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

[JettBoii]

i like those big chi chi's on your avatar sic.

 

[JetFumes]

Here's one. We had just gotten done with a flight from Richmond VA, to IAD, on a J41 turboprop. As we were de-planing, a little old lady comes up to me and asks ," Where do the propellers go when we're inflight?"
CLASSIC!

 

[skygod75]

Q: Why do all pilots sound the same?

A: Three reasons, sir: Tired, bored, and pi$$ed off.

The questions I get as a police officer are even more entertaining.

 

[temcgrew]

I was helping a friend on his roof after a big ice storm, and told him I was afraid of heights. (I hate being on roofs)

....and you fly planes?

 

[Flight1339]

I was helping a friend on his roof after a big ice storm, and told him I was afraid of heights. (I hate being on roofs)

....and you fly planes?

Its amazing the number of pilots who are afraid of heights. Until about a year ago I thought it was just me. In fact I had someone today talk to me about that. He assumed I wasn't because I was a pilot.

 

[ParrotheadGTI]

I had a fuking passenger stick his head in the cockpit the day afteer comair accident in lexintong, and this LOOSER SAID : "thx for taking off in the correct runway guys...hahaha" i just wanted to kille the ********************er...

had a passenger get on the plane and say "make sure yall take off on the right runway!!" he started laughing then looked at our glares, wiped the smile off his face, and walked away...this was about 3 hours after comair went down

 

[Shaheen]

I am just curious to find out what the dumbest question a passenger/ stranger has ever asked you while at the airport.

I won't bother reading all these pages, but I know where this is going and what your intent is. I find it fascinating when pilots tend to 'put down' non-pilots. Lot of what we know, and consider, routine is something absolutely NEW to a non-pilot.

For instance, in a recent conversation with new college-graduate, I discovered that he thought that Ramp Agents who marshal aircraft in to gates are part of Air Traffic Control. Others thought that the Tower controls all traffic in the US, and most passengers think that Flight Attendants are there to provide food and drinks ONLY.

Doesn’t mean that these people are stupid. But your questions is implying the same and soliciting response to that effect.

I’m sure somewhere on the net there's a thread on a Surgeon/Physicians board with a question: What's the dumbest question you've been asked BY a pilot?

 

[AC560]

most passengers think that Flight Attendants are there to provide food and drinks ONLY.

That's right you forgot blankets and pillows.

 

[pgcfii2002]

Its amazing the number of pilots who are afraid of heights. Until about a year ago I thought it was just me. In fact I had someone today talk to me about that. He assumed I wasn't because I was a pilot.

I'm afraid of heights too.......

 

[Sawmill]

I won't bother reading all these pages, but I know where this is going and what your intent is. I find it fascinating when pilots tend to 'put down' non-pilots. Lot of what we know, and consider, routine is something absolutely NEW to a non-pilot.

For instance, in a recent conversation with new college-graduate, I discovered that he thought that Ramp Agents who marshal aircraft in to gates are part of Air Traffic Control. Others thought that the Tower controls all traffic in the US, and most passengers think that Flight Attendants are there to provide food and drinks ONLY.

Doesn’t mean that these people are stupid. But your questions is implying the same and soliciting response to that effect.

I’m sure somewhere on the net there's a thread on a Surgeon/Physicians board with a question: What's the dumbest question you've been asked BY a pilot?

Hey Shaheen...want to know how I know you're gay?

 

[AV80R]

Its amazing the number of pilots who are afraid of heights. Until about a year ago I thought it was just me. In fact I had someone today talk to me about that. He assumed I wasn't because I was a pilot.

My friend was a glider aerobatic competitor yet he was very scared of heights. His doctor said something about "no physical contact with the ground" when flying which would fool his brain. Amazing aerobatic glider champion, yet I had to help him paint the upper portion of his house, he wouldn’t even attempt to get up on the ladder.

Then again, maybe he just wanted me to paint his house? lol

 

[wings421]

We had a guy in 2006 in IND ask us how he could buy an Eastern Airlines ticket to Florida.

 

[Occam's Razor]

I won't bother reading all these pages, but I know where this is going and what your intent is.

But it's the report on Iraqi WMD's, Mr. President!

(Oy! Now I know how that stuff happens!)

I find it fascinating when pilots tend to 'put down' non-pilots.

Then you should read all the threads. 95% of the stuff on this Forum is pilots putting down each other or themselves. There's an entire thread abouit a guy that divulged a stupid mistake he made that led to a violation! Youi think I'm gonna read that on a surgeon's chat board? "Dude! I totally cut off this chick's good leg by mistake!"

Lot of what we know, and consider, routine is something absolutely NEW to a non-pilot.

Do tell. Maybe that's why the home page doesn't encourage plumbers and aluminum siding salesmen to log on for insightful chat about their professions.

For instance, in a recent conversation with new college-graduate, I discovered that he thought that Ramp Agents who marshal aircraft in to gates are part of Air Traffic Control. Others thought that the Tower controls all traffic in the US, and most passengers think that Flight Attendants are there to provide food and drinks ONLY.

Whaaaaat? You mean they don't? (That should definately be in our manual somewhere!)

Doesn’t mean that these people are stupid. But your questions is implying the same and soliciting response to that effect.

It's professional banter. Cops do it. Doctors do it. Lawyers do it. Plumbers do it. Academics do it. Ambulance drivers do it. It's not intended, or conducted, in a setting that can be construed as "public". If it was...I don't think the average airline passenger would be surprised at some of the questions and comments from their fellow travelers. Leno, Letterman, O'Brien, and even the Reader's Digest pump out more stupid questions and comments stuff than you'll ever see here. (YourPilotFriend notwithstanding)


I’m sure somewhere on the net there's a thread on a Surgeon/Physicians board with a question: What's the dumbest question you've been asked BY a pilot?

I hope so! I think it'd be frickin' hilarious! Pilots probably generate some of the lamest questions doctors ever hear. (If you can link to any, you'd count much coup among those of us who don't mind being the butt of the joke.)

Start a thread about the dumbest thing a pilot's ever said to a doctor and I think it's be good for 5-pages!

I'll start: I asked my female flight surgeon in Pensacola "When will the doctor get here?"

 

[AV80R]

Start a thread about the dumbest thing a pilot's ever said to a doctor and I think it's be good for 5-pages!

During one of my FAA medical exams I had to look through the electronic version of the “eye chart” and the doc told me to close my left eye and let him know which line on the “chart” I could see? I said, hmm… I don't see anything? He replied; it'll help if you close your "other" left eye instead.

 

[EMB170Pilot]

Sir, we don't do that here. I said we needed a urine sample.







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