Any Pet Peeves?

[CA1900]

Mashing the phone keypad when making an airport PA announcement. White Plains (HPN) does that, and it just irritates the living snot out of me.

I don't mean a couple quick beeps to get your attention. I mean BEEEP BEEBEEBEEBEEEEEP BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP! ... Man does that tick me off, and I'm only passing through to take a squirt. I can only imagine being a passenger waiting there for an hour.

 

[Flechas]

My favorite:

"Ops, we are on 79, tell the ramp the bag door is still showing open." Well WTFO, aren't they going to get on headset with you in what, 30 seconds? That's why I never keep Ops up in IAH. My captain and I nearly lost it one day listening to everyone complain, so I finally told Ops that if they needed us, call our cell phones. We can't handle the bitching. They laughed and said OK.

EWR pilots who complain about IAH and IAH pilots all the time.....

 

[semperfido]

hotel TV remotes that don't work

 

[Otto Coarsen]

Opps I forgot: PRINCETON AIRPORT SUCKS!

Good old 39N.

I worked there long ago... Way before the runway expansion..

Is Dick still alive?

 

[rubicon789]

Hearing a Corporate idot ask for a deviation because they are "Painting a Rain shower" I swear that' what they said...

Come on if there was anything out there Thursday night over NYC it's was like a level .0000005 or something. Give me a break.

Look at they bright side, when you land you won't have to clean that $40million plane.

 

[Q400 Gear Bitch]

-sloppy ass flying by anyone, myself included.

Amen brutha.

Micromanagers. I hate that. If you want a PA about the Fucawe indian tribe then get on it and do it. I'm not gonna take notes.

Rudder trim. nuff said.

Asking for 10 right for weather and then nodding off while still deviating.

<rant>Not paying attention. Get your head out of the freaking book and look for traffic in the terminal area. If we hit a god dang airplane you aint gonna make it to your pro check anyway</rant>

 

[crashpad]

Lowtime Captains who act like they've been flying as long as Lindeberg.

Lowtime Captains who won't shut-up on the PA so I can watch TV.

Stewardess's who won't shut up on the PA, or off the PA.

Pax who ask flying questions only because they are testing our knowledge.

Dishonest/corrupt Union Leaders.

Pilots who dodge taxes by not changing their address to the state where they 'actually' live.

Gate agents who think they are business managers.

 

[Cardinal]

For all you prop drivers..............how about the FO that has not figured out how to sync the props. I dread it when I sync them and they adjust it after I just synced it. Maybe I just need a vacation. Sorry to all my FO's for freaking out over that f#%king annoying sh!t they do with the props.

In an aiplane with a fully functional syncrophaser AND syncroscope, no less!! You only need to get it within 25 rpm and the PFM takes over. It becomes clear why after your 15 hours of piston multi you are now stone deaf and I must yell to get through a checklist.

Also..Agents who do not know how to check a flight, nor how to list a person on a flight, nor how to do a bag claim.....yet they are working a flight all alone.

Rampers who cannot perform basic addition on a bag sheet, and do not know how to plug in a GPU. Guys that burn up all of Union Carbide's annual glycol production to remove 5 square feet of frost, but then leave a 1/2 inch of slush on the wing during the next snowstorm.

I'm tired, I could go on, but why bother.

 

[Insatiable]

When issued a traffic alert by ATC, the pilot responds:

"we don't see him but, we've got him on the fish finder"

 

[rubicon789]

X 2.....

 

[Shortapp]

People using their cell phones while taking a leak or a dump in a public restroom. A phone call can not be that important.

 

[Mmmmmm Burritos]

How about the hotel van driver who always finds it absolutely necessary to blast the AC on iceberg mode even when it's 65 degrees in the early morning.

And no, I'm not a chick!

 

[ERfly]

How about the hotel van driver who always finds it absolutely necessary to blast the AC on iceberg mode even when it's 65 degrees in the early morning.

And no, I'm not a chick!

Or when it's 100 outside and they won't turn it on. But, they got the rap music going.

 

[DetoXJ]

22-year-old FOs who don't wanna brief the release, the takeoff, or the approach becase it takes away from reading the Maxim/talking to their girlfriend on the phone. "Hey baby, I'm calling you from the airplane, aren't I a stud?"

Guys who don't fly profiles because it's not cool or they don't know them. (Pushing the nose over at 500 agl to speed up to 250 when we just blasted off from a class C or D. Or climbing a 47K pound airplane at 305 knots/600 fpm when we took off with 500 pounds over min. fuel and we're heading into shootty weather).

Guys who try to run a checklist from memory, fcuk it up, and then get pissed when you correct them.

Your the Captain. Get a pair and insist that the job is done properly. Too many Captains just accept this 1/2 a$$ behavior and then we all wonder why it is so widespread.

 

[Mmmmmm Burritos]

Or when it's 100 outside and they won't turn it on. But, they got the rap music going.

The guy this morning was listening to an AM French talk station. Loudly. That was a new one.

 

[FlyingFerris]

People using their cell phones while taking a leak or a dump in a public restroom. A phone call can not be that important.

Similar to the guy the siddles up the the urinal right next to the one you're using even though there's a bank of 10 of them, alowing for plenty of personal space.

 

[crashpad]

Or when it's 100 outside and they won't turn it on. But, they got the rap music going.

I love telling them to turn it off, or doing it myself...I'm just looking for a fight.

 

[LAXSaabdude]

How about the hotel van driver who always finds it absolutely necessary to blast the AC on iceberg mode even when it's 65 degrees in the early morning.

And no, I'm not a chick!

You are so right! I DESPISE air conditioning! Unless it is like 110 outside, I would much rather just have fresh air. I hate the cooped-up feeling I get with air conditioning.

LAXSaabdude.

 

[Flechas]

You are so right! I DESPISE air conditioning! Unless it is like 110 outside, I would much rather just have fresh air. I hate the cooped-up feeling I get with air conditioning.

LAXSaabdude.

And I thought I was the only one!! I don't run the AC unless it's really hot (Everyday in Houston).

 

[ohplease!]

chick pilots that won't speak up on the radio!

chick pilots that wear those goofy tie things!

chick pilots that wear heels!

chick pilots that won't wear their hat!

chick pilots that carry that huge chip on their shoulder about being chick pilots!

chick pilots that carry pocket books big enough to hide their boyfriend in!

chick pilots that won't put out for my tired, old, fat, bald ass!

oh yeah, chick pilots!!!!!!!!

DANG! another empty kitchen.............