New SWA chief of training, a good thing?

[Luv2BFlyin]

You won't leave the gate without your numbers. It's called aerodata. Fully automated. Takes 20 secs. No waiting.

*you can leave the gate and still get your numbers, just to clarify. Those situations are few and far in between. Normally gate to antennae issue. Ramp throws 5 extra bags on? No problem. Add them in and resend. Once you see it, you will appreciate it. Like using a printer for things like atis or the pax count.

Keep in mind, this works well because we usually have a pax and bag count 10 mins prior to push and f/a pax count to verify numbers about 5 prior to push. This works because we're provided all the info in the cockpit and not waiting on load planners in BFE.

If WN decides to change this, it could effect timeliness. In the last year, my f/o's have only done 2 manual wt. and balances. Both due to system wide outages.

 

[Luv2BFlyin]

BTW, open seating may provide a challenge as aero data is very precise in cg loading and we use 3 zones. I'm sure a work around has already been figured out, it'll be interesting to see what that is.

 

[humveedriver]

Like any project, you fix one thing and it opens up a bunch of others that either need to be fixed too or have to be changed in order to make everything work. That's why I hate remodeling. It never ends.

 

[StopNTSing]

I'm all for some new outside blood infused into our way too insular training center. Everything I have heard about GC from those who knew him in a previous life has been overwhelmingly positive. Like Canyon, I just hope the Old Guard will let him make the changes that we need.

 

[Hose A. Jiminez]

We have had plenty of fresh voices and ideas in the training center. The old heads don't listen to them.

 

[ATLplt]

We have had plenty of fresh voices and ideas in the training center. The old heads don't listen to them.

Hopefully this signals the beginning of change for the better. There's a lot of things AT does well, procedurally speaking, the SWA powers that be could possibly adopt. Any procedure or policy change that makes life easier for pilots is a win for all of us.

 

[freightdogfred]

I have to agree with Canyonblue.

I'm glad to see progression toward the Ipad. W&B via ACARS will be a step backward. If we go that route, then you can expect to pull into the hammerhead and wait for your numbers. You'll be running one engine, but waiting long enough that it will burn down to the two engine (taxi-out) level in the end. So where's the savings?

Have you ever seen a FL flight pull into the hammerhead to wait for numbers?

 

[Mach 80]

So he's not like the AT C/A who gave a guy a hard time on a PC because the guy had earlier critiqued the C/A's girlfriend's flying abilities?

 

[SWA717]

So he's not like the AT C/A who gave a guy a hard time on a PC because the guy had earlier critiqued the C/A's girlfriend's flying abilities?

Girlfriend or wife? Their little dynasty is quickly coming to an end.

 

[redflyer65]

Have you ever seen a FL flight pull into the hammerhead to wait for numbers?

TWICE now, I said the system sounds good.

Read the thread.

 

[Mach 80]

Yeah...may have been his low flying experience wife now that I think about it.

 

[texman]

We have had plenty of fresh voices and ideas in the training center. The old heads don't listen to them.

True.

 

[texman]

Hopefully this signals the beginning of change for the better. There's a lot of things AT does well, procedurally speaking, the SWA powers that be could possibly adopt. Any procedure or policy change that makes life easier for pilots is a win for all of us.

Let's do it!

 

[Ty Webb]

So he's not like the AT C/A who gave a guy a hard time on a PC because the guy had earlier critiqued the C/A's girlfriend's flying abilities?

Sounds like a 717 issue.

 

[Kharma Police]

So he's not like the AT C/A who gave a guy a hard time on a PC because the guy had earlier critiqued the C/A's girlfriend's flying abilities?

His initials are the same as, "Donkey Punch"?

 

[Monkey Face]

New SWA chief of training, a good thing?

Far from running the Training Center but a welcome addition nonetheless. Steve Vaught is the Senior Director of Training, Procedures, and Standards. and Greg will be a Senior Manager of Training, working under Kirk Menard who is Director of Training.

 

[ATLplt]

Why would you need a Director AND a Senior Director? SWA would probably save millions by trimming redundant management positions throughout the company.

 

[Monkey Face]

Why would you need a Director AND a Senior Director? SWA would probably save millions by trimming redundant management positions throughout the company.

Did you see Steve Vaught handles Training, Procedures, and Standards?

Kirk is responsible only for the Training Center.

Greg will work for Kirk at the Training Center.

Their titles may sound similar, but their workload is different.

 

[scoreboardII]

Why would you need a Director AND a Senior Director? SWA would probably save millions by trimming redundant management positions throughout the company.

What?

Then what would the VP of VPs overseeing the VP of training do?

 

[Capn Butthead]

Why would you need a Director AND a Senior Director? SWA would probably save millions by trimming redundant management positions throughout the company.

Because that's the new and improved SWA! We have VPs for everything from toilet paper ply counter to the vp of light switch operation...yet the omnipotent Mike VdV says we "cost" too much...yeah....

 

[CiFIknow]

Amazing! This is the first thread I have seen where SWA guys are actually critical of their own operation. I am an outsider, but it seems like every post I have read from a SWA pilot has been nothing but rainbows and unicorns regarding their ops. Just an observation. Good to see there are open minds.

 

[slaquer5]

Why would you need a Director AND a Senior Director? SWA would probably save millions by trimming redundant management positions throughout the company.

Now that's funny

You need to remove this post before SWA gets a VP of redundant.


More I think about it, leave it , I am send in my resume for that job

 

[freightdogfred]

TWICE now, I said the system sounds good.

Read the thread.

It is a good system. I also read the thread. My question remains the same.

Have you ever seen a FL pull over to wait for numbers? To make it easy on you, you can respond with a "yes" or a "no".

 

[ATLplt]

Now that's funny

You need to remove this post before SWA gets a VP of redundant.


More I think about it, leave it , I am send in my resume for that job

Too late, already submitted mine! Interview scheduled for Friday. Seems the job consists of echoing everything anyone else says or does. My first point of order... Re-issuing every bulletin from the past 2 years, but attaching my name to them. I figure you pilots are lazy by nature, and forcing you to re-read 200 bulletins again, (cleverly disguising them as "new") will result in serious redundant productivity. I can see my bonus soaring as I type. Wish me luck!

 

[Flash]

Now that's funny

You need to remove this post before SWA gets a VP of redundant.


More I think about it, leave it , I am send in my resume for that job

VP - Department of Redundancy Department !