Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
08-27-2014, 12:43 PM
Gets Weekends Off
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Car accident just as you get on i85 south from the ATL crew lot. Take the 285 to 85 if your a Newnan/Peachtree City bubba. Or just use the Waze app!
08-27-2014, 12:59 PM
Da Hudge
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Any of you crazies have the GoPro Hero 3+ silver or black? Any feedback on if the black is worth the extra 130 bucks? I got a silver at the eglin bx for 270 today... wondering if there is that stark of a difference between the two for the price difference.
Thanks! (and welcome back hoser!)
Thanks! (and welcome back hoser!)
08-27-2014, 01:05 PM
meh
Joined APC: Oct 2010
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T... the whole point of alllll this ALV+15 back and forth was that the number of guys who actually fly >ALV, up towards 99, is MEANINGLESS, and is NOT the benefit the company wanted. It's the ABILITY to push guys that high rarely if needed that removes a constraint and allows the company to accept lower winter-level manning.
08-27-2014, 01:10 PM
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Any of you crazies have the GoPro Hero 3+ silver or black? Any feedback on if the black is worth the extra 130 bucks? I got a silver at the eglin bx for 270 today... wondering if there is that stark of a difference between the two for the price difference.
Thanks! (and welcome back hoser!)
Thanks! (and welcome back hoser!)
Amazon for the Ram mounts.
08-27-2014, 01:15 PM
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08-27-2014, 01:40 PM
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The go-pro technology rapidly improves with every annual update. I always get the latest and greatest myself, and mostly for the low light capability. With that comes a steeper price, and a million features I will never use.
Not sure if that helps... Most of the amazing picture quality gets dumbed down via editing and uploading to youtube. Otherwise it takes forever.
Not sure if that helps... Most of the amazing picture quality gets dumbed down via editing and uploading to youtube. Otherwise it takes forever.
08-27-2014, 01:41 PM
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Any word on another AE, aren't we due soon? I'm all done with the skeds in SLC 320, getting anxious for a change.
08-27-2014, 01:41 PM
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Herman and Sailingfun two posts above... poor logic.
The fact that senior guys can now make out well on reserve (and thus bid it) has nothing to do whatever with the fact there was a concession that cost pilot jobs. You (sailing) seem to constantly attempt to use rhetoric to misguide and obfuscate the conversation, and attempt to drive home an agenda of "Everything is awesome, there were no concessions whatsoever".
1. It is a fact the airline used to have to be staffed heavier for summer flying, because you couldn't force guys to fly above 72ish hours.
2. It is a fact that failures in staffing during IROPS and at the LIMITS of requirements when things went wrong, are what drove min required pilots.
3. It is a fact that NOW the company INSTANTLY CAN PLAN ON 99ish hours from their reserves WHEN NEEDED FOR IROPS/BAD TIMES.
4. While this high use of reserves is seldom used, almost never, and while the AVERAGE reserve time for guys is much much less than this upper limit...It is still a fact that the company's ABILITY TO GO TO THIS UPPER LIMIT gives them a new LIMITING FACTOR worst-case planning limit that is about 43% more productive than what they had.
5. It is a fact that this seldom-used ability to force guys up towards 99 hours when needed is a huge scheduling/staffing boon to the company, and it allows them to essentially staff the airline for winter flying levels and boost up when rarely needed for summer/irop/bad-times flying.
Either you are much much less intelligent than I have been led to believe from your writing, OR... you are knowingly trying to guide attention away from this and misguide folks with your unending parroting of "Very few folks have been flying to 99 hours, so therefore it wasn't a concession!".
Again, I'll play and jump in to remind you, and all the others reading this that you're trying to misguide and bamboozle, the concession wasn't how many folks ACTUALLY end up flying 99 hours... it's the fact the company can staff for that uncommon summer weekend/irop need now with much fewer pilots.
The fact that senior guys can now make out well on reserve (and thus bid it) has nothing to do whatever with the fact there was a concession that cost pilot jobs. You (sailing) seem to constantly attempt to use rhetoric to misguide and obfuscate the conversation, and attempt to drive home an agenda of "Everything is awesome, there were no concessions whatsoever".
1. It is a fact the airline used to have to be staffed heavier for summer flying, because you couldn't force guys to fly above 72ish hours.
2. It is a fact that failures in staffing during IROPS and at the LIMITS of requirements when things went wrong, are what drove min required pilots.
3. It is a fact that NOW the company INSTANTLY CAN PLAN ON 99ish hours from their reserves WHEN NEEDED FOR IROPS/BAD TIMES.
4. While this high use of reserves is seldom used, almost never, and while the AVERAGE reserve time for guys is much much less than this upper limit...It is still a fact that the company's ABILITY TO GO TO THIS UPPER LIMIT gives them a new LIMITING FACTOR worst-case planning limit that is about 43% more productive than what they had.
5. It is a fact that this seldom-used ability to force guys up towards 99 hours when needed is a huge scheduling/staffing boon to the company, and it allows them to essentially staff the airline for winter flying levels and boost up when rarely needed for summer/irop/bad-times flying.
Either you are much much less intelligent than I have been led to believe from your writing, OR... you are knowingly trying to guide attention away from this and misguide folks with your unending parroting of "Very few folks have been flying to 99 hours, so therefore it wasn't a concession!".
Again, I'll play and jump in to remind you, and all the others reading this that you're trying to misguide and bamboozle, the concession wasn't how many folks ACTUALLY end up flying 99 hours... it's the fact the company can staff for that uncommon summer weekend/irop need now with much fewer pilots.
08-27-2014, 02:17 PM
meh
Joined APC: Oct 2010
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Well, I have to say-- there's sure a lot of decent folks on this forum. Whether I disagree with some or not, a lot of intelligent points and concerned citizens.
Some weeks this place is a complete cesspit... But at least the last couple days I've learned some things, and been given many things to ponder. There are a zillion facets to each part of our jobs, and different guys have seen sides of things I haven't--thanks for your viewpoints.
I'm left feeling optimistic, a rare sensation after reading here!
Hope everyone has a great holiday weekend, flying or not!
Some weeks this place is a complete cesspit... But at least the last couple days I've learned some things, and been given many things to ponder. There are a zillion facets to each part of our jobs, and different guys have seen sides of things I haven't--thanks for your viewpoints.
I'm left feeling optimistic, a rare sensation after reading here!
Hope everyone has a great holiday weekend, flying or not!
08-27-2014, 02:19 PM
meh
Joined APC: Oct 2010
Posts: 828
If you're having to work this holiday weekend, and in the ATL, maybe go check out Dragon Con, which is at the Hyatt/Marriott/Hilton downtown, so a very short walk
Apparently it's the #1 costuming con, lots of military sci-fi and fantasy, and you can see chics dressed up as warrior-angels in bikinis and stuff.
enjoy
Apparently it's the #1 costuming con, lots of military sci-fi and fantasy, and you can see chics dressed up as warrior-angels in bikinis and stuff.
enjoy
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