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The SHOW: Airlines still a "good gig"??

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War Hoover NFO.
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25000 foot decent in 10 minutes does not constitute a "plunge" in my opinion. Notwithstanding the rubber jungle, could be done with passengers barely even noticing.
 

HAL Pilot

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This might put a crimp in your career in the show . . . . .
Are you surprised? Have you ever been around the Chinese? I'm not and I have.

1994 - Doing a UN Military Observer gig, I had to do life saving first aid for an Egyptian Lt Col after the Chinese Major driving served his Nissan Pathfinder in the Western Sahara desert to avoid hitting the only tree within a 1,000 miles. Our compound had a bunch of empty containers making the walls (containers our compound came in). In the 6 months I was there, we had 7 or 8 Nissans need new front ends because the Chinese officers driving them couldn't put a 6 foot wide SUV through a 20 foot wide opening.

Now days - I fly into Beijing as well as hear these idiots on the radios at a lot of airports. Had a Chinese lady tell her young kid to just take a shit in the aisle since the lav had someone in it. Not an unusual occurrence. They also squat on top of the lav seat and bomb from above missing half the time. The lavs are disgusting. Sometimes, depending how it is early in the flight, the FAs block the first class lav off from all pax including the first class pax so the crew has a place to go without wading in shit and piss. The Chinese shit in public and on the subways all the time. They have no public shitting signs in downtown Beijing but it does no good as the Chinese think the rules don't apply to them. On our Beijing flights the FAs are also continuously telling the Chinese pax they can't smoke even though there is a brightly lit No Smoking sign staring in them in their faces and a No Smoking announcement is made in Chinese multiple times.


 

robav8r

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Are you surprised? Have you ever been around the Chinese? I'm not and I have.
Wow, thanks for ruining dinner HAL !!! No, I have zero experience with the Chinese, except for the PRC Kilo I tracked for a few days on my last deployment to PACOM, but that's another story. And Jesus, shitting in the aisle? Seriously ???
 

jarhead

UAL CA; retired hinge
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You can still smell the cigarette smoke in the cockpits of the A319s we recently bought from China Southern, especially when you walk in after the plane has sit overnight.
 

Fallonflyr

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LAX tower: “Air China hold short 24 left”
Air China: “roger, hold short 24 L” as he taxis across the active while an Alaska Air takes off right over him
LAX tower: “AIR CHINA YOUR INSTRUCTION WAS HOLD SHORT 24LEFT!!!!!”
Air China: “Roger, hold short 24 left”
Saw it with my own eyes....
 

HuggyU2

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Nugget81,
On the 8900.1 (June 2016) list of centerline thrust military jets, it is listed as:
f) F-18 Northrop-McDonnell-Douglas Hornet.

That's pretty vague. And being so vague, I am certain that many FSDO's will include the Growler as a "centerline thrust" jet.

Is there a memo floating around out there somewhere? If so, the Hornet/Super Hornet/Growler community should get their hands on it.
 

Python

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Nugget81,
On the 8900.1 (June 2016) list of centerline thrust military jets, it is listed as:
f) F-18 Northrop-McDonnell-Douglas Hornet.

That's pretty vague. And being so vague, I am certain that many FSDO's will include the Growler as a "centerline thrust" jet.

Is there a memo floating around out there somewhere? If so, the Hornet/Super Hornet/Growler community should get their hands on it.

@nugget81
 

nugget81

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Nugget81,
On the 8900.1 (June 2016) list of centerline thrust military jets, it is listed as:
f) F-18 Northrop-McDonnell-Douglas Hornet.

That's pretty vague. And being so vague, I am certain that many FSDO's will include the Growler as a "centerline thrust" jet.

Is there a memo floating around out there somewhere? If so, the Hornet/Super Hornet/Growler community should get their hands on it.

I agree that’s vague, but F-18 Northrop McDonnell Douglas Hornet reads quite different from EA-18 Boeing Growler. Compare that to F-18 Boeing Super Hornet. Which is more likely to get the pass?

I’ve never seen said memo, and I can’t speak to how the FAA or FSDOs choose to interpret their own instructions, but I concur that the pointy nose communities need to get their hands on it.
 
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