Labels:text | screenshot | font | graphic design | design OCR: Wy Ensuring cold-weather or Performance stats show we need to be bett Cold temps need Every year, it seems Mother Nature Mechanical sche catches us off our guard at one base or 100 another. Even though winter arrives every year and we know what we're up against for the most part. Reduced light, blowing snow, sleet, and ground ice, and the need to wear restrictive gloves and heavy clothing make extra winter-related jobs that much more difficult. The chart (right) shows how every 98 year our November and December mechanical scheduled reliability Mechanical scheduled reliability (%) always takes a nose dive around that time. But our performance doesn't necessarily have to freeze along with JFMAMJJASO the temperatures, 1990 "Most of us in our personal lives, majority of these especially those who live in the snow operated in warm belt, prepare ourselves for winter," says mid-U.S ., Europe, Dave Mitchell, 737 fleet manager, "We America under get out the galoshes, ready the snow weather conditions shovel, and make sure the winter coats world's 737 fleet are intact. We install the snow tires, conditions such a check the battery, and get the winter Canada. While n engine tune-up on the car, designed to fly "That's most of us - but not all," says temperatures, they Mitchell. "The problem here is that we, design for ground op as an airline, fall in the latter category. "When delays We don't adequately prepare ourselves example," says Mitch for winter. The consequences are high as broken water cost, with increased delays, and conditioning system unhappy passengers. It affects even that the systems are those around us who have prepared when we look further themselves. All those passengers who day or week before made it for their flight were on time. They out in the blistering c look at us and wonder what's wrong.' hours. Our experienc "The 737, for instance, was mostly we to go back to designed to operate in average temperatures," says Mitchell, "The Supplement to
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