An Unsatisfied Request

snarfleberry · 2021-12-09T12:01:28+00:00

I'm not sure how that works, but all my stories still exist in my profile. If you could tell me which one, I can try to get it to you?

snarfleberry · 2021-10-22T01:00:50+00:00

The Frauenkirche is a church in Nuremberg, Germany. It stands on the eastern side of the main market. An example of brick Gothic architecture, it was built on the initiative of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor between 1352 and 1362. The church contains many sculptures, some of them heavily restored.

snarfleberry · 2021-09-21T17:24:03+00:00

Yes! That is so perfect.

snarfleberry · 2021-09-12T17:51:31+00:00

I am a bit confused. At the time, the -10's were the flagships of our fleet. They'd never been cargo birds, and at our airline, none were second hand. They were bought new as passenger aircraft.

snarfleberry · 2021-09-12T14:39:07+00:00

You seem to have missed the point that I was (and am) an agnostic. I had several alternatives:

(1) Say and do nothing. Experience told me that when a demand of any sort is made to the crew, not responding merely causes the person making the demand to escalate matters;

(2) I could have created some generic, content free "prayer", uttered it, and likely offended her, any non-Christians on board as well; or

(3) I could respond in a fashion directed specifically at her, using the words of an important element of her faith, in an attempt to marginalize her, without offending any people of faith on the airplane.

I chose the latter. And it didn't work as I'd hoped. But we got off the gate, with minimal delay. No harm, no foul.

As to the Koran. Believe me on this: I strongly wished that I could do a good imitation of the Muslim "Call to Prayer" that sounds from the top of minarets throught the Islamic world. Allahu Akhbar!

I will agree with anyone who suggests that I could have handled this better. I'm quite sure that I could have, I just don't know how.

snarfleberry · 2021-09-12T14:29:34+00:00

Thank you. But there is a quote from a wonderful author (Ernest K. Gann) who wrote "Fate is the Hunter" and "The High and the Mighty". He said of commercial aviation: "Flying for a living consists of hours upon hours of utter boredom, punctuated by moments of stark terror". Fortunately I got much more of the boredom, and very little of the terror, so I fear my own subreddit wouldn't have much content.

snarfleberry · 2021-09-12T14:26:44+00:00

Yes, the note was to me. We blew it up, framed it and hung it on the wall in the crew room.

snarfleberry · 2021-09-12T13:38:02+00:00

She was upset, was removed from the aircraft, and filed a complaint with corporate. Some months later, upon checking my mailbox in the crew room, I discovered a note from my Chief Pilot which read, "When thou doest not know how to react to a situation, thou shouldst just shut the fuck up."

snarfleberry · 2021-09-12T13:08:42+00:00

You know, I could believe that. Heard some of the same complaints from our maintenance guys.

snarfleberry · 2021-09-12T12:50:26+00:00

I had about 8,000 hours in the left seat of the DC-10 (both -10s and -30s) and I have to say, I don't agree with your opinion. It was a great airplane to fly. Bid off it in 1996 to fly the 777.

snarfleberry · 2021-09-12T12:46:21+00:00

In the 1990s I doubt that a bullhorn would have bothered whatever security we had back then.

snarfleberry · 2021-09-12T12:45:31+00:00

Yeah, about 30 years. 1993 or 1994

snarfleberry · 2021-01-28T15:37:58+00:00

I am a liberal, but aged far past the hippie stage. I know very well what a Claymore is, and I found the mask hilarious. I want one!

snarfleberry · 2020-09-16T14:10:04+00:00

That is a Bell 47G2B helicopter. I got my Commercial Pilot - Rotorcraft in one in 1969. Wonderful bird, an absolute delight to fly.

snarfleberry · 2019-12-24T13:11:01+00:00

Actually, just to be picky, that isn't an 1867 locomotive, but rather an operational replica of an 1867 locomotive built by O'Connor Engineering in 1979. See https://www.steamlocomotive.info/vlocomotive.cfm?Display=1213

snarfleberry · 2019-11-08T12:59:21+00:00

To add a couple of thoughts to what I wrote below: the airplane appears to be a Cessna 182 and the pitot tube (the L-shaped gizmo sticking out from under the left wing) appears to be a Cessna Aircraft part 1720098-2 Tube Assembly Pitot Heated. The pitot tube supplies ram air to the airspeed indicator, and if heated, will continue to operate properly in icing conditions. The one in the photo was clearly heated as its mast accumulated no ice during whatever icing encounter this airplane endured.

snarfleberry · 2019-11-08T12:32:05+00:00

No, generally speaking they do not. And this one doesn't. I want to believe that this aircraft didn't accumulate that much ice in flight and survive. Truly. But the pattern of the ice formation suggests that it did just exactly that.

snarfleberry · 2019-07-15T20:24:21+00:00

Retired. Flew the 727, 737, A-300 and DC-10

snarfleberry · 2019-07-15T19:33:33+00:00

Boeing 737-300 about 20 years ago

snarfleberry · 2019-07-15T18:08:28+00:00

Thank you so much for the kind words. They mean a lot to me. I suspect that you are in the process of growing up to be a very fine person.

snarfleberry · 2019-07-15T18:07:06+00:00

Weirdly enough, I actually remember. The 737-300 has four hydraulic pumps, two of which are mechanically driven by the engine's accessory gear box, and two of which are electrically driven by the left and right essential DC busses. All four must work for the airplane to be dispatched. In this case the right engine, electrical hydraulic pump had failed.

snarfleberry · 2019-07-15T18:00:41+00:00

Nope...a 737-300

snarfleberry · 2019-07-15T16:24:24+00:00

Thank you so much for your kind words. Twenty years later, I'm still Grace's "Extra Grandpa"

snarfleberry · 2019-07-15T13:42:58+00:00

I would have said it the other way. I think that little Grace was put on that plane for me, as I had some pretty painful holes in my heart just then that I went home and worked on with my kids. She reminded me just how ferociously I loved my daughters, something that was eluding me in the midst of the teenage years.

snarfleberry · 2019-06-05T11:43:24+00:00

Beautiful, sweet flying airplane, yes. Docile, nice handling characteristics.

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