Huck
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- Dec 6, 2001
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1. There was a policy that lowered the bar for certain people in the mid-90's at FDX. It was done away with a long time ago. Anybody hired in the last ~7 years has at least 1000 PIC turbine. The girls I've met here have considerably more than that.
2. What pi$$es me off is the findings about the slide and the bags. The story around the schoolhouse is this: the j/s deployed the slide on the upwind (non-inferno) side. The wind was so bad, and the roll so pronounced towards the gear collapse, that the slide tucked under the fuselage. The j/s didn't see the picture he expected, so he kept pulling handles, thus releasing the girt bar. But it MADE NO DIFFERENCE, the slide was unuseable.
And as for the bags - 7 people standing in line to slide ~30 feet or so down a rope (again on the high, upwind side). This took so much time, the guys standing in line back in the courier compartment chucked some luggage out the previously opened 1L door. BIG F#$$#ING DEAL. How dare they criticize! Does anyone HONESTLY THINK those guys got out of a burning jet any slower than they absolutely had to?
2. What pi$$es me off is the findings about the slide and the bags. The story around the schoolhouse is this: the j/s deployed the slide on the upwind (non-inferno) side. The wind was so bad, and the roll so pronounced towards the gear collapse, that the slide tucked under the fuselage. The j/s didn't see the picture he expected, so he kept pulling handles, thus releasing the girt bar. But it MADE NO DIFFERENCE, the slide was unuseable.
And as for the bags - 7 people standing in line to slide ~30 feet or so down a rope (again on the high, upwind side). This took so much time, the guys standing in line back in the courier compartment chucked some luggage out the previously opened 1L door. BIG F#$$#ING DEAL. How dare they criticize! Does anyone HONESTLY THINK those guys got out of a burning jet any slower than they absolutely had to?