Mesaba XJ - Hiring Stats - A guise???

[Hulk Hogan]

flew an NDB into YXU a couple of weeks ago. No other option but a return to DTW

 

[Hulk Hogan]

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[WMUSIGPI]

Guess I should have clarified my statement.... I can and earlier this year (more than once) used NDB approaches... but has nobody ever still backed it up with a GPS overlay approach or simply put in the waypoints on the approach to help? It's actually better than just using the NDB and relying on a (now not available) drift diamond. The only restriction is the FMS can't be primary for the approach, there is no requirement to completely turn it off. Just program the thing and put it on the CDI page.... now you have the NDB displayed on the EFIS and the FMS set for a backup. It's not hard guys, despite what they said in class, the approaches are already in the database.

 

[JPAustin]

Kit Darby's Air Inc. shows that Mesaba will have hired 368 pilots by the end of June. How can this be true?

XJ has only 500 pilots + new hires + training bubble. Even with attrition, this can't be true or is it?

Any XJers out there with some info?

Kit Darby is the Enron of the airline consulting industry. He buys and sells prospective numbers.

 

[Blade Runner]

Heck for that matter I don't plan on flying any NDB (only) approaches on the Saab either.

I consider NDB's to be a case for declaring an airborne emergency.

 

[MACH-TUCK]

Who doesnt know how to fly an NDB??? Geeeeezzz

 

[MACH-TUCK]

As soon as I stop sucking on your Mommy's tits.

LMFAO

 

[saabass]

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[saabass]

Well, as far as numbers, there is no way in the last couple months since the few furloughs returned did that many new hires come on property. But I do not have the numbers.. But the growth that the company has planned is more than what I think they can handle. Seriously, four planes a month until all the 200's are on property, come on! Oh for those who are applying.....some basic rules if you are hired...

Do not try to tell a guy who has been flying for years how to fly a VOR.

Do not complain about your reserve schedule since you have only been on reserve for a couple months. Some have been on reserve a lot longer, and on the bottom of a stagnant seniority list for years.

Oh and if you have not been around a long time, and you have something to say on the union message boards (And have not completed traininig )and you are complaining and have nothing constructive to say, just know that your name is known and not too many people like you.......

Could it be BK?

 

[ImbracableCrunk]

I didn't know the ImbracableCrunk liked Fresca...A satisfying beverage indeed!

I bet it'd be even more refreshing from the right seat of a DC-8. . . How's SDF treatin' ya?

 

[AvroGuy]

If there are still NDB approaches in service in the US you should now how to fly one, especially as a professional airline pilot. If the brand new $300,000 C172 you trained in did'nt have one, then go and rent one for a few hours with an ADF and get some dual before you enter the world of professional pilots. If you can't fly an NDB approach, you should be limited to weekend flying as a hobby.

PLZ, rent an airplane to be a professional airline pilot. That is almost as good as say you have to wear a hat to be a professional airline pilot.

Any person who has an instrument rating and hired by an airline should be able to pickup the ndb in the CRJ, especially with the wind drift indicator. That was the easies NDB I ever did during my Avro trng and now that I am on the CRJ we are not authorized to do NDB approaches at my current company. Also aren't the XJ Saabs getting GPS? How about an overlay of the approach. That is what we did in the AVRO for some of the approaches. That was for reference only still used primary nav for the approach. The fixes gave situational awareness.

 

[saabservant]

South Bend ILS was out of service a few years ago, we had to do an NDB to minimums...it was ugly, but I made it. (Comair went around).

The NDB is still a big part of flying in Canada, isn't it?
Besides, what else allows you to tune in AM hi-fi and sports...

 

[jmreii]

At the regional airline I flew for we were not allowed to do NDB approaches, and the company I fly for now uses garmin, ADF was being disconnected, welcome to the future finally.

 

[WMUSIGPI]

Any person who has an instrument rating and hired by an airline should be able to pickup the ndb in the CRJ, especially with the wind drift indicator. That was the easies NDB I ever did during my Avro trng and now that I am on the CRJ we are not authorized to do NDB approaches at my current company. Also aren't the XJ Saabs getting GPS? How about an overlay of the approach. That is what we did in the AVRO for some of the approaches. That was for reference only still used primary nav for the approach. The fixes gave situational awareness.

Ding Ding Ding, we have a winner.... at least someone else knows what I was talking about.
And yes the Saab FMS's do have the approaches in the database, we just aren't authorized to use them as primary nav.

 

[ImbracableCrunk]

Re: FMS

So I was flying into an airport that I hadn't been into in maybe 5 years.

I look down at the FMS for landing weight or something, and the screen is black. . .

"Uh, did you kill the box?"

"Yeah, it's not authorized for approaches."

"That doesn't mean it has to be off during an approach."

 

[avrorj-85]

I am very sorry about that IC, I promise next time we fly I will always be clapping so that I am unable to touch any more buttons...