Search results

Those two things can never be in the same sentence.

Forget it, he's rolling.

You may want to review that again. PAMPI & DUEAS are indeed feeder routes.

Huh. Interesting... I just had to check my FOM to make sure it wasn't taken out and I missed it (which is not beyond the realm of possibility). We still have it in there.:dunno:

And this always isn't true either. At my place, there's a provision to use MDA as DA under certain criteria. That means that we can fly an RNAV approach as a constant descent and use the MDA as a DA and dip below it as the decision is made at the MDA. If we don't meet the criteria to use MDA...

Lol. Not me... I was off that day. And... that plane has one too many engines for me these days. ;)

Done. it would have been nice if this hadn’t been moved from the more traveled sections to here. I totally forgot about this. Thanks for the reminder.

I will say that there is no "grading" per se by the company, but there is a very active, unofficial, Captain grading system done by the FOs. Lists are created and passed around. Who is good to fly with, who isn't. Who buys the beers on the layovers, and who are slam-clickers. These lists get...

Both. You have at least one sim check every year or so, and a line check (for Captains) in the jet.

Me too.

They never are… ;)

“Pan-pan” is one word, just like “mayday,” and just like “mayday,” it is repeated three times. So it is correctly used as “pan-pan, pan-pan, pan-pan.”

We had partial flaps. What happened was, during flap extension, the flaps were coming out unequally between the inboard and outboard TE flaps. They were symmetric, which is good, just different (if I remember correctly, the max difference is 3 degrees). So basically, I think it happened when we...

I'm not saying it doesn't exist for large airplanes, but I've flown quite a few, and none of them display aircraft weight in the cockpit based on a strut gauge. All of them have been pretty much the same. The plane knows how much fuel it has on board (and how much that weighs), and we input the...

Do you tip line guys? I do (mostly), and although I know not everybody does, I think that’s relatively common.

You’d take him to a gentleman’s club? That would work too, I suppose.

I agree! Cheers!

A couple emergencies: Engine fire indication in a KC-135E immediately after takeoff leaving Incirlik AB for RAF Mildenhall (heavyweight), shut the engine down, dumped fuel and landed. Turned out to be a false fire light. Again, KC-135, loss of the right hydraulic system. KC-135 battery...