Airtran Jumpseat question

[j41driver]

Careful about that story... the FAA has taken a rather dim view on people occupying a F/A jumpseat who aren't current on opening that SPECIFIC door on that SPECIFIC plane or the O2 mask on the F/A jumpseat (different than PSU's or flight deck mask). Not that it's rocket science, but we had someone get violated for that a while back.

How's JB get around that? Don't they allow offline pilots/fa's to ride the spare fa jumpseats? Briefing cards similar to flightdeck briefing cards?

 

[Mr Wu]

How's JB get around that? Don't they allow offline pilots/fa's to ride the spare fa jumpseats? Briefing cards similar to flightdeck briefing cards?

I got the J/S on the crapper door one time from JFK to TPA. I WISHED I had O2...

 

[Lear70]

Hey, thanks for posting. Looking at your Avatar it looks like a post office 727. Where you with EO or Ryan on the glorious days of postal flying?

EOI, was a great time, some of the best flying of my life.

Nothing's been the same post-9/11... enjoying the flying, but the career is completely different.

Were you with one of the holy trinity? (Express One, Ryan, Emory)?

 

[A300FE]

EOI, Brussels based.

 

[Lear70]

How's JB get around that? Don't they allow offline pilots/fa's to ride the spare fa jumpseats? Briefing cards similar to flightdeck briefing cards?

Don't know. When I was at PCL, one of our guys rode on the F/A jumpseat on an Airbus and was in a lot of hot water with the DTW FSDO over it. Don't know what ever came of it or how JB gets around it... maybe it's the briefing cards, our guy who was on the NW jumpseat just sat there, had never operated the emergency exit door or even jumped out of a slide...

 

[Lear70]

EOI, Brussels based.

I heard that was a sweet gig; I bid it but couldn't hold it, July 99 new-hire IND Postal reserve F/O then BOS postal, upgraded in December 2000 (SAT non-postal), sat in the left seat for 5 months then got the word they gave the contract to FedEx... :uzi:

When corrected for inflation, I've never made as much as I did then or had as much time off (6 days on, 8 days off was nice).

Good luck to you out there... :beer: