Low flight over OKC
06-23-2024, 06:19 PM
#92
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Southwest doesn't pay and/or configure their aircraft for any of those callouts. It's on the pilots to make them.
06-23-2024, 06:53 PM
#93
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This. And they had TDZE set in the window.
06-23-2024, 06:57 PM
#94
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Cool story. 13 is just fine, especially coming from the NW. It saves time, fuel, and hassle, and introduces very little additional risk. I use it often and use 31 for departure for the same reasons. It is more than suitable for the 737.
Do you demand the longest runway everywhere you go? If so, I can't imagine that goes very well for you.
Do you demand the longest runway everywhere you go? If so, I can't imagine that goes very well for you.
06-23-2024, 07:49 PM
#95
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Maybe one of the guys lives there and got rerouted to OKC and was going to go home for his overnight, but decided he should do a fly by of his house to see if anyone was parked in the driveway first so he knew what he was walking into?
06-23-2024, 09:14 PM
#96
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Real airplane mfgs (boeing) don't give away RA callouts for free.
Real regulators (faa) don't mandate RA callouts.
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06-23-2024, 10:03 PM
#97
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I'm basing this off what I've seen several times, typically from the most senior captains. PF is assigned altitude like 3000. Re-cruises the box. Airport in sight, cleared for visual. PF hits direct to the last point prior to runway and says, "We're visual, setting tdze (or zeros). PF hits altitude intervene and vnav goes into descent mode and immediately sets FUM speed. PF says, why'd it so that? So he hits speed intervene and dials 250 knots. Airplane goes into idle descent mode.
06-24-2024, 03:36 AM
#98
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I'm basing this off what I've seen several times, typically from the most senior captains. PF is assigned altitude like 3000. Re-cruises the box. Airport in sight, cleared for visual. PF hits direct to the last point prior to runway and says, "We're visual, setting tdze (or zeros). PF hits altitude intervene and vnav goes into descent mode and immediately sets FUM speed. PF says, why'd it so that? So he hits speed intervene and dials 250 knots. Airplane goes into idle descent mode.
06-24-2024, 05:19 AM
#99
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My cat told me that it was a new hire and a captain that retires tomorrow. The FO spun in zeroes and put it in vert speed with -3000 set and then said "YOLO" before getting out their phone to text their mom so that she could come pick them up from the airport because that's how they did it at SkyWest.
06-24-2024, 05:24 AM
#100
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RNP 22L in mdw, RNAV 36L mco, RNP into all runways in DEN BNA and AUS, RNP 27 SAN, RNP DCA, RNAV visuals into LGA, RNAV into DAL, RNAV 19 in MSY, LDA/RNAV 35 in SLC just to name a few.
Now, before you say RNP is precision not NPA: functionally on the FMC/MCO, they are identical. Every swa pilot is intimately familiar with how to fly an RNAV approach. And every ILS is subject to the same risks of going to the last fix/runway from xx miles our, as APPR won't capture GS until LOC intercept, so VNAV LNAV will function identically up until GS capture.
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