FBO etiquette

[FL350]

Folks, I hate to sound anal but...

1. If you are a snorer, please do not fall asleep in the lazy boy while other guys are trying to watch tv, snooze quietly, read the paper etc. Go snooze in your airplane or in a bed supplied by the FBO.

2. If there is only 1 crew car at the FBO, don't keep the car for 2 hours. I have eaten a lot of lunches at a lot of FBO's and if you are gone for 2 hours you are doing something other than grabbing a bite to eat.

Call me anal but I can't be the only one annoyed by these things. Any one else??

 

[Diesel]

Don't get all pissy when you are sleeping in the TV room and someone wants to come in and watch tv.

 

[willNOTfly4free]

Same thing with the cell phone. If you're napping in the snooze room and get a call, take it outside!!

 

[falconpilot]

Dont pack a three day supply of Otis Spunkmeyer cookies, and walk out with a smile on your face, like a little kid that just robbed the cookie jar!

 

[jonjuan]

WTF are adults sleeping during the middle of the day? Doesn't make sense unless you are 65 years old.

 

[Photoflight]

WTF are adults sleeping during the middle of the day? Doesn't make sense unless you are 65 years old.

perhaps there day started at 3 am ?



If theres only 3 cookies left....don't take all 3. Thats the only food some of us get!

And wear headphones if your gonna watch a movie on your computer.

 

[PUNISHER]

Ya, not all of us have the cake walk 9-5 job. Some of us no more than others just how important a one hour nap can be.

 

[Tgaug6300]

Wait to get on the cell phone (or Blackberry) until after you give the FBO Counter folks your fuel order. Nothing worse than waiting behind some "Schmo" talking on his cell phone (on a personal call, at that) who is also trying to give a fuel order at the same time.

 

[TXGold]

Stop freaking out when I am trying to talk on the phone, snore, and watch a movie on my computer at the same time. For those of you waiting for the crew car while I am enjoying my lunch, buy more fuel or rent a car. Enough with the rules. There are already to many of them... Seriously though, if you are talking on a cell phone with a wireless headset get the $%^& away from me.

 

[Morettis]

I seriously can't stand some jackoff snoring like a freight train. thats about the time when I start looking for a heavy object to beat the living hell out of them.

 

[jumppilot03]

I seriously can't stand seeing a Netjets airplane on the ramp of an FBO that I am going to be hanging out for the day. Those fools thing they own the place (other than Signature). Try Supermarine in SMO. Every time I am there, there is a Netjets falcon on the ramp. Great 3 crewmembers hawging all of the couches and table space in the lounge, with little respect to those around them. I hope I am not the only one that sees this. If so, disregard. I guess Netjets doesn't teach this stuff in ground school.

 

[avbug]

Quite the prim prissy little group. If these are the things that haunt your days, you indeed have easy lives.

Grow up.

 

[Diesel]

Those fools thing they own the place (other than Signature).

We do

 

[Rick James]

My personal favorite, cell phone screamers. Folks, talking louder on the cell phone does not increase range or clarity.

 

[pilotviolin]

How about Flight Option pilots hanging out in the pilot lounge in thier underwear, waiting for call from dispatch.

 

[ag2pilot]

Reading this thread is like listening to my wife. The scary part is I agree with it all.

 

[G100driver]

Do not hang out at the FBO. Go grab a bite or cup of coffee. Longer than six hours, go get a hotel room.

As for NetJet in FBO lobby ... I have seen not crews their be anything but just regular crews. Nothing special about they way they act.

And if you use your cell phone, go outside. Quit being a self important A-hole talking loudly into your phone while we are trying to watch Faux News.

 

[jetwash]

Trust me the Flight Options pilots would rather been waiting for their flights in the hotel rather then the FBO.

During Thanksgiving in PBI there were no fewer then 30 flight Options pilots on standby at the FBO!!!!

I heard that FBO started calling Flight Options and telling them that Galaxy and JET Aviation in TEB are not Day Care centers.

 

[Mercury]

As if the cell phone "screamers" arent bad enough, For God's sake, if you walk into the crew lounge and its reallly quiet and the lights and TV are off, just maybe, and I'm using deductive reasoning here, someone is trying to sleep. Do not come through the door like gang busters, flick on the lights and then look at me and say "oops, my bad, were you sleeping??" No professor, I really have nothing more important to do after getting up at 0330, than to sit motionless in a dark, quiet room.

 

[Gulfstream 200]

As if the cell phone "screamers" arent bad enough, For God's sake, if you walk into the crew lounge and its reallly quiet and the lights and TV are off, just maybe, and I'm using deductive reasoning here, someone is trying to sleep. Do not come through the door like gang busters, flick on the lights and then look at me and say "oops, my bad, were you sleeping??" No professor, I really have nothing more important to do after getting up at 0330, than to sit motionless in a dark, quiet room.

get a hotel room if you want/need to sleep.

and for those who walk around with wireless headsets --- WTF are you thinking?

freaking dorks.

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