"New" Delta DC-9-50 in MSP

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Memory items are going away.

Kind of hate that. Without burning up half the oral time with things you knew you needed to know, now they'll have time to ask questions like - What are the messages, displays and indications you see during the first flight of the day test of the GPWS?

 

[Amish RakeFight]

when did they start making dc-9's again?

I'll give you a hint: Delta merged recently with someone who flies DC-9's

 

[ACL65PILOT]

Kind of hate that. Without burning up half the oral time with things you knew you needed to know, now they'll have time to ask questions like - What are the messages, displays and indications you see during the first flight of the day test of the GPWS?

Man this question really bothers you FIN!!

 

[Capt. Caucasian]

Kind of hate that. Without burning up half the oral time with things you knew you needed to know, now they'll have time to ask questions like - What are the messages, displays and indications you see during the first flight of the day test of the GPWS?

Wachu talkin bout Willis? Delta doesn't have orals anymore. Electronic systems validation now. The way that thing works, not having memory items would remove a bunch of questions from the question bank.

 

[airplane wizard]

I'll give you a hint: Delta merged recently with someone who flies DC-9's

So Delta and Southwest merged...who would have guessed=) Does NWA have any options on the new dc-9's? I bet those would look great in their colors.

 

[767/757]

Memory items are going away.


..thank goodness!

What is your source?

 

[NuGuy]

Kind of hate that. Without burning up half the oral time with things you knew you needed to know, now they'll have time to ask questions like - What are the messages, displays and indications you see during the first flight of the day test of the GPWS?

Heyas Fins,

No limitations, either.The oral for recurrent is all FOM/Performance.

Nu

 

[nwaredtail]

Kind of hate that. Without burning up half the oral time with things you knew you needed to know, now they'll have time to ask questions like - What are the messages, displays and indications you see during the first flight of the day test of the GPWS?

NWA doesn't have "orals",maybe just the random FOM stuff, unless you mess up the written test.

 

[Noserider76]

Memory items are going away.


..thank goodness!

Crap, that's totally bogus. That's the half of the oral where we knew what the questions were gonna be.

 

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Not sure if DAL will. See we are a very legal company. A few years ago adopted the Boeing philosophy, and will probably adopt the Airbus one too. See if we do it the manufacturer's way, then if something gets screwed up because of it, it is their fault and not ours! They get sued and not us. So I would venture to guess that we at DAL will always have some "Bold Faced" items that are backed up by a "Hard Card."

I had heard that before but I can't honestly believe that the reason DAL only uses Boeing procedures is due to liability. I find that reasoning absurd. We are in the business of flying airplanes and with this business comes risk. We all know that there is ALWAYS some pilot error in the findings from an NTSB investigation which will then rely all of the blame back onto the company.

For all the good things with our newly combined company, I just can't believe our top management believes this is better than standarization among fleets.