Interesting Challenges of Your Wing

[SarDragon]

2. The world's leading heavy construction company.

And who would that be? VINCI heads my list, and they aren't a US company.

[Spaceman3750]

2. The world's leading heavy construction company.

And who would that be? VINCI heads my list, and they aren't a US company.

www.cat.com

"Leading heavy machinery company" would probably be more apt.

[SarDragon]

OK, I'll accept that.

[Johnny Yuma]

That said, I don't understand the hatred of people and places on the opposite side of 80 from you. I know some of it in jest, but some of it isn't. Get over yourself. I hear lots of people complain about 'Chicagoers' and vice versa - it has no place in CAP or modern society.

Then again, maybe I'm just the only person who can be civil and respectful about these things.

I've got family all over Southern Illinois, where they think Cook county is that area North of I-70 and East of Effingham. Bottom line is that Chicago's politics, voting block and economy control the state and until they don't you're never going to see this change. Much of this goes back to the Great Depression as the Southern end of the state took the Depression hard and didn't show any signs of recovery until the early 80's.

[FW]

Standardization ≠ micromanagement or over regulation.

Exactly.

Standardization, and continued innovation = Progress.  When NHQ listens to members in the field, positive things have happened.  Aircraft management, Financial Accountability, Information distribution, School Programs, WIMRS, and quite a few other practices/standards all started out at the unit, wing, or region level.

I would think all wings have "interesting challenges", however none should be overwhelming or unique.  IMHO, all it takes is some mutual cooperation, and leadership with a focused vision on positive growth. BTW; are "affinity groups" still around?

[AirDX]

I'm jumping over all of you, moving from Hawaii to Michigan's UP in June.  From paradise to... another kind of paradise in one move!

[JeffDG]

Standardization, and continued innovation = Progress.  When NHQ listens to members in the field, positive things have happened...WIMRS...

WMIRS is one of the biggest problems.

NHQ did everything they could to kill field-developed systems, then when they failed at that, they did a half-assed attempt to copy them, and released even that half-done with the mandate "Thou shalt not interface to this".

[FW]

Jeff, believe it or not, WIMRS was developed because it became impossible to incorporate all the various systems in play back then. From what I remember, "they" made a very strong effort to do so. I heard a lot of frustration back then, and quite a few IT guys called it quits.  I'm not an IT person, so I can't comment on the whys. From a non IT perspective, I can deal with it quite well.  YMMV.

[a2capt]

I've heard scuttlebutt that Pete Anderson is behind WIMRS 2.0 ..

If there's any basis to that .. it would be sort of "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" kind of thing. He development cycle on IMU was maddening enough, making architectural changes at will, beta testing that must have been like seeing if the flap-jacks stick to the ceiling, or come back down.

Total headache from a support viewpoint, to deal with.

[Private Investigator]

I'm jumping over all of you, moving from Hawaii to Michigan's UP in June.  From paradise to... another kind of paradise in one move!

I can not see that move. But that is me. I am encourging my youngest daughter to go to UH. Aloha