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[CKlimko]

Capt. Fake's latest idiotic post...

Hmmm i havent flown the PHL flight (yet anyways

) but us polits cant do anything about it. the airport/ATC people tell us what to do we just follow the orders and if we brake them then theier goes our pilots license but it is a good point i dont see why us at SWA have to come in lower then other jets/airliners

lol this guy on A.net has a good point tho "WN pilots will do things to save a few minutes. My roomate who interned with Southwest said how the pilots would have some of the fastest takeoffs. That is taxiing to the runway rounding the corner and full foward on the throttle. He blamed the AA pilots, since they are paid hourly, that they like to be slow and take their time on takeoff. I have noticed this, but I'm not sure, if its because DFW is way busier than DAL.

"But as a commercial pilot, we are taught to save our company time and money. 5 minutes makes a difference."

Kind of sad. Notice the lack of proper English grammer!

Someone should give me a question that only a liscened pilot would know, or better yet a Southwest pilot would know.

Thanks,
Cory Klimko

 

[FN FAL]

That's just plain wierd. I don't know how much time and effort I would put into messing with this guy...he already has proven that he's not all there.

I have run into people like this before...even adults. I don't know what makes them tick and I don't really care. Once I have identified someone like this is talking to me, I will usually just find a convenient way to exit the conversation or give them an "E.D." or early dissmissal. Some of these "fake" or "fantasy land" people are even police officers (or ex police officers). There was a small town Wisconsin cop that was going to sell me a registered transferable HK MP5 .40 cal, back when I was looking to buy. The funny thing was I chased this character all over Wisconsin to meet up with him at gun shows where he had been setting up his guns for sale. Hundreds of miles wasted driving all over the state because he said he would have this item at the next gun show. I finally got the word from a licensed FFL holder friend that also did the gun show circuit that he had heard about this non-existant machinegun as well and that he didn't believe it existed. Because this joker had me believing there was a sale pending, I missed out on some really good oportunities to purchase other NFA firearms. Later, I found out this cop lost his job and was training people to shoot at some armored car company.

It takes all kinds...but I don't know where these make believe people come from.

I would say your time is better spent associating with people that have their feet grounded in reality, unless you think you have a chance to help this poor guy out.

 

[FracCapt]

Someone should give me a question that only a liscened pilot would know, or better yet a Southwest pilot would know.

Thanks,
Cory Klimko

Ask him what the 1-2-3 rule is....

 

[Tripower455]

Ask him what his seniority number is. What his hourly rate for pay is. What's his base coordinator's name. His SWAPA rep's name. What he thinks of the new procedures. What's the response to "electrical panel" and what checklist is it on.......

Too easy.......

As, Fabrique Nationale-Fusile Automatique Legere ( ) has said, ignore the poor guy...........

 

[FN FAL]

Hey Tripower! How's it going?

On the inverse of this subject matter...I met the most unique and interesting "real" person yesterday. One of those people you just know is a rock solid person...calm, intelligent and in shape. I think the guy spent 11 years in Force Recon with the marines. He stoped out at the dropzone yesterday to say hi to the DZ owners. It was the most times I had ever heard the word cadre in one conversation!

Here's his website www.uselitefitness.com

By the way Tripower, do you know Lynn Richter? He lives down in the Lake Geneva area.

 

[FracCapt]

He stoped out at the dropzone yesterday to say hi to the DZ owners.

Which DZ do you hang out at? Lake Wales, ZHills, Sebastian, and Deland here..

 

[Tripower455]

By the way Tripower, do you know Lynn Richter? He lives down in the Lake Geneva area.

LOL..... yeah, I know Bobo! Great guy! I flew with him a bunch when I was an FO in MDW. How do you know him?

Ask him why he writes up all the ADFs!

 

[TrafficInSight]

Wow, I just checked out that virtual airline site.......what a bunch of freakin DORKS!!!

*shrug*

when you're sick of just messing around with MSFS joining a VA can be fun. I was a member of Northwest VA for a while but I couldn't keep up with the number of flights they wanted me to turn in every month

not all of us can actually be airline pilots... but all of us can at least pretend for a while

of course passing yourself off as one... now that's funny.

 

[Tripower455]

when you're sick of just messing around with MSFS joining a VA can be fun. I was a member of Northwest VA for a while but I couldn't keep up with the number of flights they wanted me to turn in every month

How's the pay and bennies?

I'll admit to being addicted to MSCFS on the gaming zone a few years back. I knew I had a serious problem when my wife was in "the mood", and I shrugged her off to stay on the zone! Heck, that window of opportunity doesn't stay open very long, and I almost missed out..... After that, I did some serious soul searching and gave away my MS force feedback joystick, and went back to using the "factory" version......

Now I am just a recreation CFS user............ my son and save the world for democracy over our lan!

not all of us can actually be airline pilots... but all of us can at least pretend for a while

of course passing yourself off as one... now that's funny

Some say I've been pretending to be/passing myself off as a pilot my entire career! But hey, the checks keep coming so don't tell anyone!

 

[Markm1811]

SWA VA boy

Whats really sad is that I think I know who you are talking about.... I am a member of VATSIM and work on their Virtual ATC service. There is a guy ( I think a kid) who flys into the area all the time citing that he is a RW pilot at SWA. He then proceeds to plough the runways each and every time.

Regarding Virtual world. I am sorry that members on here ridicule .As a RW dispatcher I got as far in to avaition that I could. FS and the Virtual world enabled me to see what I missed. there are thousands of pilot who not only frequent the skies but also serve as educators to those wannabees. Not only that but the FAA themselves have sought to align information to make the Virtual world as real as it can be.. The VA associated to my company actually has constant communication to be realistic. It might be for kids but their are some serious dudes out there working the V world...( oh how do I know. I took a group around the Ops center the other day)...and yes I also am a VA member...

Education not ridicule...

Mark

 

[CKlimko]

Whats really sad is that I think I know who you are talking about.... I am a member of VATSIM and work on their Virtual ATC service. There is a guy ( I think a kid) who flys into the area all the time citing that he is a RW pilot at SWA. He then proceeds to plough the runways each and every time.

Regarding Virtual world. I am sorry that members on here ridicule .As a RW dispatcher I got as far in to avaition that I could. FS and the Virtual world enabled me to see what I missed. there are thousands of pilot who not only frequent the skies but also serve as educators to those wannabees. Not only that but the FAA themselves have sought to align information to make the Virtual world as real as it can be.. The VA associated to my company actually has constant communication to be realistic. It might be for kids but their are some serious dudes out there working the V world...( oh how do I know. I took a group around the Ops center the other day)...and yes I also am a VA member...

Education not ridicule...

Mark

Interesting perspective there Mark, I'm the same as you, belong to a virtual airline (2), and fly online with VATSIM. For the most part it seems "dorkish", and everyone seems to think that. I just bit my tongue and continue on. Heh, I don't even consider myself a computer nerd either, just a FS junkie.

To the contrary FS coupled with VATSIM and Squawk Box takes alot of time getting the "know". For example you could be flying from Chicago to New York, and if there is a controller online with ZAU, you'll call on voice mind you for clearance, and everything up the the center controller until handoff to the next center. The expect you to know the terminology, how to cross XXX at a certain altitude, ILS, VOR, DME, LDA approaches, etc, etc. This type of flying tries to mock the real-world as close as possible, it's not your typical default FS plane following the green line direct from ORD to MIA.

And I know flying online with voice it has helped tremendiously with my speaking skills when I'm taking real-life lessons, and it has hellped on other areas as well.

And just to show you how "real" people take FS. Have a look at this plane/panel combo made by PMDG. It costs about $40, but it's amazing. I fly it all the time.

And that article can be found here. http://www.avsim.com/pages/0504/pmdg_737ng_review/pmdg_737_review.html

 

[FN FAL]

LOL..... yeah, I know Bobo! Great guy! I flew with him a bunch when I was an FO in MDW. How do you know him?

Ask him why he writes up all the ADFs!

I haven't really seen much of him for a while, but I do think I owe him a visit to try and catch up on old times and see how he's doing.

We used to work together at a sporting goods store back in the early eighties. I will ask about the ADF's...thanks!

 

[FN FAL]

Which DZ do you hang out at? Lake Wales, ZHills, Sebastian, and Deland here..

Been to Z hills, but only to drop off a few friends for the big easter boogie...we had to head over to Sarasota with the rest of the crew to hang out with some friends. We did fly over to Sebastian because the remaining skydiver in our party wanted to "ZIG" while every body else "ZAGGED". What a bummer for us. We waited for two hours to get on the porter, because the DZ at Sebastian sent their big plane over to Z hills. So all they had available to jump was the porter and the C-195. It was still fun, even though we only got to jump once and had to turn the rest of our lift tickets in. Guess that's what we get for "ZIGGING"! Hahaha!

Oh yea...I did a lot of jumping (almost 7 seasons worth) at Shiocton, just west of Green Bay, WI. Those guys would be Chris and Carrie Quatsoe that come down by you at Z hills a lot, they are called Wolf River Skydivers. Now I jump at a really cool place in Ft Atkinson...Atmosphair Skydivers. Great bunch...kind of a student factory, but we still have a lot of fun.

 

[Tripower455]

FN-FAL,

I noticed in your location that you name one of my favorite movies of all time The Atomic Cafe. Funny how a series of different clips tells the story without any dialog.......

 

[FN FAL]

I have yet to actually see the movie "atomic cafe", but I have found the information about that movie on the "conelrad" website http://www.conelrad.com/atomic_cafe.html very interesting. Click the Conelrad sidebar to the right of the provided link and it will take you to the conelrad home page, where you will find hours of interesting reading and audio related to that crazy cold war era. Lots of stuff about some of the era's movies as well. I distinctly remember seeing "Panic in the year zero" with Ray Milland. Very spooky stuff for those times.

As the kid of a career Fleet Balistic Missile submariner, I pretty much was surrounded by the machinery and people of the cold war all througout my childhood. Since the old man was part of the original Polaris FBM program, he was personally interviewed for his position by Hyman Rickover himself. Living near Groton, Norfolk and on the Charleston Naval Weapons Station, gave me a real appreciation for that part of the Navy that protected us silently through those very strange times. While living on base at Charleston, you knew when they were missiling up another sub, because you would see missiles on trailers heading for the piers all the time...right from where you lived.

Eventually, it was my time to join the service and I wound up at a place called Harbor Clearance Unit Two...now known as Mobile Diving and Salvage Two. I pretty much had the equivelent of four years shore duty in Little Creek VA. and knew if I didn't volunteer for the Enewetok Atoll salvage operations, that most of my work in the Navy would have been TAD salvage operations stateside.

At Enewetok, I got to work around A-bomb craters and a lot of WWII history. There was even an island at the end of the chain that makes up Enewetok that had an H-Bomb malfunction during the test. That Island was being rendered safe by scraping topsoil (army corps of engineers) and running it over to the island that had two craters in it. Army Corps of engineers had a concrete plant on that island and were mixing a slurry to fill the two craters with the radioactive topsoil. We would on occaision have to dive the craters to see how the cement slurry would settle.

So...having grown up and having served during the cold war, I also find such stuff as "Atomic Cafe" an interesting and educational look at that time period of American and world history.