Aeronautical Pet Peeves

[TrafficInSight]

"Could Not Duplicate" as a way of clearing any maintenance writeup.

Does it count if I wrote it on the squawk sheet after "Oil level low!" when there's 110 gallons of oil and an oil can 5 feet away?

The Phillips Head screw.

Yeah seriously!

People who overtorque the Phillips Head Screw.

Or people who stripped it taking it off last time they overtorqued it and then reinstall and overtorque it.

Cheap tools, and people who use them.

Can't say I agree with you completely... but there are some tools I wouldn't go cheap on.

That's a few to start. I'll think of more when I'm awake.

You make me sick

 

[JimG]

Pilots who don't understand and don't know how to use their weather radar.

'Sled

Naw...that's not it really.

It's the big yellow streak down the middle of my back.

 

[avbug]

would you care to explain this one?

If you have to ask...

You wouldn't understand.

 

[mattfish42]

Hawkers.

 

[pilotmiketx]

Pilots asking to deviate for weather when it is only rain. I mean come on you corp punks it will save you some time cleaning the bugs of those pretty slats. I can see if it is a convective cell or something but other then that just FLY and shut up.

I feel better now!!!

You're real cool pounding through the rough stuff held aloft by 20,000 hour spars. How, pray tell, can one tell if a cell is convective on the radar? I've seen some pretty nasty looking stuff that only painted green. And I've flown through some wicked rough stuff that didn't show up at all. So my point is, if I can take the deviation and keep my passengers comfortable, then yeah, I'm gonna do it and I could give 2 shi*s what some minimum wage prebuscent punk thinks. If my pax don't wake up until I open the door, then I've done my job.

 

[cougarx530]

It's not just pilots who do this.

I've heard controllers carry on with this crap and wondered WTH?

The "SEEEEEEEEEE YAAAAAAAAA"

It all started in with a DTW tower controller/

 

[Tram]

Anybody who strikes children. One of these days I'm going to be in an FBO or terminal somewhere, and someone is going to strike their child in front of me, and they'll be hauling me out in cuffs and that person on a gurney.

Are you talking like spankings or like beating?

 

[JediNein]

FAA Inspectors on a witch hunt that don't know what to do when they find a witch and act surprised when they get zapped.

Maintenance squawks resolved with "it's always done that" despite the rest of the 3000+ strong fleet of airplanes that don't do that.

Jet pilots afraid of the 'little' airplanes.

FBOs that treat me terribly when I'm in a little plane and stop fueling the little plane to roll out the red carpet for me when I'm in a big plane.

Hangar rents at VNY.

$5.55 per gallon avgas.

LAWA's contract clause allowing collection of back rent increases in a lump sum.

Politics.

The law that says I can't thump some idiot that bought their house at a discount then complains there is an airport nearby.

The idiot complaining about the airport noise but you can't hear him over his motorcycle w/tuned exhaust.

Noise sensors.

People that ask if I'm the best then ask me to lower my rate.

People that take 30 minutes to figure out I'm too expensive for them.

EXEC and discontinuities.

People who belly-ache about my letting off steam.

 

[Flechas]

The "SEEEEEEEEEE YAAAAAAAAA"

It all started in with a DTW tower controller/

Actually it was IAH controller.

 

[minitour]

Are you talking like spankings or like beating?

Nothing wrong with spanking your child. IF they diserve it.

But there is a huge difference in spanking for discipline and beating.

-mini

 

[Flechas]

Kids today need more discipline. We are breeding a bunch of sissies just because nobody wants to spank their kids, and if they do they are called abusive parents. Or maybe that's just the way natural selection works nowdays. But then they willbe living off the goverment.......

 

[1.3XVso]

if anyone hasn't said it yet ... Management!!

 

[avbug]

If my pax don't wake up until I open the door, then I've done my job.

Or you left the bleeds off. One or the other.

Are you talking like spankings or like beating?

Nothing wrong with spanking your child. IF they diserve it.

We are breeding a bunch of pussies just because nobody wants to spank their kids, and if they do they are called abusive parents.

Smack a child in my presence and one may be bleeding out of body parts one didn't know one had. Compared to my friendly attitude at that point in time, the angle of death is a nice guy.

Visit this and read some very scientific, very fact based thinking, research, and understanding on the issues of any corporal punishment of children...then rethink spanking kids.

http://nospank.net/toc.htm

Start with Plain Talk About Spanking, by Jordan Riak.

 

[Groundpounder]

Pilots that leave their landing lights on at night when I am trying to park them

Pilots that turn their pulse lights, comet flash strobes, and anything else you can think of before they even start their engines, but forget to turn their nav lights on in the dark

Pilots who think their request is the most important, when I have ten other airplanes to take care of. The world isn't going to stop turning if you have to wait five for some ice

Pilots who think all line guys are total idiots

People that ask for change back when they give me a ten spot for a ride to the hotel, after they just get out of their brand new SR22

Pilots who just show up at the airport on a busy saturday morning and ask for their aircraft to be pulled up so they can leave asap, then complain it took too long. Well sir, you haven't flown in two months, so your airplane is in the back of the hangar, I had to dump the hangar, along with all the other things I had to do. If you had called an hour ago, it would have been sitting on the line ready to go when you got here.

Pilots who ask for their plane out asap, then call to cancel right after we get it out of the back of the hangar.

Lazy line guys that don't see the big picture, and make the rest of us look bad

Pilots that fly something that burns jet-a, and sit on the ramp forever after they started engines. I would have much rather gotten you a GPU so you can get your clearance and not put up with all that noise. MU-2 and Turbo Commander pilots are the worst.

Slow line guys

South Florida drivers

Anyone from the islands

Anyone that has an extra loud exhaust on their vehicle

Anyone that drives an 95 Explorer that has more bondo than paint, but has 22" Chrome spinners

Hippies!!!!

 

[dash8driver]

Compared to my friendly attitude at that point in time, the angle of death is a nice guy.

what exactly is the angle of death? is it greater than 90 degrees?



.

 

[Tram]

I think it's around 180..

I will admit, my parents didn't spank me too often that I can remember, all it took was one look from dad and I ceased whatever nonsense I was in the middle of.. However - I think if your spanking and leaving marks, welts, etc - that's way out of line..

I've been thinking personally about carrying a bottle of water and just squirting my kids in the forehead everytime they screw up..

 

[Goose Egg]

Smack a child in my presence and one may be bleeding out of body parts one didn't know one had. Compared to my friendly attitude at that point in time, the angle of death is a nice guy.

Visit this and read some very scientific, very fact based thinking, research, and understanding on the issues of any corporal punishment of children...then rethink spanking kids.

An eye for an eye, eh? I don't disagree with you on the spanking issue, but you are advocating repaying violence with violence, which doesn't seem right either. Where does the cycle end?

-Goose

 

[CA1900]

An eye for an eye, eh? I do not necessarily disagree with you on the spanking issue, but I you are advocating repaying violence with violence, which doesn't seem right either.

And he tells me I need medication! :erm:

 

[English]

New one for me....

Pilots who, when landing on a 9000 foot long, dry runway, with a 10 knot headwind, use max reverse on landing. And I truly mean MAX.

I've never heard such a terrible sound before.

 

[TwinTails]

strobes on the ramp... calling out a heading with every check on.