WWJD?
01-17-2017, 04:43 AM
#11
Moderate Moderator
Joined APC: Mar 2008
Position: Curator at Static Display
Posts: 5,681
What fleet is this? Because the guys I fly with (756) are extremely reasonable---and cautious---when it comes to turbulence, speed, and in particular, F/A safety.
Well-said, Sir Winston. I also imagine that all 200 or so of my "Moms" carry my allowance money, and dole it out only when I do my chores properly....
When keying the mike, pushing buttons on the MCP, or push/pulling the yoke: I like to think I've got a cabin full of my mom. She's 78 years old.
I like to do and say things nice and easy because she has no idea what we're doing up here, is pretty nervous about it all, and if it wasn't for people like her back there I wouldn't get to sit up here.
I like to do and say things nice and easy because she has no idea what we're doing up here, is pretty nervous about it all, and if it wasn't for people like her back there I wouldn't get to sit up here.
01-17-2017, 06:15 AM
#14
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Aug 2007
Posts: 862
01-17-2017, 06:16 AM
#15
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Apr 2008
Position: Sleeping in the black swan’s nest.
Posts: 5,725
We train them to be little SOP robots. Individual thought and good common sense flying is discouraged. So don't be surprised if they take a bit readjustment once they get to the line.
01-17-2017, 06:31 AM
#16
Get me outta here...
Joined APC: Oct 2008
Position: Boeing right seat
Posts: 1,541
01-17-2017, 07:13 AM
#18
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Mar 2012
Position: 777
Posts: 2,171
Serious answer, click off the autopilot, and fly the plane.
The 777 it's getting to be an epidemic. Auto pilot on. Even though it's doing something you don't want it to do. They don't know how to anticipate the automation to keep it from doing something they don't want, and then they continue to diddle the knobs in wasted effort and in vain to make it do something else than what they've programmed...I've had numerous cohorts tell me I have to have the autopilot on above FL180. Know the rules. But then again, these are the dweebs that put the AP on at 200' in the first place. I place a large part of the blame on TK teaching to the lowest common denominator.
Seriously, just one, maybe two clicks of the little red button..
The 777 it's getting to be an epidemic. Auto pilot on. Even though it's doing something you don't want it to do. They don't know how to anticipate the automation to keep it from doing something they don't want, and then they continue to diddle the knobs in wasted effort and in vain to make it do something else than what they've programmed...I've had numerous cohorts tell me I have to have the autopilot on above FL180. Know the rules. But then again, these are the dweebs that put the AP on at 200' in the first place. I place a large part of the blame on TK teaching to the lowest common denominator.
Seriously, just one, maybe two clicks of the little red button..
01-17-2017, 07:23 AM
#20
Need More Callouts
Joined APC: Dec 2005
Position: Unbridled Enthusiasm
Posts: 2,143
I'm too busy making the new, ridiculous call-outs to worry about such trivial things like turbulence. Missed 2 radio calls while the F/O blathered out what the display indicated going into LA the other day. Thank god for the get out of jail free card at the end of the procedure that allows you to "suspend" the inane nonsense which I now do from takeoff to touch down.
What toolbag came up with this crap anyway?
What toolbag came up with this crap anyway?
