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Psion posted:I googled Fokker Friendship to look it up because I've never heard of them, but I get a turboprop plane - F27 - and not those. Yeah those are F.28s.
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Aw this thread is making me nostalgic for Canadian Airlines  RIP good national carrier.
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Oct 11, 2017 18:22
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My first flight was in 1996, on a Continental 737. I don't remember what subtype, and I don't know where to find Continental livery from 1996. I've heard lots of bad things about Delta, United, American Airlines, and so on, but not so much about Continental. Have they been doing okay in the not-dragging-passengers-off-planes department?
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Oct 11, 2017 19:22
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Zemyla posted:My first flight was in 1996, on a Continental 737. I don't remember what subtype, and I don't know where to find Continental livery from 1996. Continental merged into United, so, no.
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Oct 11, 2017 19:31
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You mean the Continental that merged with United, adopted that name and continued doing business under the Continental legal entity? No, they're not doing good, at all.
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Oct 11, 2017 19:35
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My first flight as a solo kid was when I was 10ish and it was on a Pan-Am 747 with a name on it. Don't remember the name though. Also got wings and a trip to the cockpit.
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Oct 11, 2017 19:56
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priznat posted:Aw this thread is making me nostalgic for Canadian Airlines I'm somebody who's never flown outside of Canada, but I get this vauge impression that compared to most American mainline carriers, Air Canada is actually pretty good.
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Oct 11, 2017 20:21
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Yeah Air Canada is solid, it's just expensive (though not much more expensive than intra-Canada flight in general).
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Oct 11, 2017 20:29
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Scaled built a new and silly thing. http://www.aviationpros.com/press_release/12373947/scaled-completes-first-flight-of-experimental-aircraft
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Oct 11, 2017 20:36
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I find Air Canada when flying first class fantastic and as good as anybody. When flying coach I definitely find them near the bottom of the pack for customer service/experience in general compared to other carriers steerage class.
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Oct 11, 2017 21:04
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Nebakenezzer posted:I'm somebody who's never flown outside of Canada, but I get this vauge impression that compared to most American mainline carriers, Air Canada is actually pretty good. It's not bad by any means I just much preferred Canadian. They were more western focused and I enjoyed flying them albeit I was a kid. In my mind Air Canada is forever linked with flying into shithole 80s Pearson whenever we would go east of Manitoba. Not sure if there were less routes or what but seemed like we always flew AC there.
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Oct 11, 2017 21:11
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Dannywilson posted:Some of them are a little short for the job, but don't let that distract you.  TK-421, why aren't you at your post? Dannywilson posted:Y'all are welcome to some darts, timbits, and Kokanee after though, wouldn't want you leavin angry. Except it's still AC, so it's more like "chicken or vegetarian" "what's the vegetarian?"  "it's the vegetable one" *bashes your shoulder with the cart*
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Oct 11, 2017 21:44
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First flight I can recall is on a Alitalia 747 to Rome. I was taken to the flight deck where two nice Italian pilots gave me a plastic set of wings.
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My first flight was on a Southwest 737. The most  flight.It was the old gold/red livery IIRC.
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Oct 12, 2017 01:18
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Pan Am 707, didn't get any wings.
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Oct 12, 2017 01:28
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Apparently I flew on a plane to Florida when I was like 2 years old, but I don't remember what it was. The first flight I remember taking was a Continental Airlines 727 from Cleveland to Phoenix in the mid-'90s. I remember getting an entire can of Sprite, and my dad pointing out that it was made of steel rather than aluminum.
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Oct 12, 2017 01:49
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Early 80's United 727 MFR -> SFO I was a little kid and my mom loving hates flying so I got locked in and didn't get to do anything cool. 
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Oct 12, 2017 01:52
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I flew to the UK when I was a toddler so that doesn't count, next time was when I was maybe 12 or 13 from Toronto to Calgary on a DC8. No plastic wings, just a sinus problem that caused agonizing pain on descent, probably because the outflow valves were so gummed up with cigarette tar there was no real way of accurately controlling cabin pressure.
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Oct 12, 2017 02:05
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joat mon posted:Pan Am 707, didn't get any wings. drat. That's some baller street cred right there.
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Oct 12, 2017 02:21
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joat mon posted:Pan Am 707, didn't get any wings. Piedmont 727.   
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Finger Prince posted:Except it's still AC, so it's more like Yeah the hospitality we got was def the contractor that handled our flights into and out of St. Johns, they would show up, help us bed our plane down for the night, hand us beer and timbits while the crew finalized the next day's schedule, and then drive us down to the hotel. You definitely wanted to land at SJ rather than Gander when you were coming out of the sandbox. spookykid fucked around with this message at 03:17 on Oct 12, 2017 |
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Oct 12, 2017 02:31
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Oh my god the memories of family vacations to see my grandparents in the early 90s, YYZ to YVR, that livery is forever stuck in my mind. Also flew Canada 3000 a few times, I think I may still have a set of Canada 3000 branded in-flight headphones somewhere in a box.
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Oct 12, 2017 02:49
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First flight was on a Delta plane, either a 727 or an MD-88. I flew on one to Florida and on the other back, and I can't remember which order.
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The earliest flights I remember were on 727s and MD-80s I'm pretty sure. The first flight I can actually remember in terms of matching the aircraft and itinerary was a 747 from Miami to Cape Town when I was 9.
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I was going through some photos to try and find one of me as a toddler on a BAE 146 in the 80's, which I think I've posted here before. I couldn't find that, but I did find a neat picture of the back end of the early model E-2 that's on display at the USS Midway Museum in San Diego.  e: searching my post history informs me that the photos are still there on my server, just named weird: Wingnut Ninja posted:Going through some old photos, I found pictures of what may be my very first airplane ride ever. Wingnut Ninja fucked around with this message at 03:59 on Oct 12, 2017 |
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Oct 12, 2017 03:55
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Random question but how long does it take to shut down a modern airliner (A321 specifically). Reason I ask is because I recently was on one, and by the time I deplaned (Row 15) the cockpit was completely dark, lights off and nobody home. Usually the captain or FO is at the door saying goodbye to the passengers, or finishing checklists, but not today apparently. Figured either the flight crew had another flight to catch or one of them had to poop really bad and basically ran out the door.
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Oct 12, 2017 04:07
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Aircraft shutdown is pretty loving quick. We could have the awacs off in about 3-5 minutes if the checklist was ran without interruptions.
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Never really thought about it, but could probably have the CRJ from parking brake to cold & dark in less than a minute if we were trying for it.
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INTJ Mastermind posted:Random question but how long does it take to shut down a modern airliner (A321 specifically). Reason I ask is because I recently was on one, and by the time I deplaned (Row 15) the cockpit was completely dark, lights off and nobody home. Usually the captain or FO is at the door saying goodbye to the passengers, or finishing checklists, but not today apparently. Figured either the flight crew had another flight to catch or one of them had to poop really bad and basically ran out the door. On the Q400, we have a forced three minute wait in the power-down checklist to keep one of the navigation systems from getting cranky when it gets powered on. If that wait is skipped (which happens if we had to evacuate for some reason), we can shut the airplane down in somewhere under a minute if needed.
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I have never flown on a 747. My first flight was on a Continental 727 in 1973 just like this I flew on an IL 62 ten years ago and thought it was pretty quiet and comfortable.
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Oct 12, 2017 05:34
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United from ORD to PIT in late 70s or early 80s. Plastic wings and a coloring book
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cowboy elvis posted:Aircraft shutdown is pretty loving quick. We could have the awacs off in about 3-5 minutes if the checklist was ran without interruptions. AKA the Friday afternoon sortie.
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INTJ Mastermind posted:Random question but how long does it take to shut down a modern airliner (A321 specifically). Reason I ask is because I recently was on one, and by the time I deplaned (Row 15) the cockpit was completely dark, lights off and nobody home. Usually the captain or FO is at the door saying goodbye to the passengers, or finishing checklists, but not today apparently. Figured either the flight crew had another flight to catch or one of them had to poop really bad and basically ran out the door. A321 is pretty straightforward - engines off, external power connected, APU off, external power off, batteries off (depending on policy). Cabin lights are on the ground service bus so will be powered with just the aircraft plugged in. Longest thing would be waiting for the APU to complete its shutdown sequence so 45-60 seconds. If there's nothing to put in the log you could probably be out of there within 2 minutes of them hooking up the GPU.
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All these kid-in-cockpit stories will never happen again, and that's sad. However... I was on a flight the other week where they pulled the curtain across the front galley, which I have since become pretty sure is their SOP for when the cockpit door is open: not realising this, I stuck my head round the curtain and asked if I could use the toilet. The stewardess said yes, although she seemed very surprised, and as I went to open the bathroom door I noticed that the cockpit door was ajar. I cannot describe how tempting it was to stick my head around the door, offer a jolly "hullo lads, what's going on in here?". But instead I decided I'd rather not be arrested and taken god knows where upon our landing in China. My wife probably wouldn't have found it amusing either. PS: hullo 
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I don't remember my first flight alone, but I went on many 737s and F50s when I was a child and cockpit visits were so routine I eventually started haughtily declining them.
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My first flight was a Continental DC-10 in 1990, and this is apparently a photo of a Continental DC-10 in 1990 (can't say I really remember what the plane looked like after all these years!): I'm disappointed that it actually looks gold in that photo, the photo hasn't faded and made it look orange. VideoGameVet posted:My first flight, I was around 6 or so, was on one of these: I don't know why I hadn't seen it before but now I suddenly get why Wingnut Ninja posted:I did find a neat picture of the back end of the early model E-2 that's on display at the USS Midway Museum in San Diego. What? You can go in there? gently caress!   To be fair I really want to see all the equipment running so I'm better off finding a YouTube video, maybe in a few decades when it's all really obsolete.
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Buttcoin purse posted:My first flight was a Continental DC-10 in 1990, and this is apparently a photo of a Continental DC-10 in 1990 (can't say I really remember what the plane looked like after all these years!): God drat, I thought "Hong Kong?" then looked closer and there it was. It's one of my eternal disappointments that I missed out on flying into Kai Tak. If you're a flight sim nerd and you haven't already, fire up a Kai Tak landing. Basically you fly AT a checkerboard painted on a mountain rockface, swing it 90 degrees right, drop from the sky like a stone and ignore everything bitching Betty says, and hope you don't clip a towerblock and/or run into the sea. Hospitals in Hong Kong used to have to keep (aggregated) spare bed capacity equal to a fully-booked 747 because the landing is so insane E: 47 degrees, apparently, not 90 Also bear in mind that a missed approach takes you only a short hop across the harbour towards skyscrapers and mountains Plus the turn was made at around 200 knots There was a height limit for buildings in kowloon (which you fly over to land) but it's commonplace here in HK for people to build an illegal extra floor on the rooftops. Plus Kowloon Walled City (a while other amazing thing in its own right) basically ran itself, the police wouldn't enter it, and people added multiple stories over the decades As a result it's easy to see what was built after th airport closed. Taller than 11 floors (or 9 in East Kowloon)? Post 1998. E2: it took 15 years or so for the government to decontaminate the runway (I guess jet fuel, brake dust and rubber?) before a cruise ship terminal could be built there. I've sailed around it in a sailboat, there are still clear signs of what used to be there, from the obvious like radar buildings to the more subtle like how transport infrastructure is laid out. Much like getting your plastic wings from the pilot, it's something aviation will probably never repeat. simplefish fucked around with this message at 10:09 on Oct 12, 2017 |
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My first plane ride was at the age of 7 in a Cessna 172 that belonged to the son my dad's boss. My dad worked for Flying J truck stops and traveled a bunch on business aircraft, so I often got to go inside and look around before he'd depart. He flew with Jay Call, the founder of the company, a lot, too and I was told I'd get a ride with him sometime but my dad left the company not long later. Years later, Jay crashed in his Citation. http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/flying-j-founder-killed-in-plane-crash/article_d2605ecc-7232-5697-bcdd-4eafeaee3c07.html My dad had recently got back in contact with him just before that happened looking to maybe working together again, so he took it pretty hard. My 2nd flight was in a Cap-10B with Bob Heale, an aerobatic pilot who performed in airshows in the area. He was a friend of a family friend who was also a pilot. Bob offered him a ride, but he felt too elderly to go and knew my love of planes so I got to go instead. We did loops, rolls, hammerheads, and all sorts of stuff. I was thrilled, but not the best with motion sickness so we landed when I started to feel ill. A few years later he crashed at an airshow in that same plane. http://www.spokesman.com/stories/1996/sep/16/pilot-dies-after-fairchild-air-show-crash-i-got-a/. It's eerie to look at the few pictures I have of me buckling in just before we took off. So, I felt like I was a curse! My 3rd flight was a short one from SEA to GEG on Southwest which was uneventful and no one crashed later, to the best of my knowledge. It was the first time I flew above the clouds and mountains so my face was glued to the window the whole time.
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We routinely take kids into the cockpit and give plastic wings. Only at the gate though.
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My first flight was a school trip to Rome when I was about 11, probably some generic older 737 belonging to I have no idea which airline. The majority of the rest of my flying has been for work on company 737ngs in my old job and baby buses and E-jets in my current one. My most recent flight was a very comfortable trip to the USA in business class. Top deck on a 747 on the way out, too. Airline travel perks are pretty cool.
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