Cockpit Pet peeves

Dockjock · Post by **Dockjock** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 12:02 pm

There are a lot of perfect F/O's in here.

Rudy · Post by **Rudy** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 12:55 pm

Sulako wrote:The Captain accepting trips at 1am to go to the reserves during a blizzard, even though we both know we'll miss, just to get the mileage.

I wondered if you guys did this. Thanks for confirming it. Let the taxpayer pick up the tab right? It's bad enough when the system gets abused by the patients. We don't need the airline doing it too!

spoiler · Post by **spoiler** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 3:55 pm

They all do it, not just one company, or most of them anyway. Besides, you tell the MOH you might not get in, and they tell you to go anyway...so just check who you blame.

Wrench monkey · Post by **Wrench monkey** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 6:45 pm

All this info is very interesting. Know that I know what pisses pilots off the most, my work day should become a whole lot more fun!

The Barrel Man · Post by **The Barrel Man** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 8:04 pm

Passengers who think that the seat pockets are garbage cans for orange peels, used kleenex, etc. And having to carry pax in the front seat of the 208, am I not past that yet? I need room for all my time wasting equipment

Apache64_ · Post by **Apache64_** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 8:34 pm

Clearing the zone in pa, and FSS says"Check your 5 miles out, enroute frequency is 126.70"....ok, im told this a new policy, but WTF? Seriously were not flyin a 172 (im not knocking the instructors) and we are based out of pa, and really we do have a commercial or better license, I think we have figured it out by now. I wish I could meet the guy who set this up.

Cheers Apache

Cat Driver · Post by **Cat Driver** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 9:13 pm

It comes from their management....

They think we are as stupid as they are..

Cat

tripleseven · Post by **tripleseven** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 9:47 pm

1. "Temperature disk jokeys" really bug me. Leave it in auto, fruitcake.
2. Touching down 3000' down a 5000' runway just to prove to me you can land the smoothest.
3. Lowering the nose to climb out at 200 kts and cross the departure threshold at 200' during a low-vis take-off, because "the passengers like smooth flying".
4. Climbing 100' above cruise altitude and decending down, "to build up speed faster", or climbing 100' feet higher than cleared to stay on top, then resetting altimeter 0.10" lower so that it reads our real cleared altitude "so atc won't know." It doesn't matter what is on your altimeter, dumbass, atc knows.

The Black Hole · Post by **The Black Hole** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 9:55 pm

My peeve is the sun in my eyes when I've fogotten my shades...

cloudrunner · Post by **cloudrunner** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 10:19 pm

Darkhorse wrote:The wanna be passenger / pilot wearing the traditional aviator glasses and jacket wanting to sit up front and then tell you how to fly half way through a trip. At the end of the trip then asking you when are you going to be a commercial pilot and fly the big planes

Man, you hit it on the head there. You fly this meathead for 45 minutes through 2 mile visibility, manage to get lucky and grease one on to a lake the size of his driveway and as your taxiing in he says " so yer just here getting hours so you can get a real flying job?"

Sure bud...could you just jump out there, ya right there up to the red line on the float and........

Pratt X 3 · Post by **Pratt X 3** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 1:29 am

Cat Driver Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 11:13 pm Post subject:

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It comes from their management....

They think we are as stupid as they are..

Cat

Jeez Cat...I thought it was Transport you hated, not NavCanada...

Rudy · Post by **Rudy** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 4:15 pm

Turanga Leela wrote:They all do it, not just one company, or most of them anyway. Besides, you tell the MOH you might not get in, and they tell you to go anyway...so just check who you blame.

Bah, it's horseshit. What's the Ministry's reason for sending them if they say they "know" they'll miss. Trying to get a bigger budget for next year?

ps. I love the bold on "know" Sulako.

Rudy · Post by **Rudy** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 4:30 pm

Also, let's be clear that I'm not talking about an airline accepting a medevac from the Ministry even though the weather's shit.
What Sulako stated was that his captain was accepting the trip with no intention of landing at his destination just to rack up some miles and pad his own paycheck with a few extra bucks. That's pure class.

mikegtzg · Post by **mikegtzg** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 5:13 pm

The comment by BCASFlyboy on smoking in the back of the cabin. That person was actually helping you. They say that the stale air in an aircraft makes people sick. Well the smoke is poisoning those airborne germs. Rendering them benign and providing a more sterile enviroment.

Cat Driver · Post by **Cat Driver** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 7:03 pm

Pratt :

" Jeez Cat...I thought it was Transport you hated, not NavCanada... "

Hi, you are obviously not to familiar with how the system works. The people making a lot of these decisions are career bureaucrats and thus usually so far out of touch with reality they can't find their asses wíth a set of moose antlers..

Also Nav Canada has some of the finest of the breed that are rethreads from TC.

I know one in a top position in Nav Canada that slitthered sideways from TC to NC that is clinically brain dead.

So my comment stands, they " assume "we are as stupid as them.

Does that clairify the issue for you?

Cat

pika · Post by **pika** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 8:25 pm

People landing on the taxiway, instead of the runway.

I've actually had the privilege of seeing it happen right before my very eyes!

If you were in the airplane and being paid may I ask what you were doing at the time of the incident?