Re: Pilot protesting single pilot operations

Sounds like we want to trade a pilot for a second dispatcher. Good luck with this pilot/dispatcher watching 10 flights at once trying to follow every aircraft change. Even more luck with a interruption in radio signal because the plane is parked at the wrong jet bridge or at an airport in the Americ...

Re: Pilot protesting single pilot operations

Sounds like we’re just trying to replace a seat on the plane with a seat on the ground and do it in a much more complicated way with some mythical vaporware that offers no solution to required redundancy.

Re: Pilot protesting single pilot operations

The one major thing you are missing in this whole topic is the actual aircraft. Did you even read the article? Your responses seem to suggest that the current aircraft (which are designed for 2 pilot crew) will remain exactly the same but with one less pilot. That is not the case, the whole idea is...

Re: Pilot protesting single pilot operations

I call foul on this one. This comes up from time to time on these boards. One does not have to have "experience operating planes" to have an opinion. Such a philosophy is very restrictive, almost oppressive. I never knew Lyndon Johnson, but I'm pretty sure he was a jerk. I'm entitled to m...

Re: Pilot protesting single pilot operations

"Those" people do have an idea what a 2 pilot crew does and virtually everything you listed in your long story can be automated. Airports without ILS today don't have to remain that way. You mentioned narrowbody airbus so I'm guessing you're driving the 320 family, which was designed in t...

Re: Pilot protesting single pilot operations

I think that this scenario you described would result in a cancelled flight in a Single Pilot Operation. And this shows that there might be some pieces of the equation that airlines are not seeing when pushing for SPO. I’m not going to team up with the reduce safety argument, because I really belie...

Re: Pilot protesting single pilot operations

Simple question, your experience operating planes in a commercial environment? I can answer for him because its quite obvious he didn't understand most of what I wrote. Lets start with automated resetting circuit breakers and then getting to the roles of one person handling the abnormality while th...

Re: Pilot protesting single pilot operations

So I'm a narrowbody Captain at a US major, whenever I find myself reading these threads, I take great interest in people's perception on when two pilots are needed in a plane. I see the examples of catastrophic inflight emergencies and long haul ocean crossings. If I may share an example from just a...

Re: Pilot protesting single pilot operations

HotelSoap wrote:

I thoroughly enjoy how people think that Single Pilot cargo is just swell, like that guy is a robot himself.

Re: Senate bill reintroduced to raise U.S. pilot retirement age to 67

If I may, I’ve been flying part 121 for a decade now, was in the 91/135 for a few years before that. Flying with a captain that’s in their twilight starts to turn into a chore for the first officer. They are set in their ways, they still do old procedures, they tell you non relevant stories about be...

Re: Goodbye KCM (known crew member)

Pilots being randomly screened is a good thing for security. It’s the only thing that’s keeping them from gaining access to the cockpit. I mean that’s what the TSA was designed for right?

Re: Gary Airport Taking Another Shot At Passenger Service

I don’t know if yous know this but UPS took over the terminal building and ramp area for their operations. Before any airline service comes back to GYY, either UPS moves to a new area or a terminal gets built somewhere where I’m not sure there’s any room for. G4 had good loads when they did GYY-SFB ...

Re: How much does a typical airline pilot know about his/her aircraft?

Procedure proficiency is much more important these days than trivial systems knowledge. With that being said we know a lot about our planes. We know the general system schematic but our focus is on limitations and warning lights. I can tell you the logic on my planes emergency electrical system or t...

Re: Boutique Air PC-12 Wheel Falls Off.

as739x wrote:

This never happened to the mighty Caravan when I was operating IWD-ORD

Re: Does MESA really deserve its "bad" reputation

I can only speak from a pilot perspective on this. Mesa and more specifically JO has done everything they can to cheapen the industry. Their pilots were known for having mud and dirt on the back of their uniforms because they only could afford to ride a bike to the airport. I had a few friends fly t...

Re: Disney and airline partners

Spirit flew a Dumbo Movie branded plane last year. They also partnered with Disney three years ago in a customer service improvement plan which included Disney led training initiatives.

Re: Admire the skill. EY A380 strong crosswind landing at LHR

I’m I’m not prepared some sort of catastrophic failure on takeoff I guess I don’t need to leave my hand on the thrust levers until V1. ATIS and weather are two different things. My company doesn’t use flysmart. Adjusting the Vapp based on shear and Vls works pretty well for my airline. It’s quite ob...

Re: Admire the skill. EY A380 strong crosswind landing at LHR

The correct technique is doing it how you do it in real life. Doing something in the sim that isn’t done on the line is negative learning and honestly pretty dangerous. So every sim ride you have done you have never had any failures, never done an upset, no unreliable speed, no volcanic ash, never ...

Re: Admire the skill. EY A380 strong crosswind landing at LHR

The correct technique is doing it how you do it in real life. Doing something in the sim that isn’t done on the line is negative learning and honestly pretty dangerous.

Re: Admire the skill. EY A380 strong crosswind landing at LHR

If you use CAT II/III procedures for a CAT I then yes the limitations are those listed for a CAT II/III landing.

Re: Admire the skill. EY A380 strong crosswind landing at LHR

What’s the autoland crosswind limitation of a 320? What’s the max demonstrated limitation?

I can do a lot of things in the sim that don’t work in real life.

Re: Admire the skill. EY A380 strong crosswind landing at LHR

40kts of crosswind and A320 autoland. Hmm

Re: Airbus releases photos of automatic takeoffs

I actually like that plan because instead of having two pilots in the cockpit paying attention to stuff, you still have two pilots on the plane but one out of the loop to everything. Furthermore you have a flight attendant who NEVER goes into the cockpit ever or does flying trying to save the day. S...

Re: Airbus releases photos of automatic takeoffs

Control towers close, control towers don't issue approach clearances, not every runway is CATIII equipped, pilots get fatigued even on a 6 hour transcon, sometimes a plane has to fly the expressway visual into LGA, sometimes it has to do a procedure turn on a VOR approach in mountainous terrain. Som...

Re: Airbus releases photos of automatic takeoffs

For a website that is so pro aviation, there sure are a lot of people that have no idea what the actual role of a pilot is and what goes on in the cockpit gate to gate.

Re: Senior FA sues DL for wrongful termination

I’m flight crew but not a flight attendant. From my seven years in the 121 world, my experience has been the longer you’re with an airline, the easier the checkride gets. In this case, this FA has practiced the same rote memorization of policy and procedures for decades, it’s almost impossible for t...

Re: Impact of wildfires on aviation

Last year it was annoying to have an overnight in SEA. My eyes burned trying to walk around. Visibility was around 3 miles. Instrument approaches every time.

Re: Republic pilot punches female co-worker

As a crew member for the last bunches of years, there’s been a few instances of crossing paths with someone that I could see giving the business to. The thing is, I don’t because that’s not what a rational person does. When you’re in uniform, or hell any uniform, you don’t do anything like this no m...

Re: Coffee Spill Forced A330 Diversion

Now I may not have the expertise of some of the professionals in this thread but sometimes, just sometimes the pilot sitting next to me asks for a cup of coffee but no lid. Sometimes they even take the lid off to put cream or sugar inside. I know, I know, front page news stuff but sometimes there’s ...

Re: Ryanair pilots' strike. Flights take off

“I love airplanes and airlines but F the people that work for them, be happy you have a job.”

That’s what I’m seeing here.

Re: Need help in selecting college for aviation management

Don't paint yourself into a corner with an aviation degree. If you look at most airline CEO's, very few have had anything close to anything resembling an aviation specific degree. At the end of the day, any company will want someone who knows how to make money selling widgets. Sometimes those widget...

Re: Spirit Airlines 4th Fume Event in 4 Months

Spirit has so many because there is an active effort in flight operations to report and address this problem. Spirit has been leading the charge in trying to pinpoint a cause and find a solution. Other airlines have joined the process but believe it or not, there is a good number of pilots that don’...

Re: 6000ft and no chimes

It’s really hard to hold our tongues when these comments happen but lately my go to response has been a very concerned “oh no that’s terrible!” It really throws the pax for a loop because they have no idea how to respond to that. They’re expecting an argument or some I told ya so moment and I won’t ...

Re: 6000ft and no chimes

The only thing you did wrong was not stick your head into the cockpit at deplaning and let the pilots know how much they screwed up and how you’re gonna report them on Instagram.

Re: Airbus chief says it’s ready for pilotless jets as soon as public gets on board

How many drones crash?

Re: Airbus chief says it’s ready for pilotless jets as soon as public gets on board

lasers and infallible ATC.

alright I guess I should go back to school and learn how to code or something.

Re: Airbus chief says it’s ready for pilotless jets as soon as public gets on board

A few months ago I made a post that got buried in a less visited part of the a.net forums. Anyways I'll repost it here just for s*** and giggles. I enjoy reading these threads. Not because I think it's an interesting topic, but because of the misinformation of what the automation on a modern plane i...

Re: Air Canada Cargo to use Drones

I know a lot of people are concerned with drones but their operation doesn’t fare too well in anything other than good weather. No one seems to ever take in account this little tidbit. I can’t imagine a full time system taking over anything when it’s only has part time capabilities. Imagine getting ...

Re: Spirit About To Announce Sarasota?

Spirit erroneously wrote Memphis on their Facebook page, it’s now been corrected to Nashville so ignore my earlier post.

Re: Spirit About To Announce Sarasota?

MEM announced on the facebook page.

Re: At DL flying is a family affair

As an industry, we need to do more to get all groups more interested in aviation. There are opportunities everywhere for people of all backgrounds to break into this industry that didn’t exist years ago. Things are getting better but they aren’t perfect. With all that being said, there are plenty of...

Re: Express Jet (IAH) having crew staffing issues?

Curious....will the regionals ever open up to foreign labor to help the shortage?.... the majors are good because they take away from the regionals but nobody is replacing those pilots It isn't needed for ExpressJet. They were a dead airline walking up and couldn't fill classes until the E175's wer...

Re: Is it time for Cockpit Video to aid in crash investigation?

I think you all pro live streaming cameras in the cockpit people over estimate the infrastructure around the world built to handle such an endeavor let alone the ability to transmit live data. I can’t tell you how many times in a month I lose ACARS signal and that’s transmitted on a VHF band and I’...

Re: Is it time for Cockpit Video to aid in crash investigation?

I think you all pro live streaming cameras in the cockpit people over estimate the infrastructure around the world built to handle such an endeavor let alone the ability to transmit live data. I can’t tell you how many times in a month I lose ACARS signal and that’s transmitted on a VHF band and I’m...

Re: Man vs machine; are we ready to replace pilots completely?

I enjoy reading these threads. Not because I think it's an interesting topic, but because of the misinformation of what the automation on a modern plane is actually capable of doing. Take for example the aircraft I fly, the A320 family of planes. Let me take you on a leg of my day of what I have to ...

Re: SkyWest livery CRJ7 down for maintenance?

Probably low on koolaid levels.

Re: Atlas Air 3591 Down in Trinity Bay, Texas

Reportedly, a young pilot: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6739049/Pictured-Pilot-killed-Atlas-Air-cargo-jet-crash-operating-Amazon-Prime-Air.html This was the jumpseater. Dailymail gets it wrong again. This is what I’m talking about a lack of known factual information and speculation and ...

Re: Atlas Air 3591 Down in Trinity Bay, Texas

Reportedly, a young pilot: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6739049/Pictured-Pilot-killed-Atlas-Air-cargo-jet-crash-operating-Amazon-Prime-Air.html This was the jumpseater. Dailymail gets it wrong again. This is what I’m talking about a lack of known factual information and speculation and ...

Re: Atlas Air 3591 Down in Trinity Bay, Texas

Different forums have different areas of focus. This forum has always had an investigatory/inquisitive sleuth basis to it. Heck, in the most -major- US commercial crash in memory = AA 587, one poster actually worked the flight as a gate agent. aaaand tell me what a gate agent is going to tell us ab...

Re: 10 years ago - Feb. 12, 2009 - Flight CO3407 crash

There's another thread right now in this forum about AA resizing their crew bases for FA's. Growing DFW and LAX, shrinking PHX and STL. Hundred's of FA's just like that being displaced. AA is doing this because this is how AA thinks it will be a better airline. Every airline does something like this...