Planespotting II
#1127
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Re: Planespotting II
, so I had to make a choice, either leave the company or take a customer service position at O'hare, so I went to O'hare and that was my personal choice even though I lost my seniority, and went down in pay by $1/hr, well my seniority for bidding schedule and vacations, which is the down side to unions at times, makes mobility within the company more difficult.
I had a daughter in 1980...When she was little we'd send up candles in little gondolas attached to helium balloons..I got big balloons and they'd go straight up, and on a dark night you could see them for an hour.. I bought a new clothes dryer and it came in a big box, so I got this idea to cut out a silhouette of a man, tie it to a bunch of balloons and let it go... I did it and we let it go in the back yard.. It started heading east, it was climbing at such a slow rate that it barely got over the trees and we never saw it again. The next day i'm reading the Sun Times and I see a little article headlined "Northwest Airline 727 takes evasive action to avoid parachutist" lol .... reading more it said that the aircraft behind the Northwest flight reported that it wasn't a parachutist, it was a man dangling beneath a bundle of balloons....
#1129
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Re: Planespotting II
Union employees at Hawaiian have been issued notice about possible lay offs, 2,000 notices, 35% of its flight attendants and 25% of its pilots having received notices.
This doesn't mean they will be laying off 2,000 people involuntarily, they are looking for people to take early retirements and voluntary separations first but probably have to issue the warnings to stay within the law in the event they do need to do involuntary lay offs.
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2020/0...ayoff-notices/
Cuts to non-union work groups also possible, so far 8% have left the company voluntarily.
Airline has seen its revenue drop more than 90% but says they are not near bankruptcy.
This doesn't mean they will be laying off 2,000 people involuntarily, they are looking for people to take early retirements and voluntary separations first but probably have to issue the warnings to stay within the law in the event they do need to do involuntary lay offs.
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2020/0...ayoff-notices/
Cuts to non-union work groups also possible, so far 8% have left the company voluntarily.
Airline has seen its revenue drop more than 90% but says they are not near bankruptcy.
#1133
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Joined: Jun 2010
Location: 1.2 East
Posts: 762
Re: Planespotting II
Wanna see what a DC10 can do when released from concerns about scaring the bejeepers out of passengers?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QJTZXl_5BE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QJTZXl_5BE
Pity the 10 was nicknamed the Death Cruiser
Last edited by audio; Aug 4th 2020 at 2:07 pm.
#1135
Re: Planespotting II
Yeah, I get it, that you were making a joke, but I assume that it has the same sort of organ pipe drain system that is fitted to the 747 tanker.
#1138
Re: Planespotting II
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...giFfBc-7HdvT6N
#1139
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Re: Planespotting II
There's a load of different videos from dozens of channels, but they seem to be rehashing the same story at the moment and Blancoliro hasn't posted anything specific to the crash since June 25 when he uploaded a couple of videos on the preliminary report.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...giFfBc-7HdvT6N
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...giFfBc-7HdvT6N
I expect it will come out that the crew were not focused on their arrival and missed their decent point.
Instead of loosing face, the captain thought he could make it. Perhaps the PNF was unsure, but the captain was in charge and some these guys won’t be told.
IMO, zero CRM and airmanship was the main cause. All they had to do was a very simple descending orbit (360) on final and 97 more souls would be here today.
#1140
Re: Planespotting II
.....Instead of losing face, the captain thought he could make it. Perhaps the PNF was unsure, but the captain was in charge and some these guys won’t be told. ....