New speeds?

[Bavarian Chef]

We start the APU just before TOC and then cruise with one motor and the APU.

At TOD we kill the APU, do a single engine descent until around 3K, then we light the other motor and the APU on downwind. At 500 ft, I secure both engines and we squeak it on in whisper mode. Off the runway by the 7 board. I hear 18 wheelers use more fuel on a typical leg. It's truly magical.

 

[wmuflyguy]

We start the APU just before TOC and then cruise with one motor and the APU.

At TOD we kill the APU, do a single engine descent until around 3K, then we light the other motor and the APU on downwind. At 500 ft, I secure both engines and we squeak it on in whisper mode. Off the runway by the 7 board. I hear 18 wheelers use more fuel on a typical leg. It's truly magical.

Don't forget getting towed to and from the runway...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6203636.stm

 

[IAHERJ]

We set whatever cost index gets us to the gate ontime. Simple. That means on the 757s we are normally flying around at mach .79-.80. On the 767-200 domestically we can go a bit slower to EWR but normally fly the leg to IAH from EWR around Mach.82. We hard set descent speeds based on where we are in the pack or to the same speed as the guy in front was given until they give us something else. Stupid to be descending at 250 unless you are flying out in GUM and have nobody behind you. Even out there(flew out there recently a bit on the 767) you follow each other to the island from destinations in Japan and somebody's got to to win....It was normally us since we were running a bit behind from NRT with a full boat. We just kept it up and the 737 guys seemed to not care as they were always on-time.

 

[Freight Dog]

Cost 20.... unless on-time arrival is jeopardized. Then we do what we have to do to make an on-time arrival.

 

[PBRstreetgang]

Speed is life. I carry 10 KTS fast everywhere, departure, cruise, and approach.

Is that why your boyfriend calls you "bunny"?
PBR

 

[gutshotdraw]

320/.85 everywhere baby....unless it's Tokyo to Teterboro then it's ONLY .80 :beer:I love not getting paid by the hour

 

[PurpleInMEM]

350 Climb/Cruise/Descent on the Whistling $hithouse. Don't get high enough to worry about Mach. Quickest way to the hotel please. What the hell is a CI anyway? I assume its some fancy, electronical gizmo.

 

[Uniform Shop]

CI 350 all the way with a 340 kt descent into Goose Bay for a fuel stop then CI 350 to the gate. Do that 27 days a month and you have yourself one hell of a paycheck. :nuts:

 

[GuppyWN]

This is getting entertaining.

Good one Purple.

Gup

 

[Singlecoil]

...and since when did indexes become the plural for index?

 

[waveflyer]

This is where i'll be the one pilot who will say out loud that it's stupid to waste fuel. But then again i'm the one american who isn't polarized on the environment- i'm w/ the europeans- polluting is real, just work the problem and deal with it- Can't buy into global warming- ok- buy into one of the other thousand reasons it's dumb to waste gas. Mine is this-gas costs money- and why do i want to line the pockets of shell and exxon and especially saudi arabia and gw anymore than i have to? As much as i don't like my ceo- i'd rather have him have it where i have a shot at getting it back than give it to big oil.

I get most of you think every environmental issue is treehugger b.s.- and they work hard to make themselves look like the under-educated idiots they are- but seriously- what's so cool about wasting gas? what's a good reason for doing it? Especially when most of us are paid by the minute? Seriously, do you get more of a rush getting an airliner to lumber at 330 instead of 280? It won't get exciting no matter how fast you fly it...
A commute is the only reason IMO (screw florida if it means i spend another minute than i have to waiting around for a flight... )
Let the bashing start... i'll take it on this one- what's that saying about pilots-- stupidest smart people you'll ever meet... (can thank a delta captain for that one- southern boys have a saying for everything - 13 years and still waiting for him to be proven wrong- )

 

[PeanuckleCRJ]

I love not getting paid by the hour

I'm always on rig or guarantee anyways...(flew 22 hours in Feb) I fly the cost index that they give me unless we are behind schedule and doesn't jack with the fuel burn and my hearing too much.

Why waste the fuel? None of it matters until it's the go home leg (then I've been known to do the 340 knot climb and .82 cruise).

 

[gutshotdraw]

Why waste the fuel? None of it matters until it's the go home leg (then I've been known to do the 340 knot climb and .82 cruise).

Thankfully, we get paid if we fly 75 hours in a month or 7.5 so I'll take the 7.5 thanks. By the way, this airplane burns less fuel at .85 than its little brother burned at .80 and thats what the folks in back pay for so....