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Originally posted by weedwhacker
Clever little words lke "pneudraulic", not normally part of any pilot's lexicon, only serve to display a continued fascination with semantic word tricks, and word play.
Originally posted by weedwhacker
I'd just like you to know how totally incorrect that statement is.
To a pilot.
We don't work "around" them, we work IN them...
Originally posted by weedwhacker
most of those people were NOT there, and are merely Monday-morning quarterbacking.
Originally posted by weedwhacker
BUT, WE write up the squawks, and tell YOU what to fix (assuming you're a mechanic...and not just a ramper).
Originally posted by weedwhacker
"your" plane ??
I rest my case!!!!!
Originally posted by weedwhacker
So, I have a different mindset about "WHOSE" airplane it is...an airline captain signs the dispatch release, and HE is responsible for everything with that flight (and that airplane).
Originally posted by weedwhacker
Please explain to all of us, since we're on this subject, just exactly HOW you, the 'crew chief', start the engines???
Because, UNLESS you are onboard, all you can do is signal to the pilots, when "prompted" by them, usually, that they are 'clear to start'.
Originally posted by weedwhacker
An F-4 doesn't have an APU...most fighters, by design, especially the 1960s era, would not waste the space, nor the weight penalty....for the luxury of such a device.
Certainly you served well in your capacity, in your era....
I have about 20,000 hours total time (I stopped counting, just estimated after 15,000
So you have about as many hours as John Lear. Do you have all the certificates that he has?
Originally posted by weedwhacker
Let me try this again...Captain John Lear, formerly the FMSE of ATS, and 'Conspiracy Master' of ATS, is certainly an accomplished individual. He IS IN THE record books!!!
I grant that. I acknowledge his PAST expertise, his ability to wish to DO something, to make a NAME for himself...he apparently felt a NEED to live UP to his NAME....