Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
07-12-2011, 06:22 AM
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Speaking of records - Once saw 651 KTs groundspeed on the Maddogs military cousin, the USN C-9B. We were flying over SW Japan in the high twenties in March. They turned us about 45 degrees off of the wind and our GS shot up over 600 KTs so when we got another turn almost completely downwind we bumped our speed up to the clacker (.84M) which resulted in a 651 Kt groundspeed. We figure we had close to a 170 KT tailwind. 
Anyone have better than 651 KTS Groundspeed? And before all you TACAIR types chime in, I am strictly referring to transport and commercial type aircraft.
Scoop
PS - And yes, we did take a picture of the FMS to prove it later on at the Atsugi O Club.
Anyone have better than 651 KTS Groundspeed? And before all you TACAIR types chime in, I am strictly referring to transport and commercial type aircraft.
Scoop
PS - And yes, we did take a picture of the FMS to prove it later on at the Atsugi O Club.
On a flight from Cubi Point to Kadena we got a P-3 going 11 knots backwards.
Same wind, same altitude. Around 170-180 kts headwind. Dropped the flaps and slowed down and actually went backwards.
07-12-2011, 06:31 AM
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Anyone on Reserve use IcrewMax?
I ask specifically about reserve because the old version wasn't very reserve friendly. With the new version, if you get assigned a trip, update IcrewMax, will it show your trip on your line? Does it ask for acknowledgement for assigned trips? Can you see a trip without acknowledgement?
Thanks.
I ask specifically about reserve because the old version wasn't very reserve friendly. With the new version, if you get assigned a trip, update IcrewMax, will it show your trip on your line? Does it ask for acknowledgement for assigned trips? Can you see a trip without acknowledgement?
Thanks.
07-12-2011, 06:57 AM
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Anyone on Reserve use IcrewMax?
I ask specifically about reserve because the old version wasn't very reserve friendly. With the new version, if you get assigned a trip, update IcrewMax, will it show your trip on your line? Does it ask for acknowledgement for assigned trips? Can you see a trip without acknowledgement?
Thanks.
I ask specifically about reserve because the old version wasn't very reserve friendly. With the new version, if you get assigned a trip, update IcrewMax, will it show your trip on your line? Does it ask for acknowledgement for assigned trips? Can you see a trip without acknowledgement?
Thanks.
07-12-2011, 06:57 AM
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You are greatly overestimating the efficacy of your union reps, as well as the communication chain between them, Compass management, and finally down to Cpz line pilots. IF Compass management actually received a complaint about PA's referring to "Delta" not followed by the (willfully deceptive) addendum "Connection", they wouldn't care. And if they cared, they would take so long to communicate (if they remembered at all) a reproach to the offending crews that the force of the point would be lost. The same, I'm afraid to say, would be likely be true if this complaint would be carried through strictly Union channels.
07-12-2011, 07:06 AM
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Use the square brackets ][ to enclose the code that appears after the equal sign in the youtube address.
for example (Using parentheses in place of the square brackets)=
typing --- (youtube)vrCvLOpLKQ89(/youtube)
would display this:
for example (Using parentheses in place of the square brackets)=
typing --- (youtube)vrCvLOpLKQ89(/youtube)
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07-12-2011, 07:26 AM
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Tweet IPs also had to take their instrument checks from the right seat looking cross cockpit. To this day, I'll watch the Capts instruments when I'm the PM, old habits die hard
1150 hours? Pu$$y!! 2300 something in 3 tours, mostly spinning
Ferd <---spin demo IP at Willie, Randolph and Sheppard. Giving my identity away, oops
07-12-2011, 07:32 AM
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Tomgoddman
Ok, I give up. The Hawg wasn't going to do anything at 35,000 feet that involved the gun, it could barely fly there. I only saw FL 290 and that was pretty dumb. If you weren't using the gun, the washing system wasn't needed at 350, so what was the test about?
GF
800 hours of Hawg time, very little above a 5,000 feet except for translants.
Ok, I give up. The Hawg wasn't going to do anything at 35,000 feet that involved the gun, it could barely fly there. I only saw FL 290 and that was pretty dumb. If you weren't using the gun, the washing system wasn't needed at 350, so what was the test about?
GF
800 hours of Hawg time, very little above a 5,000 feet except for translants.
07-12-2011, 07:44 AM
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More YouTube:
(hoping to keep the contract subject from coming back up)
(hoping to keep the contract subject from coming back up)
07-12-2011, 08:01 AM
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Beat me to it Elvis, I was adding the same post. I'll also point out that is the real reason the attitude indicator is on the far right......so you could look at it and see the other instruments "through" it. True, actually found it in an old Cessna or Edwards document (cant remember which) when I was on the ATC Stan Eval team.
Tweet IPs also had to take their instrument checks from the right seat looking cross cockpit. To this day, I'll watch the Capts instruments when I'm the PM, old habits die hard
1150 hours? Pu$$y!! 2300 something in 3 tours, mostly spinning
Ferd <---spin demo IP at Willie, Randolph and Sheppard. Giving my identity away, oops
Tweet IPs also had to take their instrument checks from the right seat looking cross cockpit. To this day, I'll watch the Capts instruments when I'm the PM, old habits die hard
1150 hours? Pu$$y!! 2300 something in 3 tours, mostly spinning
Ferd <---spin demo IP at Willie, Randolph and Sheppard. Giving my identity away, oops
07-12-2011, 08:04 AM
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Yup!! You're giving your age away Ice.....
Hey look at the picture for me. Isn't the RMI and the compass backwards? I remember that funky compass as bottom right closest to the IP so we could use it as a heading bug.
Hey look at the picture for me. Isn't the RMI and the compass backwards? I remember that funky compass as bottom right closest to the IP so we could use it as a heading bug.
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