PDT reduce fleet, furloughs in the future.

[Captzaahlie]

That's a good one.....:smash:

Did something similar with a master caution light. It wouldn't come on, so I kept pushing it until the smoke came out. Oops....

That's part of verifying that the caution light system is powered!
Sounds logical to me..... lol

 

[deadstick]

As a new capt many years ago, I found one of those oil pressure gauges reading on the low side and tapped it with the back of my cross pen until the glass shattered.... showed it who the boss was!
:laugh:

How did you write that one up for maintenance?

 

[Flyin2low]

That's a good one.....:smash:

Did something similar with a master caution light. It wouldn't come on, so I kept pushing it until the smoke came out. Oops....

The same thing happens in a Jetstream31 when you hold the lamp test. In flight, the engines shut down too.

 

[Captzaahlie]

How did you write that one up for maintenance?

I wrote it up as a bird strike.....

We had pigeons that would come into the a/c on the old ramp in PHL because people would feed them a trail of peanuts and lure them ... I figured I could say one just took off in the wrong direction.........
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OK, I'm bullsh!ting you (but people really did do that in PHL , and took pictures of it calling them live crew meals!)
Actually I sheepishly told the mechanic the truth....
Mechanic Bill was a guy I knew for better than 4 years he didn't give any more a sh1t than I did.....
Of course he playfully gave me a hard time for it, but I never heard anything from the CP. Stuff happens ya know?:erm:
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[Flyin2low]

I wrote it up as a bird strike.....

We had pigeons that would come into the a/c on the old ramp in PHL because people would feed them a trail of peanuts and lure them ... I figured I could say one just took off in the wrong direction.........
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That was always funny. You're taking a nap and wake up and a dozen pigeons are walking around under the seats and a ramper is sneaking a drink from the galley. Those were the bad ole times.

 

[OPECJet]

That was always funny. You're taking a nap and wake up and a dozen pigeons are walking around under the seats and a ramper is sneaking a drink from the galley. Those were the bad ole times.

Ever hear the one of the guys who took off out of JAX, where the captain took a small bird to the face right after gear up call? One was under the panel or something, flies out, hits the cap in the face, FO is laughing too hard to take the airplane...

The fix was opening the cockpit door, letting the bird fly to the back and continuing to the destination.

Best one I personally saw was a swarm of bees fly into the open cargo door of a -300. Rampies were bailing out, then pax bailing out of the open door nearly running over the gate agent trying to keep them from going behind the wing. Airplane spent the rest of the day in CLT being fumigated by the one mechanic who wasn't allergic to the little bastards.

 

[Captzaahlie]

That was always funny. You're taking a nap and wake up and a dozen pigeons are walking around under the seats and a ramper is sneaking a drink from the galley. Those were the bad ole times.

Marching through the slush to the ops trailer waz always fun too.... ( you risked getting carried away by an ice flow or nailed by a tug) not to mention the complimentary Ebonics lessons in the trailer.... I'd eats mah lunch at a picnic table ands couldents even understand whatz i'z waz hearing and what not..... fun times....

I wonder how anything got done.....

 

[zasca]

Can anyone confirm that LEC and MEC reps are telling people that a total of 8 planes are now "guaranteed" to be gone? Only 3 -100's fates are still unknown to the company. The second group of 4 airplanes will be gone in the fall................................

Happy happy, joy joy, happy happy, joy!

 

[WSurf]

Can anyone confirm that LEC and MEC reps are telling people that a total of 8 planes are now "guaranteed" to be gone? Only 3 -100's fates are still unknown to the company. The second group of 4 airplanes will be gone in the fall................................

Happy happy, joy joy, happy happy, joy!

Piedmont Airlines

Rule #1 No news is always good news.
Rule #2 Any news in always bad news.

Good News & Piedmont Airlines hasn't been used in the same sentence in over 7 years.

 

[quinnlake]

Can anyone confirm that LEC and MEC reps are telling people that a total of 8 planes are now "guaranteed" to be gone? Only 3 -100's fates are still unknown to the company. The second group of 4 airplanes will be gone in the fall................................

Happy happy, joy joy, happy happy, joy!

This is not true.

 

[FlyingShawn]

Can anyone confirm that LEC and MEC reps are telling people that a total of 8 planes are now "guaranteed" to be gone? Only 3 -100's fates are still unknown to the company. The second group of 4 airplanes will be gone in the fall................................

Happy happy, joy joy, happy happy, joy!

I flew with Pete N. today (well, Wednesday, 4217 got in really late) and he said that the meeting between Scrobola and union reps for this week mentioned in the "fleet plan update" hasn't happened yet. Thus, I'm guessing this rumor is false just because the MEC reps haven't yet had an opportunity to hear such "news" from a reliable source without it being public knowledge.

 

[LearLove]

I flew with Pete N.

O Jesus Christ, are you OK? My suggestion to you would be to start drinking heavily.

 

[AutoBus]

A little bird told me PDT is going to get Q-400's.

BTW Olympus593, i want to marry your avtar.

Are you the little dork that keeps pestering doogie about them at the Crew News sessions.

 

[Whataburger]

I flew with Pete N. today .

Peter North?

 

[njcapt]

O Jesus Christ, are you OK? My suggestion to you would be to start drinking heavily.

Did he show you pictures of his machine gun? Or look at you like Hannibal Lecter? I assume that's the Pete N. he was talking about - he had more hair back then.

Those were the days. You guys are still flying the Dashes that I flew in 1995, hell, those were getting kind of old at that point. Still have 805EX? I did IOE in that one.

 

[WSurf]

Peter North?

Ah, the days of riding in the FLO van with that crazy Elaine Chick. She would make the crews sign their names, and almost every page had a Peter North.

Alot of Chuck Norris's stayed in FLO a bunch too.


Always gave me a laugh reading some of the creative name people came up with.

 

[Dashmonster]

If you read the fine print you were signing a liability release form for her driving.

Life is much better in FLO town nowadays.

 

[Captzaahlie]

If you read the fine print you were signing a liability release form for her driving.

Life is much better in FLO town nowadays.

Yeah that layover must rock now.....

I remember seeing signs there as you drove past through town ...... specials on having teeth pulled!
Guess thats why we always had pretty full flights

The lovers quarrel between the carpet munching Rainbow van service drivers was never a dull moment!

Miss Gna B had a sign in name that I thought was pretty good... Helen Bedd.
That probably gave the driver a whett on, if she was able to figure it out.

 

[Jar Jar]

Still have 805EX? I did IOE in that one.

We still have 805 yes, but 906 is the queen of the fleet and its still setting new records every day for most hours flown on a Dash 8.

 

[FMEpilot]

I flew 906 the day it came out of heavy a couple months ago and it over the course of 4 legs since coming down from YUL had 14 MEL's 1-4 fourteen. Piece-o-junk.