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June 9, 2003 at 3:49 pm in reply to: Virgin A380 #668511

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I wouldn’t want to have to evacuate from the top deck.

June 9, 2003 at 3:46 pm in reply to: airplane prices #668516

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I know that if you are also the launch customer you get a hugh break in cost. Continental Express was the launch customer for the EMB-145 and got a few million shaved off each aircraft purchased for the first X amount as well as had training paid for I think 2 captains for each plane delivered.

Word from our training department is that we are paying roughly $20 million for the new aircraft and started out paying somewhere around $13 million for the first deliveries. The aircraft cost for the new models are even more due to upgrades (Dual FMS now). I would be suprised if the CRJ is as low as $12 million. At one point for one carrier it might have been. With the explosion of the EMB and CRJ popularity, just like popular cars, the prices keep going up.

June 8, 2003 at 5:38 pm in reply to: Maintenance #669335

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The only time I’ve heard of the manufacturer doing any maintenance was in the airlines own maintenance facility. We were having some “issues” with one fleet and the manufacturer sent out some specialists to do the repair/investigation work themselves. We even had an aircraft suffer some pretty severe damage and it was just contracted out to another facility to do the repair work.

June 8, 2003 at 3:04 pm in reply to: Callsigns #669393

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Air Traffic? Boy that must be confusing on frequency. “You have air traffic at 12:00, it’s an Air Traffic 737.” 🙂

June 7, 2003 at 11:23 pm in reply to: Callsigns #669749

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Who operates as Snoopy? The only Snoopy I’ve heard it the Metlife Insurance blimp fleet.

June 7, 2003 at 5:56 am in reply to: Flying in Europe #403314

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I can’t give any specifics without digging out my charts but I know it’s there out in the plain states and maybe even over the Rockies. The Sectionals only show Class E extending 3 miles either side of the Victor Airways criss-crossing the charts with the Class G running straight up to the 14,500 limit. I guess there isn’t much need for ATC control below that in Western Iowa. 😀

June 6, 2003 at 2:47 pm in reply to: Callsigns #671833

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Speedbird is one of those real classy callsigns that are becoming a rarity. Most are just the airline name which is easy to identify but just boring.

A couple others that I like:

Critter: AirTran (use to be ValueJet)

Trans-Can: use to be Trans-Canadian but when they consolidated the regionals there they used this one. After a few months of having controllers and other pilots referring to them as “Trashcan” they changed it 🙂

Clipper: someone bought the Pan-Am logo and is operating it on the US East coast in some referbished 727’s. They have winglets and apparently a glass cockpit as well. It’s cool it still hear the name on frequency.

June 6, 2003 at 2:30 pm in reply to: Flying in Europe #403318

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I’m impressed that I remembered that Class G can go as high as 14,500′. Just one more piece of useless information crowding the brain. 🙂

June 6, 2003 at 2:24 am in reply to: Boeing 737 wing, on approach, little thing? #672528

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That’s it alright.

June 6, 2003 at 2:22 am in reply to: Flying in Europe #403431

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Here’s a brief discription of the FAA airspace.

Class A: must be on IFR flight plan, always between 18,000 and 60,000, ATC controlled

Class B: large traffic volume airports (ie ORD, JFK, LAX) the surface to 8,000′ to 10,000′ AGL usually. under ATC control

Class C: medium traffic volume airports, surface to 3500′ (I think that’s it) ATC controlled

Class D: low traffic volume airport, small cylinder of airspace around airport. ATC controlled but the rules are lax.

Class E: all other ATC controlled airspace. You don’t have to talk to anyone flying through it but ATC runs traffic throughout it’s boundaries. In the Eastern US it’s found roughly at 1200′ AGL up to Class A airspace at 18,000.

Class G: this is the free for all airspace that is everything else that isn’t one of the above. It isn’t controlled at all. Found at low altitudes but can also go as high as 14,500′ in less populated areas. Lax weather minimum for this airspace, basically scud-running.

June 4, 2003 at 11:23 pm in reply to: Out the window shots #674012

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Most think it’s great and usually ask for me to email pictures I take of scenery and of them. It amazes me how few pilots actually have pictures of themselves at work. They like to have one so they can show family and friends.

Pictures at hold are hard to come by as we have so little time there. The pictures above were taken when we had a 5 minute sit.

June 4, 2003 at 10:04 pm in reply to: Out the window shots #674247

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June 4, 2003 at 10:04 pm in reply to: Out the window shots #674249

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June 4, 2003 at 10:03 pm in reply to: Out the window shots #674251

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We got stuck on the other side of the departure runway waiting for our takeoff slot to arrive. Here are a couple pictures I took to pass the time.

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June 4, 2003 at 9:56 pm in reply to: Air Force Ones #674256

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Not necessarily, only if the US president is on an Air Force aircraft is the call sign “Air Force One.” The other branches use their own callsign for their aircraft. For example, the helicopter that brings the president to and from the White House is Marine One.

I remember asking a controller once what the callsign would be if the president was on a private aircraft. I remember it being a unique callsign but I can’t remember for the life of me what it was.

What do other countries actually use as the callsign for their Presidental aicraft. Obviously Air Force One is taken by the US and it would be somewhat confusing, say going to the G5 summit, when every inbound aircraft was referred to “Air Force One.”
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