Transstates grounded

[EHE2]

Entire Trans States Airlines fleet of 145s (only 31 A/c) is grounded once again for non compliance with an AD. This marks the 4th time in 12 months!!!! Will UAL ever fire them???

 

[Foxcow]

Yup. I lost almost 5 hours of pay today because of it. Lots of flights canceled and aircrafts 801-812 grounded due to non-compliance. Aparently, a wire bundle in the APU area had be wrapped, heat shrunk, and shortened (service bulletin).

I hear that we are about halfway through a 90 probationary period. Great job Trans States.

 

[JustaNumber]

Do you guys get CNX pay?

 

[jonjuan]

Yup. I lost almost 5 hours of pay today because of it. Lots of flights canceled and aircrafts 801-812 grounded due to non-compliance. Aparently, a wire bundle in the APU area had be wrapped, heat shrunk, and shortened (service bulletin).

I hear that we are about halfway through a 90 probationary period. Great job Trans States.

You didn't catch this during pre-flight?

 

[Foxcow]

Do you guys get CNX pay?

We get 95% line guarantee for the month but no CNX pay.

You didn't catch this during pre-flight?

Hehe

 

[nwa_contrails]

Entire Trans States Airlines fleet of 145s (only 31 A/c) is grounded once again for non compliance with an AD. This marks the 4th time in 12 months!!!! Will UAL ever fire them???

Wasn't the entire fleet, but about half.

 

[Raoul Duke]

anyone have details on how many aircraft are actually grounded and for how long?

 

[Browntothebone]

Maybe Hulas can use GoJet to fill in?

 

[Salukipilot4590]

Maybe Hulas can use GoJet to fill in?

God I love you...

 

[nwa_contrails]

anyone have details on how many aircraft are actually grounded and for how long?

15 at the current time. Looks like some will be out until the 4th or 5th of July. I'm sure they're scrambling...

 

[Skippy]

dont lift a GD finger to help them either-- and hope you get the day off!

 

[Hamburger]

Hulas STILL blows goats.

 

[waterski]

hulas still blows goats.

amen.

 

[dispatchguy]

Burn the ********************hole down!

 

[Skippy]

Shouldn't the title of the thread read:

Trans States Grounded....... AGAIN........ and AGAIN......

 

[fly4funcrj]

Maybe this should make the news!

 

[Dornier 335]

Nah, who cares? TSA will still get the FAA diamond award. Great working system!

 

[BrickTop]

I refuse to commute on TSA. The last two times I caught a ride I seriously thought the wings were going to separate in flight. Noisy, stanges squeaks, squealing door seals EVERYWHERE, struts that sound more like a stagecoach on waggon wheels..... SCARY.

 

[Foxcow]

I refuse to commute on TSA. The last two times I caught a ride I seriously thought the wings were going to separate in flight. Noisy, stanges squeaks, squealing door seals EVERYWHERE, struts that sound more like a stagecoach on waggon wheels..... SCARY.

Plus it is so unreliable! I have commuted for a total of about 8 months (lived out of base for about 6 months and displaced for about 2.5) and I can count on my hands how many times I've used me own company because it is so unreliable.

 

[CX880]

I refuse to commute on TSA. The last two times I caught a ride I seriously thought the wings were going to separate in flight. Noisy, stanges squeaks, squealing door seals EVERYWHERE, struts that sound more like a stagecoach on waggon wheels..... SCARY.

...... You expect these stupid comments from pax not fellow pilots. Do you refuse to fly on Southwest? Remember the dozens of broken 737s they let fly last year? What about American, the MD80s with the nose gear problems? What about ASA that grounded about 50 planes because of engine mx problems??

By the way, that squeaky thing is an ERJ thing not a TSA thing. Actually do a search it's been brought up many times.

 

[crj567]

Yep- the greatest planes usually squeak....

 

[$$$4nothin]

Yep- the greatest planes usually squeak....

I got to sit up front on a DC-9 that actually leaked large amounts of water into the cockpit when it rained and it had most like been flying around safely like that for 20+ years.

 

[erj-145mech]

Nah, who cares? TSA will still get the FAA diamond award. Great working system!

Do you have the faintest idea what the "FAA Diamond Award" is? Do you know what maintenance control's function is?

 

[Dornier 335]

pathetic ...

Do you have the faintest idea what the "FAA Diamond Award" is? Do you know what maintenance control's function is?

I sure do. So much indeed that it almost got me in trouble. And don't get me started with TSA MX control...

BrickTop What do you expect from an airplane that flies 8-10 cycles/day? Do this type of flying in any Bus or Boeing and you'll get the same result.

 

[crj567]

I sure do. So much indeed that it almost got me in trouble. And don't get me started with TSA MX control...

BrickTop What do you expect from an airplane that flies 8-10 cycles/day? Do this type of flying in any Bus or Boeing and you'll get the same result.

Yeah- I can't even begin to tell you how many "squeaky" boeings I have been on..... Come to think of it, I think I read something about the space shuttle getting a little "sqeaky" these days.

Embraer blows-get a clue!

 

[millhouse21]

Do you have the faintest idea what the "FAA Diamond Award" is? Do you know what maintenance control's function is?

At Trans States Maintenance Control's job is to do several things:

1. Ask if the gripe is already in the book. If it is, bitch a little bit then send contract maint out to pull a circuit breaker or two and then sign it off "ops check good."

2. If it's not in the book, tell the pilots "it's OK, just bring it back to the maint base."

3. If the pilot objects to flying with the EICAS message, just have him/her pull breakers until the message goes away. Then say "you're good to go."

4. If the pilot objects to anything else, tell him to call his flight manager and hang up on him.

This is from a guy who worked there for almost 5 years.

 

[waterski]

At Trans States Maintenance Control's job is to do several things:

1. Ask if the gripe is already in the book. If it is, bitch a little bit then send contract maint out to pull a circuit breaker or two and then sign it off "ops check good."

2. If it's not in the book, tell the pilots "it's OK, just bring it back to the maint base."

3. If the pilot objects to flying with the EICAS message, just have him/her pull breakers until the message goes away. Then say "you're good to go."

4. If the pilot objects to anything else, tell him to call his flight manager and hang up on him.

This is from a guy who worked there for almost 5 years.

5. Swap the pilot to a different aircraft find another pilot and go back to number one.

 

[nwa_contrails]

At Trans States Maintenance Control's job is to do several things:

1. Ask if the gripe is already in the book. If it is, bitch a little bit then send contract maint out to pull a circuit breaker or two and then sign it off "ops check good."

2. If it's not in the book, tell the pilots "it's OK, just bring it back to the maint base."

3. If the pilot objects to flying with the EICAS message, just have him/her pull breakers until the message goes away. Then say "you're good to go."

4. If the pilot objects to anything else, tell him to call his flight manager and hang up on him.

This is from a guy who worked there for almost 5 years.

5. Swap the pilot to a different aircraft find another pilot and go back to number one.

This pretty much exactly sums up what it's like when something breaks here.

 

[Dornier 335]

Yeah- I can't even begin to tell you how many "squeaky" boeings I have been on..... Come to think of it, I think I read something about the space shuttle getting a little "sqeaky" these days.

Embraer blows-get a clue!

They (referring to Douglas, Boeings, and Busses) make other uncomfortable noises, and they go tech, too. How flawless is the CRJ?

 

[paddlehigh]

no cxn pay that sucks