What's the dumbest question you've been asked as a pilot?

[Rook]

Q. You guys havent been drinking have you?

A. No that's only between flights.

 

[FL000]

What route do you fly?

Maybe not the dumbest, but it makes up for it in volume.

 

[avl_pilot]

"That's your car? I thought pilots made a lot of money?"

 

[POKEY]

Have you ever flown the Space Shuttle? (an adult actually asked me this)

 

[Flyingdutchman]

"That's your car? I thought pilots made a lot of money?"

HAHHAHHHA I hear ya bro!! hang in there!!

 

[LAXSaabdude]

What route do you fly?

Love that question. Here's a good follow up I got one time....

My answer to original question: Well, it changes all the time. We fly to many different cities every week.

Follow up: Wow, really? I would think the airline would want to keep you on the same route so you could "get used to it"!

(thinking to myself) Yeah, like a trained rat in a maze, right?

LAXSaabdude.

 

[viper548]

Q. How do you know where to go?
A. The company tells me where to go.

 

[viper548]

Here's a stupid question a pax asked the FA: I went to the lav, so the FA goes into the flightdeck. I go back in and the FA comes out. The pax asked the FA if he was flying the plane while I was in the lav

 

[Propblast]

After looking at the solar reflective stuff we put up on the windshield to keep it from broiling a woman asked, "Did you guys fly here like that?" Her husband just started shaking his head and looking down got off the airplane as quickly as possible. I told her it helped us to keep up our instrument proficiency.

-PB

 

[acapilot2003]

"so you're a firefighter, huh?" (asked by a passer-by at the store after work)