American Airlines Virtual

Congratulations to Ronald Schoening who has been promoted and become the latest DFW Second Officer. He now gets to fly the "taco rockets" as Bert so affectionately refers to them. Keep up the good work Ronald.

Congrats on your 2,000 hrs. Harold. I knew all that age you have would be worth something someday. Good job.

Now that's a great shot Wayne.

It appears that he came in a little fast based on the flaps. He didn't deploy a lot of flaps which indicates to me he was above the additional flap speeds.

Happy B'day Bert. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.....did I say that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DFW has a new First Officer. Oups Mitosa joins us with prior VA experience. Welcome Oups.

Congratulations to Peter Holcroft who passed his checkride and is promoted to Second Officer. He now gets to go fast and fly around with his hair on fire (just kidding).

Good job Peter.

It appears to be the same thing MS is doing with their other applications - they are taking them to "the cloud" (and that's the network cloud and not flight clouds). MS is heavily pushing networked (or cloud based) applications and it seems no different for Flight sim. Simply a hosted ver...

Richard, I understand what you are saying, there have been times when I took longer than I anticipated (usually do to RW issues) to perfect and record a checkride. However, in those cases it is very easy to quickly generate a two leg bid (usually short flights) that you can quickly fly until you com...

Harold - it's obvious who needs reminders since you can't remember to sign your own name :lol: :lol: Bert - You are starting to show signs of Alzheimer's. The story was about Orville Redenbacher popcorn, NOT Orville Wright. Maybe you should look into some meds. :mrgreen: :lol: :lol: Oh, by the way, ...

Congratulations to Thomas Pryor who just achieved the rank of First Officer. Keep up the good work Thomas.

Congratulations to Enrique Campos who has successfully completed his checkride and is promoted to Second Officer. He gets the keys to a slightly used ERJ and joins the ranks of the go-fast crew.

Was planning on flying with you guys but just when I was about to sit down for the flight my son came over. I checked a little later and saw it was only Harold and Wayne, and they were too far out for me to catch up. Guess I will fly this one on Sunday.

DFW has yet another pilot that has joined the "fast mover" ranks. Eli Viater has been promoted to Second Officer and will now add the regional jets to his flying repertoire. Congratulations Eli, have fun going faster.

Did a little reading in one of my books today about this. I'm not entirely sure this is the right answer as to why this happens, but it makes sense to me. The J-41 has pneumatic de-icing boots. These boots are operated by an engine-driven air pump that inflates the boots. The added load of operatin...