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February 20th, 2006, 21:09
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| Junior Member  Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: SF Bay Area, Cali
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 |  Wing Walked Qualified I wish I had brought my camera today because I went to training today at SFO for United. Now I’m qualified to wing walk on every single aircraft we fly…not anywhere close to as exciting as getting hired, but still pretty cool… |
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February 20th, 2006, 21:50
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| Old Skool  | I thought you ment you could walk ON the wings, like in an airshow. Anywho, enjoy the ramp. Push qualed is even better. Then you are inside the tug while your walkers are outside.
__________________ As a wise man said, sumb!tch flew in, sumb!tch'll fly out. Ski Hard. Party Harder. |
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February 20th, 2006, 23:25
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Coloradan in Orange County, CA
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| Is holding up a wand and pointing the 757 to a gate different than holding up a wand and point a 737 to its gate? I remember when Ted started, they said they were going to eliminate wing walkers due to it being an excessive cost they didn't need. Well about a week after the launch of Ted, two of the planes were on the push at the same time from side by side gates and boom, they clipped wings knocking the winglets off of both of their 320s. They ended up having to get the pax off in the middle of the taxiways and from the ramp all you could see from the concourse was flashes going off from all of the pictures. I guess the FAA didn't want the planes moved until everything was taken care of. Pretty sad sight! From then on, they used wing walkers. |
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February 21st, 2006, 07:01
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| Old Skool  Join Date: May 2003 Location: In the O-zone
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Wing walking training is way underestimated. It's not easy to see if you are going to clear a baggage cart, for example.
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February 21st, 2006, 07:19
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Arkansas
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| Blah, wing walking is nothing! Try parking 5 helicopters in a cramped hangar! The only way I can describe it is playing chess while solving a jigsaw puzzle at the same time. It's times like those it pays to be the brake rider. |
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February 21st, 2006, 13:16
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| Old Skool  Join Date: May 2004 Location: Dallas TX
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Better yet, try it on a ship. Not only is the hanger small, it keeps moving.
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February 21st, 2006, 14:28
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The hardest part is 1 wand up, is clear and 2 in a "X" is not clear. Heck I "walked" the first plane in on my first day on the job and was doing pushes with a trainer in the middle and was signed to push before the last flight which I did solo.
__________________ As a wise man said, sumb!tch flew in, sumb!tch'll fly out. Ski Hard. Party Harder. | |
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February 22nd, 2006, 05:29
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February 24th, 2006, 11:52
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Atlanta
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| The closest wingtip is with Doug' beloved -90 and -88. Those wingstips come the closet to bagcarts with entering the gate. DC-9 werent quite as bad due to the fact that the length of the wing is smaller
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March 1st, 2006, 15:32
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: da' Bayou
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March 1st, 2006, 17:46
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Arkansas
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| Childsplay! Those blades are folded! |
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March 1st, 2006, 21:54
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: SE US
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| Look at all that space ya'll had to work with. Our airdales had to put 2 SH-60's on a FFG.  |
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March 1st, 2006, 22:28
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| Old Skool Join Date: May 2003 Location: In the O-zone
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Ever have a bad wing walker walk your plane in to another? I did.
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March 1st, 2006, 22:42
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__________________ To see a world in a grain of sand And Heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in a hour. -William Blake | |
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March 1st, 2006, 22:45
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When I was backing the aircraft up I was sweating because the aircraft were so close....
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March 2nd, 2006, 00:22
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| Old Skool Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: da' Bayou
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 My condolences for being stationed on a "Fig".
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March 2nd, 2006, 05:02
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| Old Skool Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: SE US
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| Former DS (got out as an FC1), and we got to pull into all the cool ports...Dubai; Doha, Qatar; Aden, Yemen; Djibouti City, Djibouti (just N of Somalia), and others I don't even want to remember. Yes, I'm sure y'all pulled into some of those ports, just showing where we spent lots of quality time. The cool part of a Forever F'ing Gone is you know everybody by first name...which could be good and could be bad. Ahhh, the good memories. Thank God I'm flying cargo now!!!! |
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March 2nd, 2006, 12:53
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Chicago, IL
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| My first job was as a ramper at ATA. Man, I'll tell you... at 18 yrs old it was pretty sweet to go to work every day and stand next to a B727 or B757 while it was spooling up. Even better was working the headset during the B757 push, standing next to the nose wheel on the headset saying "clear on two Captain." Got to push a B727 once too... wasn't pretty, but I did it. Those were definitely good times for a not-yet student pilot. Congrats! It is fun and exciting. Gets better from here.
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March 3rd, 2006, 01:18
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| Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: SF Bay Area, Cali
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| wow that sounds a great, that was my perfect dream job to fly for ATA, but things are looking to good for them, there leaving sfo pretty soon for oak, so they can have more connecting flights and such, its guna b sad not to see those good ol' AmTrans not at sfo.... |
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March 3rd, 2006, 08:42
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March 3rd, 2006, 23:52
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Austin, TX / Grand Forks, ND
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 | question: how do you push around the helo's on skids???  (im sure theres something easier than i am thinking of) |
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March 4th, 2006, 18:48
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Arkansas
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| Ground Handling Trucks Never done it myself, but apparently the "hooahs" do it all the time, this is an excerpt from an Army Technical Manual. http://www.tpub.com/content/ohhelico.../072716_38.htm |
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March 4th, 2006, 21:06
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| Old Skool Join Date: May 2004 Location: Dallas TX
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