Aeronautical Pet Peeves

[User546]

After spending 3.5 hours in a Mooney with an 80 year old buddy of mine today I quickly discovered one of my worst aeronautical pet peeves....

PEOPLE THAT OWN & WEAR CRAPPY HEADSETS!!!! You spend half the flight looking at them going "huh, what, say again, i can't hear you, pull your mic closer, etc." Then when they do talk they're now yelling in your ear to make sure you hear them finally!

If your going to spend a couple hundred thousand to own your own airplane, why do they always feel like they have to scrimp when they purchases their headsets?? Seems like everyone I know that owns airplanes have the same ole 30 dollar, 70's model plastic cans that have the boom mikes that wont even stay in position.

 

[English]

ooh ooh I have another one!

Pilots that use a headset with a boom mike in an aircraft with an intercom, then proceed to eat their meal without moving the mike off to the side or, even better, removing the headset. Not only do I get to hear your crunching and heavy breathing, but the bonus is I get to watch your food fly onto the mic as you chew it. Yummy!

 

[semperfido]

ooh ooh I have another one!

Pilots that use a headset with a boom mike in an aircraft with an intercom, then proceed to eat their meal without moving the mike off to the side or, even better, removing the headset. Not only do I get to hear your crunching and heavy breathing, but the bonus is I get to watch your food fly onto the mic as you chew it. Yummy!

or just talk loudly to someone that enters the cockpit without turning off the hot mic

 

[Lead Sled]

I feel your pain...

ooh ooh I have another one!

Pilots that use a headset with a boom mike in an aircraft with an intercom, then proceed to eat their meal without moving the mike off to the side or, even better, removing the headset. Not only do I get to hear your crunching and heavy breathing, but the bonus is I get to watch your food fly onto the mic as you chew it. Yummy!

I'll see that and raise you a pilot that gets his jollies belching into the hot mic. No wonder the guy didn't make his upgrade a few years back. Now he's an airplane "salesman" and flies around in his single-seat home built. (Thank goodness!!!)

'Sled

 

[semperfido]

or sticking fistful of grubby fingers into the communal peanut bowl

 

[Almerick07]

people that yawn into the dang mic, dont they know it makes me do it too?!

 

[User546]

ooh ooh I have another one!

Pilots that use a headset with a boom mike in an aircraft with an intercom, then proceed to eat their meal without moving the mike off to the side or, even better, removing the headset.

Diddo with chewing ice as well. It takes half a second to reach up and turn the hot mic switch off on the yoke. Go ahead and do that before consuming an entire cup full of ice in my ear!

 

[pgcfii2002]

Weekend GA pilots who take FOREVER talking to Center or Approach..

 

[ToiletDuck]

wow according to all these post if we can get the average person to correct about a thousand things they will be tolerabel!(ps I'm drunk and I don't know how to spell Tolerable)

 

[Tram]

Here's a peeve of mine.. Pilots with too many pet peeves..

I think if you list more than 5 or 6 peeves, your too high strung.