Management Duh Of The Day

[EyeInTheSky]

Well, the Purchase might have been stupid, or it might have been a good deal,

Granted, the power issues and software will be a pain, but that is what we pay our engineers to work upon anyways, right...?

Chances are they picked these up real real real cheap from the yard sale going on over at the SwissAir affiliate that was responsible for EMB-170 training (they were to be the launch customer). When that program went under, I am sure these sims were a a bargain (fixer-upper)

Stupid would have been to ship pilots off to Zurich to train

I take it you are in purchasing "Rico"? Might seem like a good move if the engineers weren't already overloaded. See, the engineering boys often ask for parts they need to fix the sims, but purchasing ultimately decides what parts get ordered. If an engineer says we need 10 parts purchasing might elect to only get 5 of them, cost cutting so they say. Needless to say engineering has become quite creative in keeping the sims up. Why not inquire as to how often the sims have been breaking down lately. But alas all things if not properly maintained come crashing down. Ya know?

 

[Rico]

nope, I drive, not shop...

All I am saying is it was probably a lot less expensive to buy two used Sims that needed modification...

than to buy, wait for, and then still go thru the headaches of setting up two brand new ones.

I do know enough about engineers that it is common practice to say it will take twice as long and double the material to make something work, thus when it is done in half the time and under budget they seem like "miracle workers" (code = job security)

Just like it "takes" 3-4 Mainline ground staff (and bag loader) to handle the same aircraft that 1-2 express employees (no bag loader) work on. It is not about reality, it is about preception. (code = job security)

 

[sovt]

I checked on the Hippies rumor. The issue is not the voltage, the ERJ-170 sim was first ordered for a european carrier and as such it was designed for 50hz. All future sims will have this power requirement. CAE figured it was less expensive to convert the freq. than redisign the sim.

The sims we ordered are not used, US sim #1 was loaded in Montreal today and will be in CLT in a few days. US sim #2 is being used for training and will be shipped south when appropriate. CAE sim #1 is going to be shipped to europe soon.

US ordered the sim with the latest visual package, it is a really is a nice machine. There are a few bugs in the Honeywell electronics but hopefully they will get them ironed out soon.

US will be getting a CRJ sim in the near future, it also has the 50hz power requirement.

 

[thepoohbear]

Two things:
1)Why get the bugs out of the SIMS, that's all you have with the E70's. This way the crews will be ready when the have to reboot the computers to get the stupid flying.
2)As far as contracts go they should renegg on the PS contracts, just like they do with the rest.











Mr Lakefield.
If you want us to take a pay cut and conncessions, then you should take $1.00 for your work.And if we come back to profitability then you can have and will deserve the big bucks