My Last 5 Days

"f86sabre" (f86sabre) 01/13/2020 at 21:34 • Filed to: Planelopnik

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gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > f86sabre 01/13/2020 at 21:46

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To work on or paint?

For Sweden > f86sabre 01/13/2020 at 21:53

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Local man learns what happens when French and Québécois collaborate

f86sabre > For Sweden 01/13/2020 at 21:56

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On aircraft who’s design was finalized while in near bankruptcy.

News at 11.

f86sabre > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas 01/13/2020 at 21:56

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Work on. 

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > f86sabre 01/13/2020 at 22:08

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Audi A6 timing belt level PITA?

f86sabre > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas 01/13/2020 at 22:10

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I assume that means removing large things to fix small, but important things ? If so, yes.  Exactly. 

PyramidHat > f86sabre 01/13/2020 at 22:20

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Eh, it’s all ball bearings nowadays.  Just prep the 7th fetzer with 3 in 1 oil and some gauze pads...

someassemblyrequired > f86sabre 01/13/2020 at 22:39

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It’s a plane built in Montreal. Just put the smoking section back in or get it a vape pen and it’ll be a lot less cranky.

someassemblyrequired > f86sabre 01/13/2020 at 22:43

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“ To replace forward galley coffee maker , first remove cockpit assembly.”

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > f86sabre 01/13/2020 at 23:34

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Turn it off and back on again.

wafflesnfalafel > f86sabre 01/14/2020 at 00:28

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no, no, skip the 220 - you folks want hot little 318s.  

Eury - AFRICA TWIN!!!!!!! > f86sabre 01/14/2020 at 06:43

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I’d like to hear more. My carrier will be getting a bunch of these soon. What do I have to look forward to ?

ttyymmnn > someassemblyrequired 01/14/2020 at 07:32

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* somedisassemblyrequired

ttyymmnn > f86sabre 01/14/2020 at 07:34

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Well, at least Airbus didn’t give the wrong data to the engine manufacturer ...

someassemblyrequired > ttyymmnn 01/14/2020 at 08:26

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Ha yes, you should see the French instructions - after every step in the process you must utter an incomprehensible incantation to the airplane gods  which includes at least nine English swear words. 

f86sabre > Eury - AFRICA TWIN!!!!!!! 01/14/2020 at 19:39

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Find my name in my profile and shoot me an email at gmail.  You at JB?

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > f86sabre 01/14/2020 at 19:52

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Granted they are smaller but I’ve got a lot of butt time in the new E175 and.... they seem rather nice and as far as I know there haven’t been issues on the planes I’ve been on.

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > ttyymmnn 01/23/2020 at 20:25

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“Hey!  There’s some extra screws left over.  They can’t be important, right?”

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > f86sabre 01/23/2020 at 20:28

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Assuming you are working for DL.... nobody was ever a bigger bargain-basement shopper than Ed Bastian.

“Hey, what do we do with all these extra Mad Dogs?”
“Awwww, let’s see.  Lay some new carpet in the First Cabin, slap on some stickers and we’ll sell ‘em to Delta...”

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > wafflesnfalafel 01/23/2020 at 20:30

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Nah, you want the A-315 ...

f86sabre > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 01/23/2020 at 21:48

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You mean the 717 deal? That was a work of art.

Hey, you want these 717s?

No

You sure?

I’m sure.

We will give them to you cheap.

No

And we will pay for the bridge check

No

And we will redo the interiors for you

No

And we will paint them

No

And  will pay half the lease forever

I’m listening.

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > f86sabre 01/23/2020 at 22:06

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Heh. Yeah. This.

I used to be bi-coastal out of BWI to LAX and back every week. On occasion, I would try to do that route on DL via ATL or SLC... and generally had my tender backside pounded hard by DL’s Mad Dogs most weeks I tried it. Nothing like sleeping on the floor in Atlanta when I should have been in my own bed in SoCal.

Anyway, on one of those “Oh, gee, yeah, we have flights to ATL every hour but we re-accommodated you on the last one of the day out of BWI , sure to mis-connect in ATL, just to hose you really-really-really good so have fun waiting SIX hours” afternoons it occurred to me to wonder why there were a half dozen of those pieces of dung across the field just sitting there. No “maintenance base” in BWI, no reason for them to be there...

After some online digging it just arose that they literally were SO cheap for DL to keep on the books that they just stashed a bunch at various high density feeder airports (like BWI) so that every time one broke (which also happened a lot) they could just tow another one over to the gate. “We just keep spares around.”

FULL DISCLOSURE— I hate my cell phone company, I hate my cable company, but nothing matches the way I detest DL and all their “our poop don’t stink” PR campaigns. That stunt with the jet fuel in LA the other day is typical DL— sprinkle the city with JP4 and tell everybody it’s rosewater and Perrier.

I nearly got into it with a DL Captain one time, post flight, when it was obvious he’d lined up on Visual for a CLOSED runway at BWI. He would not give an inch either. Obstinate dickhead.

I apologize for my bad feelings toward your employer, if you are mainline DL. I recognize it’s only in my head because the surveys all say they are run by Mother Teresa as a day spa, brew pub and airline/massage parlor, being held in higher esteem than any Pontiff.