Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - Challenge Flight Operations

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | Airline Operations | Challenge Flight Operations

DVA9716
First Officer, A330-300

Joined on April 26 2011
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"Take Offs are optional - Landing are mandatory!"
Killeen, TX USA

154 legs, 324.0 hours
102 legs, 218.1 hours online
153 legs, 321.7 hours ACARS
4 legs, 8.9 hours event

Posted onPost created on May 16 2011 12:57 ET by Kenneth Dickerson

Looked around last night on the web to see where the crap weather was, Boston Logan was at 1 mile in Fog and 800 Broken - Perfect! The hard part was finding an Airport to leave out of that was not to close but not too far. Philly was my choice. Good flight, broke out at 500 ft with 1 mile of vis due to fog. Nothing gets the blood pumping than to be in the soup and then the controller has you side step on final to the other active because he has another aircraft on your runway and he has lost comms.
The reason for this post is for the leadership - Could we have a program added to ACARS that looks for bad weather and then gives you the particulars to plan the flight? Before coming to Delta I flew for a small operations Air Texas Airlines, not bad just hardly no participation except for about 5 of us while I was with them, but they had this program on their ACARS that on the hour would pick the hairest places to take off and land to due to weather. Now because of the type of flights we did a lot of the places we went into was regional airports. So a CRJ or even a EMB120 rating would be a good thing to have. Point is for those that would like to test their metal on some real IFR challenges this would be a great add to DVA.
If we have this please forgive the post and just direct me to the Snack BAr. If we don't I think this would add a new level of challenge!

Let me know what you think!

Kenneth Dickerson

First Officer, A330-300

DVA3794
Senior Captain, A320
OLP, 737-ATP

Joined on December 03 2006
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"volando libero......."
Antarctica

3,459 legs, 8,141.9 hours
3,131 legs, 7,039.5 hours online
3,251 legs, 7,332.7 hours ACARS
478 legs, 964.8 hours event
65 legs dispatched, 72.4 hours

Posted onPost created on May 16 2011 16:15 ET by Vincenzo Musumeci

Not a bad idea, but our Weather Center can give us an overall situation and from there you can go to a specific airport!! wink

Posted onPost created on May 16 2011 17:21 ET by Kenneth Dickerson

Yes I agree that is what I did last night. I am just throwing something out to the group to see if others would be interested in a airmans challenge to their skills. There are some nights I am perfectly happy to fly CAVU and just listen to good music while setting up for a landing. Then there is the nights I want to bring the pain, challenge myself so that in the pilots lounge I start off my story by "There I was.....". Again, no biggy just participating!

Kenneth Dickerson

First Officer, A330-300

DVA5929
Senior Captain, B747-400
OLP

Joined on May 10 2008
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"It's buried under a big W!"
TX USA

651 legs, 3,806.1 hours
472 legs, 2,922.9 hours online
565 legs, 3,319.5 hours ACARS
8 legs, 18.9 hours event

Posted onPost created on May 16 2011 20:54 ET by Nicholas Carpenter

Not a bad idea, but I don't think I see such a system being too accurate. You could have a localizer only equipped runway with a ceiling down to minimums, fog in mountainous terrain, or heavy turbulence and severe thunderstorms in the vincinity of a larger airport. Which would it pick as the worst? Isn't that all really subjective to the pilot's personal opinion?

Nicholas Carpenter

Senior Captain, B747-400

DVA1008
Senior Captain, B757-200

Joined on December 14 2002
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Kokomo, IN

633 legs, 1,731.3 hours
613 legs, 1,689.9 hours online
212 legs, 792.3 hours ACARS
35 legs, 77.7 hours event

Posted onPost created on May 16 2011 20:57 ET by Matt Young

This is a feature available in ActiveSky, and in my opinion, to do it right, ActiveSky is almost a necessity.

Matt Young

Senior Captain, B757-200

Posted onPost created on May 16 2011 21:15 ET by Vincenzo Musumeci

Matt Young wrote:

This is a feature available in ActiveSky, and in my opinion, to do it right, ActiveSky is almost a necessity.

Matt upgrade to ASE .......that is a necessity biggrin

DVA9677
Captain, B737-800
OLP

Joined on April 11 2011
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"American 1482, your APU is leaking baggage."
Kissimmee, FL USA

543 legs, 735.9 hours
247 legs, 299.2 hours online
538 legs, 725.6 hours ACARS
2 legs, 2.8 hours event

Posted onPost created on May 16 2011 21:21 ET by John Anderson

Maybe something Dispatcher could look out for?
I don't know how the dispatch system works, but if a disatcher could look at the WX, they could recommend the most challenging route.
Maybe?

John Anderson (DVA9677)

Posted onPost created on May 16 2011 21:25 ET by Matt Young

Vincenzo Musumeci wrote:

Matt upgrade to ASE .......that is a necessity

Why? I don't care about pretty visuals (hence my lack of payware scenery), I want hard IMC where there is hard IMC, accurate winds aloft, and weather that updates along my route. 6.5 does exactly that.

Matt Young

Senior Captain, B757-200

Posted onPost created on May 16 2011 22:12 ET by Vincenzo Musumeci

Matt,
I ran AS6.5 for years and love it, but I'm impressed with the level of ASE.....accuracy is just as good
I did make the switch because AS6.5was giving me a lot of problems with FSX!!!!

Vincenzo Musumeci (DVA3794)

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