Stev,
You are absolutly right, the DALTA was a god thing to have in mind in the brief, but some Line instr and FO's thought long brief's was safety included non importend things.
I remember ón one of my Line training, i had to do 3 times full brief since the airport changed the rwy 3 times... Had a Young punk instr less than 30 years to deal with compared to my 10000 hours in a boeing. Sorry to say i had enough after one year with Ryan. Many instr, desk pilots, base capt and so on act like stupid idiot like in the GA. Ryan is one big GA in my oppinion..
sorry to hitt the god guys...
Grow up fellow pilots and stick together, dont be selfish, fight Ryan and dont be scared to loss your job - there is no one else out there WHO wants to work for them at all ...