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FA claiming turbulence to avoid drink service?

AlpacaCavalry
replied to t_gras

Usually any reports of moderate or above ahead in our flight path behooves us to let the FAs know so that they aren't lugging a cart around when we hit the ugly bumps. Stuff flying around in the cabin is dangerous for everyone in the back. And it can take the FAs a significant time for them to secure the carts, too, so we usually let them know as soon as we have any kind of info.

But turbulence is a hard thing to predict, and sometimes we end up going through that area expecting it to be bad, only for it to turn out to be smooth. (Or reports are sometimes slightly exaggerated)

Either way, we try to err on the side of caution, always. The OJI tracker on the company website rarely stays green... unfortunately.




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I really don't like the usage of prefixes

AlpacaCavalry
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My dude, as a fellow American... you're just very much lacking in understanding of how this bloody system works. You use the unit that makes the most sense in the situation. It's like you trying to measure distance between LA and SF with a yardstick.



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Airline Pilots - how was your first 121 Jet landing?

To be fair the 900 can be a bitch to land... I too left my mark in this world on a 900 during IOE... 2nd landing in the thing, at night, at an unfamiliar airport. Only time a passenger commented on my landing lol

"What happened?"




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Sovereign Citizen argument comes to Alaska Court. No Pilot licenses/certifications needed anymore apparently

Seriously, why the fuck does he have a passport if he believes he's a sovereign citizen or some shit?







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Uniform tie length

I am personally partial to the half-windsor. Good balance between the materials it take up and looks



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Does this frustrate tower controllers too, or just air carrier pilots?

The requirement is there... just... there is no standardised way that the FAA enforces it... so usually the CFIs are just like "I can kinda understand you, so I guess I'll tick this box!"


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Does this frustrate tower controllers too, or just air carrier pilots?

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Eh. Not an ATC, but a regional pilot's take: Airlines don't own the sky or the public airports we operate at. GA pilots do their things, we do our thing. All the crew I've worked with at my current regional were good at working with GA traffic, whether at a towered airport or a non-towered airport. We'd do our best to slow down early so that we're not lighting a fire on a single engine piston guy's ass with a 100 kts overtake.



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Pilots IRL, how close is the attached image from flight sim in reality (not looking at graphics perspective, only visual cues) while flying through rain?

You can't make me! Catch me if you can!

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Best USA Airports or Places for planespotting?

Yes, please visit Flight Path. It's only like 5 bucks for the visit and they've a lot of little interesting bits!


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Best USA Airports or Places for planespotting?

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Yeah Clutter's park is nice. Lots of people planespotting there.



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