would always file TXKF as my alternate. One day the (wound wayyy too tight) SOF comes to the briefing room and says, "Hey, What The Fk is this? You put Bermuda as your alternate!"
I said, "Yup, I know we have the gas, so if Pease is snowed in, I'm going to Bermuda!"
The only time you have too much gas is when you are on fire.
When I was flying KC135's out of PSM, I would always file TXKF as my alternate. One day the (wound wayyy too tight) SOF comes to the briefing room and says, "Hey, What The Fk is this? You put Bermuda as your alternate!"
I said, "Yup, I know we have the gas, so if Pease is snowed in, I'm going to Bermuda!"
The only time you have too much gas is when you are on fire.
I said, "Yup, I know we have the gas, so if Pease is snowed in, I'm going to Bermuda!"
The only time you have too much gas is when you are on fire.
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Add 5 knots for the wife, 5 more for each kid, and 5 more for yourself!
Always an adventure landing that thing in a gusty crosswind!
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