Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
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The 88 will even drive to the parking lot. It just can't remember where anyone on the airplane left their car.
(either that or it hates any truck that drives by a localizer antenna on an autoland and decides to take it out ... have not figured out this aspect of the 88's psychosis yet)
(either that or it hates any truck that drives by a localizer antenna on an autoland and decides to take it out ... have not figured out this aspect of the 88's psychosis yet)
Can't abide NAI
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Jeffrey Lebowski, PE Tech, Electrical
DRIVING TO WORK AT THE DOUGLAS ENGINEERING DEPT. LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA
The Dude, memorialized by my Avitar was a Douglas Electrical Engineer who like Steve Jobs, physically went to the Stanford campus, mostly because the acid & weed were cheaper there. Then, as you know he met the Nihlists, who changed his life. Nihlism is a philosophical doctrine that suggests the negation of one or more putatively meaningful aspects of life. Most commonly, nihilism is presented in the form of existential nihilism, which argues that life is without objective meaning, purpose, or intrinsic value. Electrical nihilists assert that electricity does not inherently exist, and that any established values (voltage, cycles, amps) are abstractly contrived. Nihilism can also take epistemological or ontological/metaphysical forms, meaning respectively that, in some aspect, knowledge is not possible, or that reality does not actually exist.
The term is sometimes used in association with anomie to explain the general mood of despair at a perceived pointlessness of existence that one may develop upon realising there are no necessary norms, rules, or laws of physics. (or in Minnesota speak ... Captain ... "that's different", First Officer "...,whatever")
Now that you know Jeffrey Lebowski, who was one of the most distinguished nihilistic electrical engineers who ever graduated from a correspondence course in California, designed the system, this thoughts and madness you can better appreciate why schematics do not begin to explain the continuously variable, unknown, and unknowable electrical system he designed.
Wozniak, on acid, probably could figure it out. You or me? We just take these things on faith in little blue lights.
Recall the difference between a new MD88 pilot and an experienced MD88 pilot.
- New pilot: Delta 1407 what's your assigned...? [LEFT]"Holy Crap! Did you see what it did?"[/LEFT
- Experienced: it did that again ... Delta 1407 what's your assigned XXX ?... "whatever"
Last edited by Bucking Bar; 04-09-2014 at 06:12 AM.
Jeffrey Lebowski, PE Tech, Electrical
DRIVING TO WORK AT THE DOUGLAS ENGINEERING DEPT. LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA
The Dude, memorialized by my Avitar was a Douglas Electrical Engineer who like Steve Jobs, physically went to the Stanford campus, mostly because the acid & weed were cheaper there. Then, as you know he met the Nihlists, who changed his life. Nihlism is a philosophical doctrine that suggests the negation of one or more putatively meaningful aspects of life. Most commonly, nihilism is presented in the form of existential nihilism, which argues that life is without objective meaning, purpose, or intrinsic value. Electrical nihilists assert that electricity does not inherently exist, and that any established values (voltage, cycles, amps) are abstractly contrived. Nihilism can also take epistemological or ontological/metaphysical forms, meaning respectively that, in some aspect, knowledge is not possible, or that reality does not actually exist.
The term is sometimes used in association with anomie to explain the general mood of despair at a perceived pointlessness of existence that one may develop upon realising there are no necessary norms, rules, or laws of physics. (or in Minnesota speak ... Captain ... "that's different", First Officer "...,whatever")
Now that you know Jeffrey Lebowski, who was one of the most distinguished nihilistic electrical engineers who ever graduated from a correspondence course in California, designed the system, this thoughts and madness you can better appreciate why schematics do not begin to explain the continuously variable, unknown, and unknowable electrical system he designed.
Wozniak, on acid, probably could figure it out. You or me? We just take these things on faith in little blue lights.
Recall the difference between a new MD88 pilot and an experienced MD88 pilot.
- New pilot: Delta 1407 what's your assigned...? [LEFT]"Holy Crap! Did you see what it did?"[/LEFT
- Experienced: it did that again ... Delta 1407 what's your assigned XXX ?... "whatever"
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That guy is a total clown. Did you see the one where he was going to show everyone how the 777 could land on a short island runway? It didn't turn out so well. He ran well off the other end well into the weeds. It was hilarious.
Of course this was live TV and they didn't know what to do so they panned back to the studio to ask former 777 pilot Les Abend (who appeared to have a cheshire cat smirk on his face) why the a/c was unable to stop. Les inquired whether the autobrakes were selected to max. They flash back to mr. plaid shirt and ask him if the autobrakes were used. He replied something to the effect of "they didn't come on" and he didn't know why.
Of course this was live TV and they didn't know what to do so they panned back to the studio to ask former 777 pilot Les Abend (who appeared to have a cheshire cat smirk on his face) why the a/c was unable to stop. Les inquired whether the autobrakes were selected to max. They flash back to mr. plaid shirt and ask him if the autobrakes were used. He replied something to the effect of "they didn't come on" and he didn't know why.
Why don't you 777 guys come join us in the GA world? You will get lots of landings. And while your women in sail boats lounge around in bikinis, our women climb up on wings in mini skirts to check fuel.
I would hesitate to discuss something like this or treat it flippantly. Training issues are a serious affair, best left to the individual, the company and the Training Committee/Contract Administration.
There are a lot of other things to talk about.
Nu
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CASS is down again. Trying to JS on DAL metal to EWR to go to CDG and the agent is goving me the run around. I had to go to the CPO to get the clueless moron to understand that Cass doesn't apply to Delta metal if you are an employee. I tried to show her the FOM.
I don't use easybid because it's been a pain to set up and get on and use it. And I bid reserve for a while that I didn't need it. Last year when I went to bidding a line I started using the Navtech PBS Desktop Bidding Application (copied and pasted) and it's worked for me so far.
/amazon like customer review
/amazon like customer review
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Perhaps, but inside all of us there is that little man who would love to do just what he did. He had a good run, become a legend.
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Then you have choices:
Choice A:
Probably not going to work very well.
Choice B:
Probably will work ... works best while saying something like "that's the best aviation advice I've ever received, thank you, yes, I will do it just like that when I fly single engine raw data NDB approaches with a flap abnormal into DCA on the line ... ." Added points for, "have you been working out? Jeesh you look good for a 72 year old F4 driver" or "your wife is the prettiest 310 lb bald woman I've ever seen."
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