Mesaba questions

[MEL'ed]

How does the Dash 8 compare? I guess it depends on the model/age - right?

Can't speak for all Dash operators, but all PDTs have a KNS or UNS with direct capability. All major airway fixes and FAFs programmed and the capability to input any point in there with a known direction and distance from a VOR or other preprogrammed fix.

 

[Mesabi Miner]

You mean the Saab does not have a APU????????

That's it, Lifer... I'm throwin' down the next time I see you. Of course, then I'm have to go to the B concourse and why would I go there? I'm not worthy...

MM

 

[XJ-spartacus]

Miner,

If you can manage to slap "lifers" tri-focals off before he is able to grap you, I think you might stand a chance. Either way, tangling with an elderly man is a lose-lose. Good luck...

-Spartacus

 

[ImbracableCrunk]

Yeah the Saab has two APU's! One on each wing..........and its cooler than any plane I have ever flown in, and in the summer it has the best heating system as well!

LOL. Nice.

 

[xjhawk]

Did you see the new vacancy award? looks like XJ will be hiring 13 captains to be going to DTW and MEM. And until christmas, even the crj900 is going junior. Then it might go senior, but I think we will soon run out of old timer Saab captains to fill those spots. Then I guess its a seat lock release on a one for one basis. Any word on if the seat lock is only going to be for one year? How about the word of whether those options will be picked up for more CRJ's or even the EMB's? My bet on the EMB's will be 195's at mainline....thats if aviation does not take another dive.....can anyone say tough times ahead.....wow did i ramble on...

 

[WMUSIGPI]

The 900 went back senior... Anyone else surprised at how many senior guys that were waiting all of a sudden decided to give up Christmas and New Year's and go in this class after holding out for so long?

 

[xjhawk]

well, as training is now, I can tell you I have never had so Many weekeends off since I have been at this company. I would think the reasoning is this, that unless the pilot was senior enough to have vacation over the holiday, and in the top ten or so that can bid the holidays off, traning could mean time at home for the holidays. But this means more for those who are from minneapolis or......montreal...ha ha

 

[Chris9702l]

Go to training

Hell, I say go to training. I've had more days off than I ever had before. I went to groundschool, then had almost 3 months off, did the sim, and now it's been one week and counting and no call yet. I know something will happen in Dec because I will have to bid a schedule. Can't wait to go back to 900 training.

C

 

[WMUSIGPI]

Guess you haven't seen the DTW Dec bid packet.... Not ONE FO line with weekends and Christmas off... only 4 with New Year's off....uke:

So much for being senior meaning anything...

 

[flyn96]

Guess you haven't seen the DTW Dec bid packet.... Not ONE FO line with weekends and Christmas off... only 4 with New Year's off....uke:

So much for being senior meaning anything...

Come on, Xmas is in the middle of the week, senoir guys can't have their cake and eat it to every single time. I like it when people who get everything have to "give a little". I can laugh, while eating my company issued lunch box this year.

 

[WMUSIGPI]

you mean it's too much to ask to build at least ONE line that has Wed-Fri trips all month so that you get weekends and Christmas off???

There is a line like that every other month

 

[Northern Lights]

Try to trade something during the 48 hour bid next week. It seems like it usually causes a 30/7 issue, but it doesn't hurt to try.

 

[xjcaptain]

Try to trade something during the 48 hour bid next week. It seems like it usually causes a 30/7 issue, but it doesn't hurt to try.

Good luck with a non-vertical trade to get a holiday off! Might as well buy a lottery ticket, you'd probably have better odds.

 

[CptMurf]

Miner,

If you can manage to slap "lifers" tri-focals off before he is able to grap you, I think you might stand a chance. Either way, tangling with an elderly man is a lose-lose. Good luck...

-Spartacus

Spartacus, you still trollin the XJ boards?

Figured you'd be to busy counting your canyon blue dollars by now. Hope everything is as good as appears from the outside looking in.

 

[XJohXJ]

Why is anyone senior an FO anymore? By now they should all be new hires, especially in DTW.