good morning everybody look at we are in uh oklahoma city the new terminal looks uh
pretty awesome but anyways you guys watching this probably uh christmas so merry christmas
to everybody out there hope you guys are having the day off and spending with friends and family
of course uh today is uh day two of a three day i figured i'd highlight today just because it's out
of my uh my normal comfort zone right i'm a west coast flyer and uh we're going from oklahoma city
to atlanta today atlanta to laguardia and then laguardia to st louis which st louis isn't bad
atlanta laguardia not two of my favorite places to go but it is what it is so let me show you what's
going on first off with the clearance uh we had to get it pdc so that's kind of not the old old
school way but a little bit of an old-school way so uh it's a proposed time 39's our final
all right so final three fara fort smith meridian oh my goodness so that's our clearance out of
there so take a look at this funnel three fair smith memphis hutch yep so they're all pretty
much uh cleared as filed so again we'll brief up our flight attendants let them know what's
kind of going on over there the weather over there is not great so expect to sit them down
a little bit early um and then so this is what we got it's called the sip pages don't ask me
what that stands for but it's kind of like the military where we have an acronym that means
something but we don't know what the acronym is that's kind of kind of the same thing now
but anyways uh our sit pages basically show us all the information uh about the airport that
we're going to as far as arrival gates you know frequencies all that stuff and there's general
text down here that tells us you know information on arrival taxi and taxi out all that good stuff
so um land and hold short operation so that's some of the things that i'll review prior to getting
there um just to make sure that you know we have a good plan in our head ramp frequencies all that
good stuff we got a good plan going to the gate because last thing you want to do is land and go
i'm not sure where we're going so uh yeah we'll brief it up come up with a good plan game plan
and uh head on over there uh what i'm thinking right now as far as atlanta goes with the weather
um especially out of here we've got a little bit of frost on the wings uh it is freezing outside so
we're gonna push back we'll get de-iced and then we'll carry on uh over the runway take off it's
uh hour 33 minutes over to atlanta review this um plan on a wet runway on the way down there so i'm
already thinking you know auto brakes you know slim taxi to the gate and just kind of taking
it slow because it's probably going to be busy in atlanta it's the tuesday so the week of christmas
holiday for people people are out there traveling so go to take it nice and slow and make sure that
we do things pretty soon so anyways that's uh that's the first leg uh going over to
atlanta i'll see you in atlanta i'll debrief you on how i did it actually how we did it
real quick what happens when we de-ice well that guy right there is going to come over
and spray our wings and our tail to remove all the ice now if it was snowing outside
he would not only spray uh the deice but he would also put anti-ice on there what anti-ice
is is basically uh raises the freezing point of the wings on that fluid so it doesn't freeze
to our wings um it's not sewn outside right now no visible precip so we don't need that
um our procedure is here is we have a tis ais procedures card so we can follow this it'll
basically walk us through all the various steps of getting the airplane ready communicating with our
the ice also known as iceman and then running our remainder of our our checklist prior to departure
so what that does is make sure that the airplane is ready to go it's all clean of ice and debris
de-iced if we need or anti-iced if we need it and then we run checklist to put all the switches back
in the proper position prior to takeoff so some other things like uh bleeds we'll turn the bleeds
off throw the packs off um just to so we're not sucking in fumes from the uh de-icing fluid
you know parker breaks all that good stuff um we could either be engines on our engines off in
this case we'll be engines off we'll just push us back before we start we'll communicate with them
knock off all the uh frost on us and then uh we'll start the engines and run off and head get going
so that's uh that's what's happening when you guys are back there you guys here to see this big truck
spraying everything down and if it's snowing outside you'll see them spray uh some dia or
anti-ice fluid on there once they knock off all the ice and uh that guy in the bucket
out there that's a it's a very cold job when it's not enclosed uh you'll see in boston and
some of the really cold areas there they've got an enclosed uh truck so it protects those guys a
little bit more but yeah the guy sitting in that little bucket spraying down looks like a fireman
and uh making sure that the airplane's free of frost and snow and all that good stuff so
anyways that is uh kind of what we do for de-icing and uh yeah again see you in atlanta all right
guys we are here here's atlanta uh kind of over cassie day it's actually not a bad day coming in
uh getting out looks like it's a little bit busy but uh controllers are awesome here really awesome
got us in uh we stayed fast which we like to do and uh yeah so it's good anyways we're gonna
clean up this airplane head on out to uh the next airplane and head over to laguardia so that's it
all right guys we were here we actually made it look at uh one of our companies
pushing back right now it's a new terminal here laguardia that's been new for a little bit but
um yeah the approach was a little wild they actually forgot about us so we were supposed
to be at 1900 i think they left us at 3 000 so captain had to do his magic which he did and we
got down to the ground a little bit congested coming in um yeah they've got these special
rooting to get in here but uh anyways let's show you the arrival uh this is the arrival here the
quarry four they broke us off right around uh robbinsville we went straight to the airport
which we're supposed to do this and again they cut us they cut us loose we're supposed to be in 1900
at greco uh we were we were 3 000 just uh beyond greco so a little bit of hayaka but we got down
uh cleared off on charlie on in they've got uh holding short a kilo contact ramp and then once we
got cleared in there we went uh lane number nine to gate number 57 and that's where we ended up so
all right we got in now it's time to get out and get to uh st louis for her overnight it is
taco tuesday because today is tuesday so we're looking forward to some taco tuesday all right
i'll show you uh i'll show you our clearance out of here hopefully we'll get out of here on skates
all right guys we're here um it actually wasn't a bad day in uh laguardia getting out we got in easy
got out easy so hey we'll chalk that up as a win uh if the weather is down that's when it typically
gets pretty pretty bad and long lines can take off but also probably just covet era just not having a
lot of passengers right now even though passenger accounts are coming back up uh it wasn't uh
it wasn't busy so here's what it looked like we got a couple of directs out there
but um came in on the arches arrival there at a brickyard and then we did the ils to 3-0 right
taxied on into uh lima they came into gate 4 which is what you see up there
so nice day in uh st louis company coming in to the other gate
and that's it done for the day it's the end of day two this was kind of the hard day of what we
were looking at but it actually wasn't bad at all so we're gonna clean up here get the airplane put
away and uh ready for the next room and then we're gonna go to the hotel and we're done
all right guys well i hope you enjoyed that video um you know this quick one showing
you kind of one day out of a three-day trip that is unusual because you know me i like
to fly the west coast um so anyways it is uh a nice day today it's actually two days later
and i am back at the airport so i'm gonna do some more filming but for now i hope you guys
enjoy your christmas holiday um happy holidays everybody merry christmas go out and enjoy it
with your family your friends and we'll see you on another video next week for the new
growing year going up get it down