Put Down The Laptops and Fly the Plane NWA

[jetpilotbc]

I bet they were distracted by each other. Using your laptop sounds better than your doing your co-pilot.

 

[ImbracableCrunk]

"These guys have had 80% of their procedures and policy in their airline get changed over the past few months, plus the way they bid changed very significantly this month."


Read between the lines...The excuses are coming out...The new procedures shouldn't even be a factor unless you are trying to make excuses......

So every time the NTSB investigates an accident, they put out a "probable excuse"?

No, they put out the facts - an "explanation," to use a fancy word I heard somewhere.

Step away from the keyboard.

 

[PeanuckleCRJ]

Yup...

No excuses for what they did. They farked up bad... and what's coming to them is coming.

I can see that their explaination (both excuse and explaination start with the same to letters, Joe. They do not mean the same thing. Pull out the webster's next time) is plausible for what was actually going on in the cockpit, though.

 

[JohnDoe]

"These guys have had 80% of their procedures and policy in their airline get changed over the past few months, plus the way they bid changed very significantly this month."


Read between the lines...The excuses are coming out...The new procedures shouldn't even be a factor unless you are trying to make excuses......

It's ok joe. You can admit you were wrong.

You accused Peanuckle of making an excuse as to why they did this. He did no such thing. He was simply saying that the explanation for how this happened was plausible. In other words, believable.

He in no way said it was a valid excuse or justification for their actions.

 

[ron burgundy]

What's getting stupid isn't the media coverage. Who can blame them? These two morons keep changing their story to make this whole situation look more and more egregious each time. First everyone thought they were asleep. Then they said "no, we were in a heated discussion" about company policy. Now they say they were on their laptops. They are progressively making this profession look more and more like a joke with each statement. Tomorrow they're going to say they were mutually masturbating.

The media has multiple goals. Sensationalism and accountability are among them. They found a sensational story, and they want accountability. No thanks to these two d**chebags. It only took a few months for multiple boneheaded incidents to make what Sully did for pilot PR to completely be overshadowed and vanish.

Wait a second. Is that not allowed? Damnit!

 

[ron burgundy]

Should have been running "Flight Aware" in the backround.

 

[Flybywire44]

Hopefully they're over age 60 anyway...

 

[PeanuckleCRJ]

Hopefully they're over age 60 anyway...

CA is 53-- a 1985 hire, FO is 54, hired in 1997.

 

[JoeMerchant]

Hopefully they're over age 60 anyway...

Why do you hope that?

 

[Abernathy]

Should have been running "Flight Aware" in the backround.

Touché

 

[rumorhasit]

Just deactivate the auto pilot and make everyone hand fly the damn thing.... That'll show em all!!!!!!!

 

[Checknsix]

I'm sure there is a guy or two here that has had a laptop open in the cockpit...legitimately or not.

Do you really think you could miss an irate controller calling your name repeatedly?

Not a plausible explanation in my experience.

 

[Eagle757shark]

I bet they were distracted by each other. Using your laptop sounds better than your doing your co-pilot.

For some reason I believe you may be on to something that no one wants to even acknowledge! Since this thing went down, we've heard several stories and each time it keeps changing with these two. Sounds like the cheating spouse that keeps lying to cover a lie. This story still doesn't add up! How the HELL do you miss radio calls, ACARS messages dinging at you, and all those other things after so long if you were not sleep? This story still doesn't add up. Now they say they were on their laptops? Hmmm.....convienent but still doesn't make sense! I BELIEVE THESE TWO PILOTS WERE ENGAGED IN SOME TYPE OF SEXUAL ACTIVITY!
Boys come clean and stop lying!!! This profession just keeps taking the hits!

 

[JumpersAway]

I was hoping that it was true regarding the "heated argument". I figure that between Colgan and another debate in the cockpit about the crappy state of our industry, it might shed more light on our plight to increase pay and attain better work rules.

I've got some real questions about a Captain that allows the use of a laptop (especially two) in the flight deck........

 

[Benjamin Dover]

Now, if this had been a Southwest crew -- We all here at the "Forum" would have chimed a prediction around, "...heard there was a flight attendant or two in the cockpit, lap dances etc..." and it would be, hmm - plausible, and perhaps believable.

Got to admit, they have a corporate culture you can embrace.
Oh, for the good ole days and young flight attendants.


Chances happening at NW: nil.

You aren't trying to imply we still have young - and female - FA's at Southwest are you?