Early Outs
07-09-2020, 07:05 AM
#103
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Joined APC: Jun 2008
Position: 737 CAPT
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^^^^^^ THIS ^^^^^^
It was ingrained into me starting here to try to get to 3 months/255-ish hours of sick bank in the event I lost my medical and needed that bridge sick time to get to LTD eligibility.
Flew with one captain who used his sickation time liberally. Then he had to go out on LTD and complained that the company did nothing to help him out when he had no sick time and no income coming in for three months. He complained that it was all ALPA's fault that he had no sick time or access to LTD for three months, too.
It was ingrained into me starting here to try to get to 3 months/255-ish hours of sick bank in the event I lost my medical and needed that bridge sick time to get to LTD eligibility.
Flew with one captain who used his sickation time liberally. Then he had to go out on LTD and complained that the company did nothing to help him out when he had no sick time and no income coming in for three months. He complained that it was all ALPA's fault that he had no sick time or access to LTD for three months, too.
07-09-2020, 07:42 AM
#104
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Joined APC: Mar 2006
Position: guppy CA
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^^^^^^ THIS ^^^^^^
It was ingrained into me starting here to try to get to 3 months/255-ish hours of sick bank in the event I lost my medical and needed that bridge sick time to get to LTD eligibility.
Flew with one captain who used his sickation time liberally. Then he had to go out on LTD and complained that the company did nothing to help him out when he had no sick time and no income coming in for three months. He complained that it was all ALPA's fault that he had no sick time or access to LTD for three months, too.
It was ingrained into me starting here to try to get to 3 months/255-ish hours of sick bank in the event I lost my medical and needed that bridge sick time to get to LTD eligibility.
Flew with one captain who used his sickation time liberally. Then he had to go out on LTD and complained that the company did nothing to help him out when he had no sick time and no income coming in for three months. He complained that it was all ALPA's fault that he had no sick time or access to LTD for three months, too.
07-09-2020, 07:50 AM
#105
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Joined APC: May 2009
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07-09-2020, 09:30 AM
#106
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Joined APC: Aug 2007
Posts: 459
07-09-2020, 11:02 AM
#107
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Joined APC: May 2009
Position: The GF of FUPM
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Guam's Asia Pacific retired their fleet in June of this year. They looked great with the winglets.
https://www.ch-aviation.com/portal/news/92232-guams-asia-pacific-airlines-retires-last-b727
07-09-2020, 11:16 AM
#108
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Joined APC: Aug 2015
Position: Captain
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I would have filled a grievance and demand a check for 2 months (146 hours ) of pay from my sick bank at United
and you would have won the grievance
seriously
07-09-2020, 11:40 AM
#109
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Position: The GF of FUPM
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I flew the 727 for my first "real" aviation job. Our dispatch would consistently plan long range cruise as we were always near the range limit given our routes. The salty old ex-rEAL/PAA/BNF CA's would tell us youngins to ignore the plan and just fly fast for the whole profile. We always landed early and up on gas.
Climb profile was 250 to 10,000' then 300 knots to M.80 then M.80 to cruise then accelerate to the flight plane, usually .84.
I start to accelerate to 300 knots at 10K He then tells me to push it over a bit until I get the VMO clacker and then go uphill with it. "Click-click'-click-click-------------click---------------------click-----------------------------------------click with the IAS needle laying right on the VMO needle. Then when reaching cruise he had me leave the power up and just wait and see how much speed we could get before reducing power and synching the fans. Then once at TOD throttles to idle and Click-click-click-----------------------------------click.
The whole key was keeping the clicks to a minimum, yet never straying more than a needle width from the VMO needle. This is all assuming smooth air of course.
We were super early and got to the gate up on gas. We then went to a great Gentlemans refreshment establishment that evening.
Good times.
07-09-2020, 11:59 AM
#110
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Joined APC: Oct 2010
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Damn that's sexy. I was born juuuust a little too late. Closest I came was the FE written I took while trying to get a job at FedEx (sadly, they never called!). I had to settle for living vicariously through the stories by my various Captains. And there were some good ones!
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