@petemuntean@SenDuckworth What a drama queen. I bet she will sing a different tune when her flight is delayed because we can’t do intersecting operations.
@zifro5@Turbinetraveler My company frowns on that and actively discourages it. You’re burning a lot more fuel than you realize with the gear/flaps down while running checklists and you probably didn’t have a lot to start with after the flight you just did to get there.Not running out of gas is the goal
@CharlieRymerPGA@Delta They give us 3 hours to sit off the gate because after a route/airport reopens they issue takeoff times to meter traffic because only so many planes can be handled at one time. They cannot ever plane at once going in the same direction or to the same or nearby airport.
@CharlieRymerPGA@Delta Please keep in mind that the FAA owns the airspace we fly in, we just borrow it. The Traffic Management Unit of the FAA decides who gets to go and when after a route or airport reopens after a ground-stop.
@OneMileataTime I’ve flown quite a few sports charters and it is made abundantly clear that they are operated under the same rules as FAA Part 121 passenger flights. The procedures are the same as on any other revenue flight. The argument that the charter customer ownsthe airplane is ridiculous
@TheMaineWonk I remember back in 1989 when our supply officer on our Destroyer spent all his time playing video games in his stateroom instead of doing his job. I came down for chow after my shift in CIC and found the cooks deep frying hotdogs because that was all they had left to serve.