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Use Inflatable Pilots, They're Much Lighter

By Steve Czaban on June 11, 2008 4:14 PM | | Comments (1)

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On the one hand, I feel sorry for the airlines. You can’t make a buck on $140 a barrel oil.

On the other hand, f*** the airlines.

Once I took a flight on Continental from Dulles to Santa Barbara, CA. The plane stopped in Bakersfield (which is Dante’s 5th circle of hell on a GOOD day), hit a rock on the landing, popped a tire, and yada yada yada…. Next thing we know, we’re riding a BUS for 4 hours the rest of the way to Santa Barbara.

Anyway.

The lengths to which the airlines are going now to save fuel by cutting weight onboard is truly amazing. Here’s a blurb from a story about it that makes you wonder, what’s next? Mandatory vomiting by the stewardesses before pushing away from the gate?

Up in the cockpit, Delta is studying whether it is feasible to divide the heavy pilot manuals required on each flight between the captain and first officer, so pilots are not toting duplicate sets.

Eventually, the airline wants to eliminate printed manuals and display the information on computer screens, a step that would require government approval.

REACT: Um, I think one set of manuals is perhaps do-able. But computer based instructions on a Boeing 777? No thanks. I can see it now. “Um, tower, this is the cockpit on FT-ONE-SEVEN-NINER. We need a quick email of the PDF file on this bird, we heard a bump in the back, and don’t quite know where the latch for the thinga-majiggy is.”

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sue_the_330 Author Profile Page - June 11, 2008 6:32 PM

if they get rid of the manuals for "Czabe" voiceovers on the speaker system on all flights, including tips for passengers from "The Czabe" on what too when the flight is going down...

I'm all for it. :-)

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