From the Flight Deck

The large windows on Air Canada's 15 Embraer 175 aircraft are positioned at eye level for optimal comfort and enhanced visibility.

:-)

How about:

Seat 12C is the best seat in economy on the jungle jet?

In all seriousness:

Air Canada, a launch customer, received it's first Embraer 175 in August of 2005.
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At 73 seats, the Embraer 175 is the smallest mainline aircraft in the Air Canada fleet.
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The Embraer 175, and it's bigger brother the E190, are members of Air Canada's regional fleet numbering 15 and 45 aircraft respectively.

Craig. It's true, not bending to look out the window is a bonus. :)

Stuart well done. You guys are going to make me look good! LOL

By the way, finished your book. It was fantastic!

I spoke to a KLM maintenance engineer and he told me that EMBRAER means:

Every Mechanical Breakdown Requires An Electronic
Reset

He said that they had a lot of software related problems. Oh well, who knows!
I enjoyed flying the E190 with KLM though!

@Stuart: I wrote a review about Captain Doug's book, have a look and see if you can find yourself in it!?

I have heard that E180 joke before. My uncle works at Westjet and the call it the E180; because every time it takes off, it need to turn around and come back due to mechanical problems. Not sure if this is true though :). Never flown on the jungle jet.

Stuart-- I think it should be "sister" and not "brother".... Doug, are planes traditionally female like boats?

"Doug, are planes traditionally female like boats?"

uh oh...(waiting for response)

Anon. :)

Whywhyzed. I too was going to write it like Stuart using "big brother." Then I thought, that's not
politically correct. Then I thought, "sister" is not really used either. So I rejigged it.

So to answer your question I don't think I heard airplanes referred to as "she" or "he" but "it."

"She is a big ship, but It's a beautiful airplane." :)))))

Any takers?

Anon. Looks like Whywhyzed beat you to it. :))))

I just answered him. :))))

Something tells me this "topic" is not over.

Stuart. Thanks about my book! Have I seen you comment here before? Captain Doug

Bas. You know I just heard that one about two weeks ago. And yes, when they first arrived it was "reboot" after "reboot."

It's a great one. I wonder what the acronym for Airbus is. Or should I ask. LOL

Jack. Like any new airplane, the bugs have to ironed out. I know those Embraer pilots work hard
and sometimes the airplane requires a complete reboot. Its when the entire power to the airplane is
pulled and it goes dark. And yes, they only do this procedure while on the ground. LOL

I haven't commented on the blog until today, but we had an email exchange a few weeks ago and you posted my email on your site after your last speaking engagement...

Stuart. My apology. Of course! You are the YOW commuter!!!! Love that city. I haven't been there in awhile though.

I hope my book in the Kindle edition works out for ya.

Every A320 driver usually ends up doing a YOW turn so our paths will cross!

Welcome to my blog and thanks for flying AC. You pay my bills. LOL

I must get back on "flyertalk" and snoop around. :)

Captain Doug

Captain Doug,

The E190 is a great aircraft from a passenger point of view, have enjoyed all my flights on them, especially the ones in 12A or 12C!

I think all the airlines that took early deliveries had some pretty bad luck with the earliest software versions, that did cause some reboots and some '180 turns'.

Spring has finally come to YYC!

YYC Dispatcher

YYC Dispatcher. You have that right as far as passengers liking the airplane.
With only two seats aside and large windows it was well received. But the big drawing card was they launched our individual entertainment systems. Talk about a hit!

Spring? Just checked your latest METAR (CYYC), you guys are at plus 4C and it's blowing a gale from the west. :)))

It was windy here but right now we are at 17C. Overall our Spring has been stunted.
It's driving the boss nuts because I have been off the last two weeks and she couldn't make me do any chores outside. lol

Enjoy that Spring day...ahem...actually I see you guys got up to 12C.

Captain Doug

Ooooo...liking the weather talk.

:)

anon.

Anon. Not many people get excited about weather talk but there's always exceptions.... LOL

LOL

It takes all kinds...

Captain Doug,

Temperature dropped 8 degrees in one hour when a front went through, even saw a little snow in the air shortly after I messaged you.

I always enjoy a good weather talk, definitely has been a bit brisk today! For the weather fans, here's the current METAR:

CYYC 120200Z 28016G24KT 40SM FEW080 06/M10 A2975 RMK AC2 SH N-E SLP100

YYC Dispatcher

YYC Dispatcher. Nice temperature/dew-point spread. Typical of Calgary.
And it's a sure sign spring is in the air....bumps...

Must have been some virga around as well...

Missing person alert...

Captain Doug,

Where's Heather? Haven't heard from her in a while.

Anon.

speaking of Super, just heard an Air France super A-380 clipped a small plane with its wing, while on taxi to take off at JFK..no injuries it seems..

video of the clip by the AF A-380 at JFK on the "professional pilots rumor network" the A-380's wing clipped the tail section of a regional...assuming all news is accurate..

Anon. With a wingspan sprawl of 262 feet it's inevitable the "super" will be giving the odd "love tap" to other planes.

Heck the ATIS at London Heathrow, has a continual warning stating "wing tip clearances are not assured" because our ex 747-400 gave a "love tap" to another aircraft.

Also our A340 gave a "love tap" to a Dash * holding in a taxiway in Vancouver a few years ago.

You didn't realize there was so much affection in aviation...did you?

I guess stuff happens. I hope my 111 foot wingspan will never give a "love tap" as Captain D is frigid. LOL

Captain Doug: Sometimes, we laarn a little more... JFK has a 'contact' event the other day, mostly reported as a "Wing Clip" between an A380 and a much smaller commuter jet. A Canadian fellow (not AC) has posted a short video clip of the 'encounter.' While it may have been but a 'wing clip' for the A380, it seems to have SPUN the commuter jet pretty close to 180 degrees. As soon as I can recover the direct link to the video, I'll send it by back channel. I think this is not a good thing. The BIG operators (with 380s)will continue to call it a 'wing tap.' Humph! When that 'wing tap' reverses thet smaller airplane's position by almost 180 degrees, I think 'tap' is the wrong word. We will hear more in a few days, but please share your thoughts... OK, Your comments are restricted. Can you at least mention the event? Thanks. -Craig.

Captain Doug, "Frigid"...nah..just need a good thaw...to fix that..ha ha the first milliiisecond thought must have been..WTF(oops, WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT )guess what...SIZE MATTERS..when taxiing an ocean liner...I'll take your A-320 anyday!!! here is a comment, from the PPRN with 2 pics, I don't know if pics will come up.....but copied the URL's and can be found at same comment, if interested........."""It was an A-380 and ComAir CRJ. A friend of mine was 2 planes down waiting for his push back."""

"""Here are two pics that he took, looks like CRJ's tail is bent and it wont be flying for long time."""

http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee418/desipilot/AF380.jpg

http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee418/desipilot/comaircrj.jpg

yes...that wasn't clipping...clipping is something you do to your toe nails....yuk...but true...

Cedarglen (Craig) I think anon posted some good contact info.

The rule of thumb is to stay on that yellow line...if you hit something while off it...it's the captain's fault.
If you hit something while on it...it's the captain's fault. :)

Captain Doug

Anon. Thanks for the links. They worked. Tis true, it was not a clipping, but more like a shoving. :)

Those "super" bullies...

You seem to have a lot of connections.... :)))))

If you read Capt Dave's blog over at FL390, you'll see that he calls his Airbus "FiFi"

Doug: can you change the sex of the altitude callout voice?

Whywhyzed. We can change the call outs according to specific airline preference (i.e specific heights on approach) but as far as going from the masculine Airbus voice I hear to a sensual feminine "fifi" call out then I'm all up for that as well. LOL

Captain Doug OTD for Florida and back.

It's been over 15 days since I heard "retard, retard" (masculine voice) on landing. :)))

I used to loooove AC, always wanted to work for them, and have been trying to build my hours ASAP so i can get in.

After the past few days... I'm not so sure anymore

Anon. Regarding AC, I hope it wasn't something I said.... :)))))

lol no not at all. You probably know what I'm talking about ;)

Just hope it doesn't go through.

Anon. Yes, I know what you are talking about. I heard the roadshows have been "entertaining."

Something tells me I flew with you....do you want to run down an asphalt/concrete strip 200 feet wide and 9000 feet long on June 18th?

It will help vent some frustration... :))))

Captain Doug

Hehe it certainly will vent out some frustrations. But hopefuly by then this will all be behind us and we have a new roster!

Happy flying, and I really enjoy your blogs :)