Who is the biggest loser you have flown with?

[landlover]

FO to Capt.in a jetosaurus during Ils to mins:"are you sure you do not want Anti-ice on?
Capt.:"no i have idle power"
Fo.: "Anti-ice switch is electric it has nothing to do with engines power"
Capt.:

switch might be electric but if this was at ameristar and in a falcon then having the anti ice on at idle power would do very little to get rid of ice.

 

[AMDFlyer]

switch might be electric but if this was at ameristar and in a falcon then having the anti ice on at idle power would do very little to get rid of ice.

Exactly my point, and this guys they think they know better....

 

[Extrascorp]

I need to ask around about "Precious" because I do not remember; but if you had ever flown at Ameristar you just do not want to do it now. with a few exceptions now there are a couple guys that are just only unpleasent to fly with; lowtime,lazy,they act like they know all, and they bust regs from take -off til ldg.
FO to Capt.in a jetosaurus during Ils to mins:"are you sure you do not want Anti-ice on?
Capt.:"no i have idle power"
Fo.: "Anti-ice switch is electric it has nothing to do with engines power"
Capt.:

Sounds like the FO does not have a thorough understanding how the Anti-ice sys. works in his/her airplane...with low power settings you might have all the valves open weather you open them with an electric switch or ESP powers...and still won't do anything

 

[Lead Sled]

How does an FO dump fuel in a 727? The fuel panel and the dump switches are back on the Engineer's panel.

Oops, my bad. That's what happens when you're dealing with a root canal gone horribly wrong. :bawling:

You're correct, I should have typed SO or FE. The incident happened back around 1985 at Western Airlines, just prior to the Delta merger. They let the young lady go.

LS

 

[pgcfii2002]

My parents bought me one of those "aviator" watches...the big kind. I made them take it back.

 

[whaleroast]

I took my 2 kids up in a Cessna 172 on Saturday afternoon to imbibe their father's passion of flying and let Mom go shopping for brown closed-toed sandels. I'll skip talk of the preflight...that was a joke. They couldn't tell the difference between a pitot tube and a static wick. The best was yet to come, though. My 4 year old legs couldn't reach the rudder pedals! I had to taxi the plane. Takeoff was fine but he couldn't hold altitude, heading or a constant airspeed. I finally had to take the controls from him. I whipped him into the back and pulled up my younger boy, who started whining about his sippy cup! After a stern lecture and a threat of tossing out his bear blanky, my younger boy took the yoke. He was no means a pilot cut from the loin of Whaleroast. He wouldn't flare, dropped his pacifier kept taking about Dora and the Backyardigans when he should have been concentrating on P-factor! And the radio calls...eh gods!

At the end of the day, I realized how good of a pilot I am.

By far the worse pilots I have flown with.

 

[CrimsonEclipse]

I took my 2 kids up in a Cessna 172 on Saturday afternoon to imbibe their father's passion of flying and let Mom go shopping for brown closed-toed sandels. I'll skip talk of the preflight...that was a joke. They couldn't tell the difference between a pitot tube and a static wick. The best was yet to come, though. My 4 year old legs couldn't reach the rudder pedals! I had to taxi the plane. Takeoff was fine but he couldn't hold altitude, heading or a constant airspeed. I finally had to take the controls from him. I whipped him into the back and pulled up my younger boy, who started whining about his sippy cup! After a stern lecture and a threat of tossing out his bear blanky, my younger boy took the yoke. He was no means a pilot cut from the loin of Whaleroast. He wouldn't flare, dropped his pacifier kept taking about Dora and the Backyardigans when he should have been concentrating on P-factor! And the radio calls...eh gods!

At the end of the day, I realized how good of a pilot I am.

By far the worse pilots I have flown with.

WOW! He sounds better qualified than ALOT of Capt's I've flown with!


CE

 

[sweptwingz]

How about a female PIC I used to fly BE-1900s with? She openly bragged to everyone about her pencil whipped (fake) logbook hours. "I don't have time to waste starting my major airline career waiting to build up my total time" she said.

She not only lied her way into the majors, she quickly moved into a management hiring / interview slot at one of the top carriers.

If there is any justice in this universe, after she finally dies, she'll come back as a slime mold.

 

[whaleroast]

Isn't that The Russian?

 

[ableone]

Back in the eighties I was working as a lineman. One of our charter pilots, retired navy, suggested the Silly Ass Patrol as a way of building time. He had done it back in the fifties and said it had been a good deal.

I look them up in the phone book and get their Executive Officer, Major Whomever.

I start asking questions and Whomever tells me that "yea, you can be reimbursed for flight time but only if you are a 'mission pilot' on an acutual search mission. I ask him what does it take to become a "mission pilot"?

He says it requires ten hours of actual search pattern flying. That doesn't sound bad so I ask how you go about getting the time and how many mission pilots do they have?

Major Whomever replies that he has been in the CAP for ten years and already has seven hours of the required ten. They have ONE fully quallified mission pilot, Captain Old, who has been in the CAP since it was founded.

OOOkay thanks for your time.

I have always regretted not getting involved. I would have had an excuse to wear a flight suit and I would probably be a mission pilot by now. Think of all the respect you non-mission-pilot board monkees would have for me had I joined.

 

[OPECJet]

"Silly Ass Patrol". Love it!!!!

When I was a line rat they had a 172 at the airport. I fueled it up one morning, the whole time the two guys flying it watching me like a hawk. They finally said they had some super secret probation ultra-covert mission to fly that morning.

Two hours later I saw both of those buttnuggets walking out of a local fly in restaurant after I went with another dude for a $100 hamburger.

 

[gsrcrsx68]

Yup, nothing like seeing a bunch of seventy year olds micro managing parking and fueling to make for a good laugh...unless you're the line guy. Not much of a time builder either with all the grandpas holdin on to the last breath.

 

[JediNein]

"Silly Ass Patrol". Love it!!!!

If it wasn't the many screwing up the works of a few, that organization might actually be worth something.

 

[Rook]

How about a female PIC I used to fly BE-1900s with? She openly bragged to everyone about her pencil whipped (fake) logbook hours. "I don't have time to waste starting my major airline career waiting to build up my total time" she said.

She not only lied her way into the majors, she quickly moved into a management hiring / interview slot at one of the top carriers.

If there is any justice in this universe, after she finally dies, she'll come back as a slime mold.

With that kind of luck she'll probably be the fleet manager of Slime mold airlines. SMA.

 

[Corona]

How about a female PIC I used to fly BE-1900s with? She openly bragged to everyone about her pencil whipped (fake) logbook hours. "I don't have time to waste starting my major airline career waiting to build up my total time" she said.

She not only lied her way into the majors, she quickly moved into a management hiring / interview slot at one of the top carriers.

If there is any justice in this universe, after she finally dies, she'll come back as a slime mold.

If your description is apt, I think slime mold would actually be a step UP the evolutionary chain.

C

 

[twott driver]

On the hotel van the other day a mesaba captain comes down 10 minutes late with 2 other crews waiting for him. He gets in the front seat, looks at the driver and says "You're cleared for takeoff"

Just about pissed my pants.

 

[414Flyer]

One of my friends who flies cargo for a certain cargo operator in the west, lets just say _____ Strikes Back, or Evil _______, you can figure it out, mentioned an FO at that company who starting bringing a bunch of dolls in the plane and would arrange them on his side of the cockpit. Started out with one and it ended up being a lot. FO now gone apparently.

 

[AGuyThatFlys]

They're (the married couple) initials wouldn't happen to be M.D. and S.D. and they wouldn't happen to own a couple of old Warbirds and a small airport just outside of the FedEx base in TN would they? And the woman wouldn't happen to have flown for the AF prior to crossing into the purple? I think i've got an idea who you're getting at and that's too funny. PM me

Check out the July 2006 issue of AOPA Pilot. Back page, the "Pilots" section. My guess is that's her.

AGTF

 

[CA1900]

On the hotel van the other day a mesaba captain comes down 10 minutes late with 2 other crews waiting for him....

If I had been in one of those crews, it wouldn't have been waiting for him. Surely an airline employee can understand what a departure time means!

 

[pgcfii2002]

Myself...when I was working on my PPL, decided to fly on a lesson with a head cold.

Bad idea.