bloggs and deptrai: thanks. You guys ''get it". You can , with the use of one word remind everyone that the job ain't over till you're at the right gate with the parking brake set.
Blogg, to be sure, I am glendalegoon as in GLENDALE (CA) and GOON, not glenda.
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K. I encourage you to watch many golf related sitcoms including lucy and perfect strangers. and don't do a mashie.
AS far as playing the airport game. I think you just didn't know you were playing it. There are so many ego related things in the cockpit (laugh when you hear someone say they check their ego at the cockpit door), you probably haven't noticed them.
Rozy1. Even as we speak our airline is taking delivery of more new tech HUD equipped planes. But our earliest HUD equipped planes (MD80) only used HUD for low vis landings. It is all about technology. You would have to be in aviation for quite awhile to see the old HUD devices.