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RE: New IPhone Commercial With Pilot

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RE: What Would You Fly Of These 3 Planes?

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RE: Airport Code Mnemonics

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RE: Superthread #2

101 AM in Portland OR

I broke up with my girlfriend today

I fly CRJs

I like boobs

I'm drunk

Long live Jenna Jameson

Vodka is good

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RE: Have You Ever Flown With A Celebrity?

I saw a lot of celebs in my time on the ramp with <acronym title="Horizon Air (USA)">QX</acronym>: Michael Keaton : super-cool, was coming from a hunting trip in <acronym title="Bozeman - Gallatin Field (BZN / KBZN), USA - Montana">BZN</acronym> and connecting to <acronym title="Los Angeles - Intern...

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RE: Go! Wins Contract To Fly Federal Workers

Something I'm wondering...why does <acronym title="Hawaiian Airlines (USA)">HA</acronym> and <acronym title="Aloha Airlines (USA)">AQ</acronym> still fight it out? It sounds like they were bleeding cash before go! came into the picture, so if go! wants to fight them on ground they weren't stable on ...

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Could 9/11 Have Happened In Bad Weather?

My girlfriend and I were discussing 9/11 a few days back (she just got done with her recurrent F/A training, and it always comes up), and she asked me a question that got me wondering...could 9/11 have happened the way it did if the weather had been bad? As I understand it, a few of the hijackers ha...

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RE: The Paparazzi Ranting Thread

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RE: FBI Plane Hits Lamborghini

Bummer about the car, but a moving A/C does have the right-of-way. This dude's a pilot; he should know that. Also, from what it sounds like in the article, the A/C hit the side of the car, which meant he drove out in front of a moving plane, assuming it would stop. Sorry buddy, but if I had a car li...

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RE: Pilots: Which FCC License Do You Have To Have?

I just signed up for mine about a month ago...its the <acronym title="Royal Air Force (United Kingdom)">RR</acronym> - Restricted Operator. It's necessary to pilot an aircraft back into the US. Getting it is stupidly easy...I did it all on-line. Wade through the paperwork online, answer a few questi...

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Becoming A Railroad Engineer

Completely whacky topic, but something I've always wanted to know. How does one become a railroad engineer? I see frieght trains all the time, and wonder how a person gets to be a driver of such things? I think of it in terms of becoming a pilot. Is there a "Private vs Commercial difference"; are ra...

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RE: Skybus Pay Rates

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I Just Got Hired To Fly The CRJ! Now Some?s

This is an add-on topic to a previous post about airline interviews...I got hired by a <acronym title="Phoenix - Sky Harbor International (PHX / KPHX), USA - Arizona">PHX</acronym>-based regional to fly the CRJ for them. My class date is in the beginning of July, so I had a few questions for the pro...

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Interview With Mesa Airlines

Another small step in my quest to be an airline pilot... I have an interview with Mesa Airlines in a few weeks for a pilot position, and am looking to get all the help I can to prepare for it. Currently, I'm reading up on the company (routes, history, fleet size/types, hubs/domiciles, corporate offi...

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RE: Flying GA To / From Canada

Well, first off, thank you all for the information about the international flying aspect. I've looked up the provided articles, and I've got a good handle on what to do / expect when flying internationally As for the legality of flying someone up there...my original plan was to pay for my half of th...

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Flying GA To / From Canada

Hello all - While I've flown to and from Canada many times on commercial airlines, I'm about to do it myself in a <acronym title="Garuda Indonesia">GA</acronym> aircraft for the first time (a friend wants me to fly her to <acronym title="Victoria - International (YYJ / CYYJ), Canada - British Columb...

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RE: Cessna Or Diamond For PPL?

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RE: Cessna Or Diamond For PPL?

The flight school I work for has both - Cessna 152s / 172s and a DA-20...I've taught in both, and produced private pilots from both types. Everyone knows the Cessna, so I'll talk more on the Katana we have. For rental, we only charge $10 more per hour than our Cessnas, so it's not horribly more expe...

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Motivational Flying Video

There are a ton of vids out there on YouTube and such that are outstanding, but this one takes it. I get so pumped to go fly every time I see it... <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4qMRl57t1aU"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></para...

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RE: Baggage Handler Left In Hold Of EI DUB-JFK Flight!

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Most Bad-Ass TV/Movie Cop

So I just got done watching "The French Connection" with Popeye Doyle, and got to wondering...which fictional cop is the most badass...let's take a poll: Popeye Doyle : Badass b/c he wears an ankle holster...normally seems kinda pussy but he does it so he can get felt up by chicks easier "Dirty" Har...

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Travelling To Bali / DPS

Hello all - Needing some advice...I'm in the planning stages of taking my girlfriend to Bali for a needed vacation, and to pop the question... First, what is the best way to get there from Portland, <acronym title="Air Comores and Crimea Air (Ukraine)">OR</acronym>? I have a good friend who went the...

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RE: New Colors For QX?

A lot of people do, although with 608 it looks strange because the wings are still the correct color, so looking down there's a marked contrast. A lot of pilots in particular prefer the "new" color to the bleached-teeth white that they normally are...

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RE: New Colors For QX?

Yep that's the one...thanks for showing me my workplace I picked a nice day not to be working the ramp...

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RE: New Colors For QX?

Nope...you saw a/c N608QX. It was a repaint from <acronym title="Frontier Airlines (USA)">F9</acronym>; apparently there was a mix-up at the paint shop as to what color the <acronym title="Horizon Air (USA)">QX</acronym> livery is. From what I heard, paint colors are processed as two-digit numbers (...

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RE: Most 'Classic' Airline Logo

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RE: Official Airliners.net PDX Meet 2007 Thread

Count me in...I'll probably be working that day anyway.

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RE: Check This Out - Old 727 Nestled In Woods In Or

I flight instruct out of the Hillsboro Airport about 15 miles north...this guy's house is directly under our practice area. Every few months or so we get a student (usually on a solo) who gets all excited and calls the tower about the "727 crashed in the woods". The tower guys know all about it by n...

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RE: AS Ends Partnership With Hawaiian...

There's been so many <acronym title="Alaska Airlines (USA)">AS</acronym> to Hawai'i rumors floating around lately...every little piece adds some fuel to the speculation. There was a huge rumor started because <acronym title="Alaska Airlines (USA)">AS</acronym> was / is trying to get some of thier ai...

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RE: Unusual Airline Codes

Ahhh where's the love for Horizon - <acronym title="Horizon Air (USA)">QX</acronym>? I've asked around a few times to different people about where <acronym title="Horizon Air (USA)">QX</acronym> came from for Horizon Air, but no one seems to know... As we are coupled with Alaska, our bags are tagged...

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RE: LAX March 19th Attendees

I'm in ...got the day off and plan to non-rev in the morning. One question...how far are these places from the actual terminal? I'll be flying in...should I rent a car to drive there? Walk? Cab? Shuttle? I've been through <acronym title="Los Angeles - International (LAX / KLAX), USA - California">LA...

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RE: LAX March 19th Attendees

When is it due in? I'm going to try a day trip if the times work out

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RE: Horizon (QX) Expansion?'s

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RE: Horizon (QX) Expansion?'s

I the past 10 days <acronym title="Horizon Air (USA)">QX</acronym> has added 3 new -400s to its operation (N418QX, N419QX, N421QX)...these are the new 76-seat models It's old news about the return of the CRJs and thier use on the <acronym title="Portland - International (PDX / KPDX), USA - Oregon">P...

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RE: Q-400's For CO In EWR

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RE: How Did You Quit Smoking?

I smoked for about 2 years while I was in the Marines...at my prime I was up to 3 packs of Luckys a day... I just got tired of smelling like an ashtray (and wheezing during PFTs) so I stopped cold-turkey. Threw out my last pack before I finished it... As for cravings (and I had a ton)...I was a Psyc...

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RE: 1st Commutair DASH-8 Arrives CLE

Indeed it is...formerly of <acronym title="Horizon Air (USA)">QX</acronym>. As I understand <acronym title="Horizon Air (USA)">QX</acronym> is getting rid of 12 -200 frames to CommutAir as it aquires more -400s and CRJs back from its Frontier service. Here's a pic of N375PH in her former life : <a h...

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RE: Weird State Laws

When I was attending the U of Arizona a few years back we had a discussion in a PoliSci class regarding some archaic Arizona laws, most of them sex based (hey, we were in college...and we found we were all criminals) In the State of Arizona (as of 2001 at least) : -It is illegal to have sex in any p...

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Amazing Airmanship...

This undoubtly has been discussed before, but after reading the thread about <acronym title="British Airways">BA</acronym> 009, I got to wondering as to what the best example of piloting and airmanship is out there? Past or present... I'm going with an obvious choice, but Al Haynes and Dennis Fitch ...

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RE: From YV To QX

Well I"m going to have a bit of a biased opinion... That said, <acronym title="Horizon Air (USA)">QX</acronym> is a great company to work for. I've been with them about 3.5 years, in both <acronym title="Seattle / Tacoma - International (SEA / KSEA), USA - Washington">SEA</acronym> and <acronym titl...

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RE: Your College/Alma Mater

University of Arizona, 1998 - 2003

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RE: Southwest Parachute Policy.

We had a pax a few months back board with a parachute. He was a professional skydiver who didn't want to risk it to us rampers (not like I can blame him!). There was a bit of discussion about whether he could fly with it. <acronym title="Taipei - Sung Shan (TSA / RCSS), Taiwan">TSA</acronym> a long ...

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RE: Best Seats On Am B777?

This just may be my ambition speaking but the two in the front facing forwards with all the nifty screens and dials before them would be my favorites...

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Flying The Aero Commander 500B

Greetings! The school I fly for recently acquired a -500B to do charters, cargo, etc. in. I'm going to get checked out in this aircraft soon to do most of this flying. I have quite a bit of <acronym title="Melbourne - Tullamarine (MEL / YMML), Australia - Victoria">MEL</acronym> time, but it's all i...

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RE: Car Ice Sliding Madness In Portland, Or (Vid)

Ahh that's good shit! Good thing I wasn't on the roads today...I got called in early to de-ice planes for 13 hours. I heard about this video from a few people but just saw it on here. For being in the <acronym title="Northwest Airlines (USA)">NW</acronym>, people drive like crap when it comes to bad...

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RE: Severe Headache Flying On Dash-8's

I fly on DCH-8s all the time non-reving without problem, and I have horrible sinus problems. Even when the NVS is <acronym title="Melbourne - Tullamarine (MEL / YMML), Australia - Victoria">MEL</acronym>'d, it seems a bit louder but not unbearable. The only time I've had an issue is when we get some...

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RE: Safest Country/town?

I've lived in Baltimore <acronym title="Air Madagascar">MD</acronym>, Tucson <acronym title="Alitalia (Italy)">AZ</acronym>, Seattle <acronym title="KLM CityHopper (Netherlands)">WA</acronym> and Portland <acronym title="Air Comores and Crimea Air (Ukraine)">OR</acronym>, and of the four I say Portl...

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RE: Bose Aviation X

They are 1 K...but everything in aviation is expensive. I lucked out and got mine as a Christmas gift from my outstandingly cool girlfriend, so I can talk them up even more. They do suck batteries down, but also have an auto-off switch, so they only stay on for something like 20 mins after use befor...

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Best TV Commercial With Aviation Theme

I'm always keeping my eye out for <acronym title="Virgin Express (Belgium)">TV</acronym> commercials with aviation themes...some of them are damn funny. Here's my favorite <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KYmmsj42ANQ"></param><param name="wmode" va...

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RE: The Most Frightening Pic In Aviation History?

I'm going to have to call bullshit on the pics. Looks remarkeably like stills from the crash scene from "Lost"...besides who would be standing up, facing aft, shooting clear shots in an aircraft in this predicament? The people in the row directly in front of the camera are the hottie fugitive and th...

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