Who is the biggest loser you have flown with?

[mar]

I did this for a short time

When I made the move from single pilot ops into a crew environment I picked up a couple bad habits.

I noticed a few Capts putting their hands on the gear and flap handles before it was called for.

Seemed to be for two reasons:

1) A strong hint.
2) Just getting ready so that the device would be deployed at the instant it was called for.

So....I thought I might try this out and after a couple flights I decided that if the gear needed to be lowered a fraction of a second sooner than it takes for my hand to travel from my lap to the handle then we're in serious trouble.

So...I don't do this anymore. I think it's silly for an FO and rude for a Capt.

If (as Capt) you want the gear down so bad just say so. You're not gonna hurt my feelings.

P.S. I really want to tell some stories about Loser Pilots I've flown with but I don't think I can do so without being mean. So I'll keep my mouth shut.

 

[Huck]

He's back in the left seat and all better now.

Good to hear. I'll do it.

 

[belchfire]

(deleted due to extreme crulity to
lower life forms)



Nevermind...
It was about me.

 

[ABXbooger]

I was a very junior FO at a large regional back in the day. Overnighting in MSN, which is always a good time. Captain was notorious for being an ultra dork(he wore nomex gloves when flying) so when asked what I was doing for dinner, I said "I am not sure if I am going to dinner, I'll call you if go." Needless to say I was going out, but wasn't going to call. When I went down to leave the hotel for dinner, he was sitting there waiting on me, got up as if we had planned it...I was trapped.

Now the best part................................

He was wearing a powder blue leisure suit, no joke. With white shoes, no joke.
All blue with a blue fabric belt and all. I think it was polyester.

What a dinner, I will never forget.

 

[bandit110]

I had an FO do this to me last week. If I'm doing something wreckless tell me. Don't put your hand on the da#n gear handle until I say, "gear down!" I've had captains do this occasionally, but an FO? Who does he think he is?

I had the same thing happen two days ago. I first thought of this thread then I smiled at him and said I guess you want to to drop the gear.......Go ahead. Gear down.

 

[rcbullock]

I was a very junior FO at a large regional back in the day. Captain was notorious for being an ultra dork(he wore nomex gloves when flying)

He was wearing a powder blue leisure suit, no joke. With white shoes, no joke.
All blue with a blue fabric belt and all. I think it was polyester.

You know, this could be a good technique for keeping dorky FO's away. Be so ultra dorky, that even the real dork thinks he's too cool to hang with you.

'Course, I'm not trying to say anything...

It was a Zorro type outfit, like a figure skater would wear.

 

[1917Dr1]

Dork

I once flew with a guy who told me his favorite thing about aviation was walking through a terminal building in his uniform... He was a flight instructor :-(

 

[Ill Mitch]

Nah, its def Meatwad and MC Pee Pants!

Was MC Pee Pants the one doing it for the shorties? I forget...

 

[Prof. ATP]

We had a guy who made up things, like limitations. No remorse when you pulled out the manual and showed him that there was no such limitation for that a/c. He also had some bizarre theories about thunderstorms -- shoot, he had bizarre theories about EVERYTHING -- and I once had to take the aircraft away from him because he was going to fly into a sparking boomer rather than deviate toward a CU that "had a convex appearance indicating the possibility of convective activity commencing soon."

He went on to a freight feeder and I used to hear him on the radio air-filing BOTH IFR and VFR flight plans for a scheduled leg, spelling out his rather common last name phonetically, you know, Juliett Oscar November Echo Sierra.

Funny thing is, he is now an instructor at Flight Safety. That's the scariest thing about him.

 

[ATTCS]

I can't verify this but heard a story a few years ago about someone who left either UPS or FEDEX for a pax carrier 'because he wanted to walk through the terminal in uniform.'