Laziest Entry Ever.
Posted May 29th, 2008 at 19:20 by Doug Taylor
Ok, I'm talking to JEP in the admin section (not like it really exists or anything) but here are my snippets about my day. I'd make a formal entry but I'm tired, lazy and have to deal with a buttload of administrative duties so ya'll don't throw a mutiny here between now and the time I'm back to the house.
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Nah, I just got up from my nap. Would rather sleep more but then I won't sleep tonight and it'll screw me up the next two days if I don't get up now!
Heading over to the train station for a snack and work on the "Honey Bring Me" list a little.
Most of the crap was in the arrival path and extended above FL400 so it's challenge with a heavy ER to get above it, especially when you need to be descending.
Even funnier, we're two miles out, still IMC and the captain asks Frankfurt Arrival if we're cleared to land and he says, "Come on Delta, traffic on the rollout... You will get your landing clearance".
Like how the eff are we supposed to know there's a airplane on the runway when we're still IMC?
Well, we do a thing called CANPA - constant angle non-precision approach procedures with VNAV, but 1/2 mile outside of the IAF when you were expecting the ILS isn't really an ummm "optimum" time to rethink your approach strategy.
It all worked out in the end, obviously, but talk about being just on the edge of keeping a grasp on the situation. I'm quickly walking the captain thru the procedure we're going to follow because he hasn't done one since recurrent (no one has, save the VOR 22L in JFK) and spending what it felt like an eternity trying to figure out what the TDZE is when I'm staring right at it. Eww.
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Nah, I just got up from my nap. Would rather sleep more but then I won't sleep tonight and it'll screw me up the next two days if I don't get up now!
Heading over to the train station for a snack and work on the "Honey Bring Me" list a little.
Most of the crap was in the arrival path and extended above FL400 so it's challenge with a heavy ER to get above it, especially when you need to be descending.
Even funnier, we're two miles out, still IMC and the captain asks Frankfurt Arrival if we're cleared to land and he says, "Come on Delta, traffic on the rollout... You will get your landing clearance".
Like how the eff are we supposed to know there's a airplane on the runway when we're still IMC?
Well, we do a thing called CANPA - constant angle non-precision approach procedures with VNAV, but 1/2 mile outside of the IAF when you were expecting the ILS isn't really an ummm "optimum" time to rethink your approach strategy.
It all worked out in the end, obviously, but talk about being just on the edge of keeping a grasp on the situation. I'm quickly walking the captain thru the procedure we're going to follow because he hasn't done one since recurrent (no one has, save the VOR 22L in JFK) and spending what it felt like an eternity trying to figure out what the TDZE is when I'm staring right at it. Eww.
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Posted June 23rd, 2008 at 11:41 by skidz 
