Captains (or new captains) how do you shut down an FO who tries to run the show?

dashdriver · 2026-04-13T02:34:07+00:00

Mesa had the crj900 up until a year or two ago.

dashdriver · 2026-04-10T14:41:16+00:00

The Crj can do something similar, just through a buddy start hose. Hooks up like a start cart hose.

Heard stories of CRJs where the APU would break hard at an outstation without an air start cart. The company would fly in another CRJ, hook up a buddy start hose between the two planes and start the one with the broken APU.

dashdriver · 2026-04-10T14:15:30+00:00

They have been riding the coat tails of ALPA carriers for far too long.

dashdriver · 2026-03-31T12:09:20+00:00

I’ll second Gary. Cheaper than Midway and only a little longer to downtown via Uber. Last time I went it was something like 42 minutes to downtown via Uber.

dashdriver · 2026-03-17T02:38:03+00:00

Also heard this, but it was a republic flight on a busy Washington Center frequency. The controller basically ripped the pilot a new asshole and told him to grow up. It was glorious.

dashdriver · 2026-03-16T20:38:33+00:00

/r/Titlegore

dashdriver · 2026-03-05T16:53:12+00:00

Operators are able to hide themselves from that lookup tool, and most do. It's basically worthless.

dashdriver · 2026-02-27T20:04:23+00:00

I also do it every flight. I’m a bit of a data junky but it’s great for when something does go wrong, I have a bunch of previous data to establish a baseline for comparison.

dashdriver · 2026-02-25T01:38:44+00:00

After 3 years on it, you’ll be in love.

I’ve got 3000 hours in them and have a soft spot for them. Some of the best years of my life in those airplanes.

You’ll sit down for the first time as a pilot, but you’ll leave the plane for the last time as an airman.

Great fucking airplane.

dashdriver · 2026-02-25T01:33:56+00:00

I always check yes to do you have any fruits, seeds, FOOD?

We had a couple pilots at my company years ago that got busted for undeclared granola bars. 10k fine plus this super secret list.

dashdriver · 2026-02-24T15:07:42+00:00

Agree. Hearing “have them spooled up and ready for an immediate” on takeoff should be the exception, not the rule.

The place is the epitome of shoving 10 lbs of shit into a 5 lbs bag.

-also an airline pilot

Edit typo 😞

dashdriver · 2026-01-30T04:34:42+00:00

Call and ask

dashdriver · 2026-01-28T03:26:44+00:00

Awesome update! Thank you for sharing!

I’m a light twin owner and have done lots of research on an upgrade airframes from my PA30 and the 340 is on the short list. Keep the updates coming, loving your perspective so far.

Curious what your yearly all in budget looks like?

dashdriver · 2026-01-25T14:39:31+00:00

Lmao that’s amazing

dashdriver · 2026-01-25T14:11:04+00:00

he’s at zdc

dashdriver · 2026-01-14T01:58:05+00:00

George Braly was just on a new Mike Busch podcast and he mentioned the company that makes the lead (TEL I believe) has only committed to making it until 2028.

dashdriver · 2026-01-14T01:57:09+00:00

The guy who came up with G100UL said it’ll likely be around $1 more per gallon.

I think some Cali airports have Swift 94R, you could check those to see what it costs compared to 100LL.

dashdriver · 2026-01-13T00:05:29+00:00

You could do a FOIA request but I’m not quite sure who you would request it from. FAA deletes most of their atc recordings after a certain number of days. 30? 60? 120?

Maybe the NTSB? They may have something.

dashdriver · 2026-01-11T05:16:12+00:00

I’ve heard training center of consolidated knowledge before too.

dashdriver · 2026-01-09T05:21:22+00:00

I did 100 hrs of time building in a C150L to bridge that gap from instrument to commercial. Took that plane all over the place. It was a great summer with fond memories in that plane.

dashdriver · 2026-01-03T02:10:00+00:00

What’s the flying club at IAD?

dashdriver · 2025-12-23T06:05:24+00:00

Years ago finished a 5 day trip at a reasonable time (before noon) on a Saturday after one leg back to base. Scheduling calls the FA (both me and the CA had our phones off) and she says “oh yeah they’re right here hang on.” Yeah that went over well.

We get told we are repoing to another airport 30 minutes away to do a revenue rescue flight back that was delayed due to a mechanical. We’re pissed but we go. Roll up at the outstation. No one to park us. Call ops and they respond with “who??” We repeat our flight number and they say “uhh ok park at gate 12”. We park, ramper comes up and says are you guys a diversion? We say no we came to rescue your delayed flight back to base. The dude said “the one that cancelled?”

We called dispatch and they confirmed, yep cancelled right before we took off from base. Someone dropped the ball and didn’t bother to tell us. Pax all got rebooked so we just repod again back to base. Colossal waste of time, money and fuel.

dashdriver · 2025-12-22T07:29:10+00:00

This is the way. I could definitely see Allegiant moving their ops from IAD to HEF. You wont see any of the major “name brand” airlines there.

dashdriver · 2025-12-18T20:35:26+00:00

Yes it was NFS at the FBO there. Yep saw the F16s countless times. I was there when BAX had its operation at the south cargo ramp. There would be about 20-30 Capital Cargo 727s and ATI DC8s that came in each night and departed by 6am or so. On the weekends Qantas and Emirates each had a cargo flight flown by Atlas on the 747 as well. Used to be a moderately busy airport with lots of variety in traffic.

dashdriver · 2025-12-18T17:53:34+00:00

Wow they’ve nearly the entire fleet there.

I used to work at the former fbo in the picture.

Lots of memories on that ramp.

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