Flight crew etiquette (serious only)

[wickedpilot]

I was wondering if when you are walking though an airport if it was impolite not to say "hello" or node to other flight crew members (your airline or others)?

I'm wondering if there are other professions out there with forums that ask questions like "hey guys, so i was wondering what's the best hand shake to use when meeting a new client? Should I go with the firm one or should I go with try and match the other guys grasp. I don't want to seem overbearing yet I don't want to seem weak either. (serious responses only).

What a friggin' tool!! Aren't there moderators desinagted to filter out this crap?

I would hate to fly with a guy who is so incompetent that he has to ask a question like "is it okay to say hello to other pilots".

DORK!

 

[~~~^~~~]

Ok tough guy. You try that with me sometime and I'll take your finger and break it off!

Is that what happened to your middle fingers in your photograph?

 

[~~~^~~~]

you're full of ******************** Fins. The Delta pilots don't despise Connection pilots.

Ha, that quote really brought out the love, even from 737Pylt.

Just watch some hapless ASA F.O. get on the Camp Creek bus and see the reaction from the Delta pilots. I have to fly with these poor people after they go through all the trauma and get thrown off the bus theirr management tells them to ride.

I've been telling them to go into "Rosa Parks" mode and sit right down on them Delta Boy's bus....

 

[Flyby1206]

I'm wondering if there are other professions out there with forums that ask questions like "hey guys, so i was wondering what's the best hand shake to use when meeting a new client? Should I go with the firm one or should I go with try and match the other guys grasp. I don't want to seem overbearing yet I don't want to seem weak either. (serious responses only).
DORK!

I doubt there is such thing as doctorinfo.com or lawyerinfo.com. Most other normal people hate their jobs and dont want to think or talk about it when they are at home on their free time. Which says something about us, at least everyone tolerates their job enough to care about it, right?

 

[greg52083]

I'm wondering if there are other professions out there with forums that ask questions like "hey guys, so i was wondering what's the best hand shake to use when meeting a new client? Should I go with the firm one or should I go with try and match the other guys grasp. I don't want to seem overbearing yet I don't want to seem weak either. (serious responses only).

What a friggin' tool!! Aren't there moderators desinagted to filter out this crap?

I would hate to fly with a guy who is so incompetent that he has to ask a question like "is it okay to say hello to other pilots".

DORK!

Wickedpilot, I'd like to thank you for calling me incompetent, a tool and a dork. Id like to share with the group one of your posts:

I love where I live by Wickedpilot

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My apartment is underneath (well, not directly but in close vicinity) the ILS approach path for 20L at a "reliever aiport" for another biggie airport in the southeast.

No major jetliners are whistling overhead for an extreme rush but I love taking that nightly walk to check the mail and seeing...and hearing a G5, Falcon, Citation etc. blast off into the skyways.

Any of you live close enough to an airport to "smell the fumes" for lack a better phrase?
Or better yet, any of you live close and get annoyed/botherd by the noise?

 

[shamrock]

No one mentioned acknowledging the good looking flight attendants.

Not a concern when you work at ASA, or any Delta concourse in Atlanta.

 

[OPECJet]

If you waved, smiled, nodded, greeted, etc to every other crewmember you passed in a hub airport, you'd look like a dam clown.

 

[Murdoughnut]

Jeep owners wave to one another as well ... Jeep Wrangler owners that is - and it's more common with the older CJs and YJs. I have a '95 and the rule of thumb is that if they have square lights, or a ton of rust, wave to them. If they have a Jeep you could actually carry someone in without shaking the 5th vertabrae loose from their spine, then don't wave because they probably won't wave back.

 

[737 Pylt]

Ha, that quote really brought out the love, even from 737Pylt.

Just watch some hapless ASA F.O. get on the Camp Creek bus and see the reaction from the Delta pilots. I have to fly with these poor people after they go through all the trauma and get thrown off the bus theirr management tells them to ride.

I've been telling them to go into "Rosa Parks" mode and sit right down on them Delta Boy's bus....

Did you pull this one out of the same book as the one where the DL pilots are trying to strip you of your non rev privileges??
Keep em coming dude, you look more stupid by the post!
737

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

Delta Pilots despise Connection pilots of any type, although they particularly loath Comair pilots. ASA pilots like Comair pilots, but despise Freedom and Shuttle guys.

Everyone in Atlanta seems to like AirTran pilots, although they are the "competition." Just goes to show you how well Delta runs its operations. All the employees under the Delta umbrella hate eachother to the point of physical violence if they thought they could get away with it, while they love the airline that is putting them out of business.

Seems Delta pilots would like the guys who are bringing them passengers to fill their Boeings, but that is not the way it is.

This business is nuts - you will need a really thick skin.

You are just figuring this out? Divide and Conquer.... The Blame Game....

and then there is the RJDC.....

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

Ah yes. The gotta wave at another biker rule. Plus, you had better know the correct way to wave. A simple wave won't do. You must point to the ground with one or two fingers with an air of smug indifference. Anything else would be uncool. What a royal pain in the ass. I'll respond if they wave first but unless I know them I'm not starting the process. I don't wave at every pick-up truck I see either. Who started that crap?

While we're on the subject, why does every fat balding middleaged professional having a midlife crisis have to buy a $25K H-D and then wear "The Uniform" every time they go riding. Engineer boots with a Harley emblem in the sole, a do rag, a black leather vest that's too small to fit around their gut so they attach one of those little chains to bridge the gap, numerous pins and patches on said vest (POW, H.O.G., Vietnam Service Ribbon, 1% er, etc) a wallet with a chain, fingerless gloves and the obligatory goatee that's more gray than any other color. On Any Sunday (pun intended) there are about 10,000 guys around here that fit that description and they are all riding the same bike (Fatboy or Road King). Amazing. What ever happend to jeans, an innocuous pair of work boots and a T-shirt?

Rant over......

Don't forget the $50 H-D bag of dead flies to place in your hair and teeth so it looks like you ride......hard...

 

[capt. megadeth]

I was wondering if when you are walking though an airport if it was impolite not to say "hello" or node to other flight crew members (your airline or others)?

Yes....it's impolite. I think it's common courtesy. Unfortunately, this country has lost that.

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

Yes....it's impolite. I think it's common courtesy. Unfortunately, this country has lost that.

We agree on something!! :beer:

 

[Captain X]

You must have walked throught the IAH concourse-if your lucky, you'll get "the nod"

Ya' know...I hear this all the time on the various crackpipes and yet it is IAH where I get the most nods, "Yo's," "'Sups?" etc. and CLE and EWR (assuming you are referring to CAL/XJT crews) where I get the least.

In fact, the last time I was in EWR I passed about 10 XJT guys who were "antisocial" and the ONLY person who gave a nod or hello to our crew (XJT) was your stereotypical old crotchety CAL guy that everyone always says are so bad and unhappy.

But here's my real question -- are our egos, ids, or whatever so weak that it constantly has to be stroked by someone acknowledging our very existence ALL THE FREAKIN' TIME?!?!?!?!

The other guy may be late for his outbound, his commute, etc. He may have just found out that he's been put on term warning or his kid is sick. He may be mentally writing a list of ******************** down he's got to get done before his next trip. Or he may just be beat down and dead tired and has tunnel vision to get to the shuttle to the lot.

Everyone just needs to get over themselves b/c right along with courtesy being a lost "art" came the fact that everyone these days thinks the world revolves around them. It doesn't. It's a big bad world with multiple personalities and most of the personalities in our workplace today are part of the "Generation of Entitlement." Work on thickening your skin, getting over yourself and accepting that you are insignificant in the grand scheme of things and you will be much happier. Otherwise.....:crying:

 

[flyboyike]

But here's my real question -- are our egos, ids, or whatever so weak that it constantly has to be stroked by someone acknowledging our very existence ALL THE FREAKIN' TIME?!?!?!?!

Yes, they are.

 

[crashpad]

What happened to respect?

(oh, and the days when stewardesses were hot and easy?)

 

[Regul8r]

I think the Riddle guys switched over to the 15 minute reach around while in line at the Starbucks (nothing against starbucks). In defense of the guys who don't nod or acknowledge you, sometimes people have things on their mind. "Boy, that flight attendant was kinky last night...that sure was a CRAZY three and a half minutes. I hope she doesn't post the video on MySpace. Is my crotch starting to itch, or is it just my underwear???"

 

[PunchTheClown]

Be nice to everyone except those wearing Mesa or GO Jerks badges, those guys you are expected to give the cold shoulder to.

 

[greg52083]

Be nice to everyone except those wearing Mesa or GO Jerks badges, those guys you are expected to give the cold shoulder to.

Go take ur hate to another thread

 

[Walter Sobchak]

Naaah, Greg. I think everybody here enjoys the hatred. I personally have nothing against the Mesa guys, but the GoJet people are scumbags and they deserve everything they get.

 

[Regul8r]

GoJet guys will get a little Union Greeting in the form of "The People's Elbow" and the Freedom guys get a spicy little number I like to refer to as "Knee to Groin"

 

[EMB170Pilot]

Boat people wave at eachother too b/c its the polite thing to do.

I ignore the Gojet or Mesa boats....those are the worst!:beer:

 

[Mr Biggelsworth]

I prefer the stare of death. Just give them the look like they've just contracted Ebola.

 

[EdAtTheAirport]

Yes....it's impolite. I think it's common courtesy. Unfortunately, this country has lost that.

Not only that, but now we've lost Pluto!

 

[eddie]

What I really hate is forgetting I'm in street clothes, walking through the terminal, and looking like some sort of moron nodding at every crew member I pass.

 

[W8N4UAL]

What I really hate is forgetting I'm in street clothes, walking through the terminal, and looking like some sort of moron nodding at every crew member I pass.

1000 points to eddie for posting a truthful and funny thought. Been there.

 

[John Pennekamp]

What I really hate is forgetting I'm in street clothes, walking through the terminal, and looking like some sort of moron nodding at every crew member I pass.

Man I hate that! But what scares me is when they recognize me incognito and say hi on their own!

 

[cjdriver]

i saw these two guys the other day they did that top gun high five thing, then they did a chest bump and then they had gay sex right there in the gate area. i thought it was kind of strange but then i saw riddle stickers on their flight cases and i guess that is the accepted way alumni greet each other.

Too funny.