Lying About Flying To Get Out of Something...

[LewisU_Pilot]

hey lewis u

are you in Joliet?

No out of Lewis University Airport (klot) we are about 6.5 north east of Joliet. Why do you ask?

 

[minitour]

any good ones to get out of flying?

Specifically a certain make and model *cough tomahawk cough* that I'm constantly being pressured into.

Not that it isn't all shiny since I cleaned it, but you can only polish a turd so much and it's still a turd...

-mini

 

[ATRCAPT]

Have you ever lied about having to fly to get out of something?
Example: Visting the inlaws, going to someones wedding, going to church, avoiding someone you don't want to see, etc.

One of the biggest perks of flying to me is not having a set schedule, and you always got a good "out" if you don't want to go somewhere you were invited to, or attend something you don't want to.

Does anyone else do this, and also examples!

Done it, got the T-shirt. I hope my wife doesn't read this.

 

[Vector4fun]

How about lying in order to GO flying? You guys don't waste sick time on actually being sick do you? Just don't buzz the boss' office window.

I had a buddy in High School who was also a pilot. (I think we were the only two at the time) Anyway, 'bout once a month, if the Wx was decent, and both our Dads were out of town, we'd cut our afternoon classes and go fly his T-craft BC-12D. Got away with it several times. Boy, we did some dumb stuff though. I recall hoppin' down the runway like some scared cottontail trying to wheel land it. Then he got busted when he got a ticket for like 92 mph. (We were racing home, I got away.) Glad I survived my teenage years....

 

[dseagrav]

Eh, just last weekend I lied to my boss about having to go fill out FAA paperwork so I could go to a convention in Chicago... does that count?

 

[TurboS7]

Just say your on standby and might have to get called out at any minute. That usually works good.

 

[avbug]

But that would be...the truth.

I thought this was about lying.

 

[Kream926]

i thought u was the only one that used this excuse. i always felt kinda bad cause i's call work and tell em my plane broke down somewhere and they were always like "oh dear, you be careful and call us back if you can make it". got fired a few weeks later, not for that though