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Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | Airline Operations | Virtual Airline Misuse of Terminology
DVA12393
Captain, A320
OLP

Joined on April 24 2014

Fresno, CA

61 legs, 206.5 hours
61 legs, 206.5 hours online
61 legs, 206.5 hours ACARS
 Posted onPost created on October 25 2014 17:08 ET by Jon Wilder
I've seen this in a lot of VA's...why do they misuse the term PIREP to refer to a logbook entry? Flight report I can see but why PIREP?

Jon Wilder

Captain, A320
DVA10286
Captain, B777-200

Joined on November 05 2011
50 State Club
Globetrotter
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Millennium Club
Two Million Mile Club
Everett 500 Club

"ASEL - Instrument Rated"
San Diego, CA

1,103 legs, 5,003.2 hours
1,100 legs, 5,000.2 hours ACARS
 Posted onPost created on October 25 2014 17:41 ET by Thomas Weber
We should call it a FLIREP!


DVA2887
Senior Captain, A320
OLP, 737-ATP, VFRADV

Joined on January 30 2006
50 State Club
Globetrotter
Tri-Jet Triumph
US Coastal Club
Millennium Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
US Mountaineer Club
Toulouse 250 Club
Online Eight Century

Charlotte, NC

1,287 legs, 1,796.9 hours
841 legs, 1,048.5 hours online
1,269 legs, 1,774.9 hours ACARS
31 legs, 49.6 hours event
3 legs dispatched, 2.5 hours
 Posted onPost created on October 26 2014 17:13 ET by Andrew Vane
You are technically correct sir. The Pilot Manual and DVA web site refers to them as Flight Reports but we use PIREP to mean the same thing. A PIREP is a weather report a pilot encountered, not a flight report. The good thing is that most pilots know what we're talking about when we say PIREP. banghead


DVA9792
Senior Captain, B737-800
OLP

Joined on May 20 2011
50 State Club
B757 100 Club
Globetrotter
Commuter Conquest
Everett Quad-Millennium Club
US Mountaineer Club
US Coastal Club
Events Millennium Club
Ten Million Miles and Beyond
Eight Millennium Club
Online Eighty Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary

Cripple Creek, CO

11,075 legs, 32,219.6 hours
10,563 legs, 30,943.9 hours online
10,967 legs, 31,876.5 hours ACARS
1,535 legs, 4,172.7 hours event
0 legs dispatched, 2.3 hours
 Posted onPost created on October 26 2014 20:14 ET by Jim Rose
PIREP has been used so long in this manner at virtually all VA's, it has become a colloquialism for flight report and is accepted as such.

Jim Rose

Senior Captain, B737-800
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