ERAU Virtual FLIGHT TEAM!

[Dangerkitty]

IFR clearance without a single cloud in the sky?

An IFR Clearance is required to go over FL180. But I guess you knew that already.

 

[wmuflyguy]

An IFR Clearance is required to go over FL180. But I guess you knew that already.

True, but....
How many airline guys call up clearance and say "AA 142, instruments to Charles De Gaulle, alfa!"

I heard someone with the all sign "gateway" do it once last month. The captain and I got a good laugh out of that.

 

[SkyBoy1981]

I did the virtual airline thing when I was a kid. I still do the online ATC thing and goof around with the flightsim from time to time, just because I find it amazing how far things have come and the realism of it all. Make fun of me all you want....I don't care.

Oh, and as a side note, I don't particularly like Riddle so I do find that video to be a bit too dorky for even my tastes.

 

[Dangerkitty]

True, but....
How many airline guys call up clearance and say "AA 142, instruments to Charles De Gaulle, alfa!"

Good point. I guess I have been using ACARS too long.

 

[Photoflight]

Why does that plane have invasion stripes?

 

[Fearless Tower]

He's going to take his boyfriend flying with him.....isn't that special!

I think I'm with Metro on this one.....need to log off FI and step away from the computer before I pass out...maybe I should go do some work or something...

 

[iflyabeech]

IFR clearance without a single cloud in the sky?

Woo hoo! When you grow up, you might realize that filing IFR is necessary on a clear day. (Class A Airspace) Many times it is also easier to fly IFR than VFR. I am sure you will learn this when you have more total time than some of us fly in a couple of months!

 

[SIG600]

You know I was gonna make a post about "oh god another one" or something like that... but Bjammin's got a dang good point. We tend to forget where we come from, and what it was like to dream. Some kid out there is dreaming of the day he gets to fly his first jet, and those of us that have gotten there laugh at stuff like this. It's a pretty gay video I admit, but you can't flame them for dreaming....

You know what, I'm kinda tired of guys bashing these kids for being motivated about flying.

I couldn't do a video like that, you guys?

Some of these guys may be spoiled, cocky, even annoying, but they hugely MOTIVATED BY AIRPLANES! What's wrong with that?

These guys will be our copilots and are part of the future of aviation. It would be wrong to dismiss them as "Neo-maxim zoom dweebies" just because they make a video that, for some reason, is offensive to you guys.

If your 19 year old son made a video like at and showed it off to you, would you have the same response?

Guys, get off your high horse. Most of us have the jobs these guys dream about. They would look at you with admiration when listlening to your stories. At you just poo poo them as geeks.

Stop it.

Hey k4fu... why don't you find something better to do with your time than e-stalk this dude. Get off your 250 hour high horse.
Bjammin's probably got more time upside down than you've got total.

 

[Metro752]

I can flame them for living a sheltered life at Riddle and telling you to your face with a stern look that they have 99% Job placement after graduation and the best civillian flight training in the world.

 

[Fearless Tower]

Hmmm......Is it possible to flame a flamer?

 

[timeoff]

Hey k4fu... why don't you find something better to do with your time than e-stalk this dude. Get off your 250 hour high horse.
Bjammin's probably got more time upside down than you've got total.

Why is it that higher time guys feel compelled to put down lower time guys on an issue that isn't flying related? I can see if he was giving out bad advice about a procedure or something, but this topic has nothing to do with flight experience. Silly if you ask me.

No wonder why the training board has essentially evaporated. Comments like these makes people not want to post. FI is a shell of its former self.

 

[kf4amu]

Hey k4fu... why don't you find something better to do with your time than e-stalk this dude. Get off your 250 hour high horse.
Bjammin's probably got more time upside down than you've got total.

I made a statement of fact, no judgement was expressed or implied. You yourself decided to infer judgement on my behalf.

Everything was easily seen from his public website.

Define: Stalking (Google)

Stalking is repeated harassing or otherwise intruding upon a person's privacy in a manner that causes fear, commonly exemplified by acts such as following or observing a person persistently and surreptitiously.

Privacy? Fear? Persistently? It took 5 minutes at most, it was all public anyway. I made no judgement, you assumed that responsibility by jumping to conclusions.

Besides, alot of people chuckled at his choice of words, given the situation. You'll notice I didnt disagree with him. In fact, I agree with pretty much everything he said. Humor, thats all I was after...might wanna lean back and smile at yourself. Stop taking FI so seriously. It lowers the blood pressure.

 

[Freight Dog]

BJammin has a very valid point. What's wrong with expressing your enthusiasm for flying?

 

[Metro752]

http://epicpwning.ytmnd.com/

 

[wmuflyguy]

Good point. I guess I have been using ACARS too long.

My company is too cheap for soemthing like that.