Ball caps when flying

[aa73]

I have flown with that type..

Cheers,

AA

You never struck me as a loincloth type of dude, bro! That's some fun-ee shee-it! But I do see a lot of AA pilots doing that.

Course, I've already got other "padding" in that area anyway.....

73

 

[Thurman Merman]

Now that's gotta be amusing

Invision any bad, overacting asian karate movie and you get the ideea. It's funny cause they provide their own sound effects.

It's a different culture over here. There was an accident in a Saab 340 where the captain was landing in tsunami like winds (17 kts crosswind) using differential power. Now this is funny because I've landed the saab in 42 kts direct xwind, which is the point you start to run out of rudder, differential power will buy you a few more knots. Anyway, the captain's jacking with the power so severly (more than a 10 degree delta torque) that he tricks the auto-coarsen(feather) logic into thinking the engine failed, in which it triggers the engine to feather for real, at 50 feet no less. Yeager-san then proceeds to freak out and yells, YOUR CONTROLS!!!!" to the copilot at 10 feet. The FO get's it down, rolls off the runway and busts up the nose gear. In the causal factor, i.e. blame, is put squarly on the copilots shoulders for not maintaining directional control upon touchdown. Nowhere is it mentioned that CMDR Genda, caused the situation and handed the FO a crippled bird at ten feet. Such is life in the land of the rising sun. Shoguni...

 

[semperfido]

You never struck me as a loincloth type of dude, bro! That's some fun-ee shee-it! But I do see a lot of AA pilots doing that.

Course, I've already got other "padding" in that area anyway.....

73

If they are, they must be former OZ pilots cuz I saw quite a few doing that in my brief tenure as an airline pilot. Only saw one wear driving gloves though and he was pretty scary as I remember.

 

[semperfido]

Invision any bad, overacting asian karate movie and you get the ideea. It's funny cause they provide their own sound effects.

It's a different culture over here. There was an accident in a Saab 340 where the captain was landing in tsunami like winds (17 kts crosswind) using differential power. Now this is funny because I've landed the saab in 42 kts direct xwind, which is the point you start to run out of rudder, differential power will buy you a few more knots. Anyway, the captain's jacking with the power so severly (more than a 10 degree delta torque) that he tricks the auto-coarsen(feather) logic into thinking the engine failed, in which it triggers the engine to feather for real, at 50 feet no less. Yeager-san then proceeds to freak out and yells, YOUR CONTROLS!!!!" to the copilot at 10 feet. The FO get's it down, rolls off the runway and busts up the nose gear. In the causal factor, i.e. blame, is put squarly on the copilots shoulders for not maintaining directional control upon touchdown. Nowhere is it mentioned that CMDR Genda, caused the situation and handed the FO a crippled bird at ten feet. Such is life in the land of the rising sun. Shoguni...

That is some funny stuff- gotta hand it to him for quick thinking at 10'.

 

[StopNTSing]

Invision any bad, overacting asian karate movie and you get the ideea. It's funny cause they provide their own sound effects.

It's a different culture over here. There was an accident in a Saab 340 where the captain was landing in tsunami like winds (17 kts crosswind) using differential power. Now this is funny because I've landed the saab in 42 kts direct xwind, which is the point you start to run out of rudder, differential power will buy you a few more knots. Anyway, the captain's jacking with the power so severly (more than a 10 degree delta torque) that he tricks the auto-coarsen(feather) logic into thinking the engine failed, in which it triggers the engine to feather for real, at 50 feet no less. Yeager-san then proceeds to freak out and yells, YOUR CONTROLS!!!!" to the copilot at 10 feet. The FO get's it down, rolls off the runway and busts up the nose gear. In the causal factor, i.e. blame, is put squarly on the copilots shoulders for not maintaining directional control upon touchdown. Nowhere is it mentioned that CMDR Genda, caused the situation and handed the FO a crippled bird at ten feet. Such is life in the land of the rising sun. Shoguni...

That's the funniest story I've read on FI in quite some time!

Yeager-san.....priceless!

 

[Penguin46]

I make a paper hat out of my enroute chart...it keeps the sun off my grape and I always know were to find the chart.

 

[tomgoodman]

Frugal pilot

Anybody remember how the 727 would "cold-soak" your outboard arm on long night flights? Well, one F/O decided to cut the right sleeve off an old sweater and wear that, saving the left sleeve for when he upgraded.

 

[rjacobs]

Ive been wearing a baseball hat for a few years now, never had anybody including FAA, check airmen, or chief pilots say anything about it. I think its actually in our FOM that they are allowed as long as the cockpit door is closed.

I have been looking for a big foam cowboy hat or sombrero or maybe a big afro wig to wear. Id like a real gigantic sombrero, but I have no way to lug it around and not look like a total jackass at the airport, I could at least roll up a foam one.

 

[satpak77]

someone mentioned skin cancer, yes, I agree, I wear sport sun block everyday

but i aint wearing no ball cap in the cockpit

 

[glasspilot1]

we have a capt at OH that does that, he also runs a tape recorder during all checklist.

THAT is the most anal thing I have ever heard!

 

[gutshotdraw]

THAT is the most anal thing I have ever heard!

No, anal was our now-retired senior captain that carried around a pen-sized digital recorder making notes to himself about tips to line service, squawks on the airplane, etc. and also carried a shower head and wrench for his hotel room shower....

 

[glasspilot1]

>> ....carried a shower head and wrench for his hotel room shower.... <<


Oh......My......God................

 

[LowlyPropCapt]

What an idiot. He is lucky the Fed didn't violate him.

You're kidding, right?

Don't go making up rules that don't exist. You'll be happier that way.

 

[Dumb Pilot]

I have a Godzilla action figure that I hang around my neck before pushback, go ahead and top that.

 

[gutshotdraw]

I think I'm going to start carrying one of those bobble-head hula dancers to stick on the top of the glare shield....