Richard
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Ack...city life
Rudy's question about the FE and the subsequent responses reminded me of this story.
I met a guy who was a FE for an airline. They told him if he were to get his comm they would hire him as FO with a track to Capt. Because he was based out of O'Hare and he was training in CA he was always on the go trying to balance training, work, and family. He had his company's dispatcher plan his flights not because he didn't know how but because he had too many time constraints on his plate.
Ready for the long x/c he hands in his flight plan to his CFI who promptly says this plan is wrong, therefore you're not making your flight today. The CFI said the numbers were all wrong. After she left he and I went over the dispatcher's plan and it checked out, well, no more than a couple decimal points on NM and ETA. I later asked the CFI what exactly was the problem. She said it was because those numbers couldn't have been gotten off an E-6B. She was right but how could she have known they were generated by an airline's proprietary software? Because of his work schedule plus commute times it was 2 weeks before he could schedule another training flight.
My man never could bring himself to let his CFI know just who it was that produced the plan.
I met a guy who was a FE for an airline. They told him if he were to get his comm they would hire him as FO with a track to Capt. Because he was based out of O'Hare and he was training in CA he was always on the go trying to balance training, work, and family. He had his company's dispatcher plan his flights not because he didn't know how but because he had too many time constraints on his plate.
Ready for the long x/c he hands in his flight plan to his CFI who promptly says this plan is wrong, therefore you're not making your flight today. The CFI said the numbers were all wrong. After she left he and I went over the dispatcher's plan and it checked out, well, no more than a couple decimal points on NM and ETA. I later asked the CFI what exactly was the problem. She said it was because those numbers couldn't have been gotten off an E-6B. She was right but how could she have known they were generated by an airline's proprietary software? Because of his work schedule plus commute times it was 2 weeks before he could schedule another training flight.
My man never could bring himself to let his CFI know just who it was that produced the plan.