Pet Peeves

[Shiny Side Up]

126.7 on a Saturday...

[Go Guns]

People who try to take a flash photograph inside the plane, out the window. It won't work! Also people who take flash pictures into the cockpit at dusk. It scares me.

You mean like this?


Sunset @ 16000'

[Shotgun Chuck McCoy]

Ah ol' 927, formerly the Rainbow Warrior. Is it still all beat up on the inside? I know they made the outside conform with the purple tail etc, but she was pretty ratched up on the inside from the nighttime cargo runs back in the day.

SCM

As for pet peeves... (I don't have time to read through to see if it's been mentioned, but) "AND Vancouver it's XYZ..." "AND XYZ cleared for the ILS 8R" "AND XYZ cleared to land..." etc. Some of the longest spoken sentences in the world are used in this business!

[Go Guns]

I haven't flown her in a few years so I can't comment on her interiors state. Good bird, I left part of my hair and skull on the left wing tie down ring.

[Gannet167]

The other guy chewing gum with hot mikes on. The other guy making clicking noises when he opens his mouth, over and over with hot mikes on. Mumbling and pointing randomly around the cockpit while doing silent checks. The other assumes I understand the whole 2 minute conversation in French they just had with Cessna traffic, when I don't. If you're going to clear me to some random point, spell it, SLOWLY. Don't mumble it fast. It takes far less time than me saying "ahh, centre, you'll have to spell that for me, it's not on our plan" and then having you repeat it again phonetically.

[burninggoats]

126.7 on a Saturday...

QFT. It had to be said twice.

[xsbank]

You guys have to lighten up a bit. Where is the "love of aviation" I keep hearing you blather on about?

Transponders are required to be on for taxi in many airports. If you are getting nuisance RAs your box is too old, therefore suck it up, or its not working correctly. Try setting 'Above' on approach?

"Charlie Golf blah blah blah..." is only EVER required when operating out of Canada - read your AIP. Only the last 4 letters of your registration is EVER required in Canada. What you are doing is broadcasting to the world that you are ignorant of procedures. Read it again.

Flying schools get a significant number of their students to sign on the line by claiming they are being trained for "airline pilot jobs." Why wouldn't the school be consistent and make them drink more Kool-Aid with all the epaulette-stuff?

Non-standard ATC responses just make you sound like a dork. You are not cool, you are not the "Hero of the North," you are merely a dork. Get used to the correct phraseology and practice it because you will also look like a dork, too, when you do your sim evaluation for that big job.

RudderBug, I agree with your comment for sure for sure. In fact, one of the best improvements we could ever hope for on this site would be to disable the quote function. Seems to me that by quoting a passage that appeared in the previous post, you are: telling us all how crappy your own reading comprehension is; you are too lazy to write a response; perhaps you are just so overwhelmed with emotion upon having read something by, well, me, that you cannot function past 'quote'... or, you really do have a learning disability and you are excused, sorry if I offended you.

Chill out, take a pill, relax, after all you are "doing what you love" aren't you?

[eddyb123]

I'm thinking that the CFS should be available on line. Who really buys one every 3 months? So much info does not change.

[slam525i]

I'm thinking that the CFS should be available on line. Who really buys one every 3 months? So much info does not change.

I'm with you on that one, that the CFS should be available online. I'm not going to say whether my CFS is current, but I wouldn't fly with one that's TOO old. There's a lot of explaining to do if you happen across one of the changes without knowing and you end up being visited by "a nice man from Transport".

"In the old days", the local flying club kept current CFSes for their commercially registered aircraft and gave away the fresh-out-of-date ones to private pilots. That brings up my biggest "Pet Peeve": I miss the old flying clubs. I miss hanging around people who fly entirely for the fun of it. I miss instructors who laugh with me while flying. I miss the "this isn't in the POH, but I always check the ______ on the walk-around"

[Dagwood]

read your AIP

People who don't know we have an AIM

[xsbank]

Just like the ATR, there will always be an AIP. Old dogs, y'know.

[rotorfloat]

People reporting x miles back.

[Tacoma]

Mostly in Africa when pilots report ETA/Distances out <1min before your eta when you know dam well they are >2 your ETA.

[Chaxterium]

I think someone mentioned it already but passengers can be incredibly annoying. If I could fly cargo with the same schedule I have now I'd be a happy man.

When I was flying Islanders I don't know how many times I heard "So what's the inflight movie?". It got to the point where I would just pretend I didn't hear them. Another one was "is this plane safe?". Of course it's safe! If it wasn't safe do you think I'd be getting in it?

Happy flying!

[4hrstovegas]

Starting to eat a MEAL one third the way through the climb on the first leg of the day. Seriously, you can't wait 5 minutes until we hit cruise??

[Phileas Fogg]

I hated getting the page..."pilot to dispatch, and bring a mop!"

...ah yes, fortune and glory.

[Prairie Chicken]

'aircrafts'. Rates right in there with 'deers'.

[stmymdy]

BIG LETTUCE
that f****** pisses me off.
take a little bit of time and chop it up
so i don't have to auger it with my salad fork

[WaldoPepper]

out of synch props

[eyespie]

Pilots who fly crappy, unstable approaches struggling to get the gear and flaps out in time solely because they insisted on flying the plane at the highest speed possible until the last moment possible. Congratulations, you landed 2.5 seconds earlier! You're still a shi**y pilot.

[Les Habitants]

I know this is an old thread, but I came across it and thought I'd post one.
Student pilots that wear pilot shirts, ties, and bars

you fly a Cessna, you don't deserve bars

[767]

1. Using the ARCAL without listening to the radio first. High intensity comes on when someone is on short final!
2. Taxing with 2000 RPM and applying brakes at the same time.
3. Rough use of the control column (especially during the controls free and correct check)
4. Not applying "BACK pressure" when turning during taxi (to get weight off nose wheel)
5. Taxing to the edge of the run up area, and struggling to turn after completing run up, also, not keeping the nosewheel straight when conducting the run up.
6. Turning the transponder to ALT mode when holding short of runway, or sometimes during taxi (ATC request is an exception, otherwise, it should be on STBY).
7. Trying to takeoff from the taxiway (super fast taxiing)
8. Rushing through the checklist.

....... to be contnued ...

[EPR]

Having to wait while the douch bag in front of you in the Timmy Horton's drive thru orders a sandwich and everything else under the sun on the menu during the morning rush hour. Drive thru's should be for beverage order's only, if you have to uhm and aww your sandwich order, go the hell inside and order it!!
Fast food drive thru rage!

[freezerburn31]

Hot water in the taps,
when you turn on the cold water only to be scalded by residual hot water left in the tap by the previous persons use (I'm too impatient to wait)

[lost in the north]

Calm Air waiting on the active for thier clearance while vfr traffic inbound to the aiirport