Captain Slow

APC is basically a cesspool of disgruntled people gathering to complain about the same things in slightly different forms repetitively.

Occasionally, you might happen upon a helpful bit of information or even a rational individual. These events are increasingly rare, as those helpful posts and rational individuals get drowned out by a sea of keyboard warriors comparing the sizes of their wedding vegetables.

wrxpilot

This is a great post! I completely agree. These super angry types are quite rare in the real world.

gojo

If you’re going back 30 years, and you compare and contrast then and now you’ll realize much has changed. First off, we didn’t have internet. And therefore no forums. These forums, as in life are not going to be just sunshine and rainbows. Sorry. If you want that switch to Facebook where everyone only talks and gloats about the good things. It’s alright to vent frustrations. What happens is people’s defense mechanisms kick in and the conversation goes downhill fast. As you said, we should help each other? I agree, but solidarity seems to have died long ago in this business.

N1CEandEZ

Have some decency. It’s a new base with junior crews. I’m sure you guys have had the same effect in other places.

Utah

Yeah, junior as in most of the pilots are still doing IOE, or just off it.

4V14T0R

Look, I get most of you guys have never been there and are new to operating out of there regularly, but LGA is everyone’s junior base. We all have junior CAs and FOs in LGA so I don’t see how that’s an excuse.


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fortyeight

Hahahaha! Wedding vegetables lol. Thanks for the good laugh.

saxman66

Okay, I'll bite. I'm SKW based in LGA but pretty senior. I'm former Comair and was based in JFK then so I know the whole NYC operation. Pretty much all my trips are teaching newer FO's the ropes. I even had to teach a check airmen how things worked there the other day. Pretty much its go fast in the air and keep things going on the ground, but also be cautious. This is why I almost always taxi two engines in LGA. I want both of our heads out the window and I want to cross 4/22 to be ready at the end. Of course you never know. when you'll be #2 down there or #30. But if I'm unsure of something, I will slow down and clarify. Safety and my certificate trumps someone getting to the gate a little quicker. Just the other day ground tells us to taxi out and by the way, you're on the Flushing climb instead of the Whitestone! Our SOP highly encourages us to stop and reprogram the box and brief. Luckily we had time to so while holding short another taxiway, so we weren't blocking the alley. But I could easily see ground telling us to remain in the ally before we were ready too. Obviously, I'll use my best SA to try and move out of the way when possible with ground or ramp. I like to see the operation move smoothly as much as any of us.

All I see here are a couple of anecdotal stories about how SKW didn't move quick enough out of the way. The story about the guy crossing the runway and then stopping while causing a go around. Yeah I'll give you that one. That was tool like behavior for being totally oblivious to the operation and lacking SA.

jtsastre

Thanks for your reply, it was admirable. Ignore the typical APC bashing, it apparently makes people feel better about themselves to put others down. Typical grade-school rhetoric.