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Wow! That is a hard one. The 757 was the most fun because it is just like a 172 with more power than you can imagine, the 747 was just so honest and felt at home, the DC-9's were a hoot and the MD11 required the most staying ahead of...I guess, the MD11.

Picture 3652 should come before 3651. This was a great circle route. What is the difference between passenger flying and freight? One is self loading the other requires someone to push it on and lock it down...in the cockpit...none...when I flew passengers I didn't really think about the...

I flew my final flight in the MD11 for UPS last night from EDDK (Cologne Germany) to KSDF (Louisville KY). It has been a great thirty years with the usual frustrations and joys. Commercial aviation has changed so much since I got in the business back in 1976 and some for the better and some...

I worked at Muse Air and we were told we were the launch customer but Wikipedia says it was Republic and Muse Air which became Transtar was not even listed. I guess my type rating and 4000 hours were in a non existent plane. One of our DC- 9 - 51’s is the display aircraft in the Delta Museum...

Nope Muse Air which became Transtar after the buyout by Southwest but Wikipedia lists Republic as the first?????? AA came and rode our jump seats to see how they like them...I guess they did. Swiss Air was the first international carrier Also, look at any pilot that has a type in the MD80...

Who was the launch customer of the MD 80 in the US?

The green goop is designed to shear off at about rotation speed but some does hide in cracks and crevices on the plane, hence what you see dripping and oozing after a flight. Something not discussed here is the fact that it is designed to shear off....good....bad is the fact that it all shears...

Asian Students? Follow the syllabus because once they leave they will not be allowed to do anything but rote memory work. Most can quote the entire manual but if you really want to mess them up....give them a visual. This is not racist but based upon years of experience. Our normal training...

Scud, Maintenance Delay11 and many other names. Good friend is an aeronautical engineer and he can’t wait for me to retire and get away from it. He can spend hours showing you how it is a terrible plane. Yep, a decent airplane DC10 to a less than stellar one with the 11. Range? I have been...

And the small guys don’t have a clue to what’s involved in airline flying! I am a life long civilian pilot, own my own small plane now and work on it. My point is that it is different and unless one is doing both then laughing at the landings is just secretly wishing they were there. It is...

For those laughing at airline types landings....try this. Max landing weight Vref over the numbers in an MD11 is 171 - 173 knots and my eye height at the point of touchdown is 43 feet above the runway. We would laugh at you landing ours but we would too busy trying to recover the crash.

I highly recommend attending the Advanced Pilot Seminars in Ada OK. You will learn that the airport big mouth and the OWT's are based generally upon a little bit of fact and a whole lot of "interpretation". They will show you hard data and you will come away with a very good knowledge of how...

All airplanes are very easy to fly...as long as you're ahead of them. Get behind in a 172 and it can be extremely difficult or deadly, same thing for any airplane of any size. I fly an MD11, only 195 built and one (off the top of my head) hull loss due to inflight fire, the rest, approximately...

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Found a little but we are looking for the flying boat stuff. Mainly flight crew. Just trying to see what a bid package would look like.

I have done some Google searches but so far no luck. My son is a Clipper era fan and we were discussing how and what a schedule for a Crew looked like. Anyone aware of a source that might have a sample?

Referencing a previous post about a passenger speaking up about an airliner not being deiced....a former F/O and a member of our safety committee was being dead headed on a Value Jet DC-9 out of Louisville in the winter and had to call the flight attendant when they blocked out and said to tell...

In addition to what Larry in TN posted, we now use a computer based system that takes the present weather and analyzes it for Liquid Water Equivalents I.e. how wet is the precipitation and derives a no later than takeoff time. Seems to be very accurate. If the precipitation stops then the...

Warsaw Poland No snow forecast so they didn’t plug the engines It is twenty feet from the lip to the first fan section.

No idea. Not cheap