DAL 757 with no Wemacs??

[FBN0223]

Netjets dude
Be careful!!! Customers that refer to their pilot as B.I.T.C.H., don't usually stay customers for long.

 

[DC10]

Going back to the original subject, Continental Airlines doesn't have eyeball vents in any of their 767s or 777s. Never really understood why but it probably does save weight. It's very frustrating not being able to control your own ventilation on a 10 hour flight.

 

[AA717driver]

Man, that is one old 757. SIN got rid of the 757's before they got A310's.

Anyone remember the last time they saw a SIN A310?

Those airplanes have to keep the mx guys happy!

BTW, revenue pax (whoever pays for their ticket) are allowed to criticize the service offered. They are not always given a choice of who to fly.

NJA does spend a lot on airline tickets every year and someone who is 'double-rare-metal-member' should be taken seriously. BEEOTCH! TC

P.S.--Too bad GL isn't at AA. With the new gogo internet, he could really jack his post count!

 

[cocknbull]

You guys are all wrong. A wemac is what the want-to-be engineers at Cessna call a punka-louvre. Yes that's right not a wemac or eyball vent but a punka-louvre.

Cessna Sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just incase you didn't know that. The 560XL is the crappiest plane I have flown besides the new 172s.

 

[Occam's Razor]

You better learn who's a$$ needs to be kissed!

The customer is always RIGHT, B.I.T.C.H.!!!

Mohammed Atta was a full-fare customer.

So was the shoe bomber.

We should do our best to make the cabin comfortable. The question about "wemacs" is legitimate. Your naive assertion is not.

 

[Mike man]

Are you the only person in the world without a camera phone?

 

[BoilerUP]

I think everybody should know by now CA1900 doesn't post flamebait here...

 

[General Lee]

I think everybody should know by now CA1900 doesn't post flamebait here...

Someone who used to fly a BE1900 is complaining about a lack of air or being uncomfortable. I bet he never heard that while flying the BE1900........He forgets sooooo soon.


Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[Scope out RJ's]

....but he's still your customer, "numbnuts".

nice attitude.

Unless you couldn't tell, its called "sarcasm," numbnuts!

 

[Noserider76]

Man, that is one old 757. SIN got rid of the 757's before they got A310's.

Those airplanes have to keep the mx guys happy!

4 PW powered early 90's models. 2 are now ETOPS. No vents sucks but run the cabin a little cooler and people are happy.

The 17 ex TWA/AA 757s are very sweet with new interiors, GPS, winglets, etc.

P.S.--Too bad GL isn't at AA. With the new gogo internet, he could really jack his post count!

Don't speak to soon. First DL MD-88 had wifi installed a couple days ago, installation is quick, and the entire fleet should have it by next summer.

http://blog.delta.com/2008/10/01/sent-from-33000-feet/

 

[BEECH-SLAPPED]

Someone who used to fly a BE1900 is complaining about a lack of air or being uncomfortable. I bet he never heard that while flying the BE1900........He forgets sooooo soon.

Hey now, with the blowers on HI, the air coming out of those vents of a 1900 will rip your toupe off! Now whether the air is COLD, that's a different story. Especially if you had the old P.O.S Director of MX that Commutair had in the late 90's. He regarded the VCM as a "passenger convenience item" and not worthy of his attention. Would have loved to have strapped him in for a July hour-taxi in IAD to see if he would change his mind!

 

[BoilerUP]

Someone who used to fly a BE1900 is complaining about a lack of air or being uncomfortable. I bet he never heard that while flying the BE1900........He forgets sooooo soon.

Big difference between flying a 1900 and riding on a full Y fare on a 757, GL...but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you know that.

I'm 100% confident CA1900 understands the cabin temp problems caused by an inop APU, but I'd also be baffled by not having any wemacs/gaspers/eyeball vents/etc in the cabin of an airliner.

 

[IDEtoNJA]

Uhhh.... no. I rode on it. I'd have taken a picture of the overhead console if I had thought of it.

Delta 692, MCO-ATL, this morning. It left 36 minutes late, meaning I missed my connection to Wilmington. It left 5 minutes after we blocked in (pushed 5 early), and we got to enjoy 3 extra hours in ATL waiting for the next one.


The only other oddity was that the Smoking and FSB signs had Korean text over the English. Second-hand airplane, maybe?

CA1900,

You are not airlining quite enough! Only 38K miles?!

IDEtoNJA

 

[General Lee]

Big difference between flying a 1900 and riding on a full Y fare on a 757, GL...but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you know that.

I'm 100% confident CA1900 understands the cabin temp problems caused by an inop APU, but I'd also be baffled by not having any wemacs/gaspers/eyeball vents/etc in the cabin of an airliner.

My point being that not all planes (including those particular 757s or BE1900s for that matter) are easy to cool, and yes, a broken APU makes it worse. He should have known that, and he should have remembered back to the days when his B1900 was sitting in line at a hot IAD afternoon and he was helpless. I could expect that from an AirForce pilot who never had to deal with it, but not a Commuter guy. I flew E120s out of MDW way back when, and we had hot Summers too.


Bye Bye---General Lee

 

[1080P]

Gotcha. I just thought the layout was weird enough that I had to share it with my Flightinfo family. :laugh:

On a positive note, we were too late to do the trip, so we ended up just staying in Wilmington. Paddy's Hollow Pub is delicious, by the way. :beer:

Good beer yes but I prefer "The Copper Penny" great food, beer, and alwyas have some sort of special on both. It's on Chesnut street I think.

 

[Old School 737]

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[AA717driver]

Don't speak to soon. First DL MD-88 had wifi installed a couple days ago, installation is quick, and the entire fleet should have it by next summer.

http://blog.delta.com/2008/10/01/sent-from-33000-feet/

Meant to copy the part about the TWA 757's. I laugh every time I go into LAX and see two or three ex-TWA 757's sitting there on the C10 side of the Delta concourse.

The AA pilots wouldn't shut up about TWA's "old fleet". Those were some of the newest 757's around and half our 80's were newer than AA's. I won't even go into the 717 issue--it hurts too much.

Now, they just bitch about AA's old fleet... TC

P.S.--Internet on an 88 doesn't do much good--the legs are too short to hit the good sites on Thumbzilla...

 

[aa73]

The AA pilots wouldn't shut up about TWA's "old fleet". Those were some of the newest 757's around and half our 80's were newer than AA's. I won't even go into the 717 issue--it hurts too much.

Now, they just bitch about AA's old fleet...

TC, you cracked the code. There is ALWAYS something to bitch about here!

p.s. I loved those 757s... except for the P&Ws, that is. Rolls look so much.... sleeker. And those MD83Gs... ahhhh, verry nice. My 75/76 FMS learning was a lot easier thanks to those 83Gs.

73

 

[CRJ's suck]

The only other oddity was that the Smoking and FSB signs had Korean text over the English. Second-hand airplane, maybe?

Is there a way to find out the tail number or that bird? ATA had one bastard child of the fleet from somewhere overseas with foreign text on everything. I think the only reason they had it was because they had a sweet power by the hour lease on it. It was N521AT. Biggest P.O.S. i've ever had the displeasure of working on.

Could it have been N521AT?
Just curious where that thing ended up.

 

[iaflyer]

Could it have been N521AT?
Just curious where that thing ended up.

Looks like it ended up in Asia again - the N number isn't used anymore, but a quick airliners.net search shows it's being used by Orient Thai, an airline in Thailand: http://www.airliners.net/photo/One-Two-Go-(Orient-Thai/Boeing-757-28A/0596423/M/

 

[qxdash8]

A few of our 757's are equipped for 22 mins of pax O2 instead of the standard 12. These are used on some of the SA routes that have long periods over high terrain. I've heard that to make room for the larger oxygen generators there is no gasper system installed.

 

[DrunkIrishman]

Hey General Jackass-

If you believe that a Netjets guy shouldn't complain when it is his company paying for the ticket, then I would remind YOU not to complain at any of the hotels Delta pays for you to stay in.

Let me gues, you're one of those arrogant little, "I fly the ER" guys aren't you. My friend, it is just a job. The only person that cares about you sitting in your gay little ER is you. BTW, your ER is one of the worst products to fly on internationally. Business Class, are you f'ing kidding me! What a joke. At least Delta has 777's with an ok product.

You really ought to get off your high horse, or should I say your pathetic little ER, and realize that Netjets is contributing to YOUR paycheck.

 

[pipe]

What's a "wemac."

It's basic Elmer Fudd aerodynamics regarding the mean aerodynamic chord.

PIPE

 

[glasspilot1]

p.s. I loved those 757s... except for the P&Ws, that is. Rolls look so much.... sleeker. And those MD83Gs... ahhhh, verry nice. My 75/76 FMS learning was a lot easier thanks to those 83Gs.

73

73:

I was a senior 767 F/O when TWA got their first 757 in Aug '96. (It was some well needed good news one month after TWA800)

I was able to fly our first 757 when it was 3 days old! It smelled like a new car! Not a bad L/O either, 25 hours in Orange County, CA. For the first month there was a Boeing rep on each flight. If something broke he was right on it.

 

[Noserider76]

Meant to copy the part about the TWA 757's. I laugh every time I go into LAX and see two or three ex-TWA 757's sitting there on the C10 side of the Delta concourse.

The AA pilots wouldn't shut up about TWA's "old fleet". Those were some of the newest 757's around and half our 80's were newer than AA's. I won't even go into the 717 issue--it hurts too much.

Now, they just bitch about AA's old fleet... TC

P.S.--Internet on an 88 doesn't do much good--the legs are too short to hit the good sites on Thumbzilla...

I never understood why the AA guys didn't like them. I guess maybe the Pratts don't climb like the Rolls do but bitching about the climb rate on any 75 is really minor. They replaced the interiors and put 16 business class seats, PTVs with AVOD, Pegasus FMS w/GPS, and winglets. They fly great and the passengers love them. It's nice to walk around and see those TW registrations.

 

[400A]

1900, my brother said the same thing, only he rode that piece of crap all the way to Seattle from ATL. He said it was miserable the entire flight.

 

[SpauldingSmails]

I need deets... and wemacs!

 

[aa73]

I never understood why the AA guys didn't like them. I guess maybe the Pratts don't climb like the Rolls do but bitching about the climb rate on any 75 is really minor. They replaced the interiors and put 16 business class seats, PTVs with AVOD, Pegasus FMS w/GPS, and winglets. They fly great and the passengers love them. It's nice to walk around and see those TW registrations.

Nah, the AA guys liked 'em just fine. It was more the hassles of having to learn the differences, and the TWA birds just added a 6th version of the 757/767s we had at the time. (757, 757ER, 75TW, 762, 762ER, and 763ER.)

They do look great in DL colors... and the TW registration is great airline nostalgia. I wish we would've kept them.

 

[aa73]

73:

I was a senior 767 F/O when TWA got their first 757 in Aug '96. (It was some well needed good news one month after TWA800)

I was able to fly our first 757 when it was 3 days old! It smelled like a new car! Not a bad L/O either, 25 hours in Orange County, CA. For the first month there was a Boeing rep on each flight. If something broke he was right on it.

Nothing like that new airplane smell!

I just flew one of our latest 767s, a 2003 model. That's as close to a "new airplane" I've been in awhile.

 

[CRJ's suck]

IAFLYER - Thanks for the info