well good morning everybody welcome to this week's spot all right it's uh pretty early this morning
as you can see it is uh 5 15 in the morning so we've got an early one today uh we're heading
over to chicago we're gonna change planes and then head over to nashville so that's the plan today
all right working on the lighting hopefully this works maybe
we've got the little halloween shadow but anyways hey we've got a kind of a doozy today
we're heading over to chicago like i said this morning and chicago is a mess today so you can see
we've got turbulent spots everywhere we've got if i turn that off we've got a bunch of rain and uh
you know kind of sleet moving in so you know our flight's going to be about three hours to
get up there yeah it's one of those days as a as an airline guy where you earn your money so
uh so yeah anyways that's that's going to be the deal
we just got our clearance that just popped up right now
and uh 8 000 feet dial that in
39 and 3 19 two is departure we got uh two six zero four i'll go ahead and accept that i still
gotta test my uh t-caps we'll run a test on that guy so because the weather is is what it is in uh
chicago we have to have an alternate so they're planning right now to see what that alternate is
we have to have the fuel to carry to that alternate and then additional fuel after
that to go um maybe even to a second alternate depending on how the weather is so they're working
the fuel situation they're working all that they had to take some freight off just because chicago
midway being chicago midway it's not a very long runway and uh landing wait's actually an issue
on this as well if we look at uh the runways down there you know the longest one we have is 64 45.
that ain't real long so uh yeah they got to just be really really careful on the planning on that
so they're working that uh dispatch right now is working in our uh ops agent is working in concert
with our dispatchers and they're coming up with a game plan with weather and all that other good
stuff so like i said today uh it's not gonna be like a nice sunny day flying to san diego
nice and easy um we're gonna be doing a lot of uh a lot of planning a lot of uh contingency planning
on this one so uh we'll let you guys know kind of what the the final plan what is and then uh
we're gonna bring it up and then head on uh the flight down to uh nashville which i absolutely
love nashville it's uh it's a little bit of a mess too um there's just weather everywhere so
we go down to nashville currently it's gonna be extra nasty today
um anyways yeah so we've we've got weather that we're gonna be dealing with all day today
um that's okay about me coffee
and uh i've got a good attitude so we're gonna go ahead and just uh we'll hit it and we'll
do what we can and obviously find it very safe for the customers and our our crew on board but
uh yeah it's gonna take a little bit of planning today so let's get after it all right guys
uh chicago nice and wet actually wasn't too bad we landed on runway three one
uh center so uh it was pretty bumpy coming on in um that one doesn't show it it's starting to break
up a little bit more now but anyways came in on the uh indy arrival a lot of rain we had a hundred
not tailwind at uh 24 000 feet so yeah here you go uh the good thing about this is that freezing line
is right up there so we'd rather have the rain and wet than uh that muckety muck coming down there
if that comes down to chicago expect a mouse so that's kind of latest there now looking for
nashville there's a line that's coming right in right here and it's right over nashville so
they've actually delayed us for a little bit heading to nashville um just for that weather
and you could see that whether that line is quite long it's almost
what by memphis so backside of that probably plan to head in after that but um yeah so far uh it's
it's just gonna be rain we'll take the rain uh 258 and uh 243 is the flight time today
then i'm gonna head to the lounge i have some food so we'll warm that up but anyways our cruise kind
of bomb bursting out of here uh flight attendants are heading to houston and uh we're gonna head to
uh nashville but first we're going to head to the lounge and warm some food up and
have something to eat because we're going to have a little bit of time
just like that we're back uh it's still raining it will continue to rain for uh foreseeable future
anyways uh we are heading to uh nashville that line of weather moved just moved through
the airport so it's a good sign we're on the back side of it just a bunch of rain
looks like uh gusty winds though right backside two miles and they're calling overcast at 17.
man when i did this trip i thought oh nashville nashville is a great overnight and i thought oh
yeah you know get down go over downtown it's a great hotel the weather is not going to cooperate
but it is what it is uh only an hour and four minutes on the way down there uh we do have an
alternate of louisville here's what the uh clearance looks like got midway six uh then
it's filed three thousand feet thirty two and ten twenty eight two and then uh six
two six four so basically c eight is for push frequency if there is one frequency may change
we keep that up we got three thousand set right there and then up to 33 000 feet
ultimately yeah it is uh not a nice day out there it is not going to be a nice day in nashville
all right guys we are here in asheville it's about the same just not
actively raining so uh only an hour 16 block hour before flight time out of here so
it's a real quick flight a little bit of turbulence uh pretty much the whole way
as we expected but um yeah that weather blew out and the back side of it kind of calmed down so
we got lucky on that um i'm gonna go ahead and clean up we're heading out heading to
the uh hotel should be a nice hotel downtown nashville so i'll uh i'll show you guys that
all right not too bad corner uh corner pocket downtown nashville they've been in nashville in
a little bit so it'd be kind of nice unfortunately as you can tell the weather is is not very good
actually pretty dreadful so uh but
staying positive at least it's not snowing so that's good but all right guys uh we have an
early show tomorrow um it is like two o'clock right now so i'm gonna get a quick workout in
and then uh head down to the gym and then uh just kind of relax the rest of the evening catch
up on a few phone calls and then hit it bright and early we got a 4 25 uh show tomorrow which
is 3 25 phoenix time which i don't even want to think about what time i had to wake up so
all right guys we'll see you in the morning good morning hey it's uh it is pretty early so show
time's 4 25 i showed down uh here i like to go about five minutes early 4 20 it's 3 20 back home
yeah two something wake up early really but man i have to show you guys this hotel
this is just absolutely fantastic piano real piano
real good uh restaurant right back there called ellis oh anyways let's see uh hyatt centric
if you're here in nashville man let's see uh this place oh all right well i guess it's
time to go let's get it it's gonna be dark most likely kind of dark when we arrive into
houston but not too cold the best thing is there's no snow but let me show you something about dallas
kind of thinking uh more big picture um here's what's going on in dallas
right now so that's gonna affect some of our flying today and if we pan out
you know this being the last day of the trip you got to see where the weather is at so the
weather's in dallas got some weather i just hit in baltimore fish area washington area so you know
a little bit of weather on the west coast wow i really didn't even think that um and moving into
phoenix a little bit later thinking about doing the uh doing a little bit of flying this weekend
maybe taking the green horn into lake havasu and getting some breakfast with some buddies
but uh let's take a look at what the weather's like
all right guys uh again an hour and 53 minutes all the way down to houston we'll see you there
let's do it all right guys we have just arrived hey it's uh it is morning the sun's just barely
coming up it's always nice because uh oh not nice to see when you show up and the guys are just
doing an originating pre-flight on the airplane next door that means you showed really early
for this one hey shout out to the houston controllers man they are awesome
uh here was our root of flight that you guys saw down but let me show you the approach
on the star we basically they vectored us off and went uh basically right over the field right over
the field at 250 knots and then slowed us way down to 210 and then you know have to give kudos
to the captain too made this whole thing work so we basically just did this teardrop right in
uh super fast we got in 20 minutes early um we still haven't uh gates just now pulling up but
uh times haven't times haven't come through yet but uh yeah it was i don't
think you could be more efficient on this uh approaching landing so really awesome job
uh to those controllers and to the pilot flying got to give the kudos to the pilot
uh anyways we landed we got off charlie our gates right here i mean
it was just a wonderful thing so unfortunately now we got to get out of this airplane and i think
we're still going to a max is that right yes still going to the max for the last leg home my leg
which will be awesome so uh that's it yeah we'll go grab some more coffee that's not a max oh yeah
plane swap again so uh was planned on taking a max over to uh phoenix but they swapped that airplane
out i got to be honest i was looking forward to flying to max on the way home that's all good
we get to fly this beautiful lovely airplane heading back so just getting to it right now
so go ahead and start it up but i did want to say man on the hiring front man hiring is going pretty
crazy right now i think if you're out there and uh you're at the regionals right now um pic time
which used to be a really big thing in the past has really gone down so seeing a lot of people uh
getting in with a lot lower pilot and command time some captain time had a 121 carrier or a part 135
company so that's uh that's good news for you guys out there uh really hustling and building that
flight time so keep it up i think uh things are they're gonna change even more so um that offers
a little bit of motivation for you just keep flying right stay humble stay hungry keep flying
always do that um but anyways yeah i'm gonna go get this airplane ready uh oh yeah some water
here's the uh galley i think i showed you guys this before but uh it's a 737 800 we've got uh
two over wing exits back there and the galley's different so that's kind of kind of deal up front
it's about the same for us everything is uh very very similar except this panel
right here we've got actually three zones that we can cover and we've got trim air so
on 800 that's pretty much the main difference that other than that this reason why we have the
same type rating to fly this airplane in 800 it's very very similar anyways uh yeah i'm gonna grab
the paperwork uh i got to the airplane a little bit early it just came in uh we're not scheduled
out of here for like another hour so i'm gonna get the airplane ready uh do a walk around on
it and then we just got one more leg to phoenix we get in early like 11 o'clock in the morning
but that's only because i woke up phoenix time 2 30 in the morning yeah that hurt anyways i
did get plenty of sleep last night i went to bed early and and uh you know getting a good
workout before you go to bed kind of helps me so i don't know maybe it helps you maybe it keeps
you up all night i don't know anyways see you in a little bit all right guys we're here wow
actually i had to do a go around on that um the weather is uh kind of crazy out there but
it's a bunch of rain showers uh cells that are moving over and we're moving over the field and
unfortunately uh they have to space our runway two six we were on two uh five left and there
was a heavy airbus on two six so they didn't like the spacing on that i had to send us around we're
about uh 3000 feet so it wasn't a big deal went around um for that right back into the weather
uh into some of these cells that were out there uh that's over the field right now
and uh oh yeah it was fun back to the downwind and did it again
where it was uh constantly bumpy um would you say maybe a moderate bump in there yeah
yeah it was bumpy so anyways uh yeah phoenix we brought the weather with us um
yeah check it out max but anyways that was the deal uh we're gonna clean up everything
uh hand this airplane off to the next crew and then uh we're done so uh let's clean it up and
i'll talk to you guys here in a second not a good day in phoenix not chamber of commerce weather but
anyways guys hey i appreciate you guys watching thank you to everybody that watches and write
comments i i appreciate that i know i've been a little bit uh a little bit missing on my uh
responses to the comments i read every single one of them but uh i've got something really excited
working in the mix and it's taken a lot of my time but uh i do appreciate you guys thank you uh yeah
today was pretty interesting uh doing the go around one thing i will say that made me really uh
a little loud all right that's a little bit better a little bit quieter in here
uh yeah one thing i will say is geez man i i honestly wasn't ready for that uh that go around
um you know you're always supposed to be ready house i was focused on the weight turbulence
honestly from the uh from the other airplane so uh when they said to go around i uh i kind of
fumbled my procedure there for a second but good thing you know fun with a good captain he kind
of got me back on track i was getting into the yellow as we used to say uh or as we say here at
southwest on in our training and uh he brought me right back to the green uh where we were able to
get the uh go around get the procedures right there's a certain sequence of events that we
do uh on the procedures and uh i was a little slow at that because weather uh heavy airbus
weight turbulence all that good stuff and then atc directed go around uh i was kind of compressed
there so hey you know take that learn from it i'll be ready next time and every single other time
that i go in a constant deal where you're learning all the time so anyways i give that uh offer up as
uh advice to you you're gonna you're gonna mess it up doesn't matter you know i've got what you
know 12 13 000 hours now um yeah i messed that one up so i'll learn from it and uh you know i'll move
on so anyways uh kind of rambling on now but uh anyways guys i really do appreciate it again thank
you again for leaving comments and writing i read every single one of them i may not be able to get
back to them right away we've got some exciting things going on i'm going to share with you guys
probably here in the next month or so it is taking up a lot of my time but um again i
appreciate every single one of you guys thanks for all your support and uh we'll see you next week
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