all right guys that is the airplane we are going to take today over to houston and uh we are doing
a maintenance run on this airplane actually we're dropping it off to a maintenance facility
over there in houston and then we're going to grab a deadhead and fly back over to phoenix so
uh that's what's going on today we just deadheaded in from phoenix to here it was you know average
actually it's very overcast outside right now but yep that's the mission for today all we need is uh
ops agent so once we get someone to let us in we can actually take it right away
there's no uh there's no waiting we don't have to wait for anything we can just grab our stuff
we have our dispatch release and everything we just go because we have 36 minutes to catch our
deadhead on the way home so and as you can tell i'm not in my uniform today i'm in my maintenance
oh it's sealed all right right now we got the uh airplane that sealed security deal
just to make sure there's no funny business on the airplane before we get to it no funny
business right that's it all right guys hey we're back hey empty airplane where did everybody go
again taking it over to houston just getting it in powering it up right now everything going
do that for the walk around
got all our paperwork here just one to houston let's see that take us uh three hours and seven
minutes so uh yeah three hours seven minutes altitude 41 000 feet so we're going to put that
in there and landing is 46 feet so we'll put 50 feet in there that's good wrong right mission we
did hear uh today that uh some of the some of our data stuff is down actually it looks like
the flight plan request came in but there might be some issues with our weight and balance uh getting
that electronically but we have backups to that so all right we got atc clearance there but uh
let's see what we got in here first all right 117 and it's good information alpha six miles missed
a few at uh zero that's pretty awesome twelve hundred broken overcast of fourteen hundred it's
like uh 57 degrees out there and uh three triple zero didn't put that in three triple zero and 1062
that's a thousand feet above the airport elevation uh when our stuff happens so all right that's uh
that's what that looks like let's put that in here three triple zero departing runway three
zero left there's a note um okay so five five five so that runway condition of five five five
just basically means that they're predicting the runway to be wet right now or the runway condition
currently is wet so that's what we'll use we'll actually put that in when we do our uh performance
weight and balance we'll put uh number five in there clear techy3 lotion that has filed
take your three lotion and then as well to fly filed route is boyle q4 el paso fort stockton
and uh san antonio for the bellar four so boyle el paso fort stockton san antonio
and then the bellar floor arrival so those two match uh we'll double check it in our ipad as
well and uh once the captain gets in and gets all settled and gets his stuff up and runs his flow
uh we'll review the entire process uh or our uh filed root clearance limits all that good stuff uh
we got squawk of three six one six so that we're gonna test out the uh t-cast just to make sure
it's good actually i can't do that yet because we haven't uh we haven't got spooled up yet but
check all the liquids get good quantity oils or cash system tests fail
and we've got the oil or the oxygen you can see that up there too so fluid checks good you know
you heard the tcas fail it's just because none of our avionics are up yet so um we're too quick
we're too quick but we're gonna get the rest of the stuff going um and get ready to go out
of here we we're actually a lot faster than we could be because we have no passengers on board
so we're we're moving pretty quick but uh mission the goal right now is to get to houston
then the goal after that is to get home all right guys we uh we just kind of went over
the maintenance write-up um on the airplane and the reason why we're taking it to houston is
because it has a laboratory uh issue where they can't basically clear the lab so the labs are
in op right now so obviously you can't operate a passenger airline with a bunch of people in the
back with no laboratories for any extended period of time so that's why we're taking the airplane
over to get it serviced over there at houston the only problem is it is a three-hour flight
yeah it's going to be like being in the sears so uh for one of those long extended flights so
uh it's gonna be interesting and uh but you know again nothing uh nothing wrong with the airplane
as far as flyability it's just gotta go three hours without using the world here we go we'll
do that test again everything is up so it should test good here we've got the tcas symbols up
that's why it's not being tcash system test okay so we're pretty excited about that all right
there you go system test good uh this stuff is up we're getting our final paperwork all
done we just uh finished getting everything ready there was one uh issue that we're having
today that we have to do uh our backup apps if you notice here it looks exactly like an
fms here so we're gonna have to do our performance weight and balance on here and get uh our flight
uh data this way so one of the things we have to do if we have an issue with
uh connectability or anything like that so got audible right ever popular audible so we're gonna
get that done uh it is gonna take a little bit more time so i'm going to concentrate my efforts
on that and then our goal is to get out of here and we have 36 minutes to catch our deadhead so
uh yeah we're going to do that but anyways uh cool huh
all right you're gonna do a story check so that looks good uh we will see you in houston
all right guys we are here uh we just parked right out front of the hangar brand new hangar here in
houston this is pretty awesome but uh we parked out there they hooked us up towed us into the
hangar but uh that's it now we've got uh we've got about 15 minutes to get to the uh the other
side in our gate gonna be very very difficult to do but we're gonna give it the old college try
and head on out so see you in a second the next day this is obviously the next day
um
61 degrees come on man this is phoenix anyways uh yeah about to get a little cardio session going
on but i did want to debrief yesterday learn a couple things first thing i learned was uh how
important hydration is so obviously we had that airplane it was three hours to get to
to get over to houston but not only was it three hours but you know it was that whole uh you know
it took us about 15 minutes before we even pushed back just because we were manual on our weight
balance and then when we landed we had a taxi in so it was like three and a half hours almost
three hours 45 minutes ish just from bush back to go so uh i purposely did not drink any water
or anything uh other than what i drank on my deadhead flight to get to san jose that was a
complete mistake um hydration is super important especially when you're flying because it has so
many benefits right you know brave function body function all that good stuff but for me it was i
had a massive headache by the time we landed and then we had to rush over to the airport uh to jump
on our deadhead flight luckily it was running a little bit behind so we were able to get on that
and get home but by the time i got home i was completely wrecked like a headache and all that
good stuff but uh anyways uh so yeah hydration but other than that the flight went great
other than not having a lab but uh seeing the new facility out there and i wanted to take a lot more
video of the facility there in houston is gorgeous on the south side of the field i was told that
is our biggest hangar at southwest airlines and uh it is it was amazing so we pulled up uh just
to the front of the hangar uh they hooked us up toed us in and then we started getting our stuff
out and that's where i kind of got a little bit of the uh the video there just to show you guys
a little bit but that was the video for the week i hope you guys enjoyed it it was a real quick
one just uh you know dead head up to san jose grab a grab an airplane that needed maintenance
be loved on and flying all the way to houston and then jump on a uh a deadhead coming back the
flights are full it is the holiday season bring your patience everybody's working super high
or super hard for you guys out there um just to get you guys where you need to go um there's gonna
be hiccups just like in any operation we just appreciate you guys patience uh as always so with
that thank you i'm gonna get my workout in and uh yeah it's gonna be a nasty one but have a good day
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