Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - Czech Airlines Equipment

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | Airline Operations | Czech Airlines Equipment

DVA11730
Captain, B757-200

Joined on October 03 2012
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Newport News, VA

788 legs, 2,081.3 hours
775 legs, 2,066.6 hours online
762 legs, 2,016.2 hours ACARS
14 legs, 44.4 hours event

Posted onPost created on June 10 2020 23:44 ET by Samuel Sculerati

I have been bouncing around doing code share flights in Europe with some SkyTeam partner airlines. I noticed Czech Airlines was on the schedule and decided to check them out. Almost the entire schedule in the database has them operating 737-800s despite CSA only having one 738 with the rest of their small fleet being Airbus. As much as I love flying my PMDG 737 I'm getting kind of burned out after all these KLM flights and would like to switch it up a bit. I looked in the pilot manual and didn't see anything about aircraft substitutions on flights, but I'm pretty sure I'd be okay subbing a 738 for an A320, correct?

Samuel Sculerati

Captain, B757-200

DVA12617
Chief Pilot, A350-900
OLP, VFRADV
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Joined on April 23 2015
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"Go Utes!"
Herriman, UT

1,280 legs, 2,967.8 hours
391 legs, 810.3 hours online
1,261 legs, 2,925.6 hours ACARS
25 legs, 78.6 hours event
39 legs dispatched, 174.2 hours

Posted onPost created on June 10 2020 23:48 ET by Joe Burner

Samuel,

You can fly any aircraft type as long as you are rated for the equipment type and can make the trip safely with enough fuel reserves.

Our schedule was updated recently and we have had a few hiccups with it but we are sorting through the schedule hiccups it will just take a little bit.

Joe Burner (DVA12617)

Posted onPost created on June 11 2020 06:43 ET by Samuel Sculerati

Joe Burner wrote:

Samuel,

You can fly any aircraft type as long as you are rated for the equipment type and can make the trip safely with enough fuel reserves.

Our schedule was updated recently and we have had a few hiccups with it but we are sorting through the schedule hiccups it will just take a little bit.

No worries, just wanted to make sure I could swap equipment types before I try to submit a PIREP.

Thanks.

Samuel Sculerati

Captain, B757-200

DVA9545
Senior Captain, B777-200
OLP, 737-ATP

Joined on March 03 2011
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"YUPIIIII"
Goiás Brazil

2,492 legs, 5,039.3 hours
2,321 legs, 4,760.9 hours online
2,484 legs, 5,009.7 hours ACARS
271 legs, 683.8 hours event

Posted onPost created on June 11 2020 11:02 ET by Thiago Braga

Samuel Sculerati wrote:

Joe Burner wrote:

Samuel,

You can fly any aircraft type as long as you are rated for the equipment type and can make the trip safely with enough fuel reserves.

Our schedule was updated recently and we have had a few hiccups with it but we are sorting through the schedule hiccups it will just take a little bit.

No worries, just wanted to make sure I could swap equipment types before I try to submit a PIREP.

Thanks.

Yes you can!

Thiago Braga (DVA9545)

DVA043
Senior Captain, MD-11
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"Col. Panic"
Marietta, GA

2,306 legs, 9,290.0 hours
240 legs, 553.9 hours online
1,964 legs, 8,083.1 hours ACARS
75 legs, 196.3 hours event
2,342 legs, 9,424.9 hours total
91 legs dispatched, 66.4 hours

Posted onPost created on June 11 2020 14:14 ET by Luke Kolin

Samuel Sculerati wrote:

I have been bouncing around doing code share flights in Europe with some SkyTeam partner airlines. I noticed Czech Airlines was on the schedule and decided to check them out. Almost the entire schedule in the database has them operating 737-800s despite CSA only having one 738 with the rest of their small fleet being Airbus.

The SkyTeam schedule has most of these as 738.

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

DVA10286
Captain, B777-200

Joined on November 05 2011
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"ASEL - Instrument Rated"
San Diego, CA

1,045 legs, 4,493.7 hours
1,042 legs, 4,490.7 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on June 11 2020 14:18 ET by Thomas Weber

Luke Kolin wrote:

The SkyTeam schedule has most of these as 738.

Must be a busy 738 then!

Thomas Weber (DVA10286)

DVA9111
Captain, B757-200

Joined on June 28 2008
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Tilburg, Noord-Brabant Netherlands

1,420 legs, 5,010.8 hours
112 legs, 490.7 hours online
1,397 legs, 4,939.5 hours ACARS
1,545 legs, 5,607.8 hours total

Posted onPost created on June 11 2020 19:08 ET by Marc Ter Heide

Many (if not most) of these 738 flights are operated by Smartwings, the mother company of Czech Airlines.

Marc Ter Heide

Captain, B757-200

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