In aviation too long?

[siucavflight]

How do you know you have been in aviation too long?

Today on the news the scroller at the bottom of the screen said
" GA police search for red Explorer believed to have been involved in child abduction."
For the life of me I could not figure out why general aviation police would be looking for a red explorer. Then I realized that it was Georgia.

What has happened to you guys to let you know that you have been involved in aviation too long?

 

[Typhoon1244]

How do you know you have been in aviation too long?

When you realize that Flightinfo.com is a major source of news for you...

 

[empenage]

When you realize that Flightinfo.com is a major source of news for you...

Dam....I DO have to get a life.....

 

[Timebuilder]

When the Pennsylvania employment claims agent suggested I apply for TEUC-A benefits instead of public assistance.

 

[njcapt]

When I say 'affirmative' or 'negative' to the clerk at the 7-11 and I don't understand why they look at me funny.

 

[Joe Jet Pilot]

When you can remember the regulation number for (you pick the topic), but can't remember your wifes birthday!

 

[Timebuilder]

...or you're confirming a credit card number over the phone, and you find yourself saying "..four...zero...niner....."

 

[JediNein]

When you hate weekends or days off because it means no flying and having to put up with the 'little' people and their inflated egos speeding like idiots in their $40,000 sports cars thinking it makes them look cool when you know for a fact they don't know what real speed is.

When someone calls you a 'glorified bus driver' and you just smile because their jealousy is so apparent.

When people around you are complaining about having to go someplace and it is just such a miserable drive and you keep your smile inside and just nod because you just came from there and it was only a 45 minute flight.

And most of your favorites on the IE bar have "flight," "plane," or "weather" in the URL.

Fly SAFE!
Jedi Nein

 

[Timebuilder]

When someone calls you a 'glorified bus driver' and you just smile because their jealousy is so apparent.

I talked to the local bus company. Their drivers make more than the captains at my old Lear job.

 

[LAZYB]

I talked to the local bus company. Their drivers make more than the captains at my old Lear job.

One of the senior guys in the 800XP, when I was at RTA, was always going on about his crusade to get a city bus driver job in MKE. Paid more, last run at 10/11pm, home every night.

Don't think he had the qualifications though...

 

[flyboy]

When I'm driving at night I find myself "scanning" my instruments in my jimmy to make sure I haven't experienced a failure and not noticed.

I call the local airport metar before I go deer hunting to check on the wind direction. When my hunting buddies ask me which way the wind is blowing and I tell them 040 at 9kts, they just stare at me.

I recently sent a resume for a non-aviation job and never thought about the fact that a telecommunications company might not care how much time I have in a king air or a 172.

And you definitely know you've been INSTRUCTING too long when one year ago you helped someone get their private pilot's license and today he's flying a beechjet! (and you're still instructing, still trying to find a better job, still eating cheese for breakfast, still.................................