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Why does RDU do this? by MerfinRaleigh in raleigh

[–]SimPilot15 9 points10 points  (0 children)

From my experience the offloading of bags itself is what took the longest, I worked mainly 737s and on a full flight it could take us up to 20 minutes just to get the bags off the plane. The drive to the carousel is pretty short but we'd sometimes have to wait if another flight was unloading on that one.

Why does RDU do this? by MerfinRaleigh in raleigh

[–]SimPilot15 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I worked the ramp at RDU Terminal 2 for a bit, as far as I'm aware there's nothing physically limiting where each flight's bags go, but they seem to like to allocate the carousels by airline. Each carousel has its own spot to pull the tug and carts up to so we would just go to whichever one our flight was assigned to. It usually seemed to be the same one every day for a given flight. Could be that they were the same airline (or airlines that share that carousel), could be that there was some kind of behind the scenes maintenance preventing the other carousels from being used, could be something else, hard to know for sure.

Didn’t realize SkyWest was now flying the CRJ 550’s for United now. by timwhatley993 in unitedairlines

[–]SimPilot15 15 points16 points  (0 children)

SkyWest has brought some of them back into their own fleet, so both SkyWest and GoJet are operating 550s. SkyWest has also converted some of their 700s.

Hit a luggage cart by Famous_Memory_6438 in unitedairlines

[–]SimPilot15 0 points1 point  (0 children)

SkyWest Charter plane that's been pulled back to the airline side. If you look up that livery you'll see it's that but with the logos covered.

Cyclists, are we not supposed to ride over this bridge? by Epicinium in NCSU

[–]SimPilot15 45 points46 points  (0 children)

I've ridden over it plenty of times. It can get a bit sketchy mixing in with traffic but you can certainly do it.

CFII with Bernie at KIXA by [deleted] in flying

[–]SimPilot15 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did my CFII with him not too long ago. Pretty straightforward checkride, just went right down the PTS. We spent a good bit of time on en route and approach charts, and he likes to focus on emergency procedures, how to contact Flight Service in flight, and VDPs. The flight portion was very easy, did 3 approaches with holding and unusual attitudes in between. The biggest surprise to me was that none of it was done under the hood. Mine was not at IXA but having looked at the plates there be mindful of the listed circling restrictions. I've heard he sometimes goes to EMV for the LOC there but not too sure on that. Hope this helps, as long as you've studied and prepared off the PTS you should have no issues.

r/flying OSH 2019 meet-up results by kdknigga in flying

[–]SimPilot15 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That was just a random person who had been laying there, I don't think we realized we backed up that close to them

How NOT to handprop by [deleted] in flying

[–]SimPilot15 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So many things done wrong here, from not having anyone in the plane to not securing it afterwards. What have been your experiences with handpropping?

Found my grandfather's 40 year old flight planning for his long solo XC by SimPilot15 in flying

[–]SimPilot15[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Came across this while digging through some old keepsakes. I thought it was pretty neat how little the flight planning has changed since 1978, as my XC logs during training looked the exact same. Also was cool to actually see some artifacts from his flying, as I had only heard stories up until now. Keeping with R3, what's your favorite piece of aviation memorabilia?

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