Aviation plates

[Typhoon1244]

I'm going to try this again...a little re-write was in order since too many people here are impervious to sarcasm.

What's the corniest, dorkiest thing you've seen affixed to the bumper/license plate holder of a car belonging to a pilot (or wanna-be pilot)? Something that really turned your stomach, like "I love the smell of AvGas in the morning." Or the student pilot with "My other car is a DC-8" on his bumper.

 

[EagleRJ]

I saw a beater Pontiac product in an FBO parking lot one time. Based on its approximate Blue Book value compared to the vehicles parked around it, I assumed it was the pride and joy of either the local CFI or one of his students.

On the back, the make and model badges had been removed, and replaced with the badges from a wrecked airplane- 'CESSNA', 'STATIONAIRE', 'turbocharged'.

What a tool!

 

[FN FAL]

I'll step in line to get the gauntlet here.

As a jump pilot with lots of "diver driver" flight time and hundreds of skydives to boot...I was proud of my accomplishment, so I got a plate that said... DZ AV8R

Around skydivers and such, they knew it meant "Drop Zone Aviator". To all the whuffos at the gas pump or the stoplights in traffic, it must have read "Dizzy Aviator". I got sick of all the non-pilot, non-skydiver pukes smirking...so I went back to regular plates.

That license plate is now firmly riveted onto the front of our drop zone golf cart...it was done as a token of affection by the owners and jumpers at my current DZ.

 

[apdsm]

The dorkiest???


757CAPT

 

[A1FlyBoy]

The worst I've seen:

A car parked at PWK with Illinois plate: IFLYVFR

OR..

the beater piece of crap Chrysler with the cheap white plastic license plate frame "I'd rather be flying my BONANZA!" on back and a spinning prop on the front bumper....

Sad....

 

[Lrjtcaptain]

One I saw at ERAU DAB a few years ago.

a proud plate that said
C172Pilt or something like that.......WORTHLESS!!!

And I hate driving up to an FBO and seeing that liscence plate cover that says "FAA Liscenced Pilot" WOOPTY DOO!

 

[labbats]

I hate seeing Jettas with Embry Riddle plastic borders on their license plates

 

[bart]

Can't remember the specifics of it, but a guy had a bumper sticker that alluded to him being bad because he was a pilot.

A crew of us professionally re-did the sticker so that it announced what a bad pilot he was. We also took pics of it and made stickers off the computer that we placed on many of his personal possessions during the short time he worked with us.

It was fun watching him stay quiet out of embarrassment when we knew he was more than a little frustrated.

 

[Timebuilder]

How about the guy that buys one of those circular stickers from Sporty's to put around his car's gas filler that says "Jet A."

 

[Big Duke Six]

I didn't know you'd seen my truck.

 

[Big Duke Six]

But really,

Brutal.

Yes some of those are cheesy, and are in poor judgement for a professional as Bart said, but dang guys, maybe the 172 pilot felt a little proud about about what he had accomplished. Maybe his wife is proud of him, and she bought him the sticker. As we go farther in the profession, or even get checked out in a 182, we take those stickers off. If we don't go farther for whatever reason, the sticker stays on, and it is forever something to be proud of. Getting a pilots license IS a big deal, Lrjt Capt, if you're a garbage man and no one else in your life would ever even dream about doing it, much less pull it off.

I say, let them be proud of what they've done, even if it seems stupid to you.

Any of you have kids? Ever think you're gonna praise someone for wiping their butt correctly? If you haven't, hopefully you still have time.

I just hope my kids will let me take the "I have a Clean A$$" stickers off their trikes soon. Baby steps man, baby steps.

 

[Big Duke Six]

But, as long as we're at it

I did see UALPLT on the way to work once. C'mon now!

I did like "If I were in an F-16, I'd be home by now". Cool only if he was a wannabe.

What about "My son, and my money, goes to Embry Riddle".

 

[A1FlyBoy]

A tad off topic, but I was at the FBO the othe day speaking with some pals at the old flight school....

Guy has "FAA licensed pilot" plate frame on his car.... he is in to fly a 172... anyways, this is the killer - he has a CREW tag on his captains case flight bag....

 

[Big Duke Six]

Now, THAT"S a stretch. Maybe it was a post-911 thing.

 

[mrzippo]

What's so lame about having an ERAU sticker on your car?

 

[JB74]

I hate seeing Jettas with Embry Riddle plastic borders on their license plates

Actually they are metal and looked darn good on my truck at the time

 

[AA717driver]

I keep the CREW tags on my wife's luggage so the FA's will give her a whole can of Coke when she travels. TC

 

[labbats]

I hate seeing Jettas with Embry Riddle plastic borders on their license plates

Actually I was saying this to give lrjtcptain some ribbing.

 

[Smoking Man]

FLY-DC8


V1ROT8

 

[Dragonbravo]

And I hate driving up to an FBO and seeing that liscence plate cover that says "FAA Liscenced Pilot" WOOPTY DOO!

FAA Licenced Pilot... is there another type?

 

[TEXAN AVIATOR]

Honda Civic with ERAU sticker on the rear window, along with a NIFA & NAFI sticker; License frame said, FAA licensed pilot, & the license plate said AV8R.

I will admit I have an AOPA sticker on my car.

 

[mattfish42]

On a car parked outside the local civil air patrol meeting:

CAP2992

 

[Flying Illini]

a guy with a Jet A sticker around his gas cap and a real life pitot tube riveted above his front left tire. The pax side dash had the coasters from sportys that look like instruments glued to it.

 

[Pilot124]

I saw one that said URONMY9.....Man we sound like bitter old men!!

 

[jarhead]

While sitting in a parking lot waiting for my wife to come out of a ‘girlie store” she’d gone into, I saw a bumper sticker on a car that pulled into a spot in front of me. It struck my humor bone so hard, I started laughing out loud alone in my car.

First of all, you have to appreciate the car itself. It was about 20 years old, had a crushed back bumper, replacement fenders of different colors, muffler tied up with a coat hanger, blue smoke coming out the exhaust, and so much rust on it that I expected it to fall apart as I looked at it. A guy about 30 or so jumped out of it, and ran into an electronics shop. It was then I noticed the bumper sticker.

It quite eloquently stated: MY OTHER CAR IS A PIECE OF SH!T TOO. This struck me as particularly funny, as just a few days before I’d seen the famous “My other car is an airplane” bumper sticker.

 

[low-n-slow]

Sheesh...now that's about whoop-di-doo-fu ckin funny.

Do any of you people have a life?

Just curious.

 

[Ailerongirl]

Sheesh...now that's about whoop-di-doo-fu ckin funny.

Do any of you people have a life?

Just curious.

Do you have a sense of humour?

Yep...didn't think so!

 

[User546]

I had a brand new Porshe 911 Turbo blow by me at about 100mph on the freeway a couple weeks ago. As the car passed I looked over and it was an older, grey-haired guy with the license plate "NWACAPT"

Thought that was humorous...

 

[ShawnC]

On a car parked outside the local civil air patrol meeting:

CAP2992

It's even worse when they drive around town in the full CAP rescue truck, complete with yellow light bar.

Anyways I have to admit, I have an ERAU, IAC, and EAA sticker on my car.

I also have a EAA and IAC sticker on random things around the house(mostly aviation stuff like headset cases), because they send me two every year.

 

[Standby 1]

the old CP for Reno Air: JET MAN

a DE friend of mine: SKYMSTR

Me? I keep an AOPA sticker so I'm less likely to be towed when parking at an FBO for a trip.