The mad dogs are cleared to fly again

[WestIndian425]

http://news.aol.com/business/story/_...12200909990002

Well after cancelling over 3300 flights during the week, AA has returned all of its MD-80/83 aircraft to service.

Last year's story was B6 in February. This year we have WN fines, 4 airlines ceasing operations (though not as big a press coverage) and another entering bankruptcy, and this one which takes the cake.

Wow.

[JA Yawd Bwoy]

Originally Posted by WestIndian425

http://news.aol.com/business/story/_...12200909990002

Well after cancelling over 3300 flights during the week, AA has returned all of its MD-80/83 aircraft to service.

Last year's story was B6 in February. This year we have WN fines, 4 airlines ceasing operations (though not as big a press coverage) and another entering bankruptcy, and this one which takes the cake.

Wow.

Yah I noticed when I visited Vaughn College yesterday, there was a normal amount of AA MD80's takeing off and landing.

[ljg]

CNN will have to find another doom and gloom story for this week.

[Mad Doggy Dog]

Mad dogs to fly again !!!!


Millions of passengers rejoice at their renewed chance to be subjected to:

Chattering brakes
Out of sync fan noise
drippy gasper vents
smelly lavs
flimsy overhead bins
flimsy everything else
neck snapping power bursts
cabin ventilation flow varying between hurricane and stagnant
loud mid cabin aux hydraulic pump noise
lack of in flight entertainment



Pilots of the Mad Dogs are happy to once again enjoy:

flight control response akin to having sex while wearing a snow mobile suit and 14 condoms.
Leaky cockpit side windows
...resulting in de-ice fluid on their uniforms
...and water in their sidewall storage bins
weak auto pilot
...leading to altitude busts
lack of taxi speed braking due to harmonic vibration [chatter]
throttle response akin to driving a hyundia accent wearing ski boots
engines slow to spool up
engines which get lousy efficiency unless you are above FL 350
wings too small to lift you above FL 350
wings too small to allow you to bank more than 15 during takeoff climb
wings so small whereby th wrong flap setting causes you to go off end of runway
poor crosswing handling
cable and pully flight controls with no hydraulic assist
insufficient elevator authority during flare if slightly nose heavy [wham!]
lack of bush plane tundra tires for your inevitable runway excursion
Rube Goldberg designed aircraft systems
90% parts commonality with a DC-3

.....and of course:

Layovers in Jackson, MS !!!!!!! .......[woo hoo]

[Seggy]

Originally Posted by Mad Doggy Dog

Layovers in Jackson, MS !!!!!!! .......[woo hoo]

Better than Altoona, PA!

[SmoothLanderJ]

Originally Posted by Mad Doggy Dog

Mad dogs to fly again !!!!


Millions of passengers rejoice at their renewed chance to be subjected to:

Chattering brakes
Out of sync fan noise
drippy gasper vents
smelly lavs
flimsy overhead bins
flimsy everything else
neck snapping power bursts
cabin ventilation flow varying between hurricane and stagnant
loud mid cabin aux hydraulic pump noise
lack of in flight entertainment



Pilots of the Mad Dogs are happy to once again enjoy:

flight control response akin to having sex while wearing a snow mobile suit and 14 condoms.
Leaky cockpit side windows
...resulting in de-ice fluid on their uniforms
...and water in their sidewall storage bins
weak auto pilot
...leading to altitude busts
lack of taxi speed braking due to harmonic vibration [chatter]
throttle response akin to driving a hyundia accent wearing ski boots
engines slow to spool up
engines which get lousy efficiency unless you are above FL 350
wings too small to lift you above FL 350
wings too small to allow you to bank more than 15 during takeoff climb
wings so small whereby th wrong flap setting causes you to go off end of runway
poor crosswing handling
cable and pully flight controls with no hydraulic assist
insufficient elevator authority during flare if slightly nose heavy [wham!]
lack of bush plane tundra tires for your inevitable runway excursion
Rube Goldberg designed aircraft systems
90% parts commonality with a DC-3

.....and of course:

Layovers in Jackson, MS !!!!!!! .......[woo hoo]

Nice........great post

[Mad Doggy Dog]

The good news is....

For those of you on this board who are aspiring to go to a major airline one day, by the time you get there, most if the not all off the MD-anythings will be gone.

The only good MD-anything is one that has been recycled into beer cans.



MMmmmmm, beer!

[WestIndian425]

Originally Posted by Mad Doggy Dog

Mad dogs to fly again !!!!
neck snapping power bursts

Are you kidding? That's the best part of the whole flight!!!!

Add to that the few aircraft that let you know it's taking off as it passes by -- not like those stage 3-stage 4 quiet airplanes. This is a real airplane.

[Firebird2XC]

Originally Posted by Mad Doggy Dog

Mad dogs to fly again !!!!


Millions of passengers rejoice at their renewed chance to be subjected to:

Chattering brakes
Out of sync fan noise
drippy gasper vents
smelly lavs
flimsy overhead bins
flimsy everything else
neck snapping power bursts
cabin ventilation flow varying between hurricane and stagnant
loud mid cabin aux hydraulic pump noise
lack of in flight entertainment



Pilots of the Mad Dogs are happy to once again enjoy:

flight control response akin to having sex while wearing a snow mobile suit and 14 condoms.
Leaky cockpit side windows
...resulting in de-ice fluid on their uniforms
...and water in their sidewall storage bins
weak auto pilot
...leading to altitude busts
lack of taxi speed braking due to harmonic vibration [chatter]
throttle response akin to driving a hyundia accent wearing ski boots
engines slow to spool up
engines which get lousy efficiency unless you are above FL 350
wings too small to lift you above FL 350
wings too small to allow you to bank more than 15 during takeoff climb
wings so small whereby th wrong flap setting causes you to go off end of runway
poor crosswing handling
cable and pully flight controls with no hydraulic assist
insufficient elevator authority during flare if slightly nose heavy [wham!]
lack of bush plane tundra tires for your inevitable runway excursion
Rube Goldberg designed aircraft systems
90% parts commonality with a DC-3

.....and of course:

Layovers in Jackson, MS !!!!!!! .......[woo hoo]

... and I thought I was the only one looking at mad dogs sideways.

Here's to something better in the future, eh?

[Soku39]

Well speaking as a passenger, the Mad Dogs are fine, as long as they would sync up the damned compressors!! Wa Wa Wa Wa Wa for 4 hours does not = cool.

[Mad Doggy Dog]

Firebird,

You'll do fine flying a mad dog since your a chopper pilot, [at least I am assuming so based on your avatar.]

The reason:

Chopper pilots understand that their aircraft wants to kill them if given the chance. In fact, ditto for turboprop drivers.....or any propellor driven multi engine planes for that matter.


Same for the mad dog:

It wants to kill you...........or at least get you violated......and not in the fun way. ;-)


Boeings want to fly.


Remember the old saying...

Boeing builds airplanes. McDonnel Douglas builds character.

[xpanterica]

Originally Posted by Mad Doggy Dog

Firebird,

You'll do fine flying a mad dog since your a chopper pilot, [at least I am assuming so based on your avatar.]

The reason:

Chopper pilots understand that their aircraft wants to kill them if given the chance. In fact, ditto for turboprop drivers.....or any propellor driven multi engine planes for that matter.


Same for the mad dog:

It wants to kill you...........or at least get you violated......and not in the fun way. ;-)


Boeings want to fly.


Remember the old saying...

Boeing builds airplanes. McDonnel Douglas builds character.

Priceless!

[Airdale]

Originally Posted by Mad Doggy Dog

Firebird,

You'll do fine flying a mad dog since your a chopper pilot, [at least I am assuming so based on your avatar.]

The reason:

Chopper pilots understand that their aircraft wants to kill them if given the chance. In fact, ditto for turboprop drivers.....or any propellor driven multi engine planes for that matter.


Same for the mad dog:

It wants to kill you...........or at least get you violated......and not in the fun way. ;-)


Boeings want to fly.


Remember the old saying...

Boeing builds airplanes. McDonnel Douglas builds character.

Dude your posts are hilarious man!!!!

Keep up the good work!

[UPSpilot]

Originally Posted by Mad Doggy Dog

Mad dogs to fly again !!!!


Millions of passengers rejoice at their renewed chance to be subjected to:

Chattering brakes
Out of sync fan noise
drippy gasper vents
smelly lavs
flimsy overhead bins
flimsy everything else
neck snapping power bursts
cabin ventilation flow varying between hurricane and stagnant
loud mid cabin aux hydraulic pump noise
lack of in flight entertainment



Pilots of the Mad Dogs are happy to once again enjoy:

flight control response akin to having sex while wearing a snow mobile suit and 14 condoms.
Leaky cockpit side windows
...resulting in de-ice fluid on their uniforms
...and water in their sidewall storage bins
weak auto pilot
...leading to altitude busts
lack of taxi speed braking due to harmonic vibration [chatter]
throttle response akin to driving a hyundia accent wearing ski boots
engines slow to spool up
engines which get lousy efficiency unless you are above FL 350
wings too small to lift you above FL 350
wings too small to allow you to bank more than 15 during takeoff climb
wings so small whereby th wrong flap setting causes you to go off end of runway
poor crosswing handling
cable and pully flight controls with no hydraulic assist
insufficient elevator authority during flare if slightly nose heavy [wham!]
lack of bush plane tundra tires for your inevitable runway excursion
Rube Goldberg designed aircraft systems
90% parts commonality with a DC-3

.....and of course:

Layovers in Jackson, MS !!!!!!! .......[woo hoo]

Otherwise known as the "live well"


It's better than flying a jet powered DC-7, which the DC-8 essentially is.

[UPSpilot]

Originally Posted by Mad Doggy Dog

Firebird,

You'll do fine flying a mad dog since your a chopper pilot, [at least I am assuming so based on your avatar.]

The reason:

Chopper pilots understand that their aircraft wants to kill them if given the chance. In fact, ditto for turboprop drivers.....or any propellor driven multi engine planes for that matter.


Same for the mad dog:

It wants to kill you...........or at least get you violated......and not in the fun way. ;-)


Boeings want to fly.


Remember the old saying...

Boeing builds airplanes. McDonnel Douglas builds character.

It's actually Douglas builds character. The MD-80 was the last true Douglas engineered airliner. It's still at it's heart a DC-9. The designs after the McDonnell merger weren't nearly as robustly built as the DC-9s and previous.

[Doug Taylor]

Originally Posted by Airdale

Dude your posts are hilarious man!!!!

Keep up the good work!

MDD is undeniably the funniest guy in professional aviation.

Period.

Bar none.

And I mean it! I'm not just kissing butt because I owe him money and he's got incriminating photos from Frankfurt either.

[JA Yawd Bwoy]

Originally Posted by Doug Taylor

MDD is undeniably the funniest guy in professional aviation.

Period.

Bar none.

And I mean it! I'm not just kissing butt because I owe him money and he's got incriminating photos from Frankfurt either.

Wait you guys fly together?

[Doug Taylor]

Originally Posted by JA Yawd Bwoy

Wait you guys fly together?

Once!

But then he sold out and bid ATL.

[JA Yawd Bwoy]

Originally Posted by Doug Taylor

Once!

But then he sold out and bid ATL.

oh! lol

[flyover]

Originally Posted by UPSpilot

It's better than flying a jet powered DC-7, which the DC-8 essentially is.

There's something better than flying the 8?

[Doug Taylor]

Originally Posted by flyover

There's something better than flying the 8?

Your own Piper Cub on floats? Gotchya!

[Mad Doggy Dog]

You are all too kind!

I bid ATL cus I have a granny fetish!

That, and I love flying with anal retentive LCAs.

"Thank you sir for that informative 2 hour lecture........so, you say you live in Peach Tree City?.......tell me about your golf cart."




Doug, I am still tetering on bidding NYC.

It's just that, I loves my latin flying, amigo!



It is still easier for me to get to NYC than ATL from DFW.


FYI, did you know that at Northwest, their pilots have a commuting policy whereby if you don't get on your first flight to work, they will positive space you on the next....even if it means bumping PAX. Of course, you are on your own getting back home.

[Coming to DAL soon?]

[ERfly]

Originally Posted by UPSpilot

It's better than flying a jet powered DC-7, which the DC-8 essentially is.
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But you have the fun of figuring out where everything is on the -8. I've heard DC-8 pilots say that Douglas built a very standard airplane...until they built the second one.

And the best saying I've heard...

"If you've seen one DC-8...you've seen one DC-8."