Re: Passenger lands Cessna Caravan after pilot has medical emergency

I never said most. I’m just point out in most facilities there’s a couple of pilots. A higher rate then the general population Ok, excuse my translation. The point is not even a "fairly high percentage" is close to the actual numbers. Oh sure some places may have more than others, but I w...

Re: Passenger lands Cessna Caravan after pilot has medical emergency

A fairly high percentage of ATCs have some flight training, all the way up to commercial pilot certificates. I’m this case the controller was a CFI. That doesn’t mean the controller at the time of the first call was the one who wound up talking him down. But they will go try to find someone who has...

Re: IAH Terminal D question

Right now, UA is using D regularly. I've flown them out of D on 763 to MCO, 772 to EWR, 763 to EWR, 789 to SFO. I honestly rather departing from D...distance/time from Curbside to gate is relatively quick. Plus the Centurion Lounge is in D......only drawback is there is no CLEAR location in D which...

Re: Marriott Ambassador versus Hilton Diamond

Simply put, have Hilton match your status which will give you Diamond status with Hilton Honors. I am a lifetime Titanium with Marriott and Hilton matched that a few years ago for Diamond and I still have that status today though don't stay much at Hilton properties, maybe 4/5 times a year. I still ...

Re: Airport codes different from where you expect them to be

RSW is the Regional South West Florida Airport serving Fort Myers. The original airport was Page Field and coded FMY. Page is GA only now. RSW was Southwest Florida Regional Airport, but the name was changed in the mid 90's to Southwest Florida International Airport while still retaining the RSW id...

Re: Private flight/biz jet callsigns

It is transmitted via ADS-B. Now why didn't I think of that?? :banghead: Even worse I didn't think of it as I know of a G550 guy who didn't like using the company call sign as it was similar to another sounding call sign of an airline and yes they got the call from FSDO after it filtered down the p...

Re: Private flight/biz jet callsigns

For your strip and data block, that is correct. On our end, it is required that our transponder be coded with our callsign - whether that callsign is the registration or the 3 letter identifier and flight number. If those don't match, the callsign owner can get a notification from the FAA and the u...

Re: Private flight/biz jet callsigns

You do file the callsign in your flight plan and also have to assure your transponder is broadcasting the callsign instead of the registration. When the flight plan is filed with the FAA host computer will attach the filed call sign or "N number" to the flight plan as well as assign the f...

Re: Ground Stop at HOU

Flflyer83 wrote:

Must be at the intersection with 12/30; otherwise, would they not shift operations?

Re: UA Domestic 777s

crownvic wrote:

UAL 2135 check flight history...
UAL 295 check flight history
UAL 2340 check flight history

However it may have been short lived.

Re: UA Domestic 777s

crownvic wrote:

here in Orlando, we are now getting 3 daily domestic 777 cities served...Newark, Chicago and Denver. FIrst time ever! Thank you United!

Re: Etiquette for sitting in seats at the gate

Could be rude, could be COVID, could be any number of reasons or the reason given may actually be true.

My wife and I always ask the person if anyone is sitting here when we are looking at seats with only two or three seats between folks, whether that be in a bar, airport, train etc.

Re: United 767 Polaris Class Seats Narrower than other United Widebodies?

According to the "info" section on SeatGuru, they are indeed narrower. The 767 Polaris seats are 20.6 inches wide, while those on the 777 & 787 are 22 inches wide. Partially correct. Yes the B763 Polaris seats are 20.6" wide. From the UAL website, the B772/3 Polaris seats are 22&...

Re: New Charlotte ATC Tower/TRACON Opens

atcsundevil wrote:

*stares in 12 second updates*

Re: West Coast Florida (TPA, PIE, SRQ, PGD, RSW, APF) Aviation Thread - 2022

BOE002 was up doing touch-n-goes again this morning at RSW, landing around 1055 EST.

Re: New Charlotte ATC Tower/TRACON Opens

Would the old tower be available as a backup for a short time in case the main tower needs a Covid cleaning? This has been very common in recent months. That would depend on what equipment they took from the old tower over to the new tower, though when IAH opened the new tower in 1997, I believe we...

Re: New Charlotte ATC Tower/TRACON Opens

Well I sure messed up the quote piece, dang it!!! [quote="echster"]STARS, the radar system used by terminal facilities (TRACONs/ATCTs), currently uses UNIX. STARS is supposed to switch to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) with the S8R1 software in 2023.[quote] With all respect, have to corr...

Re: AUS vs SAT

Either, though for me I'd be leaning toward the airport with the best non-stop flight schedules for where I was going as connecting always opens the door for something unplanned to happen. Fares would also come into play as well as any frequent flyer programs, airport lounge accessibility and if you...

Re: Flying a G-II with full reverse thrust? (Shuttle Training Aircraft)

Excellent story and yes love to read more of his experiences. In fact my guess is he knows of knows of one of the STA pilots that I know from EFD where they had the STA base. "Tripple" gave me a couple of tours of them and he was one of the few G-II certified single pilots due to the fact ...

Re: West Coast Florida (TPA, PIE, SRQ, PGD, RSW, APF) Aviation Thread - 2022

The 779 has been at RSW since 14-Feb, and it also made an appearance there this past November. Other than maybe the 12000' runway, I wonder why Boeing chose RSW? Maybe a nice beachfront condo on the Gulf for the crew, engineers, and technicians? :sun: I'd go along with that theory, plus the fact th...

Re: West Coast Florida (TPA, PIE, SRQ, PGD, RSW, APF) Aviation Thread - 2022

BOE002 a B779 has been at RSW the last few days and maybe longer playing out in the Gulf between 30 and 100 miles west of Cape Coral and yesterday did some touch-n-goes at RSW. Will be there in a few days and hope to see the massive jet when we land.

Re: Airport Drunken Arrests and No Fly Lists

No need to stop alcohol sales. Without getting into politics, simply remove the mask mandate and that will solve at least 80% of people from becoming stupid. If you pass by restaurants/bars in airports these days they are packed, why? Because it gives folks the ability to remove their mask without g...

Re: Trouble at SRQ yesterday

Yes sorry, lol meant to say the first and only time I saw that at SRQ was 5 years ago. And I worked at SRQ for 1.5 years and been around it some many times I have not seen an E-175 use 4-22 again. Working overnight 12-14 hours doesn’t help with writing clearly sometimes. Got ya....well get some res...

Re: Trouble at SRQ yesterday

SRQLOT wrote:

That was like 5 years ago!lol I been to Key West soon after haha

Re: Do some jetliners need to level off after takeoff climb to build speed for flap retraction?

Heavy 727-200 with -9 engines when hot and high, yes for sure. Not a high altitude airport at all, but remember vividly watching thousands of B722's depart IAH working in the tower. Our hot summer days in Houston with them going to places like LAX, SFO, SEA when I'd switch them to departure and the...

Re: Trouble at SRQ yesterday

Glad the pilot was not injured according to the aviation-safety link. F90 is a great plane hope it can be repaired though the cost, wow! First time I saw an AA E-175 take off from 4-22 I had to do a double take and check FlightAware that it was real! Lol So I'm guessing you should head down to EYW a...

Re: FAA administrator Steve Dickson resigns

frmrCapCadet wrote:

Not enough to live comfortably in any 'high rent' city.

Re: Feel Good ATC Story Out Of California - C152 Student With Stuck Full Throttle

He was offered 'equipment', as in ARFF i take it, but declined. I think that NORCAL should have sent it anyway if there was time enough, which seems to have been the case. Are there specific procedures stating that the pilot needs to request that? There are not specific procedures that states a pil...

Re: United Airlines Fleet Thread - 2022

Which is even more muddied when that domestic Collins seat being sold as First and getting First service has Polaris-branded seat back literature and headrest covers. Yep all true. I've attempted to explain that to friends who get all excited when they see Polaris seats on the seat map for a domest...

Re: United Airlines Fleet Thread - 2022

I think the Polaris that was being referred to is the Int'l lie flat seats vs Domestic F seats on a 737/320. The sCO 752's still have the Diamond seats, not the Polaris seats that are on the 777's and half of the 767/787's. That is what I suspected, but having not been on a B752 since before the pa...

Re: United Airlines Fleet Thread - 2022

They have Polaris on some 752's now rather than the sCO lie flat 16 seats? If so is that what's showing up on the Fleet site as "New Intl" seats?

Re: West Coast Florida (TPA, PIE, SRQ, PGD, RSW, APF) Aviation Thread - 2022

Speaking of RSW and guesses of terminal swapping brings me to a trivia question that I should know the answer to but don't. Why did RSW name the terminals B,C and D rather than A, B and C? Way back in 2004 before it opened the new terminal building in 2005, I remember seeing something in the News Pr...

Re: JetBlue A320 and King Air 350 near miss at HDN

Doesn't make much sense a ski country airport with multiple 121 carriers doesn't deserve at least a seasonal tower. Imagine if this had been a little closer, what is the justification in not having a tower out there? I completely agree that a seasonal tower should be in place when you have a mix of...

Re: United Airlines Fleet Thread - 2022

The PW 777s are back in the schedule effective 3/4, both the higher-density Hawaii subfleet and the more premium international subfleet. The bulk of the flying appears to be hub-to-hub, with some Hawaii routes appearing in the second half of the month. Unsure if this will stick, but think it's inte...

Re: Houston (IAH/HOU) Aviation Thread - 2022

You have to remember that IAH was CO only East to west/west to east connoting hub. Now with UA, DEN acts as the catch all for connecting flight flights to HI with ORD/IAH/SFO/LAX serves a combo of O/D and connections from respective regions… I completely remember however, think my question was dire...

Re: Houston (IAH/HOU) Aviation Thread - 2022

drerx7 wrote:

Hawaiian's AUS and MCO experiments are low risk as those frames are off of the sidelined international network.

Re: Houston (IAH/HOU) Aviation Thread - 2022

While on the subject of AUS vs IAH/HOU though the HOU part of my question is a nonplayer. Wonder why AUS gets non-stops to HNL on HA 3/4 times a week and HA doesn't service IAH and compete with single dismal UA flight. Back in the day CO had IAH-HNL twice a day along with IAH-OGG which we loved. Tho...

Re: The destination you have flown to from the most airports

Since you won't let us select our home airport had to have another cup of coffee and think this out a bit! :coffee: :scratchchin: Believe it has to be HNL which most likely narrowly edged out MXP due to the inter-island flights. OGG-HNL on HA LIH-HNL on HA KOA-HNL on HA JHM-HNL on WP IAH-HNL on CO a...

Re: Three Flights you were most excited about...

1. Very easy, my 1st solo C150 GGG-GGG. 2. Almost as easy, my 1st jump seat sitting behind the Captain on an Eastern B727 IAH-EWR. Sad day as we got to EWR we learned of the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion. RIP. 3. Tied, 1st flight on a sContinental/United B788 Row 1 A/B on IAH-SFO trip and my 1s...

Re: High power settings on the 727 during approach and landing due to drag for dirty condition or for quick spool up.

My :twocents: having never flown a B727, but a good friend did for years and has told me the best way to come close to greasing one on is something an ole gritty Captain showed him. Around 20-30 feet reduce backpressure on the yoke which would lower the nose slightly so you didn't drive the mains in...

Re: Airport you have flown on the most carriers from

Number 1 goes to IAH. Excluding Commuter, Express operators: Alaska American America West Braniff Continental Delta Eastern Grand Airways Lufthansa National Northwest Piedmont Texas International United USAir Number 2 goes to RSW. American Continental Delta Eastern Prior to RSW opening Number 3 woul...

Re: Culture of navigating airports today (2022)

Masks are required in the airport unless eating/drinking. All the US airports I've been in recently seemed as busy as ever. I believe the question the OP is asking is how much do airport bars/restaurants/lounges enforce that requirement. On travels we've made in the last year I find to be a bit les...

Re: POLL QUESTION: Should airlines offer more connecting time at hubs?

Living near IAH we really do not have to make connecting flights unless we are not flying UA, which happens on occasions and even then we are finding more non-stop flights to spots such as NYC and West Coast locations. I like the idea of an airline offering a "show longer connections" like...

Re: Which route have you flown on the most diverse number of aircraft?

Hmmm this may hurt having to think this much! :ouch: These will include roundtrips: IAH-DFW....B727, B733, B735, B737, B738, B739, MD80's, DC9, A319, A320, E45X, E175, CRJ7. IAH-PHL.....B733, B735, B737, B738, B739, A319, A320, MD80's. This will also include FMY before RSW was though of: IAH-RSW.......

Re: Do you check the current price of a flight after you booked it?

And if the fare decreased, what do you do, cry? Nope, cancel it and get your travel credit then quickly book it again at the lower fare.....easy. In fact I did just that yesterday morning. Had IAH-BNA roundtrip in First Class, A319 both ways and looked at the price on Google Flights and found the f...

Re: PBI-DFW-IAH-PBI (American & United)

Gotchya, well hope you enjoyed your time here.

Re: PBI-DFW-IAH-PBI (American & United)

Very good report and happy to read how well the UAL Flight Attendant handled the issue. The IAH part got my attention so curious where did you get dinner at IAH as there are some pretty darn good spots in about every terminal?

Re: RVR Minimums

I'm not talking about the published SAAAR approaches, but the ones that are more limited in nature. Something like the RNP-M approach into KSAN, which only AS flies - while the other airlines fly the RNP-Z, if they are authorized. Oh no, I get what you are referencing as CO had Specials for RNAV (G...

Re: RVR Minimums

Some airlines may have authorization for lower minimums, in certain situations, as well. Alaska has a lot of this on certain RNP AR approaches that they paid to develop. The RVR reports are common when weather is at, or close, to minimums. Yes there are many Special Aircraft And Aircrew Authorizati...

Re: Houston Rockets N625HR

debonair wrote:

But why would somebody invest money in a nearly 30 year old B767 with a questionable pedigree