A-Hole Pilot of the Day

[skygirl1968]

This is just a lot about nothing....

like an episode of Seinfeld?

 

[siucavflight]

like an episode of Seinfeld?

Say you go to work today and nothing happens, that could be an episode.

 

[G100driver]

You guys are getting mad at the wrong people. There are assholes who lack mannors everywhere and you cannot change basic human nature

You should go up to the manager of the FBO and remind him of who is really paying the bills (it is not Cirrus owners). Corporate pilots who have a choice in which FBO to use. Next time, perhaps you will chose to go down the road.

Case in point, Atlantic in SNA takes a copy of your CC and comps you 1 hour. Anything beyond that and there is a charge. If they are going to give you a courtesy, they expect the same from you.

As another courtesy, if I see a couple of crews looking rather hungery in the waiting area I always ask if they would like to join us.

If you are on business and need more than a lunch wagon, go rent a car. The world is full cheap assholes. We do not need one more when we are just trying to get lunch.

 

[AerroMatt]

You guys are getting mad at the wrong people. There are assholes who lack mannors everywhere and you cannot change basic human nature

You should go up to the manager of the FBO and remind him of who is really paying the bills (it is not Cirrus owners). Corporate pilots who have a choice in which FBO to use. Next time, perhaps you will chose to go down the road.

Case in point, Atlantic in SNA takes a copy of your CC and comps you 1 hour. Anything beyond that and there is a charge. If they are going to give you a courtesy, they expect the same from you.

As another courtesy, if I see a couple of crews looking rather hungery in the waiting area I always ask if they would like to join us.

If you are on business and need more than a lunch wagon, go rent a car. The world is full cheap assholes. We do not need one more when we are just trying to get lunch.

At last... a posting of sanity on an otherwise insane thread...

 

[A Squared]

There are **************************************** who lack mannors everywhere and you cannot change basic human nature

Yeah, and if you go up to the FBO owner and start telling him who he can and cannot loan his car to, and precisely what hte purpose of his car is, you have just become one of those **************************************** with no manners.


Sorry, there is absolutely no sane rationalization for going up to someone and telling them who they can loan thier car to. The idea that somhow a car belonging to someone else should be reserved strictly for the use of ....XXXX (jet pilots, corporate pilots, pilots of planes that go over 200 mph, pilots who get paid....whatever. It all boils down to telling someone else "that's *my* car, it's only for *my* use and those who I say". Which is arrogant in the extreme when that someone is the person who owns the car, and you don't.

 

[FN FAL]

Yeah, and if you go up to the FBO owner and start telling him who he can and cannot loan his car to, and precisely what hte purpose of his car is, you have just become one of those **************************************** with no manners.


Sorry, there is absolutely no sane rationalization for going up to someone and telling them who they can loan thier car to. The idea that somhow a car belonging to someone else should be reserved strictly for the use of ....XXXX (jet pilots, corporate pilots, pilots of planes that go over 200 mph, pilots who get paid....whatever. It all boils down to telling someone else "that's *my* car, it's only for *my* use and those who I say". Which is arrogant in the extreme when that someone is the person who owns the car, and you don't.

First comed, first served. This thread is almost as dumb as corporate pilots who want me to cancel in the air, because for some reason a single engine turbo-prop aint got no right to an IFR clearance all the way to the surface of a non-towered field.

 

[G100driver]

What is arrogant is someone who parks an airplane, pays for no sevices, buys no fuel and expects to put on the front line while getting the courtesy car.

Notice how I suggested time limits, encourage sharing ect.

I am not going to demand anything from an FBO owner/manager. I am mearly going to make suggestions and take my dollars to those places of business that provide the best customer service.

I also think that this thread started with guys taking the courtesy car for the entire day. Not exactly courteous, now is it?

 

[A Squared]

What is arrogant is someone who parks an airplane, pays for no sevices, buys no fuel and expects to put on the front line while getting the courtesy car. I also think that this thread started with guys taking the courtesy car for the entire day. Not exactly courteous, now is it?

Uhhh, now you're just making $hit up. Unless you were there, and I see no indication that you were, you don't know what the guy did or did not buy there. And unless I missed a post, you completely pulled the crap about being "put on the front line" out of your a$$ (when you think about it, where esle would you pull crap from?) And nobody said anything about the whole day, it was "a few hours"Look, you're so busy throwing your little hissy fit, that you're just not getting it. Let me go through it one step at a time:

1) The car belongs to the FBO

2) The FBO loaned that car to one of it's customers on terms that were obviously acceptable to the FBO.

3) That transaction did not involve you, and it's none of your business.

It is that simple. You don't own the car. The FBO does. The FBO can use it how they see fit.

What part of that don't you grasp?

 

[G100driver]

Uhhh, now you're just making $hit up. Unless you were there, and I see no indication that you were, you don't know what the guy did or did not buy there. And unless I missed a post, you completely pulled the crap about being "put on the front line" out of your a$$ (when you think about it, where esle would you pull crap from?) And nobody said anything about the whole day, it was "a few hours"Look, you're so busy throwing your little hissy fit, that you're just not getting it. Let me go through it one step at a time:

1) The car belongs to the FBO

2) The FBO loaned that car to one of it's customers on terms that were obviously acceptable to the FBO.

3) That transaction did not involve you, and it's none of your business.

It is that simple. You don't own the car. The FBO does. The FBO can use it how they see fit.

What part of that don't you grasp?

I grasp it all, sweetpea.

I am just making the point that if FBO's want to cater to Cirus' (and that is their right) then I can take my ramp fees and fuel purchases elsewhere. That is the point that I am making. It is all about choices.

As for the front line stuff, it was not in this case but we have all seen the type. I worked line service for several years and saw the worst offenders were often the guys who purchased nothing and expected everything.

Did I hit too close to home for you or something? Shees. I think that the long hours of daylight are getting to you. Relax my friend.

All that I am asking is that when someone uses the COURTESY CAR that they are courteous. Taking a crew car for hours hardly fits the bill.

 

[Say Again Over]

Doesn't PP have a FBO survey each year to winge about this type of stuff?