Scoop

Yep. Pretty much happens on every takeoff - an aircraft leaves the paved surface.

Scoop

nwa757

Cool sounding song and sweet dance moves, just keep in mind what this song is telling our youth:

The song manages to hide a dark message beneath its cheery tune. "I tend to do that with a lot of songs," Mark Foster told MTV News."

Yeah! He found a six-shooter gun
in his dad's closet, with the box of fun things.
I don't even know what,
but he's coming for you. Yeah, He's coming for you!

All the other kids with the pumped up kicks,
You better run, better run, outrun my gun.
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks,
You better run, better run, faster than my bullet.


If your kids are listening to this song, talk to them about the real meaning. If you have cool sneakers, I have a gun?

[Serious parent soapbox stepdown]

newKnow

Even though I can do all of those things, there is one question I just can't seem to answer:

Why is it that my wife can fall asleep and continue to sleep like a baby with the TV on and house hunters international blasting at full volume, but if sports center is on damn near mute she's restless because she hates sports talk?

I think we should chalk this one up as things New k will never understand.....

scambo1

No sierra;

I dont like TV, my wife likes to sleep with the tv on. So, she goes to sleep to some E lameness, I change the channel to top gear and turn down the volume and now she's an insomniac and its my fault. Weeemun!

If there was a Closer marathon, my wife would sleep through the whole thing, no matter how many days it was on. Switch to dogfights and BOOM, its like an alarm clock went off and she's up on the wrong side of the bed.

I don't really try to understand it Newk, I just accept that it is my fault. I'm ok with that

sailingfun

The number one item on the contract survey with regard to reserve was to return seniority to the reserve system. The new system is about half way between what we once had and the 1113 system imposed by the company.

captainv

I know you're coming from a good place, but...

When I was in high school, half the music we listened to was admittedly terrible, but it freaked our parents out, so we kept playing it. That was mostly the point.

I can just imagine having a serious conversation with my ex-NASA engineer Dad about the terrible things 2 Live Crew and NWA were telling me...

JonnyKnoxville

I can see it now, "Now Timmy...Guns are bad, mmkay!?!"

forgot to bid

Sailing I can understand if that is the case but I think there is a fundamental misunderstanding of how this plays out.

If the top 60 of 110 pilots have a strong QOL on reserve now it will be 10 have a slightly better QOL and the other 50 pick up their flying or sit perpetually at the top of the RUO. I don't see that as bringing seniority back, I see it as taking seniority away. But therein is the problem, what is senior? Evidently 20% doesn't even qualify as senior.

And I know the new system is supposed to be halfway between ALPA's expressed desire for seniority only and the company's desire to spread the flying evenly. But with large buckets the system will be seniority only to the point it might as well be 150 point buckets instead of 80.

Likewise, if seniority should matter beyond bidding and trip pick ups why not have this for regular pilots? A category like 7ERA has 300 regular pilots. Give the top 10% or 30 pilots the month off at ALV and unstack their flying. Make sure the flying is 0 credit to those who get it though. That way we ensure regular pilots have the same seniority benefits of a reserve seniority only RUO.

Again, I'm okay with interjecting seniority into the system but I am not okay with a seniority only system. It is detrimental to too many pilots and if these bucket sizes stay high (and there is a fight to keep them high) then we're going back to seniority only. Call me a seniority populist fighting for the middle class, , but I don't agree with it.

forgot to bid

So RAH is going to make Frontier Airlines is own separate company in six to twelve months? I thought they already were?

So there's more money in flying contract than flying on your own. Says something.

forgot to bid

The only thing I can say about using the contract survey like this is that there was also a lot of all caps hate spewed at commuters too. But we're not going to end commuting or supporting commuters, are we?