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azflyboy posted:Do they not have to pay some kind of minimum guarantee if it's their fault you went unqualified? LAX and SFO? How many of these are ex-Redwood getting the shaft?
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From the people I've talked to, the furloughs only seem to go back around two years, so people with Redwood before the merger are probably okay, since they don't seem to be shutting down bases yet. That entire merger has been a clusterfuck. When they bought Redwood, Eskimo was insisting this meant they were going to be a big national airline, which fell apart when they realized no one outside of the PNW knew who the gently caress they were, so they shut down the JFK base. The business model then became "Okay, we're gonna take over California now!", which fell apart when they realized that United and Southwest exist, were already well established there, and had way more resources to sustain a fare war in the state. Before the pandemic, the business model had shifted to "Make everyone connect through SEA to go anywhere", so Eskimo basically spent $2.6 billion for a few gates in SFO and an Airbus fleet they don't really want.
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Is there an actual reason commercial pilots never use the real names of companies despite everyone knowing exactly who is meant with the nicknames?
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Don't gently caress with my glamorous mystique, man
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hobbesmaster posted:Is there an actual reason commercial pilots never use the real names of companies despite everyone knowing exactly who is meant with the nicknames? dude same the amount of effort it takes me to read these as a non-airline pilot is exhausting but apparently the paranoia is real and people think they can hide behind their thinly veiled nicknames that provide as much protection as crotchless underwear.
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CMH is my semi local airport and, as excited as I am to have Alaska in town, Seattle sucks as a connecting hub unless I'm going to Canada or Alaska. Plus, I looked at booking a trip to Seattle and was given the choice of the non-stop option or flying into Paine double connecting through, ironically enough, Seattle and some other West Coast City.  Captain Apollo posted:dude same I just thought it was a running gag in the thread, to be honest. Eskimo- Alaska (tail logo), Redwood- Virgin America (Redwood was their radio callsign, a nod to the trees with the same name in the Bay Area). CBJSprague24 fucked around with this message at 00:48 on Sep 23, 2020 |
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Sep 23, 2020 00:41
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you get the same poo poo on motorcycle forums where people always write SWIM ("someone who isn't me") instead of "I" whenever they talk about illegally removing their emissions equipment or whatever because it's like a magic spell that protects you from prosecution, man
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Sagebrush posted:you get the same poo poo on motorcycle forums where people always write SWIM ("someone who isn't me") instead of "I" whenever they talk about illegally removing their emissions equipment or whatever because it's like a magic spell that protects you from prosecution, man I mean you could be talking about a friend or hypothetically. Meanwhile there is exactly one airline with a native Alaskan painted on their plane. I kind of get callsigns. Some are cooler* and you probably hear the call sign more than the airline name. *speed bird is the best
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Sep 23, 2020 01:12
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Oh no nerds on a nerd website are talking like nerds. I hope the cool guys will still respect us in the morning
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CBJSprague24 posted:CMH is my semi local airport and, as excited as I am to have Alaska in town, Seattle sucks as a connecting hub unless I'm going to Canada or Alaska. Plus, I looked at booking a trip to Seattle and was given the choice of the non-stop option or flying into Paine double connecting through, ironically enough, Seattle and some other West Coast City. I still maintain that they hosed up by not calling the merged airline Frozen Virgin.
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Arson Daily posted:Oh no nerds on a nerd website are talking like nerds. I hope the cool guys will still respect us in the morning Its far worse, they talk like this in real life
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hobbesmaster posted:*speed bird is the best
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and the accent when they say it 
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“Speedbird one” should not be allowed to be used by a subsonic aircraft though. 
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Two Kings posted:Is that crap TA from United have any chance of passing? I don't think it's crap at all, honestly, in this environment. It costs the company more money than straight furloughing and in exchange they get some flexibility and we stave off furloughs for awhile yet and get 5%, first class deadheading which we've been trying to get back for 20 years, top 20% of reserves can build any legal schedule they want guaranteed, and the vast majority of the displacements cancelled along with scope choke. Senior guys give up a day trip a month, middle gives up a 2 day a month, but rates are the same, it's just less work and more time off. The ewwww part is for us bottom guys to get 37 hrs, but hey, 37 hrs at UA rates and a part time job is still better than 0 hours, particularly in this jobs environment. It'll be an amazing display of unionism and brotherhood if it passes, but I'm not holding my breath. Too much distrust of management and pain from previous furloughs/stolen pensions etc.
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“Screamer sixty-nine” remains the best civilian callsign I’ve ever personally witnessed. A solid stream of B-2s “DEATH1 through DEATH17” is probably the all time best. (I can’t remember how many, but it was more than half of the entire inventory.)
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CBJSprague24 posted:Virgin America (Redwood was their radio callsign, a nod to the trees with the same name in the Bay Area). Virgin, a company started by a guy who wrote a book titled "Screw It, Let's Do It," did not use the callsign red wood because of the trees in the bay area.
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KodiakRS posted:Virgin, a company started by a guy who wrote a book titled "Screw It, Let's Do It," did not use the callsign red wood because of the trees in the bay area. Oh, word?
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Passed CPL(H) written exam today...one step closer...
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All our reservist pilots at our squadron are airline pilots for the most part. Some of them working, some not. Gave one some annual checks today. Got to hear all about how great Trump is and how all rioters deserve to be shot. Feel like I got the airline FO experience and I was the the PIC!
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a lot of people who obey rules for a living have a fascist bent, whodathunkit
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Bob A Feet posted:All our reservist pilots at our squadron are airline pilots for the most part. Some of them working, some not. Gave one some annual checks today. Got to hear all about how great Trump is and how all rioters deserve to be shot. Feel like I got the airline FO experience and I was the the PIC! The real FO experience is flying with guys like that for 4 days in a row. Then resisting the urge to open a flight deck window at FL380 when they start bitching about how they're going to be displaced into the job you're about to be furloughed from. P.S. If anyone sees an expressjet guy/gal this week remember to buy them a beer/coffee.
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Captain: Did you put your bid in? Me: For what? The paint department at Home Depot?
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When you're trapped in a confined area with a shithead boomer the best strategy is to just pretend they said something else you'd prefer to talk about and engage with that imaginary partner instead. They will get confused and annoyed and assume you have some sort of disability, and then they will leave you alone. For example: Boomer: "Can you believe these goddamn protestors? I hope they all get shot!" Response: "Yeah I don't really see how Monty's plan could have ever worked, the fact of the matter was there were just too many Panzer Grenadiers in the region and it was just too many miles behind enemy lines. The limited capabilities of paratroopers were not honestly acknowledged and the plan was just too optimistic to capture all the bridges."
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Yesterday a boomer pilot told me our taxes are all going towards defunding the police. Dude you have lives relying on that brain.
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Captain Apollo posted:
From the manual: If the G5 senses that the magnetic heading measurement is valid but possibly outside of the internal accuracy limits, the numeric heading is displayed in yellow. gently caress knows what that means in practice.
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Rolo posted:Yesterday a boomer pilot told me our taxes are all going towards defunding the police. Christ if only
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Captain Apollo posted:
The G5 knows something’s a bit wrong but it’s pretty sure it’s not *seriously* wrong.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqy_cWcwI48 More auto-rotation practice, this time all the way to the ground. (As we're at our home airfield, with a known ground surface). Really struggled with actually hitting the spot this time, but my flares/touch downs were decent.
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ImplicitAssembler posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqy_cWcwI48 Um, that reg is awesome. fuk gu.
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Pryor on Fire posted:When you're trapped in a confined area with a shithead boomer the best strategy is to just pretend they said something else you'd prefer to talk about and engage with that imaginary partner instead. They will get confused and annoyed and assume you have some sort of disability, and then they will leave you alone. Now I really want to use this exact line.
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KodiakRS posted:P.S. If anyone sees an expressjet guy/gal this week remember to buy them a beer/coffee. Already did last month, and would continue to do so if I worked this week. The senior XJT captain I bought coffee for and I both commiserated how lovely their management must have been to go from being one of the best regionals in the business, to being the red-headed non-Mormon stepchild of a mega-regional, to now being relegated to the airline graveyard. Anyway, if AWSEFT is still reading this thread I passed the sim ride Friday and now hold a E-170/E-190 PIC type rating 
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Butt Reactor posted:Already did last month, and would continue to do so if I worked this week. The senior XJT captain I bought coffee for and I both commiserated how lovely their management must have been to go from being one of the best regionals in the business, to being the red-headed non-Mormon stepchild of a mega-regional, to now being relegated to the airline graveyard. I still can’t believe how dirty Skywest did Xjet
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The good regionals always seem to be the ones to die. Pilots that actually want to stay at a regional is bad for the business model. Congrats to all the United pilots keeping their jobs for at least 9 more months.
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Man screw IAH winds today. Had my scariest landing in years, on an annual line check. Strong gust right on the flare as I cut the power. Nose came back up after touchdown and the speedbrakes automatically stowed, and autobrakes turned off. I thought it was all kinds of messed up and I was gonna get failed but the LCA said we actually reacted really well and saved the day, but I’m still shaking a little.
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Animal posted:Man screw IAH winds today. Hard my scariest landing in years, on an annual line check. Strong gust right on the flare as I cut the power. Nose came back up after touchdown and the speedbrakes automatically stowed, and autobrakes turned off. I thought it was all kinds of messed up and I was gonna get failed but the LCA said we actually reacted really well and saved the day, but I’m still shaking a little. 
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That's crazy. I was just sitting outside a few hours ago thinking about how nuts the wind gusts were.
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Garmin G5 Chat I have consulted with another couple of A&Ps. My Magnetometer (GMU 11) was installed within 1 foot of the battery box, and within 6 inches of the Trim Servo. This is all located in the back just aft of the baggage compartment (none of this is good as magnets and electrical fields are lol). I am paying another set of eyes to move it to the left wing. Yes, I know I should demand that the original shop fix it, but logistics (a whole lot of airplane travel) and my curiosity on getting things "right" allow me to just pay the cash and move on. Please pray that nothing else dumb happens. I was told that on running the interference test that the Rotating Beacon was killing it the most. Seems like the wires for the magnetometer were with the wires for the lights. Anyway - just if anybody is curious about this. In other new my landing light just went out so I'm buying some AeroLEDs SUNBEAMS and maybe also a new rotating beacon.
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 One of todays landing spots.
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