727C47

i have not used a sextant but have oriented my self by the rising of the Southern Cross one long ago S. Pacific night in the DC3.

DeadHead

Does using a sextant make you a member of the mile high club?

Jughead

We used the sextant port as a vacuum cleaner. Sunflower seeds hitting the tail at 300 mph tended to annoy most maintenance guys though.

I'll admit I'll never be able to use a sextant to determine my position. Not from lack of skill, but lack of desire. There are many things I'll never have to learn to do because of all these modern contraptions/doo-hickeys.

Elvis90

Well I finally got called for a green slip on a weekday at my low seniority! Too bad I was asleep at 2:35 AM when the call came, but I could have made it. I have a special ringtone for scheduling that says, "someone is calling that you DON'T want to talk to."

capncrunch

Certainly not. Its not how you voted its how you came to your conclusion.

If someone does the research and makes a decision based on that, good deal. If someone just reads the ALPA materials and takes it as gospel, bobble head.

You for instance may have looked at the trading of 50 seaters for 76 seaters as a win. I did not. Either way, at least you looked into it.


**On a side note, I'll ignore the rest of your angry name calling post, someone probably peed in your Cheerios. Also, try eating bran....you seem backed up.

Karnak

I saw the numbers as an improvement. I saw the blockhour ratios as an improvement. I also saw more in the deal than just those things.

Timbo

First time ever, I got a Robo Call at 01:27 this am. It said something like, "Delta Crew Scheduling is calling to inverse assign trip number xxx reporting at 01:27, press one if you can accept this trip."

Well, being that I live a 10 hour drive, or 5 hour drive/fly south of ATL, I didn't press one, but I did turn off my ringer and went back to sleep.

I looked up the trip this morning to see who the lucky ducks were, but they never did cover it, I guess not enough guys pressed one! So it was MX CX.

Here's my question, let's say I lived in PTC, and I press one, then I get up and get dressed, pack, jump in my car and get to the airport...only to find they've cancelled the trip due to lack of interest.

What would I be paid for that? Just 2 hours suit up? Or the full value of the original trip (29:20, a DXB trip) ? Or nothing at all, since they eventually showed it as MX CX?

And should I always press one, then go back to sleep?

dogismycopilot

That was a landing accident? I thought they hit a kitten while taxiing

forgot to bid

I sure didn't.

tsquare

... or cell towers. If I were a terrorist, I would blow up cell towers instead of airplanes. The resulting chaos would be amusing to say the least.