Who is the biggest loser you have flown with?

[Baraqyal]

I fly freight and I have a SIC (one that pays for time) that shows up in a pilot uniform when we can wear shorts and a t-shirt. What a loser. Anyone else have good stories?

I guess the biggest loser would be ur mom.

 

[treetopflyer]

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.

i heard of a guy like that at ACA, did he also wear his gloves while instructing at riddle? if so, you are correct, super tool!!!

 

[washout]

capt who answered his cell phone at 500 AGL on final. his leg.

 

[CKJET]

When I first started on the 727 there was an F/O who I am fairley certin was trying to kill us! It would always make for interesting conversations between the crews at the hotel. He eventually made it to #1 F/O on the list and claimed the quality of life issue for not upgrading. He was a real tool.

 

[TransMach]

Simple answer .... ME ...

 

[Lead Sled]

When I first started on the 727 there was an F/O who I am fairley certin was trying to kill us! It would always make for interesting conversations between the crews at the hotel. He eventually made it to #1 F/O on the list and claimed the quality of life issue for not upgrading. He was a real tool.

How about the FO who balanced the fuel on her 727 by dumping?

'Sled

 

[G100driver]

How about the FO who balanced the fuel on her 727 by dumping?

'Sled

I thought that was a DC-10? Good thing for her lawyer, eh?

 

[Lead Sled]

I thought that was a DC-10? Good thing for her lawyer, eh?

No it was a 727 - Western Airlines, in the mid- 80's.

 

[G100driver]

LOL that is funny. I heard the story about 5 years ago and it was a UA DC-10 and she was Native American ... who got a tribal lawyer to represent her!

 

[DrProc]

I actually think the gear thing is a pretty good idea! Every year there are several gear up landings at towered airports. How hard is it for the tower to say, "UAL776 check wheels down, cleared to land runway 11." Reply,"Roger, UAL776 cleared to land 11, gear in transit or gear down or holding the gear." Not that airline types are landing unintentional gear ups (except Great Lakes). Military types that have flown PAR approaches know that approach says something to the effect of, "over the final approach fix wheels should be down." Put that in the civilian world shooting an ASR approach, which is out of the norm for most of us. It is real easy to forget the gear. We are creatures of habit.

Well, when you are operating with a crew of two or three, following standardized checklists and flows, the aircraft needs a lot less power on approach, and the gear horn blaring in your ear, and the red light shining in my face. One thing if you are flying a Seneca or Mooney, but if you get to the point when flying a jet that the gear ain't down and locked and the tower has to remind you, yes then sir, you are a dumbass.

 

[Lead Sled]

LOL that is funny. I heard the story about 5 years ago and it was a UA DC-10 and she was Native American ... who got a tribal lawyer to represent her!

Maybe it also happened at United - I have no idea. I do know that it happened to a Western 727 crew as well.

 

[CrimsonEclipse]

When I flew corp. I had the "honor" of flying with a furlowed TWA F/O.
He CONSTANTLY bitched how it wasn't like TWA and how great a pilot
he was. He was also a Riddle Diddle which made things worse. He'd brag
on how much he made at TWA (but still in debt, the dumbass) and every
time he'd say how great he was, he slammed the plane (a CE-550) on the
runway so hard, it would scared the hell out of the pax. He'd preach
standard procedure day in and day out then make up calls on the approach.

That company had 3 of those guys, each tried to kill me with their "Skills".
One was deathly afraid of ANY thunderstorm or buildup.

Same guy, as PNF failed to listen to the whole ATIS going into MCO.
Him: Take the next taxiway
Me: (remembering the NOTAM) Is that one still open?
Him: yeah yeah, just take it.

We nearly hit a jersey barrier and are getting screamed at by the tower.
Same guy was constantly hitting buttons and saying "what does this
button/switch do?" I told him I'd break his arm/neck if he did it again.
I meant it.

Another guy wanted to reset the A/C bus at FL 410 (CE650) which would
have hozed the nav and pressurization. It is NOT standard procedure.
Same guy tried crossing an active at TEB, yes I hit the breaks, while getting
yelled at. He almost died by blunt force trauma from the right seat.

Different guy would shut off the nose gear steering for takeoff because he
thought it was too sensitive.

Different pilot would get scared by traffic and yell "GGUUEEEEAAAH" instead
of "traffic 12 o'clock our level 1/2 mile". I'd have to ask 20 questions to
find out what was wrong "what is it Lassy? is Timmy cought in the well?"

Boy I miss corperate.uke:

CE

 

[fishalaska]

Your threads are priceless! The stories are worth a six pack to everyone!

 

[Lostdog65]

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.

Psycho...

Just started reading this thread but I have to ask...

N209BH by any chance? UPS run from RNO to WMC? PM me...I think I know who you are talking about. I did my 99 training from RNO to WMC in 99'...

Eric

 

[414Flyer]

Wherethefucca? (Winnemucca) I worked there in 2003, not as a pilot, ( I took a break from flying for a few months) as a wildland firefighter.

Flew with an owner in a T-210 that thought upon starting a descent, should then open cowl flaps for cooling.

Also as groundspeed increased more and more from IAS as climbing higher in altitude, though that meant more and more tailwind, instead of considering true airspeed.

Same person later bought a twin and got caught by FAA flying it on his single engine licence.

 

[Bringupthebird]

You only need a multi-engine rating to carry passengers in a twin. Maybe a passenger turned him in.

 

[tracearabians]

I flew 5 years with a guy that thought he was vastly superior to everyone else. Claimed he had a vision from God ! Also claimed he had smoked at least 300 lbs of marijuana in his life but had not affected his judgement ! LOL

 

[tracearabians]

Hey ! I know where U R coming from !

 

[tracearabians]

A good strip club is mandatory! I thought?

 

[tracearabians]

I,m a nudist and don,t like to wear anything. That way no one is offended ! LOL

 

[414Flyer]

You only need a multi-engine rating to carry passengers in a twin. Maybe a passenger turned him in.

He had no passengers in it, was just him. yes you need either a multi rating or solo endorsement. He had neither.

 

[IdRtherBsailing]

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. =)

FO

That is no excuse. put your epilauts in your pocket and leave your hat in the crew room. I assume that on reserve they still have time to stop in the crew room unless they take their flight case to the mall with them. The over coat I would say is acceptable but even that I would take off and carry.

 

[SCT]

Hi Dr,

What is a N-265? Just wondering.

 

[IdRtherBsailing]

alright..I could write a book
One guy (captain)
1would constantly fall asleep, even on his pc's
2 I had to explain what a crab angle was
3 did'nt know how to use anti ice
4 did'nt know how to land or take off in a cross wind
5 wanted to do a no lights takeoff at night. Why? I asked. his response "well don't you think its important to know how to just incase the lights don't work?" ?????
6 Tornadoes and severe TS all over the area. Sirens going off, people running for shelter. when company tries to pressure us to take off anyway and I refuse the response is "well what do you expect we do? They are the boss we have to do what they say"

another guy (major tool) failed his check airman ride 3 times. When I was offered the position and turned it down, I told him. His response "I'm glad I F##@in failed"
Yet another would die his blue jeans dark navy and wear that with his uniform.

 

[IdRtherBsailing]

This reminds me of a question a lot of pilots seem to get wrong.

On an ILS if the runway environment is not in sight and a missed approach needs to be executed, are you allowed to go below DH?

Most pilots for some reason say no, thinking that it's the same as an MDA, where you must level off and not descend below it if the runway is not insight.

The correct answer is yes, you may descend below DH on an ILS even if the runway is not in sight. Only of course to get yourself established on the MAP, not to land. Since you are in an established descent flying the needles, you will end up going below DH while arresting the descent and transitioning to a climb attitude.

Is it just me or is somthing missing here?

 

[Lostdog65]

Had a guy working for us in the mid 90's flying freight out of OAK. He had the OAK-WMC-TVL-OAK run in a 402. Couple of boneheaded things:

Always tried to be at 10,000 by Mt. Diablo...why? Because that's the altitude the airliners came in at.

Flew from OAK to WMC at 21,000. Yup...unpressurized plane at 21K. Sucked up more O2 in one week than the rest of us had in two years.

Flew from RDD to OAK at 17000...on an IFR flight plan when it was CAVU over the entire western half of the US. 160 miles. He was subbing on my run and ATC asked him if he didn't mean 7K (my normal IFR alt). He responded he got better gas mileage at 17K.

Flew from OAK to WMC with "steam" coming out of the right engine. Called maintenance and told them the radiator was leaking. In actuality, he had a fuel line leak that was pumping raw avgas over the red-hot turbocharger. We often wonder why he didn't wind up a ball of fire over the Sierra's.

He flew from WMC to Ely, Nv at 24,000. Wondered why the engine ran like crap. He called maint. and told them the engine ran rough at 24k. Maint said, "You idiot! You have unpressurized mags!" He said that shouldn't be problem because the aircraft was certified to 25K.

Used to say, every morning to OAK ground, "Top o' the morning to ya!". His last name was O'Connell and he thought he was being "Irish".

Guy was a manic-depressive. Left us to fly right seat on a C421 out of WMC. Now he instructs the 421 for FSI in LGB. Most pilots who go to his class for refresher say he doesn't have a clue about the airplane and he's been there almost 10 years.

Eric

 

[troy]

This reminds me of a question a lot of pilots seem to get wrong.

On an ILS if the runway environment is not in sight and a missed approach needs to be executed, are you allowed to go below DH?

Most pilots for some reason say no, thinking that it's the same as an MDA, where you must level off and not descend below it if the runway is not insight.

The correct answer is yes, you may descend below DH on an ILS even if the runway is not in sight. Only of course to get yourself established on the MAP, not to land. Since you are in an established descent flying the needles, you will end up going below DH while arresting the descent and transitioning to a climb attitude.

?????

 

[gkrangers]

Uhhh...I was under the impression that we had to halt the descent and level off at the DH if the runway environment (lights, etc...all that junk) were not in sight...not go below it for any reason...

 

[GravityHater]

Uhhh...I was under the impression that we had to halt the descent and level off at the DH if the runway environment (lights, etc...all that junk) were not in sight...not go below it for any reason...

No, you go from a glideslope descent all the way to DH and immediately initiate the missed. Because of inertia, almost every airplane will 'sag' below DH to some extent during the transition. It is not the hard deck of an MDA paradoxically!

 

[KeroseneSnorter]

Uhhh...I was under the impression that we had to halt the descent and level off at the DH if the runway environment (lights, etc...all that junk) were not in sight...not go below it for any reason...

Inertia.......no way to immediatly stop a decent, you will always go below DH a bit in a miss approach senario, especially in a large jet.

It is not unheard of to actually touch the mains in a missed from a CATII approach........all the reason to be exactly on the ILS!!!