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  1. Swede

    AA recalls starting to increase

    dude, you're a MORON. I AM ON YOUR SIDE! Did you even read my post? Idiot. Don't presume to tell me what I think.
  2. Swede

    AA recalls starting to increase

    Fellas, the AA/TWA deal sucked for EVERYONE except the greedy corporate bastages who walked with million$. I am one of those 17 year native FO's. I remember getting my new seniority number that year and moving down several hundred. At the same time, a lot of long-term TWA guys were stapled and...
  3. Swede

    Woman Dies on AA. Ouch!

    It's pathetic that supposed AVIATORS and professional pilots would swallow the first story, hook, line and sinker. You're the type who buys "World Daily News" and really believes Brittney carries an alien fetus, or Obama is really a genetically-altered bigfoot. The media published it because...
  4. Swede

    what do I do with this stuff.... sell??

    Sell it. When I outprocessed from the AF, they wanted EVERYTHING back, including my helmet and mask, which they promptly destroyed. I wanted that as a memento, to give to my grandchildren. Screw them. If they wanted all their dash-1's back, they'd make it part of the outprocessing.
  5. Swede

    Albie15, hope you are okay

    Is anyone else as %&*&% SICK of the media putting a price tag onto EVERY SINGLE GD ACCIDENT??!! "Yesterday, Bill Smith was hospitalized with minor injuries after his $18,000 Cessna 172 blew a tire and skidded off the runway." What the bleep difference does it make how much the fighters...
  7. Swede

    Fork in the Road

    Stay at the engineering job. There is so much fun to be had in aviation outside of scheduled service. Learn to soar. Be a hobby CFI. Build an airplane. Flying to Tokyo isn't fun, it's work... that's why they pay you for it. If it was fun, we'd do it for free.
  8. Swede

    Old School Toys

    :p Too funny! You BW and GM guys will always be little kids in my mind. In my day, the only cool toy worth having was a Schwinn Stingray bike. The Big Wheel was, well, a tricycle, and only fit for toddlers and below. They did seem to cause carnage, though. Hardly a day went by when some kid on...
  9. Swede

    Your College Degree.

    Chemistry. A brutal degree. I'd never do it again. I know less chemistry now than my H.S. daughter. Utterly worthless for anything other than saying "Yes I have a B.S. in chemistry." But my ability to say that got me hired, so I guess it was worth it after all. I would NOT have been hired...
  10. Swede

    It's "Sierra"... not "Sugar"

    Champagne... don't know that one. I'm going to guess a tall, very vertical formation, which can be tough to sort. Some units created their own terms, that might be one of them. Stinger to me implies a loner (or a tight 2-ship) in a rather deep trail designed to create havoc once the merge has...
  11. Swede

    Serb discusses 1999 downing of stealth

    The F-117, if not properly prepared for flight, will have a trackable radar signiature. For example, if the seam in an access door is not puttied correctly with some cosmic ant-radar goo, the seam will reflect. It's entirely likely that there was a mistake by the USAF that allowed this to...
  13. Swede

    It's "Sierra"... not "Sugar"

    The whole slew of Tally, No Joy, Visual, and Blind terms come from military comm whereby the "code words" spoke volumes to all on a congested frequency with minimal airtime. Listening to a professionally executed air-air engagement between a 4-ship and some bad guys is a thing of beauty. Comm...
  14. Swede

    Mr. Drunk Before Flight Major Airline Guy

    That's great!! :laugh:
  15. Swede

    Nigerian 737-200 dissapears, 116 aboard, Lagos....

    The probability of surviving any crash from altitude seems to be near 0, whereas runway excursions (LIT) seem to produce survivors. Has there ever been a survivor from a high-energy impact type crash? I can't think of any off hand, but I don't dwell on it. Maybe the good folks at airdisaster.com...
  16. Swede

    MMMD - post Wilma CHARLIE FOXTROT

    Last night it was a goat rodeo still. We were passing by on our way to Guatemala city. There were at least two or three arrivals that were denied permission to land and amazingly had enough fuel to return to DFW and IAH. All were "stub" callsigns like 9245, etc. On our way back to DFW this...
  17. Swede

    UAL Pilots get TSA'ed in MIA

    Both the union and the company said he did everything exactly right.
  19. Swede

    UAL Pilots get TSA'ed in MIA

    It's not an analogy. Like the TSA, the FAM did in fact call the cops. My friend passed the cops on his way out the door. Neither FAMs nor TSA have arrest or detention authority in these cases. While the FAM tried to talk my friend into "staying put", he had no power to detain him and could not...
  20. Swede

    UAL Pilots get TSA'ed in MIA

    Not really... it's actually quite easy. And it happened to a friend. A FAM accused him of being intoxicated. He immediately left the area, got himself to a hospital, and had the exact same blood work done at the hospital which would be executed if a cop dragged in a drunk motorist. The...
  21. Swede

    Wilma is some hurricane!!

    I tried getting the CZM weather via ACARS the other day, and it was "Not Reporting". Darn it, I was CZM-bound for diving in November! Not gonna happen. :(
  22. Swede

    Pilotless Cockpit?

    You pilotless proponents still haven't addressed the bandwidth and transmission media problems. A level of autonomy could be built in, but an external link will probably always be required. And the only current technology is radio. Ponder that the next time you fly into precip and your ability...
  23. Swede

    Aviation Trivia Thread

    One of our governmental agencies I believed recently set an air-breathing record with an unmanned scramjet... Mach 6 or 8, somewhere around there. Any more trivia, Duck? Or are you on a trip?
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