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Thank you for the acronyms, but it's still missing a lot of info. The forum post is shit-garbage. Can you please rewrite the post and make it readable by a non-
by grarok 13y ago
Thank you for the acronyms, but it's still missing a lot of info. The forum post is shit-garbage. Can you please rewrite the post and make it readable by a non-asshole? UAL, Standards Captain, -400, Asiana, "right seat, left seat", "upgraded by phenomenal growth" - jesus christ what the fuck is this.
- rdl 13y agoIt's not unreasonable that in a forum for airline pilots they use the technical jargon of those airlines to discuss things among themselves. If you want to read something for the mass market, read a mass-market publication. It wasn't much more jargon-filled than your average HN post, just different industry jargon.
- brettnak 13y agoThis should help a little: -400: Likely the 747-400. One of the variants of the 747 UAL: United Airlines Asiana: This is the airline of the plane that crashed at SFO. Right Seat: First Officer / Co-pilot's seat. Left Seat: Captain / Pilot's seat. Standards Captain: Probably means he was one of the people who would have final say in whether or not a pilot was certified to fly a specific aircraft. I believe there are two different standards, one for pilot and one for copilot, but I'm not sure. Upgraded by Phenomenal Growth: The airline grew so fast they didn't have enough pilots so they had to promote copilots to pilots faster than they were probably qualified. *edited to correct information based on the comment below.
- rdl 13y ago-400 is almost certainly a Boeing 747-400, i.e. the model of 747 flown by virtually everyone now. There isn't a 777-400 yet.
- ceejayoz 13y agoPilots would have as much difficulty with stuff like "AWS EBS latency" that gets thrown around here.