Get Lost

[Foobar]

How many of you are bad drivers and lousy land navigators. I can get to the airport by air, in fact I've never once been lost in an airplane. Once I get in the crew car though, yikes! I get lost, I run over curbs, yes, I am a very bad driver. My wife drives everywhere. Am I less of a man? Do other pilots have this dark secret?

 

[mar]

"I'm an excellent driver"

Ten points to identify the movie quote above

Actually I have an excellent sense of direction but, man, I drive like an old woman in the rain and snow.

I've had my car in the ditch a couple of times. I'm a much better pilot than driver.

Fly and drive safe.

 

[Lrjet23]

Who is Dustin Hoffman, in Rain Man, Alex!

 

[Typhoon1244]

My only problem is that my flying sometimes bleeds over into my driving. Sometimes while my wife and I are running errands, I catch myself flicking my thumb at an imaginary interphone switch on the steering wheel before I talk to her.

One time at a MacDonalds drive-thru, the girl told me via the speaker, "that'll be three ninety-five at the first window."

And without thinking I replied, "three ninety-five at the first window, Candler Seven-Ninety-Eight."

(It'd been a long day... )

 

[Jason_CFI]

I am still laughing

nd without thinking I replied, "three ninety-five at the first window, Candler Seven-Ninety-Eight."

OMG.

That is the funniest thing I have ever heard of!

 

[HAZ-MAT]

I feel like Typhoon's saying sometimes... I get in my truck and my right hand goes up in the air... like i am reaching for the fuel selectors... ahh.. time for a frosty BEvERage to forget about it..
Have a good weekend all.

 

[Typhoon1244]

Re: I am still laughing

OMG. That is the funniest thing I have ever heard of!

You'd be amazed what happens to the human brain whe you're doing four stand-up overnights in a row...

 

[Vladimir Lenin]

I always thought good driver meant a good pilot, only flying adds another dimension and a few more switches. Even before I started flying, I'd always picture my route from bird's eye view, complete with S, W, N and E cardinal points. That carried on into flying, and has worked rather well. But then again, I still drive more than 35,000 miles a year (while I should fly more often)

BTW, what's a bad driver? A person who gets caught a lot or one who speeds constantly without getting tix?

 

[furloaded]

How about reaching over your shoulders with both hands to look for the shoulder straps or reaching for the the throttle to slow the car down down

 

[Typhoon1244]

How about reaching over your shoulders with both hands to look for the shoulder straps...

Yup...used to do that all the time. One guy I used to fly with would instinctively reach for the radar whenever he drove through a rain squall.

For you DC-9 drivers: my dad used to announce "out of a thousand" whenever the microwave finished cooking something..."beeeeeep!"

 

[midlifeflyer]

My in-laws cam for a visit and we were going to fly to Santa Fe. Unfortunately, the rental airplane went down for maintenance at the last minute and we drove. On the way back home, I made a wrong turn somewhere in New Mexico and ended up 150 miles in the wrong direction. Said my father-in-law: "I hope you don't =fly= like that!"

 

[FSB99]

i feel your pain, man! i get so lost so easily. i get lost in the hotels at overnights.. i have to make a conscious effort to remember my path from the front desk to my room, especially if there's more than one turn to the room. i constantly lose my car in parking lots. i have to drive somewhere at least 4 or 5 times before i remember how to get there, when in a new area.
my wife's parents live on a farm. it took me 3 years to figure out how to get there myself, being there are no street signs on gravel roads. however, i found that same darn house on the first attempt, while flying a light twin.

and the only thing i've noticed myself doing in my car that carries over from the airplane is, when i am approaching a stop, as in pulling into a parking spot, or the window in a drive-thru, if the car is getting too slow to coast the last few inches, i find myself reaching for the gear shift, trying to nudge it forward to get a little more thrust....

 

[Foobar]

This sounds strange, but as a CFI I'm really used to pulling back at around 60MPH. In the car as I accelerate if I'm not thinking I will pull back.

Once while painting a room in our house I made a goof up and my brain started thinking press ctrl + z. That was weird.

 

[Barberpole]

You are all nuts. I drive just fine unless of course my wife is in the car, then I'm useless.

 

[WrightAvia]

I hear what you guys are saying about mixing your driving with your flying and the "forgetting where you are" thing. It happens to the best of us.

Sometimes I get in such a hurry to be at work, that instead of pulling my flight bag out of the trunk, I accidentally grab the duffel bag with the flexi-cuffs, hefty bags, chainsaw, duct tape and compact utility shovel in it.

It's almost as embarrassing, if I whip out a bag full of jepps, when I need the other stuff.

 

[hagen]

Yeah I'm known for getting lost while driving. There are times I still can't make it to my house from the crew lot without making a wrong turn.
How many of you have driven on the middle of the lanes after work?
Before turning out asking clear right/left?
Asking the g/f for vectors somewhere?

Hell I should put a checklist in my car.

 

[New2Flying]

Ok, how many do this...

How many of you do this?

You are so used to driving to the airport, that no matter where you are going, you zone out and your automatically drive to the airport? I cannot tell you how many times I have had to take a freeway exit to turn around! I think the car has an auto pilot to the airport parking lot!!

 

[AV1ATRX]

After a long day of teaching instrument students, I was at home talking with my husband about getting the registration to his truck from the DMV. Well, I'm sure some of you have guessed by now, I couldn't call it DMV to save my life, and every time I said DME he just laughed and laughed. It's a good thing he's a pilot so he knew what DME was...

 

[crash-proof]

This sounds strange, but as a CFI I'm really used to pulling back at around 60MPH. In the car as I accelerate if I'm not thinking I will pull back.

Once while painting a room in our house I made a goof up and my brain started thinking press ctrl + z. That was weird.

When my wife rambles on too much I'd like to hiy ctrl + alt + delete

 

[Typhoon1244]

Re: Ok, how many do this...

You are so used to driving to the airport, that no matter where you are going, you zone out and your automatically drive to the airport...

About the time we get abeam the beacon on highway 114 on the north side of DFW, my wife will ask me, "where are you going?" After looking around, I reply, "the airport, of course. Yeah, I know we're supposed to be going to Babies 'r' Us, but now, apparently, we're going to the airport." As the pilot in the family, Im supposed to be the good navigator...but it never seems to work out that way.