Forget new unis... 35- 756 Cappy slots DEN
09-30-2017, 06:13 AM
#101
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Joined APC: Sep 2014
Position: Airbus 320 Captain
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The view out the window is the same on every airplane, except maybe the 50 year old little slits in the nose of the uber guppy. And it sits only slightly higher than the plane captain taxiing into the gate, The flying isn't the fault of the airplane, but of the scheduling airline.
Lots of Jetblue and VA guys fly 19-20 days off a month, 1 day turns. On the opposite side of the world, a lot of Asian carriers do short/medium haul on the 330/340/777/787/A380.
It ain't the jet, it is how it is scheduled. The worst scheduling is high TAFB, lots of WOCL's. The best, at least for me, is very low TAFB, and no WOCL's.
My dream job is a bunch of high time, one day trips. 100 hours TAFB. 75 hours.
Lots of Jetblue and VA guys fly 19-20 days off a month, 1 day turns. On the opposite side of the world, a lot of Asian carriers do short/medium haul on the 330/340/777/787/A380.
It ain't the jet, it is how it is scheduled. The worst scheduling is high TAFB, lots of WOCL's. The best, at least for me, is very low TAFB, and no WOCL's.
My dream job is a bunch of high time, one day trips. 100 hours TAFB. 75 hours.
. We used to have SFO-CDG 3 day trips on the 767 worth 22+ hours, but FAR 117 forced it into a 4 day trip. While we had those 3 days, it was possible to fly a full month with three Paris trips and one Transcon for a total of 11 work days. I could have flown that schedule forever. 
09-30-2017, 06:50 AM
#102
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I salute and encourage all to bid and fly other planes.
You are right. It barely flies.
Avoid it.
09-30-2017, 06:53 AM
#103
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Joined APC: Mar 2012
Position: 777
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We used to have SFO-CDG 3 day trips on the 767 worth 22+ hours, but FAR 117 forced it into a 4 day trip. While we had those 3 days, it was possible to fly a full month with three Paris trips and one Transcon for a total of 11 work days. I could have flown that schedule forever.
When the 777 flies CDG, it is a 3-day.
09-30-2017, 07:57 AM
#104
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Position: Airbus 320 Captain
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Remember...lets add a bit of detail. Yes FAR 117 forced it to a 4 day. UAL chose to go cheap on the crew rest seat, and....required a waiver to get classified as a class 2 rest seat. ALPA told the company the rest seat wasn't adequate. If it had been, CDG would have stayed a 3-day trip. I wrote a fatigue report every single time I had to use that seat. And then you get the screaming kid right behind the curtain, or the flt attendants yelling at each other, or hitting the seat with the cart constantly.
When the 777 flies CDG, it is a 3-day.
When the 777 flies CDG, it is a 3-day.
09-30-2017, 02:58 PM
#107
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Joined APC: Oct 2006
Position: 777, sofa
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You'd much rather pull gear on a real airplane than have to be boss on a guppy. Especially the super-duper-uber geometrically unfeasable ones we have to fly.
They're too loud.
They're too cramped.
They put a SECOND jumpseat in the new ones!
They are still using the same Master Caution Panel (and headset) they used on the Apollo capsule.
The long ones are underpowered.
All of them are underbraked.
And the schedules are the worst. You either can't commute in, or can't commute out, or both, or you're spending half the day getting across town to LGA. The overnights are either the bare legal minimum, or so long you forget how to fly on the layover. Or its a day trip that checks in too early or released too late to add it on to an uncommutable multi day.
Forget the guppy, its just bad news, man.
09-30-2017, 08:47 PM
#109
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10-01-2017, 12:22 AM
#110
Don't say Guppy
Joined APC: Dec 2010
Position: Guppy driver
Posts: 1,926
Ah, the Children of the Magenta Line.......
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