Preflight briefing
Jul 23, 2016 | 12:11 am
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Preflight briefing
I'm on DL913 DTW-SEA and the captain came out to the F cabin to give a little briefing to us. He covered the taxi, takeoff, flight path, arrival, and weather along the way. He had his Surface tablet with the flight plan mapped out and went down the aisle showing it to whoever wanted.
I had not experienced that before and it was kind of fun.
I had not experienced that before and it was kind of fun.
Jul 23, 2016 | 2:25 am
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as a longtime airline/airplane geek and a former flight test engineer for Boeing, I'm all for that kind of information and interaction, but I'm probably in the minority among DL FTers
Jul 23, 2016 | 6:41 am
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I'm on DL913 DTW-SEA and the captain came out to the F cabin to give a little briefing to us. He covered the taxi, takeoff, flight path, arrival, and weather along the way. He had his Surface tablet with the flight plan mapped out and went down the aisle showing it to whoever wanted.
I had not experienced that before and it was kind of fun.
I had not experienced that before and it was kind of fun.
Jul 23, 2016 | 7:02 am
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Don't know if it was trademarked or not but in 1987 Delta introduced the slogan "we love to fly and it shows." http://www.delta.com/content/www/en_...s-slogans.html and this
Jul 23, 2016 | 9:07 am
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A nice little touch that makes the people up front feel that much more special than everybody else
Jul 23, 2016 | 10:01 am
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Once I was on a flight that was delayed waiting for the Captain to arrive from his connecting flight. I went up to use the lav and peeked in the cockpit, whereupon the First Officer invited me to come in and gave me a little briefing on our flight plan and which runway we were going to use, etc. Very cool!
Jul 23, 2016 | 11:55 am
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Don't know if it was trademarked or not but in 1987 Delta introduced the slogan "we love to fly and it shows." http://www.delta.com/content/www/en_...s-slogans.html and this Delta - We Love to Fly and it Shows - 1987 - YouTube
Jul 23, 2016 | 9:38 pm
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I'm on DL913 DTW-SEA and the captain came out to the F cabin to give a little briefing to us. He covered the taxi, takeoff, flight path, arrival, and weather along the way. He had his Surface tablet with the flight plan mapped out and went down the aisle showing it to whoever wanted.
I had not experienced that before and it was kind of fun.
I had not experienced that before and it was kind of fun.
Jul 24, 2016 | 5:49 am
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Not recently, but I remember easily over a decade ago when Song was still flying, I flew on a flight from PBI to LGA. Because of a long weather delay, the Captain came into the gate area and gave a speech about flight plan, runway use, etc. and continued that in the air (specifically referencing that we would be flying the Expressway Visual for Runway 31 at LGA). Haven't seen that much lately on Delta. I had a JetBlue Captain who did that because weather along the normal route of flight meant we were flying a longer routing that was not common for that route.
Jul 24, 2016 | 7:26 am
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It could have been the same pilot, he's Seattle based and did mention being a former military aviator. If it narrows it down, I was on a 757. Not that Delta doesn't have thousands of 757 rated ex-military pilots.