Who is the biggest loser you have flown with?

[jknight8907]

Sit down in my seat on the first leg of a 4 day. Captain turns to me and the first thing he says to me is "So, are you an avid GA pilot?". I look at him and say, "What the hell is GA?" I then recieve a tongue lashing about how I have a bad attitude because I only fly if I am getting paid for it. That 4 day I think he read every pilot, RC, model a/c magazine in the free world. And of course he had a tip for everything I was doing "wrong".

Oh, and on his days off he goes to the local grass strip and cuts the grass for free.

Sounds fine to me. If that's his favorite thing to do, then not only is he in the right career, he has a right to do as much of what makes him happy as he wants to.

 

[Lilah]

My favorite, a certain captain, despised by many FOs who kept a very large self portait of himself as the screensaver on his cell phone. When asked who he admired in aviation, he unabashedly said he admired "himself" ! !

As far as the mowing the local grass strip for free...hey it's a free country, you can put images of yourself on your cell phone, or mow grass for free, whatever floats your boat! (even though I personally think one is the action of an egomaniac)....

Lilah

 

[flap operator]

We have these great productivity breaks at Mesaba for like, 4 hours. The Mall of America is a 10 min train ride away and lots of crews go to the mall for food or the movies or just to get the heck out of the airport. Most don't change... but let it be known here that these folks are at work. They're not there on their day off. We have a few dorks at Mesaba, but I don't think they'd be caught dead in uniform on their day off, where fellow XJers might see them. =)

I'd have to nominate the comair guy I saw at the gorcery store a few months ago, wearing his hat in the dairy aisle. I'm ok with going to the store or something on the way home, but for crying out loud, take the darn hat off!


FO

 

[Sprint100]

I can't think of any, so I must be that guy LOL!!!!!!!!!

 

[Doug Parker]

How freakin hard is it to lose the Hat, Badge, Tie, and Epaulets before you leave the airport ???

You guys are just making excuses why you wear your costume in public away from the airport.................

 

[exchexflyer]

Now I don't want to start a delta connection accademy bash here...ok maybe I do, but 95% of these guys are huge losers. I told this delta connection accademy fo that I am high mins. On the second flight, he coupled the flight guidence to his side like he was going to fly. First of all, I was going to let him fly, but after he did that I was like WTF!

 

[Mayday911]

The point was he felt that everyone needed to be into flying as much as him. I am not, so therefore I got scolded. Maybe one of you is him?

 

[exchexflyer]

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We have these great productivity breaks at Mesaba for like, 4 hours. The Mall of America is a 10 min train ride away and lots of crews go to the mall for food or the movies or just to get the heck out of the airport. Most don't change... but let it be known here that these folks are at work. They're not there on their day off. We have a few dorks at Mesaba, but I don't think they'd be caught dead in uniform on their day off, where fellow XJers might see them. =)

I'd have to nominate the comair guy I saw at the gorcery store a few months ago, wearing his hat in the dairy aisle. I'm ok with going to the store or something on the way home, but for crying out loud, take the darn hat off!


FO

He was probably bald!

 

[psycho]

Awesome thread!!

I would not consider the pilot in the story to follow to be a tool, just a funny old guy with more time inside the marker than I will ever have.

He is teaching me to fly the beech 99 from Reno to Winnemucca and we are unpress at 17,500. I go for the O2 mask and he says "God I hate when people use that crap, I don't like smoking around it". I put it away and he graciously offers me a pall mall nonfilter. I shudder to think of the buzz I would have missed out on had I not lit up and gone for the O2 instead.

 

[Kaman]

Hello,
Amazing some of the unique personailities and idosyncracies they have. i've been lucky where I work to fly with some really awesome guys/gals that I've learned alot from. Not alot of time for some of the silliness that you read about in this thread flying the Mighty Beech for 7 legs a day. Flew one the other day with no VCM and a weak ACM.
Anyway, I guess you can say that I'm an "aviation-geek" to some extent, but nothing to the extent that I've read about here! I have a large collection of books that I started as a kid, and continue here and there as I can afford it. My Dad was an Air Force pilot, and I was career Navy. It would seem that some of these people are insecure about themselves and that their whole identity is what they fly or do for a living. Uniform does not a pilot make and personally I was more comfy flying a Seneca doing freight in shorts, company shirt and flipflops!

Regards

ex-Navy Rotorhead

 

[Huck]

I shudder to think of the buzz I would have missed out on had I not lit up and gone for the O2 instead.

Now THAT's funny. Probably kept your transmissions short, too - you'd start blacking out after the third word....

OK here's my go at it:

- The guy that woke up and told me to quit reading.

- The guy that told me to land on the upwind side of the runway, so the crown would help me with drift.

- The MD11 captain who was convinced the aircraft was fly-by-wire (I had to open up the avionics hole and show him the cables).

- The ASA senior captain that got a letter from the CP, commanding him to stop collecting bag carts in ATL with his uniform on between legs. He was getting 25 cents a cart or something.

- The Gemini guy that passed out in the elevator of the Seoul Holiday Inn-Mapo on New years Eve ~2001. The Koreans saw him on the security camera, went in and covered him with a blanket. The other guests just stepped over him all night.

- The Fedex guy that briefs you before the flight: if I put the checklist on the center panel, I'll talk to you. If not, sterile cockpit.

 

[1.3XVso]

Your Da Man

Now I don't want to start a delta connection accademy bash here...ok maybe I do, but 95% of these guys are huge losers. I told this delta connection accademy fo that I am high mins. On the second flight, he coupled the flight guidence to his side like he was going to fly. First of all, I was going to let him fly, but after he did that I was like WTF![/]QUOTE



Best **CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED**ing thing you said man....

 

[Big Dog]

bump.

 

[FedEx1]

Huck:

The checklist turning guy? He's back in the left seat and all better now. Well, better anyway. Took a long time, but if you get him, cut him some slack.
Peace, brother....

Oh, P.S... there I was last week, in the condiment aisle at Schnuck's in Bartlett, (a suburb a good half an hour from the MEM airport) and lo and behold! I run into a fully uniformed Pinnacle captain. I had to scoot out of the aisle fast before I busted up laughing. Ok, at least he didn't have the hat on.

Um guys... Leave the tie and epilauttes in the car!

 

[Big Dog]

Gutter is a tool!

 

[nerdpilot]

I would say 40 percent of all pilots are total dorks wearing there stupid e6b watches hanging there cell phones and pagers and blackberrys and flashlights on there belts. Just love talking about flying and how they want to buy an airplane and how they play flight simulator at home. get a life. Anybody can be a pilot as long as you have enough money.

 

[Snakum]

- The Gemini guy that passed out in the elevator of the Seoul Holiday Inn-Mapo on New years Eve ~2001. The Koreans saw him on the security camera, went in and covered him with a blanket. The other guests just stepped over him all night.

LMAO! Not really dorkish ... but someone needs to clue him that college is over.

But still ... LMAO!


Minh

 

[Snakum]

Wow ... I knew my boss was a sweetie, but after reading some of these, I'm inclined to submit him for Sainthood.

I knew I had it good already ... but D@MN!

Minh

 

[exchexflyer]

Capt. that reaches for the gear handle and sits there with his/her hand on it until you say "Gear down". I usually wait until the last possible second just to piss them off.

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?