Brendan154

True and true. UND isn't a bad place to do your flying. I am majoring in Atmospheric Science here and was recently hired as a flight instructor for the university. It is a great place to make connections and meet people. If you're interested in having a serious career in aviation in the United States, this is probably one of the best places to do it.

Basically, for most operations under FAA Part 121 you will find that 180 minutes is the baseline limit. An operator can go to 207 and 240 minutes in very specific operations. 207 minutes can be done for parts of Norther Pacific operations. 240 minutes can be in certain areas below the equator. Beyond 240 minutes can be done under even more specific circumstances, such as West Coast of United States to Australia, New Zealand, Polynesia, and other geographically relevant locations. 240+ minutes also comes with a bunch of new operational limitations and currency requirements. If UA does have the 180 minute rule (which I am sure they do), then in some situations they are allowed to extend past it. http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=dc4a5c12b89bc362ee3d8c509c03a537&node=14:3.0.1.1.7.30.3.2.22&rgn=div9

There is something about the 737NG... its still a real pilots airplane. You need to know what you're doing in the flight deck to get it to fly true. It helps that I have spent the last years learning how to fly that thing and have every flow down to a science, yet to put that much commitment into the 777. Plus I like the way the NG flys better anyway.