DL 1204 (ATL-SFO)
10:03am-12:27pm
5hrs 24mins
Boeing 737-900er
Delta
Captain J. Gordon
Today, I finally had the opportunity to redo part 69 of the series. During the original episode, I glitched out and would not have been able to maintain my schedule. So, I decided to just redo both episodes (69 and 70). With that being said, i flew from Atlanta to San Francisco!! This flight was extremely turbulent. There was maybe 30 minutes of the flight that was pretty smooth, other than that, turbulence the whole flight. The highest speed for the winds touched almost 140kts 🤯 I’m sure you all know what that’s like 😂 Luckily, my landing made up for the turbulent flight 😎👨🏾✈️ I greased the landing this afternoon and I was able to get us to the gate about 20 minutes early!! I say all that to say, this was a very good flight. I’m looking forward to all of the legs in my flights to come!! Y’all be safe and I’ll see you in the skies 😊
Nice pics mate!!!
I’m glad to hear you greased the Boeing 737-900ER because apparently people say it’s hard to land, but it’s my favorite 737 variant to fly and I find it easy to grease:)
Thank you!! And yes, the 737 is pretty easy to grease. A new trick that I learned is to bring back the throttles at around 10ft instead of 20 or 30ft. When you being them back closer to touchdown, the plane doesn’t necessarily drop out of the sky (if that makes sense)
Oh yea I get what you mean🤣🤣
I fly to the B737 & A320 variants mostly and I’m telling you it took a while to realize a B737 does NOT fly the same as an A320.
Also I notice landings are a lot better if you use Flaps 30 rather than 40
The A320 will float waaaayyy more than the 737 will. The 737 has its days when it wants to float, but the A320 never fails to float 😂 As far as the flaps, I totally agree. Using flaps 40° requires more down trim and a little more pressure on the controls. I usually only do flaps 40° on short runways or if I have to exit the runway quickly
