tsquare

That day will come. I can see a Wii (or whatever the stat of the art is) and the gloves that know where your hands are... and a preprogrammed series of malfunctions. ugh

JABDIP

Fix the medical which everyone needs when they retire and you will see guys going earlier than later!

acl65pilot

It depends on what seat you are in, but generally speaking it sure looks like we are understaffed. Now with the pulldown this fall we should be about 8-9% overstaffed. That is from bare bones, PBS min staffing (my math on that one) In reality we are about 3% over staffed from where I have figured they would like to keep staffing.

Summer 2012 block hrs are key, but one would think we are in a pilot crisis the way some of these little tricks are played.

johnso29

BINGO!!!! A lot of guys need the bridge from 60-62, or still have the kids in college to keep covered.

acl65pilot

Given the five min warmups we have on our motors, even with no one waiting, we are barely ready when we get down to the end of the runway.

No one rides their brakes to the end of the runway. The only time the Captain will ride the breaks is on a cross-bleed start of the second engine and that is for about 40 seconds.

You are more than welcome to ask to taxi around all of the Deltoids in ATL, lets see how far that gets you. I know the LGA controller just laugh about that request.

Superpilot92

Agreed!! !

georgetg

Them Fellers at Boeing gots themselves some good engineers and some bad management.

(t-square, stop reading here.)

The fan diameter of the Pratt and Whitney PW1000 engine will be 81".
The fan diameter for the current 737NG with the squished nacelles is 61" inches.

There's no room for a bigger fan.

So Boeing is going to jack up the nose 8"
To do that they have to add a bulge under the fuselage.
They don't want to redo the main gear, so the biggest fan that fits is 70"

That's a 14% difference in fan size with the equivalent fuel burn implications.
Even if the 737 is lighter and more efficient than the A320 it's not more than 5-7% in fuel burn.

The 737RE is a bandaid on a reworked late 60s design.
The A320neo is a re-engined mid 80s design.

If Delta orders the GTF Pratt motors on the Baby Bus order coming up, its a sign of long-term financial planning.

If Delta orders the LEAP-X motor or goes out and orders the 73RE, it's a sign of short-term gain with long-term pain...

Now if Boeing kept the 727 concept they could put 90" fans on the tail

Cheers
George



Cheers
George

acl65pilot

Current training limits us to about 600 a year, but I am guessing that they could slam 800 a year though if they had one big bid with openings everywhere and just put new hires where they needed them. Of course, the smart thing to do would be to preemptively hire.

tsquare

Thanks George... injuneers.. gud.. managemunt.. bad

Eat more chikun!

PilotFrog

So anyone want to get together and get a start-up going with the idea that we would create the LOW LOW LOW cost air carrier out of LaGuardia to buy up the slots? Once we win the auction we could turn around and sell them back to Delta, cash out and retire!