Originally Posted by
taffyhammer
Don't American Airlines have a "Notice to crew" in their tech log? Should be entered in there if the aircraft was ETOPS capable!
To answer your question, yes they do! BIG ETOPS sticker on the tech log and nose gear doors. At the same time I have to object to the OP statement that AA dispatched a non-ETOPS A321 to Hawai'i, they actually dispatched
two! Within two days.
It was right around the USAirways/AA merger when the AA/DFW training department wouldn't take any input from "them inferior USAir folks", who actually had the 320 for almost twenty years at the time. When the 321 ETOPS model was introduced, senior USAir staff raised concern about the suggested ETOPS verification/check. This was brushed aside by the SUPERIOR AA masters, only to find out shortly after that their suggested method did not work. Instead of admitting their method was not foolproof, they told the FAA that this was a once-in-a-lifetime error due to new a/c (sub) type etc. What a shame that the very next day the same thing happened! The FAA then demanded the superior AA folks to adapt the suggestion brought by USAirways. Guess what happened ever since? Nothing! No incident, it worked. It just was not the method that Legacy AA introduced. The nerve!
Everything at AA is about AArogance. From the good old times crews walked "through these doors" in GSW, to the AA pilots union APA which sets records in giving away benefits and perks (because they weren't invented here), and bombard their members with long, convoluted emails how unfair life is etc. A senior check airman last year asked in a check airmen meeting why A320 procedures differ so much from the Airbus FCOM, only to be told by DH that "this is American Airlines". The only airline I assume that introduces "woke" procedures to their crews: fly Airbus the Boeing way and Boeing the Airbus way to satisfy "fleet harmonization". This urges me to ask pesky questions during my yearly recurrent training, but I don't ever want to send out CVs again, so I try to keep quiet, but I will wear my green lanyard!