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Arson Daily posted:From waaay back but my wife got me these for Xmas and they're super duper choice. Do those seem to be resolable by a competent cobbler? Enjoy your HNL New Year! I'm based here and off Reserve tonight so there 
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eh probably not but I'm not really versed in that so maybe? Ive had a pair of their brown suede boots for years now and wear them all the time and they're holding up nice so I think the quality is there at least
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Ugh I might be calling out on new years reserve while still on probation. I think someone went and got me sick.
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PT6A posted:No I don't think it's that. can’t park there mate
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Rolo posted:Ugh I might be calling out on new years reserve while still on probation. 3/4 supervisors at work (including myself) are down with colds this week, two of my students last week were sick when I cancelled on them because I was sick. I don't know if this is COVID or what the gently caress is going on right now, but it's very bad at the moment. I don't love masks, but I hate losing most of a paycheque and feeling like trash so I might just go back to wearing them until people learn to keep their sick, gross selves inside until they're well.
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Called off Christmas because of terrible norovirus which is apparently going around where I'm at but if you're sick you're sick and don't go giving whatever you've got to others. You made the right choice!
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Yeah I ended up calling out and I definitely have at least a cold. We got a handful of hours with the new contract so oh well! Time to sit in bed with a book and some video games.
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Arson Daily posted:Called off Christmas because of terrible norovirus which is apparently going around where I'm at but if you're sick you're sick and don't go giving whatever you've got to others. You made the right choice! as did you. did you know that a norovirus infection can be transmitted with as little as *three individual viruses*? there is a famous case from new york where an infected person dining at a restaurant vomited at her table -- aerosolizing the virus -- and within a week 75% of the other people who were at the restaurant that night were sick. that's all it takes, just breathing the air in the same room  on that note has anyone ever had a, uh, bathroom emergency in the cockpit? i have peed in a bottle but that's it
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Sagebrush posted:
I had a captain poo poo his pants because he thought he could hold it until we landed. We were an empty ferry flight and had plenty of time and fuel to hold. Instead he rolled the dice and we both lost.
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Sagebrush posted:as did you. did you know that a norovirus infection can be transmitted with as little as *three individual viruses*? there is a famous case from new york where an infected person dining at a restaurant vomited at her table -- aerosolizing the virus -- and within a week 75% of the other people who were at the restaurant that night were sick. that's all it takes, just breathing the air in the same room A classic of modern literature: https://www.theautopian.com/how-i-got-my-navy-callsign-by-making GBS threads-myself-in-an-f-a-18-fighter-jet-twice/
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Sagebrush posted:on that note has anyone ever had a, uh, bathroom emergency in the cockpit? i have peed in a bottle but that's it Well as a glider pilot I'm supposed to have bathroom breaks regularly on long flights, but I'm ashamed to admit I have never been able to pull it of. Strapped in a 4-point harness, almost laying in the seat in a tiny, maximally aerodynamical cockpit. The flight stick right in front of the joy stick and I'm supposed to pee in a plastic bag and throw it out. I just have never been able to find a position where I could do it. Maybe if I was John Holmes and I could just stick the pipe out of the ventilation hatch.
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Jan 2, 2024 22:26
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We find a place to land, do our business, and carry on?
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Still doing some research into ground schools and came across this: https://www.learnthefinerpoints.com/ground-school Anyone have any insight, it seems pretty great and people online seem to have a great deal of respect for the people behind it, but like everything on the internet, I am always a bit leery.
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Kwolok posted:Still doing some research into ground schools and came across this: https://www.learnthefinerpoints.com/ground-school Looks like a subscription based deal? I've watched his videos and they seem fine, but I think you're better off paying the Kings $300 and have the material forever.
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One of my former co-workers once landed at a tiny, uncontrolled airport, took an urgent poo poo on the runway, and then left. The worst experience I've had personally was as a passenger arriving to Hell (also known as Pierre Elliot Trudeau International Airport), on a flight from Purgatory (also known as South Florida). The night before, we'd had dinner at a Mexican joint that my cousin swore was "the best." The seatbelt sign went on for descent, and I'm like "oh gently caress, this isn't good. I can make it 'til we're on the ground, I think." And I did. But because the Quebecois are a cursed form of human life, there were no bathrooms between the jetway and passport control, so there's another ~20 minutes. I got through passport control, I saw the bathroom sign. I nearly made it! [scene missing] Cabbie: "Why are you wearing swim trunks? It's fuckin' -20" Me: "SHUT UP AND DRIVE THE CAR, I don't want to talk about it!"
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ImplicitAssembler posted:We find a place to land, do our business, and carry on? It's the carry on that is usually the issue. You either carry on and hold it in, or you don't carry on and call the recovery team.
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Kwolok posted:Still doing some research into ground schools and came across this: https://www.learnthefinerpoints.com/ground-school Jason Miller is pretty great, yeah. I tested that course from the instructor side and from what I remember the content was good, it just wasn’t the curriculum I used regularly. If I recall correctly, I think it’s really designed for and works best if you’re working with an instructor using it as well, but as a solo ground school course I would think it should hold up as well.
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PT6A posted:One of my former co-workers once landed at a tiny, uncontrolled airport, took an urgent poo poo on the runway, and then left. What's the code for that in the runway METAR?
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Sagebrush posted:What's the code for that in the runway METAR? Runway friction is reported in the NOTAMs and I sincerely hope it would've covered less than 10% of the runway, and therefore gone without being reported.
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"FICON 5/5/5, 10% turds"
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Aero Crew News says APA is starting a committee to look at folding American's regionals into mainline itself.
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CBJSprague24 posted:Aero Crew News says APA is starting a committee to look at folding American's regionals into mainline itself. They just had to wait for Bombardier to completely die, huh?
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CBJSprague24 posted:Aero Crew News says APA is starting a committee to look at folding American's regionals into mainline itself. Assuming the story is true, this was just a case of which of the majors was going to blink first. The most recent round of pay bumps have completely broken the "traditional" regional business model, since regionals had to double (or better) their starting pay, which results in a situation where airlines with a wholly-owned regional are now spending way more on payroll, for an airline that's generally pretty crippled by scope, so merging it gives the parent company an opportunity to fill the gaps between the 76 seat RJ's and the ~150 seat 737/A320 that everyone but Delta currently has.
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azflyboy posted:Assuming the story is true, this was just a case of which of the majors was going to blink first. It's true but it's not what you think:  While there is strong financial, staffing, and scope relief incentive to merge ENY/PDT/PSA into AA there's been no official announcement of a merger. This is just APA saying they're looking into it the same way DALPA did with Endeavor a while back. The other possibility is that it's a scare tactic by APA to dissuade participation in an ongoing ALPA card drive. For various reasons AA pilot trust in APA is at an all time low and a lot of us are interested in seeing what replacing them with ALPA might look like. APA has not been handling it well at all and has resorting to scare tactics like this:  I wouldn't be surprised if this is APA attempting to tell it's pilots "Only APA can protect you from ALPA regional pilots trying to steal your seniority." I wrote a giant 1,500+ word shitpost about it but decided there had been enough posting about poo poo in here recently.
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KodiakRS posted:For various reasons AA pilot trust in APA is at an all time low and a lot of us are interested in seeing what replacing them with ALPA might look like. APA has not been handling it well at all and has resorting to scare tactics like this: Was APA the group that posted about how air travel fatalities have dropped enormously since the 1500-hour requirement went into effect and as part of their dataset included 9/11?
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KodiakRS posted:APA has not been handling it well at all and has resorting to scare tactics like this: That's almost as entertaining as Delta putting up those "look how many video games you can buy instead of paying union dues!" posters a few years ago.
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I mean I wouldn't trust ALPA either unless I was a delta or United mainline pilot. ALPA famously doesn't give two shits about you unless you're at a legacy. Friends at AA don't seem to trust APA either so Japanese should shrug emoji
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Arson Daily posted:I mean I wouldn't trust ALPA either unless I was a delta or United mainline pilot. ALPA famously doesn't give two shits about you unless you're at a legacy. Friends at AA don't seem to trust APA either so Japanese should shrug emoji I’ll never forget working for a Delta regional carrier and ALPA asking us to take concessions, only for Delta pilots to receive their largest profit sharing bonuses ever. Then they hired those same union EXCO members who were pushing for concessions. What a coincidence.
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I had heard various lovely things that ALPA had done to the various regional airlines they represented but it really sealed the deal for me that ALPA sucked when ATI wouldn't honor ABEX Air's one day strike in the winter of 2016 or 17. gently caress them for that. ALPA did great work back in the day but they've been FYGM for decades now
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Arson Daily posted:I had heard various lovely things that ALPA had done to the various regional airlines they represented but it really sealed the deal for me that ALPA sucked when ATI wouldn't honor ABEX Air's one day strike in the winter of 2016 or 17. gently caress them for that. Oh yeah, ALPA scabbing on ABX was a real scumbag move. It runs like a corporation, not a union.
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Phanatic posted:Was APA the group that posted about how air travel fatalities have dropped enormously since the 1500-hour requirement went into effect and as part of their dataset included 9/11? Good lord, I did research on a similar data set for a Capstone project in college and would have been laughed out of the building had I included 9/11 in those stats. 
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CBJSprague24 posted:Good lord, I did research on a similar data set for a Capstone project in college and would have been laughed out of the building had I included 9/11 in those stats. I was wrong, it was ALPA: https://twitter.com/ALPAPilots/status/1678503308720308231 https://trainedforlife.alpa.org/article/training-requirements-keep-our-skies-safe/
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it's even funnier that excluding 9/11 would've only dropped the figure from 99.8% to 99.5%, just a completely unnecessary own goal if they were serious they could've just screnshotted the 3701 transcript shame on an IGA fucked around with this message at 04:56 on Jan 6, 2024 |
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shame on an IGA posted:it's even funnier that excluding 9/11 would've only dropped the figure from 99.8% to 99.5%, just a completely unnecessary own goal The problem there is that both pilots had well over the new ATP minimums.
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hobbesmaster posted:The problem there is that both pilots had well over the new ATP minimums. Sure you're talking about the same flight? 3701 was the one where the two idiots core-locked the engines on their CRJ at 41000'.
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yeah i thought the new minimums came out of the colgan air crash, where the pilots just stalled the plane and held the yoke back all the way into the ground, something that you generally learn not to do in the first 3 hours or so of training
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Phanatic posted:Sure you're talking about the same flight? 3701 was the one where the two idiots core-locked the engines on their CRJ at 41000'. Yup, I completely read that as colgan 3407
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