AHRS Failure

[Seggy]

You sensative jet jockeys with your autopilot, apu, and fa

A typical day for us is six legs without an autopilot flying in crummy weather, then have to fly an approach down to minimums

[Doug Taylor]

And de-icing every leg on a VFR schedule! Viva Skyway!

[Mr_Creepy]

Originally Posted by Doug Taylor

There's a pill for that!

LOL you mean like this?

[GaTechKid]

I went green needles from RDU to BOS once. That was a nightmare.

Ya'll are pansies. I get a consistent 2 dot swing going between PIT-JHW cuz the VORs around here are weak. The ILS glideslope into JHW also bounces around so you really have to help the autopilot average the inputs out if you want to use it. It makes approaches into snow squalls interesting.

[Mr_Creepy]

Pah! What kind of traffic is between PIT and JHW??? Oh look out for that Bradford area! it's major!!!

[GaTechKid]

Well there is that AirNow freight dog that comes in around the same time... LOL

[FlyChicaga]

Pilots become so reliant on the autopilot and FMS. I am SOOOOOO happy that my first plane had no FMS. It had an autopilot, but being a low-time pilot I handflew more often than not. None of this "direct INTRS" intersection stuff, it was all radials, DME, etc. Heck, it frightens me sometimes to see how bad some pilots are at flying with an autopilot. I wanted to be a pilot to fly planes, not pop on the autopilot and watch the thing do it! It's fun!!

[BobDDuck]

But what about doing SUDOKU??????

[GaTechKid]

Originally Posted by BobDDuck

But what about doing SUDOKU??????

Just finished my 25th puzzle.

[PhilosopherPilot]

Originally Posted by BobDDuck

But what about doing SUDOKU??????

I would never do any reading, Sudoku, or apparently, talking in flight. I had a captain today that said, (and I'm not joking) "I don't socialize at work. I'm here to work, not chitchat." So how happy was I that I wasn't on the three day with him! It was a quiet flight home...

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[PhilosopherPilot]

Originally Posted by BobDDuck

But what about doing SUDOKU??????

Oh, I WAS joking about the reading and sudoku...just not joking about the captain.

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[Doug Taylor]

Originally Posted by BobDDuck

But what about doing SUDOKU??????

I'm infected with sukoku on trips now. Geez, it's like crack -- a little sample and you're hooked.

[Doug Taylor]

Originally Posted by PhilosopherPilot

"I don't socialize at work. I'm here to work, not chitchat."

Did you tell him to kindly wake you up if anything safety-related occurred?

[PhilosopherPilot]

Originally Posted by Doug Taylor

Did you tell him to kindly wake you up if anything safety-related occurred?

No, but I did point out to him that we couldn't pushback until we had started the engine using the huffer...(APU deferred) It was pretty funny actually. "Ramp, ACY 123 pushback DAWGS2..." "ACY 123 Push straight back mains on the line" "Okay tug, she said straight back, mains on the line"

Then me "Uh...don't we need to start up first?"

LOL I think that was the beginning of a bad day for us.

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[Doug Taylor]

Oh man I feel bad for ya! I haven't done a leg thru Hooterville since last October!

It's been niiiiiice!

You should have heard ramp control get all aggro when I prounced, by mistake GEETK as "Geek Tech" and not "Gee Tech". Calm down LeRoy!

[PhilosopherPilot]

Originally Posted by Doug Taylor

Oh man I feel bad for ya! I haven't done a leg thru Hooterville since last October!

It's been niiiiiice!

You should have heard ramp control get all aggro when I prounced, by mistake GEETK as "Geek Tech" and not "Gee Tech". Calm down LeRoy!

Whoever made up those fix names must have loved college football. Seems to me Geek Tech isn't too far off though.

I like to hear the out of towners pronounce FUTBL. I even heard one dude say, "Foxtrot, Uniform..." The controller said, "Football, got it sir!"

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[EDUC8-or]

On Superbowl Sunday we flew from ATL-PHL. Tower asked for first fix and I told him we were going to FTBOL (or whatever it is) on Superbowl Sunday. He didn't see the humor. Those folks in GA sure love them DAWGS.