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Plane returns to airport after bird strike
An international flight from Houston was turned around Monday after a bird strike. (www.click2houston.com) और अधिक...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
This was, like, a very interesting story. Like, I hope the passengers weren't too, like, scared or anything.
I love, like, counting, like how many, like, ya know, like times they say like, "like" in their like, sentence.
LOL
This is like extra scary like coz when the plane hit something like it started moving along like in turbulence like and then they said we hit birds like and had to go back like and everyone was like oh my god like.
Why do the press feel the need to get quotes from people like this. There must have been someone intelligent on the plane.
Why do the press feel the need to get quotes from people like this. There must have been someone intelligent on the plane.
Well, I didn't catch no fish but had a good time. It does make one wonder how they picked him out of the whole bunch.I have already expressed my opinion of him.lol
Wow.I have to wonder just what altitude they were at being 40 minutes out and how big that bird must have been to have flown to that altitude.
Well, you have to consider the source. The story says not far out then that Jo Bob that has to use "like" as every other word in his conversation is the one that said 40 minutes. He's probably the type that can't wipe his butt without asking for advice on TWITTER.
Lol Wayne.You right and they probably held for 30 on the tarmac.I know here when they would get the plane loaded that if there was an ATC take off for flow control delay they would taxi out away from the gate and set on the ramp or the hold area on a taxiway for up to an hour.When i asked one of the crews one day why the answer made sense.They were paid once they left the gate.In 20+ years in G.A. management I found there were lots of things the old man didn't know abut commercial aviation.
That pay business just started changing in the last few years with the advent of new contracts, as well as in some of the mergers. Used to be you got paid for a flight when you checked in at OPS ready to go, but as the capacity and flight cuts stated coming and last minute cancellations started happening, the Airlines started changing it to hold down costs.If they don't leave, they don't get paid. That is a big underlying factor, BUT, there is also the issue of gate space as well. If they are under ATC hold, they will probably go to the ramp. If they were under a hold from their on folks, such as a ground stop somewhere, they may or may not stay at the gate. That's one thing I liked about flying big iron corporate. They had me on a salary for so many days and then per hour on excess time over that, and I hardly ever got even close to that excess. I was blessed.
This is why I loved working G.A. mmuch.It pretty much simple and straight forward most of the times.Just wish the pay was a little better but the fun of it all made it a carear I would not have given up for anything.My Regional Manager once told me he bet I would have worked in this profession for a dollar an hour and I told him he was nut's , I mean after all did he think I would admit that I actually would.LOL
I know the feelin'. At times, I would think it would be glamourous, walking through a PAX terminal to your plane, all spiffed up in your uniform and all that, but as I heard some of the horror stories over the years, I got real well satisfied what I had. For those guys, money was all of it. I was lucky in that I really liked mine. It was a good feeling to have the CEO of the company know you and call you by your first name.
And that my frind is Corporate Aviation.Alway's seemed to me that I was seeing an old friend even when I met them the 1st time.One big family we are for sure and a lot of people just don't realize that these Big Money people also are just like us in many way's.Sounds like you had a good time of it also and hope you still are.
Nah, semi retired a few years ago just before the rule change. Kept my ticket, then the change came. We had 757, plus a King Air, when I left. They got a new 767-200ER after I left(more cabin space). It carries same type as that 57 but you need an hour or 2 transition. I got invited back up there(KFSM) to do that and have done a little fill in for them. I was doing some fill in for Eagle(DFW) and PinnacleMEM) as well as AA or DAL, but my last weekend with AA was the Saturday before their Monday bankruptcy announcement, and DAL has so decimated MEM, that has went way down. I did a turn here a few weeks ago for DAL to ATL and back but with so many pilots on furlough now, OPS hast to go to all them first now before they can go outside, so I am just sitting at the house and now starting to fish some since weather is warming up.lol.(KRUE)
You say something about the furloughs makes me remember what has been being said for years and that is what the demands will be in the future for skilled pilots and the availability Seems the demands are really decreasing in the majors and for pilots of the regionals who now with the new FAA proposal for minimum hours required to even get in the right seat one has to wonder how long these furloughs will last and how many from the majors will go to the regionals for that little of pay.I don't even want to say drones.I'll never be in anything without a working brain and 2 eye's up front.As I said Corporate Aviation is it my friend ,at least in my eyes.Hope you catch a boat load of fish.
It will all be real interesting.Furloughed seniors are going to the RJ's and that will hurt prospective entrants for awhile. That being said, it may be a good thing to get some of that experience back out there to get rid of some of these button pushers or let them learn some more. On that DAL turn I spoke of earlier, we lost the AP about 20 min out of ATL. I hand flew it to MEM and it scard hell out of my FO. HE DIDN'T KNOW HOW!!!!. He wasn't an inexperienced Pinnacle RJ FO either. He was a front line FO for a legacy carrier!!!!
That's scary
That's scary
You sir, are a poser.... And you don't even know enou about the business to know it's impossible to "fill in" at majors..
I would bet you a 100 dollar bill that you do not even have a pilots license.
I would bet you a 100 dollar bill that you do not even have a pilots license.
Good point.I remember (way back ) when Piedmont Airlines and U.S.Air 1st got their F-100s and none not even one of the Senior pilots liked it - reason - it was to automated and they got bored with it quick.I know it sounds crazy but just think of going from those old rounds gauges to a " t.v.screen" that they didn't trust or like.I to this day have an issue with those,guess I'm to old school.I know what one little bug does to my computer and I'm sure they have the best there are designing these new aircraft but where are any back ups should you lose these great capabilities?And I agree with you on hand flying an aircraft.Got my test with an old Merlin 3 enroute to Nashville one time.By the time we got there an hour later I felt I had been flying for a week.God Bless those old stick and rudder instructors that I used to get so mad at.