Put Down The Laptops and Fly the Plane NWA

[ChuckDriver]

Well said rigger!! Most people today don't have the balls to admit to a mistake!

 

[LaGarbage Man]

"I don't think there is a single FOM out there that dosen't say something to the effect of "reading of books, newspapers, listening to music or use of personal computers is prohibited"

Hmmm...Both airlines I worked at had no such policy or prohibitive statement in the GOM/FOM or anywhere else for that matter.



YKMKR

Isn't it Ironic ? At one of my previous airlines I would have had to get out my company issued laptop so that I could check my FOM/SOP to see if it was legal for me to use my laptop in flight. Or to make a confusing situation worse, You have a Fed on the jump seat and he want's to play "Stump the Chump" while enroute, do you get out the computer and answer his questions only to get burned for getting out your computer. Catch 22 ??

 

[ultrarunner]

I honestly still think they were sleeping. To go an hour and 18 min without contact?....

Of course they were. Like you said. I don't care how tired you are, NO ONE, let alone BOTH guys at the same time would have allowed what happened if they were just "in a heated discussion"..no, wait, "using our laptops"....

They were racked out, went off headsets and with the headsets off, had likely forgot to turn on the overhead speaker or it's volume was turned way down.

I don't know how NWA's ACARS box is set up, does it have a chime? I can't imagine there were not a few ACARS messages in there too!

 

[taters]

709 ride

what are they going to make em do...."Give me 2 touch and goes without using your laptop"

 

[taters]

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[ultrarunner]

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Taters, why did you delete your post? It came across my email and now it's gone. Or did a mod grab it? Also, Eagleshark's response was also nabbed??

What's up?

 

[GogglesPisano]

These were "mainline" pilots...Let's forgive them...at least they weren't dangerous "regional" pilots..

Your cries for help are getting old.

 

[aussieflyboy]

You guys actually believe this?

Exactly... who the heck actually believes this b/s story?

I can see the laptop being an excuse for missing a few radio calls or an altitude bust, but we're supposed to believe it was the reason for 1 1/2 hours of radio silence and at LEAST 45 minutes of lost situational awareness??

Give me a break...

 

[aussieflyboy]

I honestly still think they were sleeping. To go an hour and 18 min without contact? Who can do that and not start to wonder what is going on? Even if they weren't sleeping, had they just said from the beginning, we had inadvertantly fallen asleep due to lack of rest and being fatigued but feared for getting in trouble for calling in fatigued this would be pointed in a different direction entirely.

Bada-BINGO!!!!!

 

[contrail67]

I reckon I oughtta crack open an AIM every now and then.:blush:

At least it shows you have not had to do that ride or you would have known the number it changed to!

 

[aussieflyboy]

It's raining today, so he can't jackoff in the school playground! What else could this kid possibly do!

Wow, I really thought that kind of puerile name-calling went out of fashion after I finished third grade... I suppose for some folks it never goes out of fashion.

Never thought I'd live to see a grown man who wears diapers. Nice to meet you sir.

 

[Cobraair75drvr]

Out him/her.

he's doing it on the expressjetpilots forum also. He seems to be infatuated with this .

 

[aussieflyboy]

So we're talking like last spring? Or are you just referring to the age group of the type of boys you troll when on days off?


Only when I'm at the aussieflyboy trailer. I hate going there and using the bathroom after sodomizing your sister and mom. It's horrible!

YYaawwwnnn... boring

 

[ron burgundy]

Downfall of every good man. There was a woman involved..or two of them.

 

[aussieflyboy]

So we're talking like last spring? Or are you just referring to the age group of the type of boys you troll when on days off?


Only when I'm at the aussieflyboy trailer. I hate going there and using the bathroom after sodomizing your sister and mom. It's horrible!

Moderators, are you guys awake??

You suspend people left and right for all sorts of minor infractions, and you let this guy hang around making comments about sodomizing other professional pilots' mothers and sisters???!! Are you guys serious??

I thought this was supposed to be a professional forum, where pilots talk about issues that matter, as adults.

Can you guys please lock this guy out of these forums and throw away the key? I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one here who's had enough of his childish behaviour.

Thank you.

 

[JustaNumber]

Moderators, are you guys awake??

You suspend people left and right for all sorts of minor infractions, and you let this guy hang around making comments about sodomizing other professional pilots' mothers and sisters???!! Are you guys serious??

I thought this was supposed to be a professional forum, where pilots talk about issues that matter, as adults.

Can you guys please lock this guy out of these forums and throw away the key? I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one here who's had enough of his childish behaviour.

Thank you.

Click on the right blue dot below his avatar and you can report the post directly to the mods. I'd do it but I long ago added him to my ignore list. Enough people quote him though, that I'd also like to see him gone.

 

[JohnDoe]

I thought this was supposed to be a professional forum, where pilots talk about issues that matter, as adults.

HA! That sun set on flightinfo years ago.

 

[Amish RakeFight]

Moderators, are you guys awake??

You suspend people left and right for all sorts of minor infractions, and you let this guy hang around making comments about sodomizing other professional pilots' mothers and sisters???!! Are you guys serious??

I thought this was supposed to be a professional forum, where pilots talk about issues that matter, as adults.

Can you guys please lock this guy out of these forums and throw away the key? I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one here who's had enough of his childish behaviour.

Thank you.

I find him to be humorous and quite entertaining, but then again, I'm quite juvenille for my age, admittedly. Just put him on your ignore list if it bothers you that much or just don't respond to him. We all know he's full of sarcasm and precisely why you shouldn't take him seriously. Getting visibly angry only upsets yourself and provides enjoyment for him. No one really thinks these insults apply to you personally. Just jab back. If you're getting offended on this (or any board) board, that's a bad sign.

 

[CoolSidePillow]

Now, if this had been a Southwest crew -- We all here at the "Forum" would have chimed a prediction around, "...heard there was a flight attendant or two in the cockpit, lap dances etc..." and it would be, hmm - plausible, and perhaps believable.

Got to admit, they have a corporate culture you can embrace.
Oh, for the good ole days and young flight attendants.


Chances happening at NW: nil.

Wasn't there and incident with SWA pilots getting naked in cockpit or something? No surprisingly. Only two things come from Texas

 

[ultrarunner]

Wasn't there and incident with SWA pilots getting naked in cockpit or something? .....

Are you serious??????

Got a link to that thread?!

 

[Amish RakeFight]

Wasn't there and incident with SWA pilots getting naked in cockpit or something? No surprisingly. Only two things come from Texas

Yeah. They "spilled coffee on their uniforms" and stripped to their boxers, then called the FA up front. FA sued. Didn't find it funny.


http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,626098,00.html

Pilots Lose Jobs for Losing Uniforms

Southwest Airlines apparently doesn't think it's funny that two pilots were in the cockpit flying nearly nude during a flight, so the company fired them.

By Stephen M. Silverman
Originally posted Monday April 28, 2003 07:36 AM EDT
Talk about your friendly skies.

Two nearly naked Southwest Airlines pilots were recently fired after they reportedly took off all or part of their clothes in the cockpit while flying -- and then summoned a flight attendant to bring them paper towels and soda water.

"We conducted a thorough investigation and terminated the two pilots involved for inappropriate conduct," Southwest Airlines spokeswoman Ginger Hardage tells the Associated Press.

The pilots -- who have not been named, nor their flight numbers released -- have reportedly appealed their firings, arguing that they were flying that way after one of them had spilled coffee on a uniform.

That still doesn't explain why the second pilot followed suit.

As recalled by New York's Daily News, when the low-budget Southwest first took to the air in 1971, one of its selling points was that the flight crew showed a little skin. Flight attendants wore hot pants -- the females, at least.

But generally, Southwest pilots have always worn uniforms.

 

[ultrarunner]

WOW. How could something like that not make Herb proud! Did they get their jobs back?

 

[Amish RakeFight]

WOW. How could something like that not make Herb proud! Did they get their jobs back?

Life has gotten too serious because of lawyers. I wish I were living in a long gone era in this sinking Country of ours. We've become too litigious of a society.

Get this - There's a trendy upscale night spot in lower Manhattan calle the Greenhouse which is notorious for a door snobs who gatekeep the ropes. Apprarently a group of Black girls weren't let in and sued for racial discrimination. How much you ask? $1 BILLION dolllars. I kid you not. A few weeks later, another group of Blacks vlaimed to have not been let in for the same reason and are suing for $1.5 BILLION dollars.

$1 billion dollar lawsuit:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/race_suit_vs_soho_club_pqpR0n8kxICOkbk7ZFMlAL

$1.5 billion dollar lawsuit:
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2009/10/27/2009-10-27_another_race_suit_vs_soho_club.html


These types of places have traditionally excluded many differnt types of people based on their style and class. Blacks have been admitted inside plenty in the past and the club is actually owned by Black partners too.

 

[aussieflyboy]

I find him to be humorous and quite entertaining, but then again, I'm quite juvenille for my age, admittedly. Just put him on your ignore list if it bothers you that much or just don't respond to him. We all know he's full of sarcasm and precisely why you shouldn't take him seriously. Getting visibly angry only upsets yourself and provides enjoyment for him. No one really thinks these insults apply to you personally. Just jab back. If you're getting offended on this (or any board) board, that's a bad sign.

Are you kidding me? I'm an aussie, mate... NOTHING offends me

The guy just couldn't take the hint and so I thought I'd have the mods give him a "timeout" for a few days just to preserve my sanity...

Apparently it worked because I haven't seen him or his posts for a couple of days now.....

 

[Whine Lover]

mnmnmnm

 

[SLUF4]

Just read an article in the Wall St. Journal that said the "FO was in a frolic" during the incident..what does this mean??