Comments that piss you off good.

[UndauntedFlyer]

Hondas are for guys who can't afford a Harley, right?

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No. They're for guys with a degree of intelligence, they wear helmets for their own safety, like riding and have no tattoos.

 

[mcjohn]

If I'm in uniform and someone asks, "are you like a security gaurd, or something?" it's easier to respond "something like that." If I'm on the way home in uniform and stop at Walmart, inevitably someone will ask where the plastic dishes are, or the tool section. What makes them think walmart workers suddenly started wearing white shirts with a tie and epaulets, I dont' know, but rather than "set them straight," I find it's a whole lot easier just to point them to the right aisle.

There is a reason I wear a T-Shirt under my pilot shirt.

I recently visited a home on my way from the airport where an elderly person was having some difficulty, and I was apparently mistaken for a nurses aid. The individual needed assistance with some "sanitary" duties, and rather than take a stand that I was a haughty pilot above such things, I found it was just as easy to provide the required assistance. Didn't hurt me a bit, and I couldn't care less if they thought I was a pilot or a social worker or a plumber. I get paid the same regardless of what they think, I'm perfectly secure in what I do and who I am, and I can't imagine anybody being so insecure or full of themselves that they grow concerned that they aren't being recognized as a pilot enough.
Good grief.

I just want to make sure I heard you correctly. Avbug enters a nursing home with tie and epalletes and procedes to wipe an elderly person's butt. OMG!

 

[FL420]

Anyone with the desire could get the same information. Subscribe to either the ASA Pro Flight Library or Summit Aviation's Reference Library ....look up what you want, then copy and paste it here. Then YOU could bring a lot of information to this board. A lot of VALUABLE information.

There is a HUGE difference between being able to read and recite and being able to understand and explain. Avbug is able to do the latter better than most anyone else on this board.

 

[flx757]

No. He cuts and pastes. Which ANYONE can do.

Byt hey...if you think he is superior, just as HE thinks he is superior, then that is your business.

 

[Lostdog65]

One summer checking into the hotel we learned that the biggest discounts went to truckers, not government workers, not to pilots, not to corporate. We identified ourselves as truckers. They asked what kind, and we simply said, "belly dump." I'll take the room discount over the heartwarming thrill of being recognized as a "pilot."

ROFLMAO!! OMG Avbug...I wish I had heard that over the last five years...would have save Joe Taxpayer some bucks on hotel rooms!

You know...I guess I don't get why ya'll get so riled up at Avbug. I know we're posting pet peeves but when Avbug posts that he goes out of his way to do the human thing, he gets bashed. Having never been required to wear a uniform ala an airline (I've been lucky, most of my jobs required to wear shorts, jeans, nomex suits or dockers and a polo.) so I've never been mistaken for a bus driver/bellman/etc. But when I've been asked where a bus is, etc, I've always offered what I knew or tried to find out.

I guess I was raised differently....you know...be kind to strangers and all...

Eric

 

[MalteseX]

I always got the "you're too young" blah, blah...when I flew turboprops for the commuters. Now that I'm "old enough" with a little gray hair and flying heavy jets, I now have to put up with the "Do you ever want to fly for the airlines?".."Do you ever want to be a commercial or airline pilot?" Do you ever plan to *move up* to flying passengers?" crowd. I just have to quietly laugh and shrug it off.

For the young bucks out there. Develop a thick skin. The naive comments from the uniformed will always be there. Most people truly have no idea and your attempts to educate them will most likely fall on deaf ears.

I've been around the biz long enough to see the tide turn and many *passenger* pilots are being asked the same questions about getting on with a freight company.

Heck, if I were you, I'd respond (to the moving 'up' flying passengers) with:

Yeah, I thought about it, but BOXES DON'T AS STUPID QUESTIONS!
or Yeah, maybe, but I don't think I could afford the PAY CUT

 

[NW_Pilot]

A couple of managers at the FBO's are a$$hole morons, and ought to be fired and sent back to the grill at McDonalds. Business is business, and green money is good no matter who dishes it out. Been there.

Yea, at a fast food restaurant at least they would not be wearing jeans and tee's they would be wherein a cheap pin striped dress shirt and polyester slacks being able to toss their bad ass know it all attitude on a bunch of teen age or illegal immigrant employees. hahaha always wonderd where them people come from....

 

[NW_Pilot]

If you're old enough to go enlist and face an enemy weilding automatic or shoulder fired weapons, you should be old enough to buy beer.

I agree!!!! I contribute to the delinquency of our minor troops that have served war time all the time. Shhh Don’t tell anyone ok!!!

A friend of mine is a Public Pretender hahah!!! she was reading this thread and called me saying that if you think pilots get a bad comments try his job. she gets the same thing but on a grander scale becuse he works with more of the public, When you Going to Be A real Attorney? Arent You a little young to practice law? You make a ton of money and are in it for the money!

 

[avbug]

BTW, bug, go make yourself useful and fly the new fire in Volusia County, FL. About 15 miles south of Daytona Beach, threatening 1000 homes. Just a week after another fire a few miles away burned homes.

Thanks.

Already engaged this time around, thanks.

Burned homes to you. Job security to some of us. Daddy needs a new glock.




And no...it wasn't a rest home, I had business there. This really facinates you?

 

[User998]

At issue here are pilots who are "pissed off good" because they aren't recognized as pilots right away. It's a vanity thing. Pilots who are put out because they aren't given the respect they're vain enough to believe they deserve...that's pathetic.

When I use to have to wear a uniform and epauletes for my job, I can't tell you the number of times I was mistaken in public for a security guard, grocery store clerk, hotel staff, valet, etc.

Wearing your uniform in public does NOT give you the respect or recognition that you think your getting from the public!

Nice to see your grumpy self back Avbug. :beer:

 

[kingsize]

Avbug, I like your style! I don't know why everyone is giving you so much ********************.
I'm all about playing along. I've been standing near the doors at bars and had people show me their IDs, like I'm the bouncer. So, I check them out, and clear them inside! lol
Playing along is FUN, not something to take offense at.
Too many whiny people in aviation, mil and civ. Suck it up and enjoy the silly moments of life.

 

[Gorilla]

Too many whiny people in aviation, mil and civ. Suck it up and enjoy the silly moments of life.

I think you're correct, and I've also noted as the years have gone by that the older we get, the more mellow. That's just a general observation. I think the high-strung "I'm a pilot, RESPECT me!" types tend to be in their twenties.

Maybe it's because we have all worked very hard to obtain the ratings and get the job, and part of our psyche wants to be recognized for that. As the years cause the memories of the effort to fade, the demand for special recognition fades too.

 

[mcjohn]

I think the high-strung "I'm a pilot, RESPECT me!" types tend to be in their twenties.

Maybe it's because we have all worked very hard to obtain the ratings and get the job, and part of our psyche wants to be recognized for that. As the years cause the memories of the effort to fade, the demand for special recognition fades too.

This "demand for special recognition" has never even come close to evolving in my small career so far. I'm 30 yrs old. Every non-aviation friend I have picks at me for being a pilot. 50% of the time a friend introduces me to someone they say, "This is John, he flys planes." The person responds, "Oh yeah? You're a pilot?" and before I can respond my friends will say something like, "Yes, he is a pilot and he'd prefer if you call him captain."

Just an example. They get much more creative. So I'm constantly begging anyone around me to not say a word about my flying.

My point I guess, no one thinks pilots are cool. At least not where I live.

Remember, planes are cool. Not the people who fly them! Most of the people I meet in aviation tend to be a little dweebish. Like me.

 

[414Flyer]

i had to stop at walgreens one time on the way home from work to pick up some feminine "napkins" for my girlfriend,

That was your first mistake right there

 

[big_al]

people have this dream that a goal of a pilot is either to be a fighter pilot or an airline pilot. they think every wants to fly for united or aa or something. no thanks, give me a job flying right seat for polar, atlas (minus all the juvenile bickering and being laid off), kal jal cargo, etc and ill be happy.

 

[charter dog]

Hey, most of this stuff is pretty funny. Especially the stuff that was intended to be serious!

If you're a happy camper, congratulations! If not, nobody cares! Might as well just get a laugh out these things rather than get PO'd about it. But keep those PO'd comments coming, they're pretty funny.

best,

 

[jaywc7]

Is being recognized as a pilot such an important deal? What vanity.

While checking into a hotel a few years ago, a woman asked me to carry her bags. So I did. I asked my first officer to watch my bags. Somewhere before reaching the room the woman realized I wasn't a bellman, and figured out I was a pilot and began to apologize. I told her no problem at all, I was going that way. I can't imagine what the big deal might be.

In another hotel, an elderly lady approached me and asked what time the bus was leaving. I suppose the pilot thing to do would have been to put her in her place and denigrate her, but I found out what bus she was taking and the departure time, and then had a brief but pleasant chat with her friends. No need to tell her I wasn't her driver, no need to ensure that I set her straight about being a pilot. What's so all fired important about being recognized as God's gift to mankind?

One summer checking into the hotel we learned that the biggest discounts went to truckers, not government workers, not to pilots, not to corporate. We identified ourselves as truckers. They asked what kind, and we simply said, "belly dump." I'll take the room discount over the heartwarming thrill of being recognized as a "pilot."

During a layover at a crew base, I had several days with nothing to do. I went to the company hangar and began pulling shifts on the floor as a mechanic. The chief pilot wandered through the hangar giving a tour to some VIP's, and saw me. He didn't recognize me sitting on the floor covered in grease at first, but did a double take with wide eyes, followed by a look of disgust...apparently getting dirty is beneath pilots. Not respectful enough.

When I flew air ambulance, folks would ask what I did for a living, and I'd tell them I drove an ambulance. Usually no more questions asked, which was fine. Sometimes today I'll tell them I'm a mechanic, which is also true, though it's not my full time job presently. Again, usually no more questions.

If I'm in uniform and someone asks, "are you like a security gaurd, or something?" it's easier to respond "something like that." If I'm on the way home in uniform and stop at Walmart, inevitably someone will ask where the plastic dishes are, or the tool section. What makes them think walmart workers suddenly started wearing white shirts with a tie and epaulets, I dont' know, but rather than "set them straight," I find it's a whole lot easier just to point them to the right aisle.

I recently visited a home on my way from the airport where an elderly person was having some difficulty, and I was apparently mistaken for a nurses aid. The individual needed assistance with some "sanitary" duties, and rather than take a stand that I was a haughty pilot above such things, I found it was just as easy to provide the required assistance. Didn't hurt me a bit, and I couldn't care less if they thought I was a pilot or a social worker or a plumber. I get paid the same regardless of what they think, I'm perfectly secure in what I do and who I am, and I can't imagine anybody being so insecure or full of themselves that they grow concerned that they aren't being recognized as a pilot enough.

Good grief.

I can see that you're very proud of your modesty... You comment about the "vanity" of being recognized as a pilot. I'd be more concerned about the vanity of modesty among the pilots myself...

Good grief...

 

[mcjohn]

Good grief.............................................

Nice to have you around avbug!

 

[SoundBarViolatr]

Modesty is one thing. Just being flat out rude is another.

"Hey, you mind doing your job and carrying my bags for me" -- @ KADS while on my way to the jet. Pax looked at a minority in an FBO and thinks I'm a linesman. Pax was further aggravated as he boards his C90 and realizes the left seat on the Citation X next to his King Air is occupied by yours truly, as I rev a bit more than needed out of parking.

"Can you please carry my bags to the room?" -- Lady @ hotel lobby in San Antonio TX as the desk clerks scramble to tell her that I am a guest and that the concierge is the guy with the red coat, not the guy with the white shirt, four silver bars, and "CREW" all over his luggage. Come to think of it, I should've taken her bags up...she was cute.

"My son is a sailor too sunny.." -- Old lady at a restaurant in Ca. That one actually still brings a smile to my face.

"This is BS, Flight Engineer time don't count...Take that ***t off" -- Chief Pilot @ a Flight School in Concord CA that operated a Merlin for Charter. 2 months later, the Citation X I was flying quick stopped at Concord. I stopped by the Flight School to inform him "the Aviation Manager of the X outside was a Navy FE...I guess FE time does count."

 

[SkyWestCRJPilot]

On my last trip a couple of the flight attendants commented that I was too young to fly. One said, "How old are you? You don't look a day over 22." I said, "Actually I'm only 19". Then another asked the same question. I said, "well today is Bring-Your-Son-To-Work Day." They all liked that.