Gorditas
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letthebigdogeat said:Yeah, or the one where he writes to look outside the cockpit on short final, and search for the windsock to determine wind direction/velocity.
letthebigdogeat said:Quite honestly, IMO that is the worst advice I have ever heard. That's the last thing you want to do on short final.
What is so hard about taking a quick glance at a windsock that has its location marked on the airport diagram? If it is such bad advice, why do airports put out windsocks if it is so bad to look at them? Personally, I try to find the wind sock on every landing to get a good sight picture of what the wind is doing at the point of touchdown. (Sometimes the wind measuring station could be on the other side of the airport) You could take a cue from Delta and ask for a wind check every 20 seconds! (I've always wanted to ask a DL guy about this.) I've got an idea, why not just apply whatever amount of wind correction it takes? If the controller messed up and told you that you had a left crosswind when in fact it was from the right, would you apply left correction anyway? It is a different story when a front is approaching and you are worried about WS, but most days it seems silly at best to use the standard Delta pilot words... "Tally ho, wind check, how long is final, wind check, what is our sequence, no joy, wind check."
Sorry, I don't have the referenced article(s) in front of me. I usually throw away V1, or now "Flight Deck News" or whatever stupid name it has this week soon after finding it in my box. Uber V1 or V1 cut however, are different animals entirely. They warrant reading over and over. If you haven’t seen them in ATL, I think that they can e-mail you a copy. ([email protected]) I would assume that like someone else said, this was partly dry humor that some people missed. I don't think that writing articles is fun for any CP. From what I can gather, they are forced to write articles. If I were them I would try to have some fun with it too. In some cases I think that they are told what to write, or basically given a letter to sign. For instance, the whole idea of one DFW CP being overjoyed at no longer being a CP and the new base CP of SLC “choosing” a guy who has been here 1/3 the time over the guy he has worked with for years? Give me a break. (This is in reference to two letters recently posted in DFW ops.)
Anyway, don't we have better things to do than rip on a guy that actually helps pilots? And seriously, "IMO that is the worst advice I have ever heard." Surely you can’t be serious! What about Chuck T’s labor relations advice, Palmer’s FBI tactical advice, scheduling and their “Stand By” advice, the ZERO NET GAIN advice? Let us put some effort into correcting those things instead.
Gorditas