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Old 10th Aug 2013, 20:57
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Murexway
 
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"The captain has been with Southwest for almost 13 years and has been a captain for six of those years. The captain has over 12,000 total flight hours, over 7,000 of which are as pilot-in-command. In 737s, the captain has over 7,900 hours, with more than 2,600 as the pilot-in-command."

13 years at Southwest and never had made a landing at LGA? Both times in there as Captain the landing was given to the copilot? Seems rather strange.

I'm now retired, but I had some very nice MD-80 landings at LGA - along with many I'd like to forget After I "touched"down on 31 one morning, my FO asked if he should advise the tower that we had just lowered the field elevation at LGA.......

But you gotta make landings at LGA (and all the other fun spots) if you're ever going to get experience. It's great to give the FO's all the LGA landings, but only if you, yourself, have the experience to begin with.
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