What do Netjets guys do on long flights

[CA1900]

Nah... the empty legs are where the sound system gets tested out!

 

[satpak77]

And since when did amateurs need a license???

uh, since the FCC was created

http://wireless.fcc.gov/services/index.htm?job=about&id=amateur

http://www.arrl.org/

 

[skiandsurf]

What do we do on long flights..?[/quote]

If it is an early morning flight, climbing thru 18,000', I like to go check on Thurston and Lovey. Make sure that their coffee is at the right temperature. I always make sure that the kids or dogs are comfortable as well. Then I return to the cockpit and eat my "healthy cereal" (cereal, 2%milk, and yogurt). Then we will do our daily engine trend monitoring checks. Once all that is done we have some free time. This is the best time of the flight, as we have time to listen to all the bozo pilots out there missing their calls (ie..."say again"). Then about an hour prior to landing, I go back and make sure that everyone is still doing ok. Sometimes I will have to throw a blanket over Lovey. Then its back to the cockpit for lunch. Maybe a PB&J, or maybe a Cobb Salad. Then it gets busy again.

If this is a long repo (2hrs+). I just go in the back and sleep

 

[acaTerry]

Then I return to the cockpit and eat my "healthy cereal" (cereal, 2%milk, and yogurt).

You know, with a little water you can make that a skim milk.

 

[blueskies8]

And remember: If you denounce iPods yet listen to the ADF over the very same headset, you're a hypocrite. That is all.

Doesn't the iPod come through a seperate headset or earpiece than the aviation headset potentially blocking out aircraft comm in that ear vs. listening to the ADF, HF and VHF at the same time in one headset which is entirely possible?

 

[Jafo73]

Doesn't the iPod come through a seperate headset or earpiece than the aviation headset potentially blocking out aircraft comm in that ear vs. listening to the ADF, HF and VHF at the same time in one headset which is entirely possible?

depends. a few headsets have adapters or plugs that allow you to plug the iPod or any other audio device into them. So it would be just like listening to the HF...

 

[SSDD]

Play FMS golf

 

[Mike Jenvey]

When reading a book or newspaper, you can't do anything. You don't read a newspaper when driving your car right?

Well, I have cruise control in my car, but the autopilot does an even better job in my aircraft.

Surely there are times when it is possible to read (book or newspaper) or even listen to music, & times when it is not appropriate. If you make the rules too stringent, then you will soon get very bored & your attention curve will be on the draggy side of the line. If it's 0900 local in the middle of a busy ATC sector, bad weather enroute, then no, it's not appropriate to relax a little. At 2200 local, in a very quiet sector, with good enroute weather, awareness of FIR boundaries & expected freq changes, system checks completed in accordance with the manufacturer's recommendations, etc, then as long as both pilots are not engrossed in the latest Tom Clancy novel, no big issue.

We're not flying DC3s here, with an engine failure imminent!! One guy monitors, one guy does the crossword! One pilot goes back to check on the owners, the other guy does not carry on with 23 Across!

You can safely combine airmanship with other activities - but don't link your iPod to the MFD!!

 

[DO-82 driver]

Do what you wish, but policy is policy and I am not going to sacrafice my Captain's pay (which I worked so hard for) so my F/O can listen to AeroSmith!!!!

Turn it off........plain and simple

Don't want to turn it off....explain it to the ACP....you're not worth it.

 

[xpdriver]

count our money!!!