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kellwolf · May 9th, 2008, 16:47

LOFT was today, and it was pretty straight forward. Since my sim partner was doing his re-check today, they paired me up with a new hire FO that had passed his checkride this week. His sim partner ALSO had a re-check today. My bet is that if they both pass, our sim partners will wind up being paired up for a LOFT session, too.

Anyway, get the release for MEM-HSV, start out at the gate and do all the normal stuff. Normal pushback, and (gasp!) normal start. Kinda took a second for me to realize I wasn't gonna have to shut an engine down and call maintenance. Taxi over to 18C and takeoff. No problems, land in Huntsville, and the APU dies on the taxi in. The poor new hire FO was like "What does APU ECU FAIL mean?" I just sigh and say "Means it's gonna get hot and we've got to make some phone calls." So, I do the song and dance with dispatch and mx after confirming with Huntsville ops that we're gonna do a hot re-fuel procedure due to their not having a huffer cart. Tell the instructor where the hot re-fuel procedures are in the book, and we take a break.

Come back, turn left, taxi out to the taxiiway and do the cross-bleed start. Takeoff out of Huntsville, and the FO is flying. No problems until we get ALMOST on the arrival. "GEN 2 OFF" caution message. Look up, sure enough IDG DISC light is on. Run the QRH, and since we're down to one generator, it's "land at nearest suitable airport."

Well, he had told us there was a line of t-storms coming in to MEM, so I had our alternate pulled up as a fix on the MFD anyway, and we were less than 20 miles from there. MEM was about 70. Sounds like the nearest suitable airport is gonna be TUP. So, I make the decision to divert there, call dispatch, get a new release, tell the FA we're not gonna be landing in MEM and start the circus of getting us in to Tupelo. Visual conditions and the FO did a good job with the visual seeing as he'd only done about 3 of them in the sim up until that point. Landed. Shutdown check, terminating check. Done.

Cat 2 on Monday (with the same FO, actually), and then it's OE at some point in the near future.

May 9th, 2008, 16:47	#108
kellwolf Old Skool Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Memphis, TN Posts: 13,219	Re: Kellwolf's Upgrade Updates LOFT was today, and it was pretty straight forward. Since my sim partner was doing his re-check today, they paired me up with a new hire FO that had passed his checkride this week. His sim partner ALSO had a re-check today. My bet is that if they both pass, our sim partners will wind up being paired up for a LOFT session, too. Anyway, get the release for MEM-HSV, start out at the gate and do all the normal stuff. Normal pushback, and (gasp!) normal start. Kinda took a second for me to realize I wasn't gonna have to shut an engine down and call maintenance. Taxi over to 18C and takeoff. No problems, land in Huntsville, and the APU dies on the taxi in. The poor new hire FO was like "What does APU ECU FAIL mean?" I just sigh and say "Means it's gonna get hot and we've got to make some phone calls." So, I do the song and dance with dispatch and mx after confirming with Huntsville ops that we're gonna do a hot re-fuel procedure due to their not having a huffer cart. Tell the instructor where the hot re-fuel procedures are in the book, and we take a break. Come back, turn left, taxi out to the taxiiway and do the cross-bleed start. Takeoff out of Huntsville, and the FO is flying. No problems until we get ALMOST on the arrival. "GEN 2 OFF" caution message. Look up, sure enough IDG DISC light is on. Run the QRH, and since we're down to one generator, it's "land at nearest suitable airport." Well, he had told us there was a line of t-storms coming in to MEM, so I had our alternate pulled up as a fix on the MFD anyway, and we were less than 20 miles from there. MEM was about 70. Sounds like the nearest suitable airport is gonna be TUP. So, I make the decision to divert there, call dispatch, get a new release, tell the FA we're not gonna be landing in MEM and start the circus of getting us in to Tupelo. Visual conditions and the FO did a good job with the visual seeing as he'd only done about 3 of them in the sim up until that point. Landed. Shutdown check, terminating check. Done. Cat 2 on Monday (with the same FO, actually), and then it's OE at some point in the near future. __________________ "I'm The Doctor, by the way. Run for your life!"