There's quite a few E3 visa pilots at Spirit... all on 2-year terms - don't know if they'll continue to be sponsored or not.
Though it's unlikely that they'll be furloughed out of (reverse) seniority order.
Straight time. The cooldown time doesn’t change based on OAT.
Jump to postI liked north island 29 too, and I imagine the younger guys still get to fly it!.....not much has changed at North Island since I left AMC many moons ago. Can you, Galaxy, or anyone else explain how the North Island approach worked/works? Is the SAN tower involved and if so, what instructions, clea...
Jump to postMy favorite one is on downwind abeam the numbers on the runway threshold at 11,000ft and the controller tells me cleared for the visual approach, but keep the speed up there's a jet on 10 mile final that theyve slowed to 170kts... okay out come the speed brakes, gear down. thrust idle. push the nose...
Jump to postA large part of the compensation for major airline pilots in the US is the airline contribution into the pilot's individual retirement account... Pilots at major airlines don't have to contribute anything, but still get 15-18-19% deposited into retirement... the regional airlines don't have this com...
Jump to postConsidering that senior captains in legacy airlines basically make the same as the C-suite in decently sized companies, and more than most lawyers/physicians and senior software devs in FAANG companies. It also seems like it offers the best "knowledge&skill required/money earned" rati...
Jump to postLast time around, my airspace was just north of the path of totality. It was busy all morning with flights headed south, but what I recall most was the flood of everyone returning northbound at the same time. I've never seen anything close to that many VFR aircraft at once. Normally somewhat sleepy...
Jump to postI don’t supply any bleed air to the packs after blocking in. I want to make it as uncomfortable as possible for deplaning to incentivize people to get off as soon as possible… If there is a delay in getting the pax door open, I’ll put the bleeds on the APU until the door is open. After the door is ...
Jump to postI don’t supply any bleed air to the packs after blocking in. I want to make it as uncomfortable as possible for deplaning to incentivize people to get off as soon as possible… If there is a delay in getting the pax door open, I’ll put the bleeds on the APU until the door is open. After the door is o...
Jump to postOur airline 321xlrs aren’t equipped for ETOPs from Airbus. Despite being manufactured in Germany and flown over to the US over the Atlantic. They’ve only got the 60 minute cargo fire suppression system. At a minimum that system would need to be replaced (in adddition to all of the other pieces - mai...
Jump to postThere's no programming, it appears the arc is pre-built-into the arrival. the aircraft just keeps following the magenta line, then at the appropriate point, the controller issues the direct to arrival fix to continue the arrival.. there is no analogue in the US.. the US controllers issue the vector ...
Jump to postit might not be called point merge, but ATC in the US will issue delay vectors if there isn't sufficient spacing... aircraft will get vectored off and then at the appropriate time get cleared direct to a fix. the aircraft behind continues on its vector and then gets cleared direct to the same fix is...
Jump to postIf the flex temp is within 10 degrees of OAT were not allowed to use flex. We have to use TOGA. That’s our airline policy.
Jump to postlol I seem to get assigned 10/28 all of the time.
It’s the only runway I ever land on in ATL
Having to wait until 3pm or 4pm to check in for the hotel is on you. You just book the room to check in on the same day you’re flying the red eye. We did a family vacation and flew LAX to BWI. Departing LAX at 11pm and getting into BWI at 7am. After arriving into BWI we just took a cab from the airp...
Jump to postThere’s plenty of goplats for the aircraft to ditch next to if he can’t glide to land. Plus plenty of helo traffic in the gomex After aircraft were allowed to fly again after 9/11. It was a like a swarm of locusts flying from land out to the oil platforms to resupply them after not being able to fly...
Jump to postI don’t see how you can do fast turns in BUR. Ground loading allows the rear door to be used which is objectively faster, all other things being equal. Engine startup or taxi time does not negate the fact that ground loading is faster. It doesn’t matter if you can deplane and board in 30 minutes if...
Jump to postJetways aren't considered an upgrade at BUR. BUR allows for super fast turns and a unique passenger experience that the municipalities who own the airport don't want to get rid of. I don’t see how you can do fast turns in BUR. Every time I’ve had BUR turns. It’s like 45-minutes from call to ground ...
Jump to postThat is so cool. These are the memories that inspire people to work in aviation! Thank you for sharing. It’s not often we get visitors, but all someone needs to do is ask. Lots of kids, many many adults - if we have time and not much is going on, people are welcome to visit upfront on my plane. We’...
Jump to postDuring the boarding process on one flight, the lead flight attendant handed me two logbooks from parents of twins to fill out. It was just a standard pilot logbook https://asa2fly.com/the-standard-pilot-master-log/ You can also get it on Amazon, but I couldn’t get an Amazon link, it kept opening the...
Jump to postThe only taxi speed limit in our 320 FCOM is 20kts for a 90 degree turn if aircraft weight is 167,550lb or above 7 kts if one tire is deflated on a main landing gear 3 kts if both tires are deflated on a main landing gear. The 1900 didn’t have a GPS ground speed readout - it didn’t have GPS either -...
Jump to post30-35kts
FOQA flags at 40kts
Unless the speed brakes are still armed.
If the brakes are armed then the plane still thinks it’s “rolling” out so you can taxi at 50-60-70kts and not flag FOQA
Then we get to hear about the excessive taxi speed event during the safety / FOQA lesson in recurrent.
Yes training in base makes training more like a hassle. 12 hours for 3 days of training. Vs 15 hours for a 3-day trip. Reminds me of the complaints of pilots who are members of the reserve component of the armed forces when they have to do their 2 weeks of annual training. “It’s a pay cut to do annu...
Jump to post31 hours credit for 4 days recurrent? What does that involve for you? We get 4½ hour credit per day in the sim (2 days of sim every 6 months) and then 4½ hours for SEP annually. 31 hours seems very generous for 4 days (and what needs 4 days?!) We are awarded 4 hrs of credit for each day of training...
Jump to postOur number 1 pilot on the seniority list was the union scheduling committee chairman…. Before the airline went to PBS, we were line bidding. So every month there were 2 lines in the bid package which the pilot group called “the union scheduling chairman line” (using his real name in place of the uni...
Jump to postWell I guess spirit is about to go out of business then. Leaving the market to frontier.
Jump to postIs that how Spirit works—pay for carry-on on an escalating scale as the process proceeds? I knew I hated ULCC for a number of reasons, but this is a new one. It’s always been that way. Checked bags are $30. Carry on bags are on a sliding fee scale based on when you purchase the bag. $35-$100. You c...
Jump to postI remember American Eagle with a significant operation with their gates being where United is today and American mainline being where Southwest and Alaska is today. American Eagle eliminated their BOS base just before the US Airways/American merger. I don’t remember United or Southwest or Alaska bei...
Jump to postIt’s not a biggie.
On most aircraft what you depends on which layer of the cockpit window sandwich the crack is
You take a pen and try to see if it’s in the inner window ply or not.
I didn’t think Vegas to DFW/DAL flights were that expensive…, I just checked Spirit, $83-$114 one way. June 1 to June 5. But June 6 to June 30 it’s $400 one way…. So don’t know if things will change for the rest of June as January becomes February. $207 - $379 on American one way. $177 - $280 on Sou...
Jump to postThe radiation hazard is associated with the radar array. You can probably see it on google maps. It’s not something they can hide. When it’s actively emitting you don’t want to be within the beam. It’d be like microwaving yourself probably. We had the same issue operating helos on the flight deck, a...
Jump to postSafedock is installed at all of the gates at DFW, but it seems as though none of the airlines in Terminal E use it… frontier, delta, United, JetBlue all have marshallers and wing walkers…. even the American Eagle regional aircraft have marshallers and wing walkers. “Verify safety envelope clear” all...
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$18.97
You can build a DIY Stratux
http://stratux.me/
Delta learned the hard way - Comair was assigned one hub, another airline was assigned another hub, each regional airline had their assigned hub... Then the Comair strike crippled their CVG hub... Ever since, mainline (AA / UA / DL) keeps rotating the routes between all of their regional airlines, s...
Jump to postCPDLC is a communication system only. There is presently no system installed on commercial airliners that would allow ATC to remotely control the airplane or which could autonomously react to unsafe situations. There are systems that can warn the pilot of unsafe proximity to terrain or another airc...
Jump to postIs there any system that can allow aircraft provide data to ATC on ATC's request without direct pilot's involvement? If ATC saw an aircraft isn't reacting and that it's going to collide into another plane, there are currently no mechanism on it like modern railroad system that can unilaterally turn...
Jump to postOTOH, 30 minutes of pay for the crew! Depends. Like everything else. On the contract. Is there a US contract that wouldn’t pay for this case? I suppose if the trip were duty or trip rig,mit wouldn’t. It depends, it happened to us today... we were waiting short of the gate lined up on the gate lineu...
Jump to postRampers are not trained to operate a jetbridge. Gate agents / ticketing agents / customer facing agents / jetbridge operator are above the wing Rampers / aircraft cleaners / baggage loaders / lav service / water service / Marshallers are all below the wing Two separate employee groups (or subcontra...
Jump to postGalaxyFlyer wrote:OTOH, 30 minutes of pay for the crew!
Rampers are not trained to operate a jetbridge. Gate agents / ticketing agents / customer facing agents / jetbridge operator are above the wing Rampers / aircraft cleaners / baggage loaders / lav service / water service / Marshallers are all below the wing Two separate employee groups (or subcontrac...
Jump to postIt was a very instructive flight, despite knowing “intellectually” what was going to happen during that specific flight, it was still surprising what you didn’t know was going to happen as a cascading consequence of removing all electrical sources and deliberately putting the aircraft into an electr...
Jump to postYou needed to obtain a special permit to do the AFM biennial ADG drop? Done many of them, both ADG and RAT, some out of the service centers. The story the mechanic told us was the ADG was cannabilized and was reinstalled back on to the aircraft so the plane was grounded while it didn't have an ADG....
Jump to postOut of curiosity once pilots retire how often do they stay on as test pilots for aircraft needing a test flight (say after some maintenence work) or to do delivery/ferry flights or as instructors? I would think majority leave the airline to go onto some other kind of flying (corporate flying) or fu...
Jump to postWhen the daughter turned 21 she wanted her birthday party in Manhattan so the five planes set out collecting their friends from all over the US and delivered them all to TEB for the birthday party. Wow that is gross!! Prime example of why we need more laws regulating the usage of private jets. They...
Jump to postIt’s always fun listening to the stories corporate pilot tell. One pilot worked for a family. Every member of the family had their own jet and a crew to go with the plane. The mom, dad, son two daughters. Between the 5 of them they had 5 planes Mom would send the dog with a dog sitter on a private f...
Jump to post“Upon entering controlled airspace, fly heading 340. Climb and maintain 5000. You are released, void if not off by time 10. Time now 00 1/2. Advise intentions if not off by 10”
Jump to postIt’s see and avoid Do your normal traffic calls. But in addition to distance. I throw in time to airport because sometimes traffic doesn’t realize that 10 miles away is just a little under 2 minutes away. Watertown traffic, air fastmover 3667 is 10 south descending out of 4 thousand. 2 minutes enter...
Jump to postMy point is that there is no requirement to take the "safest" action, only to operate in an acceptably safe manner. Every flight, when examined after the fact, could always have been operated "more safely". As a less extreme example, the airplane I fly is approved to take off an...
Jump to postHere are links to some FAA documents
https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/med ... 30_20G.pdf
https://www.gao.gov/assets/830/828615.pdf
Well…. Because they’re Southwest. Wouldn’t call it internal policy but more of a corporate culture and mindset…. Just like you’ll find certain airlines setting taxi speed records and another airline which are more likely to be flying roadblocks that cause aerial traffic jams of airplanes behind them...
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