Hello!
 

x x

Uhhh...hello...I guess. :confused:

Those who live in glass houses. . .
 

Great -

Here's the first thing you should correct:

Learn how to use an informative title on a thread.

:cool: Hello. As you know, when an elevator is down, the flight attendants have gone to get more food, right?

Okay! Like perhaps "greetings" or "how do you do?"

- since my post was an attempt to say "hello", I'm not sure how much more descriptive I could have been.

By the way, when jet engines reverse, the fan blades do not suddenly stop and then reverse direction. A common misconception among your ranks!

Only if we're talking about an L-1011! :)

Oh my, I cannot wait :rolleyes:
Can you share with us the credentials you possess that will ensure some of our posts are not full of speculative conjecture or uninformed nonsense.

So your post is in error and needs correction. "When jet engines reverse" is inherently false. Jet engines don't reverse, thrust reversers deploy to redirect the thrust forward.

Howdy,
 

Good luck on your journey... you've got quite a piece of rhubarb pie on your plate! :)

Be sure to lay down the law when people get the 75X/FC/BF nomenclature jambalayaed. Twice within the past two years have panics been started by such a simple misunderstanding.

Well deploy is such a strong word. I would recommend not using it. Deploy troops, not reversers.

Sorry, how about flip the little switch thingies so the reversers become active

I would suggest an intro title of:

"Lurker - I will be correcting any mistakes made by uninformed posters"

Hello sort of begs the question.

I welcome your input and corrections. I assume that CO has tasked you with doing this job. It is in the interest of all that accurate information is posted as lots of people read these threads. I would say that this board is generally not abused and that most information is accurate by the regular posters.

I'd place good money [and I'm not a gambling man] that we have just been introduced to someone's split personality... :mad:

[Nothing Lithium or Abilify can't fix I'm sure...]

-Vincent

No I'm afraid that wont work either.

Reverse the engines is perfectly acceptable - as long as you know the internal workings of the engine do not literally reverse direction. If you start saying "deploy" when talking about flaps, speedbrakes, or buckets, you start to sound like someone on Airliners.net!

We "raise/lower/set" flaps
We "open" ,"close", or "arm" speedbrakes or spoilers

Wow! This is a rewarding endeavour already!!! :D

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I feel the love for the CO/NW alliance here....

-Vincent

Yeah, that was my first guess too.

Thanks, is you real name Cliff Claven? ^

I don't think Continental would ever place an offical lurker that communicated. It doesnt seem thier style.

-Vincent

This on the other hand, needs no correction, targeting seems to be a very apt description.

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Unasailable Authority????
 

Such posturing is a prelude to a good a$$ kicking.

**Grabs popcorn and a beer; sits down to watch the show.**

I did not suggest that you were a CO employee, but that you were hired by CO as a consultant. If not the case, then you must work for Boeing. You have to have some credentials, otherwise your posts will be viewed as someone off the wall and then less credible than the general posters.

Correct me if I'm wrong.
 

Just what we need, somebody who thinks he/she/it's smarter then we think we are. :rolleyes:

LOL Continental would expend that?

-Vincent

I have a question:
 

I've heard that the ERJs don't quite live up to what was promised (e.g. IIRC the ERJ 145XR was designed to fly ~1,600 miles but in reality only goes ~1,400). Is this true - and if so - what has been the reaction from Embrear (sp?) and CO?

Isnt that all of us ? :D

-Vincent

The 145XR?

I have never heard that. I know that there were some weight issues w/ ER aircraft, but that is all.

But would you really want to be on an ERJ for that additional 200 miles? :cool:

Hmmm....what about the DC-10?

"Hello" what?

OOOHHHH. :rolleyes:

Well if this is evidence of your technical insight, we should have quite an entertaining future!

Oh boy!...

After reading through this thread I am all but busting a gut with anticipation on how this will play out. The CO forum has been peaceful for far too long :rolleyes:

You might try staryting out by earning people's trust instead of just thinking its granted. you know the odl fasioned way earn it.

People earn their reputations on these boards by:

---Really knowing what they talking about
---Adding thoughtfully to the debate
---Having a great senses of humor

and one tha really applies to you...

---not being to full of themselves.

Good luck you are off to a rocky start on all counts

Airplanes fly and cars don't
 

2+2 = pi Sqroot(2+N)

When you can give us the value N, you may correct us. :D

Uhh, then what does this have to do with CO or flyertalk? Since the purpose of flyertalk is to talk about frequent flier programs and the CO board is to talk about it's frequent flier program and it's policies, and this thread is about neither, I suggest this thread be locked or better yet, deleted.

Please go back to airliners.net where you belong... there's a lot of kiddies on there that need guidance.

N=-.377

Oh, I hope not. This is the most entertainment I've had in about two weeks.

This used to be such a friendly place... Yaw this.
 

So it's us vs. them? Mr./Ms. correction vs. the world? How about a little "we" action here?? This used to be such a friendly place. "We" can all learn stuff (physics, calculus, aeronautical engineering., etc.), but it is much less well received from a teacher with a bad attitude (altitude? pitch?).

to Hell with pi, my question to "correction" is
 

what happened to the Doritos?

Question for the OP
 

I have a question for the OP, regarding fuel consumption. Take whatever airframe/engine you are familiar with (an A320 would be good), flying a routine flight plan on, say, a 600 nm flight between uncongested airports. Then, what's the total fuel consumption, if that flight is full (say, 200 lbs per passenger in body/carry-on/baggage weight), vs the total fuel consumption flying dead-head? That is, the only variable is passenger load.