No critique from me. My memory from my pax days at UAL is fading but I think that was procedure at the time. I'd say it's probably the safer option, IMO.

FWIW, FedEx procedures call for wing illumination and taxi light for line up and wait. Forward facing landing lights and strobes once cleared for takeoff. I think we're the minority from what I see around the industry. It seems to come from an over-exuberance directed toward the preservation of night vision (probably started when it was almost exclusively night ops and little to no inbound traffic when we were flying). Old habits seem to die hard there.

After the SFO incident it may be worth having them on when #1... :rolleyes:

I would never "line up and wait" without strobes on past civil twilight, feel too vulnerable.

Amen...........

;)
Lol

TOTD..... those turning this thread into climate change

TOD from the year 1999 - the 24 year old female United FO that was wearing a scope badge that tried to jumpseat home on my CRJ200.
Good luck with that

Right because age and gender have everything to do with wanting long term job security. Have fun with your crj200.

Yeah much better to have that flying done by a regional than at mainline🙄

What did that lanyard say? I don't recall any scope lanyards from '99. Maybe a RJ/UA sticker as we wanted the flying in house and the jobs for our pilots. Which is exactly what the RJ pilots today accuse of not doing. So you guys at the express carriers whine about mainline caving on scope and as soon as we exhibit some sign of protecting our flying you whine about that. Perhaps the enemy is in the mirror and not all those evil mainline pilots.

Good for her.

TOTD: The (GoJet?) captain wearing a baseball cap with sunglasses over the hats brim while in uniform standing in the gatehouse of a Delta Connection by GoJet flight boarding for Raleigh tonight. Classy AF.

http://www.shadesdaddyblog.com/wp-co...ses-oakley.jpg

He didn't happen to also be wearing rollerskates did he?

Good for her!

I nominate this post for TOD.

Cut him some slack. We all know how things worked out for Chief Brody. Quite messy.

Ya...and I was sitting directly behind him. And an Airbus sits just a little bit higher then a 737. So that thing is just blinking in our faces for almost an hour.

Fair enough, that's a dingleberry move right there.

Check out the big VLOG on Chavez!!

175 Driver might exist.

Wow. Enemy territory! An airport is confusing. The absolute best was that he didn't know Denver was west of Dallas. He thought it was south.

Coming soon to a major near you. :rolleyes:

The first minute of that was painful enough. I'll be damned if I was going to waste the subsequent 10 minutes of my life.

He said all that within a two minute period haha

This guy is a moron. Why didn't he just get back on AA to LAX. Denver is confusing? Really?

Social media sure brings out the best in people!

Sorry...didn't get past the first 30 seconds.

I just realized the Youtube screen shot he used has the captain playing on his phone....
S.A.

Wow. Tool. But I'm sure the cpt was looking up weather via wifi

Wrong! He was on Flica trying to trade the rest of his trip.:D

Or googling how to slip sleeping gas into an oxygen line.

Your all wrong! He was changing his tider profile from "awesome jet captain" to "manager of the tool department" :D

Stopped watching after he said "my jumpseat".

I left my crashpad after several new regional FOs moved in and behaved very much like this guy.

He thought Denver was south?!?


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He should be out trying to get laid instead of posting video shît

Good luck with that...

That guy is the personification of that old pilot joke where the pilot looks at his date after 45 minutes of talking and says "well enough about me. Let's talk about flying".

That FEDEX procedure is from the FSAT the FAA put out over a decade ago.

To the SWA flight we followed out of OAK Thursday morning that said to ATC at the end of every frequency change "Thanks, we appreciate the great job you do every day."

Good on them. A wee bit of courtesy, especially when requests by flight crews are granted, goes a long way, unless there congestion on the frequency?

Don't me a stuffy nerd.

Hmmm... I think that's a great idea!

Thanks for the great post and all you contribute!

So, does that mean every airline that turns every light they have on when they take the active to line up and wait is wrong? Not really sure what you're trying to say.