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Hi Fellas,
I'm a dinosaur driver (DC-9) and am starting systems study for the A-330. Also, I'm a MacBook Pro owner. I think ya'll can see this one coming. Is it absolutely necessary to get bootcamp to access the study materials on the thumb drive? Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
I'm a dinosaur driver (DC-9) and am starting systems study for the A-330. Also, I'm a MacBook Pro owner. I think ya'll can see this one coming. Is it absolutely necessary to get bootcamp to access the study materials on the thumb drive? Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Pretty sure all the initial systems cd's/USB's require windows to run. After that training the rest are MAC friendly. Just went through a course and I too would have thought that had all been migrated to mac friendly by now, but not the case. I have one old Windows laptop that I keep around for just such occasion (mostly cause I didn't want to deal with bootcamp or other apple emulators), otherwise it collects dust.
What's the resulting MBH : DBH ratio?
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I didn't mean the min ratio, instead what is the ratio between a mainline domestic fleet of 671 jets and DCI at somewhere between 395 and 420? Based on RA saying they may go to somewhere between 100-125 50-seaters and let's suppose they don't exercise their 30 CR9 options.
What's the resulting MBH : DBH ratio?
What's the resulting MBH : DBH ratio?
My guess is there is a difference between paid for and having to earn their keep. The mainline fleet also tends to do longer legs with the initial 900 routes being a lot of trans con flying.
Gold bond is for daytime fliers. You can not assume straight block hour ratios until express pilots are googling hemorrhoid creme.
Chuck,
Pretty sure all the initial systems cd's/USB's require windows to run. After that training the rest are MAC friendly. Just went through a course and I too would have thought that had all been migrated to mac friendly by now, but not the case. I have one old Windows laptop that I keep around for just such occasion (mostly cause I didn't want to deal with bootcamp or other apple emulators), otherwise it collects dust.
Pretty sure all the initial systems cd's/USB's require windows to run. After that training the rest are MAC friendly. Just went through a course and I too would have thought that had all been migrated to mac friendly by now, but not the case. I have one old Windows laptop that I keep around for just such occasion (mostly cause I didn't want to deal with bootcamp or other apple emulators), otherwise it collects dust.
and do you have any idea how much fun it is to ask manual services for another?
but I did learn valuable lesson about using the speech function on my phone to email manual services about whether "I could come in and swap the thumb drive..."
I said it and looked down to see "I could cumswap the thumb..." it freaked me out, what if I hadn't proofread that??? I never proofread, it must have been my overworked guardian angel saying "okay, I'll bail him out ahead of time..."
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General observation, but if our CEO was to get 10% raise in one year I think we deserve more than we have gotten! See page 9:
http://go.gmiratings.com/rs/gmiratin...ySurvey.pdf%20
Oh, and Mark Zuckerwhatever is a *****!
http://go.gmiratings.com/rs/gmiratin...ySurvey.pdf%20
Oh, and Mark Zuckerwhatever is a *****!
Of course the are other factors. Thanks to the bidding post (whatever you want to call it) my pay last year was 4% less than the year prior, which was off from the year before that (even with the raises). Frankly, stagnation would be an improvement.
For an apples to apples comparison you would have to look at pay rates and position.
Who knows how the airplanes will be utilized? The 737 fleet is the red eye machine. While 757 and MD88 crews sleep peacefully, 737 crews operate like an ER that left the relief FO at the outstation (Captain sleeping hemispherically while FO keeps himself awake with airplane coffee and the effects of irritable bowel syndrome).
My guess is there is a difference between paid for and having to earn their keep. The mainline fleet also tends to do longer legs with the initial 900 routes being a lot of trans con flying.
Gold bond is for daytime fliers. You can not assume straight block hour ratios until express pilots are googling hemorrhoid creme.
My guess is there is a difference between paid for and having to earn their keep. The mainline fleet also tends to do longer legs with the initial 900 routes being a lot of trans con flying.
Gold bond is for daytime fliers. You can not assume straight block hour ratios until express pilots are googling hemorrhoid creme.
I envy redeyes, no lax 73 crews redeyes just Atl 73 styled redeyes.
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Did you grease the jackscrew? Maybe the memory got out of rig. Did you try opening a bleed valve before you wrote it up?
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At the moment everyone is taking a wait and see on the flight test program. Obviously they ran into some sort of issue with vibration (makes sense, the engines would have completely different resonance characteristics) and are re-doing the fly by wire code (why make airplanes which do not require FBW, FBW? Just makes things more complex for no payoff). But when they get rolling they are going to have 7 flight test articles running.
Boeing and Airbus are concentrating on the larger platforms (737-800/900 and 321's ) which have greater profit potential and are more CASM efficient than the smaller ( 700 / 319 ) jets. Those airplanes are "sold out." Not to say that a buyer couldn't get an earlier delivery by swapping slots, but, the point being that Boeing and Airbus have little incentive to heavily discount sales to beat back the C Series.
I'm becoming a bit of a C Series doubter based on the drag profile of those huge fans and what would appear to be a cruise speed that will force ATC to operate it at lower altitudes. We will see.
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