1,221 Reasons Not to work for Southwest
09-23-2023, 07:02 AM
#1221
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Aug 2015
Posts: 829
At one time there was no ATIS template. We wrote the ATIS on the back of the napkin that the FA gave us with the load count. The story is there was a MDW FO who was upset that Captains didn't write the ATIS in the format that he wanted. He came up with the template, then made copies using the copy machine in the various crew lounges and put them in FO boxes. FltOps thinking that is what the pilots wanted started having them formally printed, then to save money added the template to the weather package. Now whether the story about the FO is true I don't know but that's what I heard when the photcopies first appeared in the FO's boxes. What I do know is that we did go from no template, just the napkin, to the photcopied template to the printed template to the weather package template.
09-23-2023, 07:03 AM
#1222
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Oct 2010
Posts: 675
As another veteran of the napkin years, I will say the ATIS template did make it easier to interpret your co-star's transcriptions. Everyone had their own idea about the best way to arrange ATIS and gate info on a napkin...some made more sense than others. But going forward, in my cockpit (yes, I said cockpit!) no one is writing down ATIS info on anything unless they really want to.
09-23-2023, 07:30 AM
#1223
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Apr 2013
Posts: 3,650
I am so thankful that we got this issue hammered out. It is crucial to all of us and our futures.
Next up : seat full forward and up or down and back? Radar tilt full up? Turn down the screens and lights at the gate? Intercom on with chewing and snorting the whole flight or turn it off?
We have got to solve all of these problems here so we can get it codified in the contract.
Next up : seat full forward and up or down and back? Radar tilt full up? Turn down the screens and lights at the gate? Intercom on with chewing and snorting the whole flight or turn it off?
We have got to solve all of these problems here so we can get it codified in the contract.
09-23-2023, 07:34 AM
#1224
Furloughed Again?!
Joined APC: Aug 2007
Position: Boeing 737
Posts: 4,804
I am so thankful that we got this issue hammered out. It is crucial to all of us and our futures.
Next up : seat full forward and up or down and back? Radar tilt full up? Turn down the screens and lights at the gate? Intercom on with chewing and snorting the whole flight or turn it off?
We have got to solve all of these problems here so we can get it codified in the contract.
Next up : seat full forward and up or down and back? Radar tilt full up? Turn down the screens and lights at the gate? Intercom on with chewing and snorting the whole flight or turn it off?
We have got to solve all of these problems here so we can get it codified in the contract.
09-23-2023, 08:15 AM
#1225
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Nov 2012
Posts: 2,030
As another veteran of the napkin years, I will say the ATIS template did make it easier to interpret your co-star's transcriptions. Everyone had their own idea about the best way to arrange ATIS and gate info on a napkin...some made more sense than others. But going forward, in my cockpit (yes, I said cockpit!) no one is writing down ATIS info on anything unless they really want to.
09-23-2023, 09:42 AM
#1226
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Dec 2014
Position: Just a pilot
Posts: 762
09-23-2023, 11:02 AM
#1227
Line Holder
Joined APC: Jun 2017
Posts: 69
09-23-2023, 01:11 PM
#1229
Line Holder
Joined APC: Jun 2017
Posts: 69
09-23-2023, 06:48 PM
#1230
At your mom's house
Joined APC: Jun 2008
Position: cpt 737
Posts: 2,797
it's all in the FMS in messages anyway. Why can't someone look at the messages again if they forget?
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