I live about a mile from <acronym title="Buffalo - Niagara (Greater Buffalo) International (BUF / KBUF), USA - New York">BUF</acronym>, flights have been going all day. More snow is coming overnight and tomorrow, and just about all RON aircraft have cancelled for the night. Everybody with the except...
Jump to postWhy must we re-use <acronym title="American Trans Air (USA)">TZ</acronym>? Out of all of the thousands of possible letter combinations, why oh WHY must we be reusing them? Surely there's a combination here not used: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_two-letter_combinations" tar...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/enilria" class="quote" target="_blank">enilria</a> (<a href="#0" class="quote">Thread starter</a>):<br/><i><acronym title="Spirit Airlines (USA)...
Jump to postHey all: I know there's 50,000 places to purchase WHITE pilot shirts (I have a legitimate reason for needing one, not just looking for "pretend pilot"), but I can't for the life of me find a black one (such as the ones I believe Virgin America wears), just white and blue. Anybody have any clue where...
Jump to postLooks like a worker at Paine Field was "run over" this evening by a Dreamliner: <a href="http://www.seattlepi.com/local/komo/article/Worker-run-over-by-Boeing-787-at-Paine-Field-3006459.php" target="_blank">http://www.seattlepi.com/local/komo/...ing-787-at-Paine-Field-3006459.php</a> <a href="http:/...
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Jump to postWe've got them running quite frequently here in the BUF market, and I'd highly doubt that we'll see any of there medal except for an extreme diversion.
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Maverick623" class="quote" target="_blank">Maverick623</a> (<a href="#9" class="quote">Reply 9</a>):<br/><i>I think OSHA would like to have a wo...
Jump to postBelieve it or not, things like vomit and feces and urine are NOT classified as biohazards, much to my dismay, at least at Delta.
Only blood, or the abovementioned fluids with blood or evidence of blood in them.
<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/stlgph" class="quote" target="_blank">stlgph</a> (<a href="#14" class="quote">Reply 14</a>):<br/><i> The question is - how much are they avoidin...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/enilria" class="quote" target="_blank">enilria</a> (<a href="#0" class="quote">Thread starter</a>):<br/><i>*B6 <acronym title="Fort Lauderdale -...
Jump to postHad it happen to be on a Southwest 733, it's pretty interesting to see, sometimes it pours, sometimes it "smokes" and sometimes it just drips.
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/safetyDemo" class="quote" target="_blank">safetyDemo</a> (<a href="#3" class="quote">Reply 3</a>):<br/><i>Last weekend SkyKing had a 737-200 ret...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/airbazar" class="quote" target="_blank">airbazar</a> (<a href="#17" class="quote">Reply 17</a>):<br/><i>Are you sure about that? I'm pretty sure...
Jump to postHey all- I'm looking for the cockpit "zing!" that is used on the <acronym title="Air Madagascar">MD</acronym>-88 (at least on the Delta <acronym title="Air Madagascar">MD</acronym>-88) when an ACARS message or a flight attendant call is received. Would anybody happen to know where I could find a sou...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/EMBQA" class="quote" target="_blank">EMBQA</a> (<a href="#3" class="quote">Reply 3</a>):<br/><i>Weight comes from many places over time. You can...
Jump to postburj! You were in <acronym title="Buffalo - Niagara (Greater Buffalo) International (BUF / KBUF), USA - New York">BUF</acronym> and didn't call? Haha just kidding with you. Awesome trip report, loved the pics and I *finally* got to see the inside of the US Airways lounge. Sadly US just let 21 people...
Jump to postWhen I was a ramper, the marshaller was responsible to do a quick walk around the aircraft to check for damage- mainly so that the crew and Flight Control knew about any damage that occurred at the departing station or inflight so that the station wasn't charged with the damage. The crew does a more...
Jump to postB6's flight 1 is BUF-JFK-FLL, while BUF-JFK isn't quite a signature route, it was one of B6's first.
Jump to postRegional Elite Airline Services, which is the spinoff of Comair, Compass, and Mesaba's ground people, are going to start at $8.25/hr with no bennies for 6 months effective the first of the month. That's for both ramp and CSA's.
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Jump to postAs far as large(r) jets that I've worked on, the <acronym title="Air Madagascar">MD</acronym>-88 door seems to be the most user friendly door that I've seen. It's just making sure that that damn bayonet hits just right...that's the hard part there. The 737-800's are easier with practice... and the 7...
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Jump to postI think a few of the posters misunderstood the "paper" thing that the OP was trying to convey...when you fly NRSA on <acronym title="Delta Air Lines (USA)">DL</acronym> you get an actual paper boarding card/seat request card (often the actual cardstock kind too!!) and then when you get cleared onto ...
Jump to postI flew on the sister ship of the <acronym title="Delta Air Lines (USA)">DL</acronym> 757's you were on (I was on ship 6810 and you got 6809 and 6811 ha) and it's my favorite aircraft in the <acronym title="Delta Air Lines (USA)">DL</acronym> fleet. I was in BizElite from <acronym title="Covington / ...
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Jump to postAnd of course, and I'm surprised that this hasn't been mentioned already, you get some super-dry air up the higher you go. Cold, too.
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Jump to postDid your flight on ship 997 have to be airstarted? I noticed that you're featured our lovely ASC's in both <acronym title="Atlanta - Hartsfield-Jackson International (The William B Hartsfield) (ATL / KATL), USA - Georgia">ATL</acronym> and <acronym title="St. Louis - Lambert-St. Louis International ...
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Jump to postI think the blood/urine collection is pretty universal. We have a guy who shows up at my work about once every few weeks and hauls somebody away to go pee in a cup. It's quite comical because he'll walk around the terminal with the cup in hand and it's in plain view of our PAX.
Jump to postI had wondered this myself. I'm going to take a wild guess and say that they have to reflash the firmware on the LiveTV/XM units to change that? Probably as easy as sticking in a USB drive somewheres and doing a reboot but then again I know next to nothing about the LTV systems and could be going in...
Jump to postYou would NEVER dump that close to the ground EVER. If anything...somebody forgot to put the gas cap back on? I'm not as intimately familiar with the 738 as I should be, would a gas cap not on set off an EICAS alert in the cockpit? <i>Edit: Never dump fuel on purpose at least!!!!</i><br><br>[Edited ...
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Jump to postCould somebody run down those boxes and what they go with? I'm going to guess that it's as follows but please correct me: Radome L1 R1 Forward Cargo Overwing Overwing Fuel (no idea?) Aft Cargo L2 <acronym title="Orenburg Airlines (Russian Federation)">R2</acronym> Lav? APU? Not sure
Jump to postjetBlue had millions of the "E180" reboots until Embraer fixed the firmware on the aircraft. I found it quite amusing sitting in a nearly dark "180" for a few minutes and suddenly all of the lights, emergency and all, coming on and everything started flashing and dinging and buzzing. I recall the Di...
Jump to postIt's named for Ron Ricks, who is Southwest's Senior Vice Prez of Law, Airports, and Public Affairs. From memory (and Google for people who's positions I forgot), Southwest uses these tails: N***WN (obvious) N***<acronym title="Air Namibia">SW</acronym> (Southwest) N***<acronym title="South African A...
Jump to postWow, 1 hour and change and nobody's ripped on your use of "wang" in the thread topic yet. A gleam of hope from the A.net population? For the lazy clickers in said population: <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ETD_q8swEfk&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0xe1...
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Jump to postOtto's obviously the first choice, but I'd have to say the Flight Sim Geek.
Or at least one who isn't still using Flight Sim '98.
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Jump to postThanks for another BUF trip report- they are my favorites by far!
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Jump to postI'm seriously considering on going to Dowling College on Long Island (in Brookhaven, at the WSH airport) but I was wondering if the readers here have ever attended the school or know anybody who has or have any opinions of the school. I've visited the school a few times and have really fallen in lov...
Jump to postAAmercian AAirlines still carries AAlot of the USPS mail on their AAircraft.
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