LOL, especially when your the air frace a380 pilot and clipped the crj700, now thats proper guilt

 

LOL Yeah! The A380 pilot was probably like: "Was there something?" And the other one: "I think we just bumped over a loosen slab on the apron.."

 

I can literally see the two CRJ pilots sitting in the cockpit, the one on the FMC doing the final adjustments when they suddenly get turned 90° to the left. Damn, that must've been a highlight in their career, getting fired up by an A380 :D

Maybe try a week starting at 5am doing 3 flts 2 hours each.. Then a couple of days doing 4 flts a day maybe throw in a day with 3 flts and a short 6 hours overnight and one flt back.. And then last of 6 days finish with 3 flts back to home base arriving around 11 pm.. Then 2 days off before starting over again..

We have a roster bidding system too, let's take a look, tomorrow LHR-GVA-LHR, Sunday LHR-GLA-LHR, Monday LHR-NCE-LHR then off for 3 days :P

Don't suppose you'll be doing LGW-NAP in June anytime?

We have a roster bidding system too, let's take a look, tomorrow LHR-GVA-LHR, Sunday LHR-GLA-LHR, Monday LHR-NCE-LHR then off for 3 days :P

 

Funnily enough I'm actually on holiday near NCE at the minute, I'll be checking to make sure you're flying the Riviera tomorrow and not the ILS so as not be disturbing my morning coffee haha. How coincidental..... AFAIK, the BA flight arrives in early enough, about 1100Z no?

 

Capt. Rónán O Cadhain.

Funnily enough I'm actually on holiday near NCE at the minute, I'll be checking to make sure you're flying the Riviera tomorrow and not the ILS so as not be disturbing my morning coffee haha. How coincidental..... AFAIK, the BA flight arrives in early enough, about 1100Z no?

 

Capt. Rónán O Cadhain.

 

Lucky you! Not seen much of the forecast, think it's south-easterly around 10? Didn't have time to check in too much detail in the CRC earlier on! We have a few flights, I'm on the BA342, so the early arriving around 1050, it's usually an A321 but I'll check later. I do like the Riviera onto 04L, was my first flight when I joined the company. Vis shouldn't be a problem so flying the Riviera onto the 04s will be fun, that is if the weather doesn't change too much! Now that I know you'll be in the area though.... :P

Lucky you! Not seen much of the forecast, think it's south-easterly around 10? Didn't have time to check in too much detail in the CRC earlier on! We have a few flights, I'm on the BA342, so the early arriving around 1050, it's usually an A321 but I'll check later. I do like the Riviera onto 04L, was my first flight when I joined the company. Vis shouldn't be a problem so flying the Riviera onto the 04s will be fun, that is if the weather doesn't change too much! Now that I know you'll be in the area though.... :P

 

Haha, we arrived on Saturday there and the winds were 200@20G30 so I was jumpseating for the the VOR onto 22R. Very tight, the Capt was a little hot and high turning onto final, so a long landing resulted in some fairly firm braking... First landing in the company was the riviera eh? Same here [well, first landing on the line], must be something about it. I'm between the disused runway in Fréjus and Cannes airport [closer to Cannes], so if you're disconnected at that point rock your wings and I'll give ya a wave back...

 

Capt. Rónán O Cadhain.

I'm at a US Regional currently flying Dash 8's. We're a pretty small company and we have a lot of movement, so my stint on reserve was short. I've been here for almost 4 months and I sat 3 days (yes, Days) of reserve and the rest of the time I have had scheduled trips.

 

Our bidding cycle is currently 28 days, and I'm holding 13 days off on a regular basis (almost 14). I'm currently at 65% seniority in my base, which isn't bad at all considering how long I've been here.

 

This was my schedule for the last bid cycle.

 

Tues-Wed Off

Thursday-Sunday- 4 day trip, worth 20.31 hours of flying.

Mon-Wed Off

Thurs-Sun 4 day trip, worth 23.49 hours of flying

Mon-Thurs - Off

Fri-Mon- 4 day trip, worth 20.34 hours of flying

Tues-Fri- Off

Sat-Tues- 4day trip worth 21.56 hours of flying.

 

All in all not a terrible schedule. I have to admit though, once I get home after a trip after dealing with ATC delays, MX issues, WX, approaches to minimums etc. The last thing I want to do is fire up flight sim and pretend I'm at work. It makes me laugh looking back on the times where flying an approach to mins in the sim was fun, having weather to do deal with was fun and challenging but now all I want it to be when I go flying is clear and a million. I love what I do and at times it does seem like work but I love what I do and would never be able to do something else and be so happy/satisfied with life.

I'm currently at 65% seniority in my base, which isn't bad at all considering how long I've been here.

 

65%?!?!?!?! After 4 months?!?!?!? If you don't mind my asking, how is your company still managing to fill the left seat if a FO with 4 months is only 35% off the top of seniority?

 

Capt. Rónán O Cadhain.

65%?!?!?!?! After 4 months?!?!?!? If you don't mind my asking, how is your company still managing to fill the left seat if a FO with 4 months is only 35% off the top of seniority?

 

Capt. Rónán O Cadhain.

 

Sorry, I think I confused my number. Let me put it this way. I'm #26 of 41 FO's in my base.

Haha, we arrived on Saturday there and the winds were 200@20G30 so I was jumpseating for the the VOR onto 22R. Very tight, the Capt was a little hot and high turning onto final, so a long landing resulted in some fairly firm braking... First landing in the company was the riviera eh? Same here [well, first landing on the line], must be something about it. I'm between the disused runway in Fréjus and Cannes airport [closer to Cannes], so if you're disconnected at that point rock your wings and I'll give ya a wave back...

 

Capt. Rónán O Cadhain.

 

So some pretty fun winds eh! Had a few windy landings into Nice as well, my first on the line was pretty gusty that's for sure, a very twitchy skipper on that one :P Oh yours too? How weird, it was my first line flight after base training, on an A320. I'll see what I can do, we fly managed approaches so if weather permits both sides I'll coax the skipper into flying the takeoff from LHR and I'll handle the arrival! Out of curiosity do you use 'managed approaches' as well?

Out of curiosity do you use 'managed approaches' as well?

 

We do, but typically for the Riviera approach, It'll be managed till inbound on the VOR radial, and then either raw data or visual from there. In general we fly a mix of managed and selected approaches, along with visual and raw data. I gather from what you said that you don't fly alternate legs and split the one leg in two between the FO and Capt, how do you find that?

 

Ró.

We do, but typically for the Riviera approach, It'll be managed till inbound on the VOR radial, and then either raw data or visual from there. In general we fly a mix of managed and selected approaches, along with visual and raw data. I gather from what you said that you don't fly alternate legs and split the one leg in two between the FO and Capt, how do you find that?

 

Ró.

 

Yeah that's what I meant, not so much the use of automatics etc, we're pretty much the same on that front. Yeah we split the sectors between the FO and Capt, not sure what it's called actually, managed seemed right, but didn't mean managed vs selected etc. Whoevers sector it is flys the takeoff and cruise, then P2 does the descent and approach and hands it back over for the landing. Funnily enough it's against how Boeing say their aircraft should be flown AFAIK, but I get on well with it, I do think flying alternate legs would be better, but it's in our SOPs for safety and it seems to work..I guess you can tell I don't want to say too much haha :P We're called 'Nigels' for that reason, we all do exactly the same on the line essentially! Haha. I guess you guys fly alternate legs?

Yeah that's what I meant, not so much the use of automatics etc, we're pretty much the same on that front. Yeah we split the sectors between the FO and Capt, not sure what it's called actually, managed seemed right, but didn't mean managed vs selected etc.. Funnily enough it's against how Boeing say their aircraft should be flown AFAIK, but I get on well with it, I do think flying alternate legs would be better, but it's in our SOPs for safety and it seems to work..I guess you can tell I don't want to say too much haha :P We're called 'Nigels' for that reason, we all do exactly the same on the line essentially! Haha. I guess you guys fly alternate legs?

 

We fly what the Captain decides, which is typically alternate lags, sometimes split, or if one of the crew has a recurrent coming up, then it could be the case that they fly both legs, particularly in the 330 where actual flying time isn't as frequent as on the 319/320/321. [Yes that's right, we have 2 A319's now... :P ].

 

I think I get what you are talking about when you refer to managed, managed as opposed to raw data correct? For a managed approach you have your AP in though, otherwise it's considered raw data or visual if you've no other nav-aids to follow. It's along the lines of what most simmer's would refer to as an "RNAV" approach?

 

Ró.

 

We fly what the Captain decides, which is typically alternate lags, sometimes split, or if one of the crew has a recurrent coming up, then it could be the case that they fly both legs, particularly in the 330 where actual flying time isn't as frequent as on the 319/320/321. [Yes that's right, we have 2 A319's now... ].

 

I think I get what you are talking about when you refer to managed, managed as opposed to raw data correct? For a managed approach you have your AP in though, otherwise it's considered raw data or visual if you've no other nav-aids to follow. It's along the lines of what most simmer's would refer to as an "RNAV" approach?

 

Ró.

 

Oh right that's pretty flexible then! I've never flown anything else other than splitting the sectors. I was referring to the monitored approach when I said managed, couldn't think of the name, didn't mean to confuse monitored with managed/selected in terms of the autopilot.

 

Some new A319s eh? Do you fly much of the A319/321? Just wait till you've got a half empty A319 and a long runway and a controller in a good mood, rocket up through the FLs!

Oh right that's pretty flexible then! I've never flown anything else other than splitting the sectors. I was referring to the monitored approach when I said managed, couldn't think of the name, didn't mean to confuse monitored with managed/selected in terms of the autopilot.

 

Some new A319s eh? Do you fly much of the A319/321? Just wait till you've got a half empty A319 and a long runway and a controller in a good mood, rocket up through the FLs!

 

So you'll have the AP engaged if you're still in monitored then, ah well.

 

Only flown the 319 once so far for a test flight west of SNN, I'm not gonna be flying them very often as currently they're based out of BFS, and the next two will probably be based out of Cork... The test flight was empty, and we were cleared straight to FL150 . The 321 on occasion, we had 6 at one point in time, but now we're down to 2, and seeing as I'm primarily on the 330 and really only fly short haul to keep up currency and then the odd week in the summer schedule, so that's also a rarity. Don't know what you're on about "Long Runway" for, that was a full TOGA takeoff...

 

Ró.