Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
04-15-2010, 10:46 AM
Da Hudge
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Pinnacle uses Worldflight as well.
It's not coming back, guys.
As far as the original guy saying that it "won't flightplan any plane faster than .79," give me a break. Educate yourself a bit more and revisit that statement.
04-15-2010, 10:46 AM
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04-15-2010, 10:53 AM
No longer cares
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04-15-2010, 10:53 AM
Da Hudge
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The first part of this statement makes sense. NW acquired years and years of data on their respective fleet types. That data will be necessary to tweak FPS to appropriately flightplan the former NW fleet types.
04-15-2010, 11:04 AM
Da Hudge
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Great, first the volcanic eruption and now this:
04-15-2010, 11:06 AM
Inventory survival kit ..
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I don't know if you are a captain or not, but I will tell you this: When I checked out a few years back, the In Command class (knife and fork school for new captains) got a visit from Greg Riggs who was at the time the Counsel General at DAL. After his little talk, I didn't EVER want to turn off the seat belt light. It's no red herring. It's very very real, and there are lawsuits. Can you imagine the financial liability to DAL if there is ever a procedural misstep that Boeing did not sanction and resulted in injury or worse? Now since we are using BA procedures and operations manuals, it's all on them. I really liked the DAL manuals we had before the BA change.. probably like you like the NWA manuals better: things were easy to find... they were more logical.. etc etc... But the fact is that all lawyers suck and they make the rules so we all have to deal with it.. unfortunately.
04-15-2010, 11:06 AM
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I tell you the thing I find miserable on the checklist, tangent here, but I wish the Runway, Departure, First Fix could be for it to be briefed at the gate and then at the current location of the checklist for the FO to call out as it is shown on the FMS and the Captain to say "as previously briefed". Or something along those lines because the way it works now can be with many people extremely clumsy with an airplane in motion. Not unsafe. Just clumsy. And if something changes then it should be briefed after the change.
04-15-2010, 11:13 AM
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I tell you the thing I find miserable on the checklist, tangent here, but I wish the Runway, Departure, First Fix could be for it to be briefed at the gate and then at the current location of the checklist for the FO to call out as it is shown on the FMS and the Captain to say "as previously briefed". Or something along those lines because the way it works now can be with many people extremely clumsy with an airplane in motion. Not unsafe. Just clumsy. And if something changes then it should be briefed after the change.
04-15-2010, 11:14 AM
Da Hudge
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I agree that the argument for us using Boeing styled books no longer holds water with the lawyer argument. We're running around with the largest A330 fleet in the world and using boeing books....
04-15-2010, 11:16 AM
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Oh, the irony after various jokes about what sort of "unplanned" things may happen that cause us not to make a profit...
edit: you beat me to it, Scoop!
We just need to put some DC-9 captains in the planes and send them over there. They'll get the job done.
newKnow vs. the volcano, 2010 edition.
edit: you beat me to it, Scoop!
We just need to put some DC-9 captains in the planes and send them over there. They'll get the job done.
newKnow vs. the volcano, 2010 edition.
to the right............No. No wait. This is a DC-9 we are talking about. I WILL fly to Europe.
(You just can't beat this one. Who posted this the first time?)
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