Polar Air Cargo to park older 747s

hell404 · Post by **hell404** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 10:00 pm

Freight carrier Polar Air Cargo will park its remaining fleet of Boeing 747-100 and -200 freighters from 1 July... <a href='http://www.flightglobal.com/Articles/20 ... -offs.html' target='_blank'>http://www.flightglobal.com/Articles/20 ... fs.html</a>

mlegein · Post by **mlegein** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 11:00 pm

"<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(hell404 @ Apr 29 2006, 09:00 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'>Freight carrier Polar Air Cargo will park its remaining fleet of Boeing 747-100 and -200 freighters from 1 July... <a href='http://www.flightglobal.com/Articles/20 ... -offs.html' target='_blank'>http://www.flightglobal.com/Articles/20 ... fs.html</a> [right][snapback]8696[/snapback][/right] </div> I saw that too. Sad ..."

Post by **esurfman** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 11:08 pm

"Argggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!! Well, wich of the guys are we going to lay off....just joking. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif[/img]"

yoni63 · Post by **yoni63** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 2:11 am

"<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(esurfman @ Apr 29 2006, 10:08 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'>Argggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!! Well, wich of the guys are we going to lay off....just joking. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif[/img] [right][snapback]8700[/snapback][/right] </div> Isn't that just the pits! I mean laying off all those pilots! Man! I am sure glad I didn't quit my ""day job"" back in the 90's when I thought I was going into aviation full time some day!!! Seems like all the training companies put out all those memos and letters quoting pilot shortages, now look at what is happening! Those guys are going to have it rough and that is a crying shame!"

Post by **esurfman** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 5:05 pm

"I agree, I made a joke for us but it is no joke for the pilots. I would say that the flight engineers are probably the worst off. Pilots and copilots probably have more experience flying that the engineers. Might be easier to find a job somewhere else."

maj · Post by **maj** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 9:22 pm

"Yeah, I feel bad for those guys too. Engineer jobs are probably few and far between these days. I was wondering how or if this will affect our VA?"

Bodo Mueller · Post by **Bodo Mueller** » Fri May 05, 2006 2:55 am

"<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(hell404 @ Apr 30 2006, 02:00 AM)</div><div class='quotemain'>Freight carrier Polar Air Cargo will park its remaining fleet of Boeing 747-100 and -200 freighters from 1 July... <a href='http://www.flightglobal.com/Articles/20 ... -offs.html' target='_blank'>http://www.flightglobal.com/Articles/20 ... fs.html</a> [right][snapback]8696[/snapback][/right] </div> Looks like that soon we have to fly the PMDG 744F in this VA only.... "

BarryTheAviator · Post by **BarryTheAviator** » Fri May 05, 2006 3:01 am

"<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Bodo Mueller @ May 5 2006, 06:55 AM)</div><div class='quotemain'>Looks like that soon we have to fly the PMDG 744F in this VA only.... [right][snapback]8767[/snapback][/right] </div> Oh no we won't ... [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/happy.gif[/img]"

mvm · Post by **mvm** » Fri May 05, 2006 8:59 am

"<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(BarryTheAviator @ May 5 2006, 03:01 AM)</div><div class='quotemain'>Oh no we won't ... [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/happy.gif[/img] [right][snapback]8768[/snapback][/right] </div> Thank goodness for that Barry....the RFP B742 is the the reason i joined here...i luv steam gauge aircraft...the B744F and others like it with full fmc etc are fine but give me the non-glass cockpit anyday!!!....most of my add-on aircraft are ""steam"" powered...DF727/Flight one iron knuckles dc-9...etc...guess i'm showing my age!! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img]"

jpfrazao · Post by **jpfrazao** » Fri May 05, 2006 5:42 pm

"I sincerely also prefer the B742. It's an airplane that give me more pleasure to fly then B744. B742 is what I call an airplane for men hard beard... [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif[/img] Regards,"

PetriSuni · Post by **PetriSuni** » Wed May 10, 2006 3:21 am

"I prefer the 744F because the 3d virtual cockpit is amazing, whereas in the RFP the virtual cockpit sucks. Otherwise the RFP was a great plane, don't get me wrong but nowadays I have parked it and fly only the 744F. On my ""own"" time I do also fly a steam aircraft, namely the C-130 Hercules from CaptainSim, which has an amazing 3d virtual cockpit, too. Happy flying! Petri"