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azflyboy posted:(by spacing arrivals out to reduce the huge AM and PM rushes) This is the root cause of a shockingly high percentage of delays at most airports.
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Ahhh... finally did a practice diversion up to commercial flight test standard. Followed by a rather poo poo crosswind landing (straight, but fairly off-centre), but still, I'll take my wins where I can get them.
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On my first practice diversion I was taken up by our most junior instructor who hadn't done a ton of flying in the area yet and seeing as the field I was diverting to wasn't terribly far away we decided to go all the way while working on a few things and do a touch and go. Neither of us noticed in the CFS that the field is PPR.  Fortunately everyone here apparently knows everyone else so our head instructor said not to worry about it and he'd apologize profusely on our behalf if they called to chew us out. Won't be making that mistake again.
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EvilJoven posted:On my first practice diversion I was taken up by our most junior instructor who hadn't done a ton of flying in the area yet and seeing as the field I was diverting to wasn't terribly far away we decided to go all the way while working on a few things and do a touch and go. Yeah, everyone fucks up something like that at least once. The good part is: my guess is the experience was sufficiently embarrassing that neither you nor your instructor will ever make that particular mistake again. There's only three public airports within a reasonable distance at Springbank (and even then, you basically have time to go out, do a touch and go, and come back during a normal-length booking) so all our diversion practice is basically just picking a recognizable thing on the map and then flying to it. There's one closed PPR strip just south of the city, and another one that's still open just to the north, but we don't use those for training flights obviously. My mental checklist on diversions is now almost second nature, but I was loving up headings and ETEs. I believe the difference between the private and commercial standard is that you're allowed to follow roads and landmarks for a diversion for your PPL, but you have to do it by dead reckoning "as if over barren terrain" for the CPL -- definitely makes things a bit trickier.
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Captain Apollo posted:Canadian acronyms are terrible. Which ones are bothering you? EDIT: I mean, PPL and CPL are the same in the US (and worldwide, no?), ETE is "estimated time enroute" which I presume is standard... so "PPR"? That's just Prior Permission Required. Is it designated differently in the US? Or (in EvilJoven's post) CFS, which I think is the equivalent of the AFD in the US. PT6A fucked around with this message at 03:00 on Feb 1, 2017 |
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Oh Jesus gently caress God, no. http://wnewsj.com/news/34795/amazon-plans-1-4b-cvg-hub TL;DR: it looks like Amazon just DHL'd Wilmington back into oblivion in favor of Yet Another Cargo Hub At CVG. I've got a friend going through IOE at ABX saying ILN's finished.
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Comments section blame the Port Authority, not Amazon.
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I think its likely Amazon chose to learn from DHL and Airborne Express. They used to bus people in from surrounding areas just to try and keep the airport staffed. You dont build a fedex size freight hub in a town of 12k people with all population centers an hour away.
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CVG makes a lot of sense though doesn't it? Is delta even pretending it's a hub anymore? They used to have 3 passenger terminals, aren't they down to using barely half of one now? That airport can handle a lot more capacity than is being used.
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Captain Apollo posted:Comments section blame the Port Authority, not Amazon. It still sucks for the area no matter who to point the finger at. hobbesmaster posted:CVG makes a lot of sense though doesn't it? Is delta even pretending it's a hub anymore? They used to have 3 passenger terminals, aren't they down to using barely half of one now? That airport can handle a lot more capacity than is being used. Yes and no. DL still has a hub/mega-focus city there, complete with 763 service to CDG. It's nowhere near what it used to be, but it's no MEM/STL/CMH/CLE/PIT and still can be used for connections to a number of large or mid-sized cities with the notable exception of XNA because of P&G and Walmart. They've even added mainline there lately. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati/Northern_Kentucky_International_Airport#Passenger Concourse B is still all Delta, but they moved everybody else into A. The combination of that and explosive growth from both Allegiant and Frontier (who both have focus cities there), as well as the Southwest service poached from DAY, actually has them short on gate space; from what I've read on A.net, they're reactivating four gates for Southwest and that might not be enough.
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Oh, glad to hear CVG is having a renaissance of a sort, northern Kentucky needs it and last I heard it was bad.
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CBJSprague24 posted:with the notable exception of XNA because of P&G and Walmart. They've even added mainline there lately. I know p&g and Walmart were are less than happy with each other but I didn't realize it had gotten that bad. We're the xna<->cvg flights being subsidized by Walmart?
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I am totally out of the loop, how is Amazon to work for so far compared to the cargo carriers?
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hobbesmaster posted:Oh, glad to hear CVG is having a renaissance of a sort, northern Kentucky needs it and last I heard it was bad. Yeah, it's good to see. I did laps on 18R on a weekday afternoon in a 172SP in 2012. It may get to where that can't happen anymore. Beyond the stuff I posted about, they've had good fortune, sometimes at the expense of other airports. Frontier's service started as a direct result of them leaving CMH (they added CLE at the same time; CMH later got it back and then some) and later cost DAY their service. Southwest is also pulling down DAY to start CVG. UA runs CVG-SFO now, though it sounded like that was a pissing match answer for another service DL started at one of UA's hubs, while UA has also added mainline to DEN and AA mainline to DFW. There are also the PSA maintenance and crew bases, Southern setting up shop, now Amazon. Lots of growth. KodiakRS posted:I know p&g and Walmart were are less than happy with each other but I didn't realize it had gotten that bad. We're the xna<->cvg flights being subsidized by Walmart? I guess I phrased that in a weird way- CVG-XNA still operates and it's one of, if not THE, only non-major metro areas to still have service on DL to CVG. The tie exists because of Walmart.
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SCOTLAND posted:I am totally out of the loop, how is Amazon to work for so far compared to the cargo carriers? You dont work for Amazon (yet) Amazon contracts lift from ABX Air, ATI (both owned by the same parent company) and Atlas. The flying is, for now, quite a bit different than the hub turn stuff FedEx and UPS guys do, and there is a lot of daytime flying.
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greasyhands posted:You dont work for Amazon (yet) Amazon contracts lift from ABX Air, ATI (both owned by the same parent company) and Atlas. The flying is, for now, quite a bit different than the hub turn stuff FedEx and UPS guys do, and there is a lot of daytime flying. Yeah, if you watch FR24 or FlightAware in the morning hours (like 8-11AM EST), you'll see a handful of 767s leaving ILN. They even added an indicator on FR24 for ILN, which wasn't there until Amazon. It's been warm and fuzzy to see 767s taking off from the middle of nowhere of SW Ohio again. 
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I couldn't believe DL operated a CVG-CDG so I had to look it up myself.  Welp. It's $2400 round trip I wonder if they sell out...  Welp.
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Jealous Cow posted:I couldn't believe DL operated a CVG-CDG so I had to look it up myself. That route makes more sense if you think of it as a direct flight from GE Aviation hq to Europe.
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The very last vestige of the long-haul CVG hub. Air France flew a 747 into CVG back in the early 2000s, I guess for Delta onward connections. Had I not been on that flight once myself, I'd never believe it.
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Jealous Cow posted:Welp. It's $2400 round trip Are you looking with less than 48 hours notice and using that as a representative fare on the route as a whole?
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I used to fly CVG-FRA on Delta all the time in the mid 2000's. Always preferred it to flying into Atlanta as a connecting hub.
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a patagonian cavy posted:The very last vestige of the long-haul CVG hub. Air France flew a 747 into CVG back in the early 2000s, I guess for Delta onward connections. Had I not been on that flight once myself, I'd never believe it. CVG-CDG was twice daily in the early 2000s. AF A340 and DL 777 in the Summer of 2004 when I flew it. Jealous Cow posted:I couldn't believe DL operated a CVG-CDG so I had to look it up myself. CVG had CDG, FRA, LGW, AMS, and FCO all nonstop in 2004. That's not as random as PIT-CDG and RDU-CDG. And PHL-LHR, EWR-CDG, and ORD-CDG for that matter. They run all five. The CDG flights feed AF on the other end, but only RDU is a DL focus city. DL currently has a pants tent for RDU to the point where that flight was upgauged to a 763 this summer.
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Pre northwest merger CVG was a major Delta hub on par with what DTW is currently so that shouldn't be surprising at all. It was also Comair's headquarters and they had an entire concourse (C) without jetways devoted to CRJs. Post merger Northwest's MEM hub was killed and it was looking like CVG would be lucky to remain a focus city. I mean, Delta has hubs in ATL, DTW, LGA and MSP, it's kinda surprising they kept CVG.
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CBJSprague24 posted:
What  That's a weird one. I wish United would start up a route to Europe with a 789 or 737maxxxxxx or whatever from CLE.
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Is the BA route LHR-PHX as random as I think it is?
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Jealous Cow posted:What RDU and PIT used to be major hubs at one point and have major international industries to support some flights. PHX is an American hub and BA is the same alliance.
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carry on then posted:Is the BA route LHR-PHX as random as I think it is? I don't think so. BA is OneWorld and PHX is an AA hub, and there is a lot of tech going on in Scottsdale. I know several people that live in the area that make heavy use of that flight. AUS-LHR too.
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BA, and KLM to a lesser extent, has a lot of flights to fairly small cities, I suppose because they are trying to leverage their European/Middle Eastern/etc. network. For example, I doubt there's huge demand for YYC-LHR or YEG/YYC-AMS for passengers ending up in either London or Amsterdam, but those flights are quite full whenever I take them because a lot of people are connecting onward to somewhere in Europe, Africa or the Middle East. The BA routes that really stick out as odd in my mind are LHR-AUS and LHR-MCO.
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PT6A posted:The BA routes that really stick out as odd in my mind are LHR-AUS and LHR-MCO. London to Disney isn't that much of a stretch, is it? Probably makes more sense than LGW-TPA but even when I took that flight club world was full.
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PT6A posted:LHR-MCO Go to disney. You'll understand.
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There are multiple Virgin 747s a day to MCO from LGW, MAN, and Glasgow to go along with sometimes twice daily BA 777s. And Thomas Cook A330s. And all the Thomson stuff to SFB. CMH has been teasing for a year the possibility of London nonstops in the near future. Whether it would be AA/BA to LHR or maybe Norwegian to LGW, I don't know. carry on then posted:Is the BA route LHR-PHX as random as I think it is? It used to/might still continue to SAN. CBJSprague24 fucked around with this message at 17:18 on Feb 4, 2017 |
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CBJSprague24 posted:There are multiple Virgin 747s a day to MCO from LGW, MAN, and Glasgow to go along with sometimes twice daily BA 777s. And Thomas Cook A330s. Not when I flew it, BA 289 pulled up to Sky Harbor about 5PM and BA 288 left the gate at about 8PM. Makes sense though.
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MrYenko posted:Go to disney. You'll understand. I know Disney and all that stuff is there, but I guess I just thought it wouldn't be that popular as to merit several direct flights from the UK.
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CBJSprague24 posted:CVG-CDG was twice daily in the early 2000s. AF A340 and DL 777 in the Summer of 2004 when I flew it. Not sure about the others, but ORD-CDG is just seasonal on Delta. I think 5 months of Delta and 7 of Air France
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Stupid Post Maker posted:Not sure about the others, but ORD-CDG is just seasonal on Delta. I think 5 months of Delta and 7 of Air France That route makes sense to me, though -- it's a flight between two big and geopolitically important cities with a bunch of connections on each end. Or it it just strange that it's DL/AF feeding into a major OneWorld hub in the US instead of wherever DL operates out of?
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PT6A posted:I know Disney and all that stuff is there, but I guess I just thought it wouldn't be that popular as to merit several direct flights from the UK. It really is that popular. Growing up in the UK, everyone you know goes to Orlando.
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European views on what are the desirable places to visit in the USA are so loving baffling to me. Florida? Theme parks? Man, what a waste of time, no wonder everyone on that side of the pond thinks we're all retarded.
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Pryor on Fire posted:European views on what are the desirable places to visit in the USA are so loving baffling to me. Florida? Theme parks? Man, what a waste of time, no wonder everyone on that side of the pond thinks we're all retarded. As a Florida Man, I agree with this statement.
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