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Bobby_Batronic

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  1. American pilots have their iPads and personal devices that have programs that overlay their scheduling software which is probably Apollo era old. And that’s not an exaggeration. Microsoft is giving them an entire system upgrade, but it’s a huge corporate entity with tons of corporate memory etc. Most airlines have the option for crewmembers to self notify for assignments. That’s usually beneficial when you don’t want scheduling calling at 3 am to notify you of a trip that evening. But most union contracts require actual voice notification for future assignments. There is usually a limited call back time too. Crewmembers can’t just ignore company communications normally speaking. It’s also not as easy as telling a flightcrew to jump on yonder jet and take it somewhere. Contractual rescheduling rules usually require a flow chart to understand. I don’t think this is a work action at all. Most airlines have embarrassingly outdated IT infrastructure maintained on a shoestring budget and manned by a skeleton crew. They all meltdown depending on the vagaries of weather hitting hubs and said infrastructure’s ability to handle things going pear shaped. Most do it 1-3 times a year. SWA is getting their turn in the publicity blender. I’m a sure another usual suspect will go through the ringer during the next winter or spring storm. It’s equally frustrating for flight crews. One can send emails, contact flight chiefs and spend hours on hold with an overloaded phone tree and still not have the company understand where they’re at etc.
  2. Actually, I think it was Hunt for the Red October though there’s a similar line in FG.
  3. To an extent. It was also this season, the year of our Lord 2022, where we played a lot of inexplicably soft defense, inappropriate fronts and converses versus downs and distance and had substitution patterns that bordered on the inane. Somewhere around the KSU game someone largely put an end to that BS. If it was PK then kudos to him. I hope it continues, and will be watching to see if the issues above rear their head again in the future. Sark is getting some of that treatment too.
  4. Also possible they were getting a door unsafe light and decided to descend and depressurize per a checklist.
  5. Follow up, did the noise continue after attaining the lower altitude or did it stop?
  6. I mentioned types after forgetting you said it had an FA which rules out the Metros, 1900’s and Jetstreams, but it was too late to edit. A turbulence encounter severed enough to cause a loss of pressurization would seem to meet the definition of an accident to me and it would be strange to press on unless there were truly no better options. They may have also been dealing with some MEL issue where part of the system was degraded before flight and it was made worse by the turbulence. Dropping down to 10-12k jives with pressurization issues. You’re limited to 30 mins above 10k cabin altitude, and that’s usually a terrain clearance tool. Did anyone from the company or the feds contact you afterward?
  7. Yeah, the pilots didn’t continue to fly the plane to the destination as though nothing happened while losing cabin pressure. What you probably heard was a door seal that had some gravel or something get caught in it. Likely after the turbulence encounter. It’s noisy as hell and invariably harmless. The headaches were likely from the intense rattling around, vomiting and general panic level induced by the incident and sound that wasn’t understood. I’ve had the cabin pressure controller decide this life was too much and dump the cabin climbing through 38,000 feet. The cabin limiters and emergency pressurization kept the cabin from climbing above 12,000 feet, but it went there near instantly. Life was exciting, but there were no oxygen depravation symptoms. I can only guess you were in a 1900, Metro, Brasília or Saab. Maybe a Jetstream or ATR. None of which are going to fly very high to begin with. I’m sure it was a very scary in incident though.
  8. Held in a not very accessible small, college town 5 days before Christmas. It’s not really that surprising.
  9. Probably from shit flying around including those without their seatbelts on.
  10. Get back to me when someone creates it in a Keurig sized attachment for my car.
  11. I’m not worried in the least about our ability to run the ball with Brooks, Blue and Robinson. I am worried about how they perform when the ball isn’t in their hands. Blitz pickup, check down duty and leading another back to the hole are things I’m not sure any of them are good at right now.
  12. He just had two toes amputated that necrotized on his left foot due to blood clots. Karma’s got your back.
  13. I don’t think bird legs and bitch tits will be a desired look for Prime’s teams. Even if it is just the punter.
  14. The difference between a responsible driver and a maniacal mass murderer is just a little bit of steering wheel travel on a busy thoroughfare.
  15. There’s things other than cameras that do that for us and indicate it on the flight deck.
  16. Offer it to him in arctic blue and see what happens.
  17. Ahh. The Family Truckster CrossTour.
  18. Nobody is trending for a run just like Alabama. That won’t be repeated.
  19. That’s where I’m at. Sark does a shit ton right, is likable and has a redemption story worthy of anyone’s time. It’s that whole consistently winning on game day thing that is the problem. I want him to succeed for a myriad of reasons. I’ve seen a lot of evidence this far that he could, and a lot that suggests that ultimately he won’t. Yay. We dominated the best KU squad since towels were being used as two ply in Lawrence. Their defense is terrible and their quarterback was freshly back from injury while clearly being disinterested in using his legs beyond the most dire circumstances. Sark and the program need to win out and start taking CFB by storm next year. Anything less gets a lot of side eye while we look for an outlet to plug in the hot seat around October imoho.
  20. Ehhh. Sorta. Ricky and VY forced his hand. He stumbled into 2008 when Irby went down and Ship took over the inside slot. Otherwise he bumblefucked his way through the offseason and rebuilt his offense in October usually after OU and maybe a decent OOC opponent had disabused him of his poor notions of personnel and ability. He was generally smart enough to identify a generational talent and ride it. Otherwise…not so much.
  21. Yup. We’re not content to sit back and demonstrate our ineptitude at playing two high zone anymore. I don’t know if a revelation was had, Sark maybe put his foot down or PK just said F it and let’s ball. There’s very little catch defense being played by our guys at the moment.
  22. Depends on whether KSU/KU plays before us (they don’t) and if KSU loses. I suspect some egregious BS is on deck against BU just to make sure we don’t backdoor the title game.
  23. There’s plenty of deception built into Sark’s offense, but the QB has to see the game well. And we don’t exactly let QE audible at the line or have a lot of hots to relieve pressure. This is the Sark offense in second gear. That doesn’t relive him of some his dipshittery and bullheadedness. Show a light box and crash down hard is Sark’s cryptonite. We have answers on the offense, but for some strange reason rarely get to them.
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