Uniform Nazi

[Rez O. Lewshun]

Now the hat...that's a completely different story!!!

 

[248to2.8]

Just be glad your company doesn't hand out fines like other companies do. Like a $25 fine for no hat. It's like the military, if you can't wear the uniform, get te hell out.

 

[601Pilot]

Just be glad your company doesn't hand out fines like other companies do. Like a $25 fine for no hat. It's like the military, if you can't wear the uniform, get te hell out.

I would pay $25 not to wear the hat!

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

I would pay $25 not to wear the hat!

Pilots would pay $25 for each off line jumpseat request thru CASS too. That doesn't mean cooler heads don't prevail.....

 

[Tomct]

CF-343B1: Dude, what are you talking about! You had a "Goatie" on your face in uniform. Why don't you look around and notice who at ASA has a "Goat". That would be code for "B@ll-Tickler!!" Yeah, all of the f@gs at ASA have those things!! Get out the razor and get it off QUICK!!!

 

[Tomct]

FF, what a dweeb! I can't believe that they gave that fool the job! I think I am going to be sick!!

 

[CF34-3B1]

CF-343B1: Dude, what are you talking about! You had a "Goatie" on your face in uniform. Why don't you look around and notice who at ASA has a "Goat". That would be code for "B@ll-Tickler!!" Yeah, all of the f@gs at ASA have those things!! Get out the razor and get it off QUICK!!!

Uh Tom,

That post was sarcasm, get it?

Now go back and read it with the tone and inflection of an oh soo kewl Gen X FO.

Although I do tend to agree with you that most goatees look pretty gay.

Not that there's anything wrong with that....

Fer Sher.

 

[shamrock]

The Nazi

I've only had one experience with Adolf (yes, I deserved it), but I gotta think that his "educational" musings in V1 haven't done much to help his reputation with those of us in ATL.

"It's not AWOS or ASOS, the proper term is 'one-minute weather' ".

OK, whatever you say, Bob.

 

[letthebigdogeat]

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.
Quite honestly, IMO that is the worst advice I have ever heard. That's the last thing you want to do on short final.

 

[Medeco]

suspender boy

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.
Quite honestly, IMO that is the worst advice I have ever heard. That's the last thing you want to do on short final.

Yeh, he has caught some flack for those articles, but that dry humor is him to a T.

I have been pointed at by him on the DFW underground walk as he goes the other way, for not having my hat on, which I wear all the time but forgot on this one.

My old roomate who has since left was attacted by him in OP's when his office was by the check in window, while everyone watched. This is the type of thing he is in need of help on.

You should never be yelled at around your peers for wearing an American flag tie. The CP asked him to look up the SP's that talk about approved vendors, which the pilot did. The CP then asked the pilot to get the black tie off the back of the door and change into. The pilot picked up this tie and saw that it came from the military store and not an "approved vendor" and told the CP that he could not wear this tie because it was not on the approved list. CP said wear it anyway. This is typical for this CP and the primary reason peolple dont like him.

I agree he helps the pilots more than others but his professional ethics are the pits.

This pilot quit about a month later.

Medeco

 

[Gorditas]

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.

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

 

[sweptback]

Palmer’s FBI tactical advice

That is the single funniest thing I've heard all day!

 

[Borat Sagdiyev]

What, dare I ask, is uberV1? We haven't seen it out in Dallas, or at least I haven't.

 

[Gorditas]

What, dare I ask, is uberV1? We haven't seen it out in Dallas, or at least I haven't.

I am surprised that being in DFW you never saw either of these fine publications. Uber V1 and V1 Cut were satirical renditions of the company version. They even made fun of “Suspender boy” for those of you who like to rip on him. In fact, I heard he even thought this was classic stuff. I was told the other day that a new version was going to print sometime soon.



Oh, BTW, I am not the publisher. I just find both newsletters amusing.



Gorditas

 

[letthebigdogeat]

The verbal wind check I believe to have heard is in Delta's Sps and if so very well justified although annoying for sure. I personally try to limit the verbal check to only those days with extreme wind direction variation/strengths.

Windsocks to me are an excellent reference for takeoff. And if you're tooling around in your private plane and can't pull up the WX, overflying the field at pattern altitude and looking at the windsock to determine direction of wind for landing. If I'm flying the super cub and have hours to kill on final, yeah I might throw a glance at the windsock, but I simply don't think it to be practical or safe to do so in a high performance jet aircraft.

We have two pretty darn good wind direction indicators, one on the MFD and the other the nose of the airplane. The rest comes down to flying the airplane, NOT looking outside trying to find the windsock.

"And there I was, I just shot one heck of a smooth beautiful approach, right down to mins, at night...but I smacked it on the deck...sideways, I just couldn't find that darn windsock".

Just my opinion/technique.