Flying Pet Peeves!!!!!

[Jedi_Cheese]

CFI's that think you got the ATIS/AWOS on the first time around, failed to pick it up themselves, and start tuning in the next freq on the radios.

 

[hydroflyer]

Excessive thrust to start moving or taxiing across a ramp.

Pilots who insist on waiting until reaching the hold short line to do their run-up and ALL after start items, meanwhile blocking access to the runway for the other 8 airplanes behind them.

 

[EagleRJ]

-FOs who finished the preflight 15 minutes ago and are all buckled in and ready to go, and they turn and say, "oh, and I don't know if you want to do anything about it, but we have a light out/ worn tire/ oil leak etc." Great. Now we're going to take a delay! Grrrr...

-757s that use toga power to cross a runway, even when they know someone's behind them.

-Guys who tell the tower "we're ready in sequence" when we're #5 in line, or tell the tower we're ready when there's traffic on like 3/4 mile final. Guess what the tower is going to say?

-Taxiing with the strobes on.

-Guys who jealously guard the clearence printout and don't mention when there's a change from the usual route.

-Controllers who get b!tchy when you try to clarify a confusing or garbled clearance.

-Mechanics who feel they need to change the position of every friggin' switch and knob in the cockpit before they release it back into service.

-Passengers.

 

[AAsRedHeadedbro]

SWA pilots whining about being slowing down because they're behind an RJ doing .78 Mach. Cry me a river. I've never heard so much moaning in my life guys! Remember, before you guys got the 737 NG's, you were flying at M.75 or so in those 200's and 300's, slowing everybody else down. I don't remember people whining about having to slow for ol' SWA as often as you guys moan and complain. What's the big freakin' rush guys! Suck it up!

 

[AAsRedHeadedbro]

Hey EagleRJ,

I have my FO tell the tower we're ready when there's traffic "on like 3/4 mile final" even though we all know he'll say "Roger. Hold Short." Why? Because even though the AIM says that a tower controller is supposed to assume a turbine powered airplane is ready when it reaches the end, many of them will just let me sit there burning jet fuel until I tell them I'm ready. I've seen it a thousand times. I get to the end. There's not another airplane in the entire state inbound. I sit there waiting for the controller to give me a pos and hold clearance. Nothing. Finally, I think "f... it! I'll let 'im know I'm ready." Bingo. "Eagleflight XXX cleared for takeoff. Piper Pacer on a 100 mile final." Sheesh.

Ya know what's a pet peev of mine? An fo who says to me after I tell him to let the tower know we're ready, "Why? There's a guy on a half mile final. He'll just say Rog. Hold short." Hmmm. Ya think (I'm thinking)?! "Yea. I know. I just want to let him know so he'll let us go when he's got an opening instead of waiting till either I tell him I'm ready or I run outa fuel. So, give him a heads up, please. Thanks."

 

[SCT]

Redheadbro,

You think that is bad. Try coming out of TEB (my second home) doing .90 going to CLT and getting cut off by a USAIR bus coming out of Philly doing .76.........ATC: Can you slow as much as pratical?

I feel your pain brother.

 

[BornAgainPagan]

My pet peeve is to the morons who automatically equate one political persuasion with intelligence and bring it up in the cockpit.

 

[C425Driver]

People who preach their religion to me in the cockpit and think I'm going to hell because I don't want to hear it from them.

FO's who think they're Captains.

Captain's who act like CFI's for the entire trip.

Controllers who issue taxi clearances for clearing the runway while we're deceleratng through 100kts.

The TSA.

Pasengers who take their seat then pull their cell phone out and talk as loud as possible about some really important business deal and think the rest of us are impressed.

 

[empenage]

Pet Peves?

I hate it when people bitch and moan about stupid, irrelevant sh!t because they like to moan and complain and whine.

 

[Birdstrike]

Accepting 'good enough' instead of striving for excellence

It would bug me when copilots accepted 5050 or 4975 instead of constantly correcting to maintain the assigned 5000. Same thing with heading. 067 degrees is not 065 degrees.

Granted, in a helo or anything else there are times when +/- 100 ft or 10 degrees is outstanding flying... and who can continually hand fly 066 degrees with no error... but my point is that we were all taught to be continually be making the small corrections and I eventually had to say something if the corrections weren't being made.

 

[Typhoon1244]

Pet Peves? I hate it when people bitch and moan about stupid, irrelevant sh!t because they like to moan and complain and whine.

You're in the wrong industry, my friend! Maybe you should consider becoming a massage therapist. This...

Excessive thrust to start moving or taxiing across a ramp.

...is not "stupid, irrelevant sh|t." It's not even a "pet peeve." It's careless and reckless.

And it's something I used to think the mainline guys had a monopoly on...until I started commuting and riding in back of a lot of our RJ's. It's more common than I thought. Nine times out of ten, if you just release the parking brake and wait, it'll roll. There's no need to go to takeoff power to leave the ramp!

 

[EagleRJ]

Pet Peves?

I hate it when people bitch and moan about stupid, irrelevant sh!t because they like to moan and complain and whine.

Are you kidding me? All pilots exel in bitching and moaning about topics both relevant and irrelevant. Ever since Orville complained about the drafty cockpit, it's never changed. It's in the job description and always will be.

Oh, and Skywest EMB-120 crews:
We know you're faster than the Mighty Saab, so when ATC tells you to slow to 220 for spacing, save the crying. It gets old after awhile!

 

[dhoward]

Whiney pilots

I can't stand whiney pilots who gripe about everyone and everything. Just deal with it! Do your job and shut your hole.

 

[Typhoon1244]

...Skywest EMB-120 crews...when ATC tells you to slow to 220 for spacing, save the crying.

Why do you think Skywest guys are the only ones doing that? You should hear Southwest getting a speed reduction! (Granted, it doesn't happen that often...)

Why, even I've been known to reply, "[sigh] ooooooookay, slow to two-fifty, Candler Blah-blah-blah..."

 

[guitarflyer]

Following Southwest...ever hear of a glideslope?