viper548 said:"professional pilots" have been known to "goof around" when there are no pax onboard. Some things these "professional pilots" do include agressive rudder inputs at mid level altitudes, agressive nose ups and push overs. Climbing at airspeeds signifcantly lower than those published by the manufacturer or FOM. Switching seats mid flight, overtemping engines, activating stick pusher and/or shaker, using non-standard phrasiology such as "dude"
On ferry flights, "professional" pilots keeps saying to eachother, "Hey we're 'professional' pilots" (They do the little quotation motion at the same time). They also correct the student pilot who uses the phrase: commercial pilot, instead if their preferred word that they continually put in quotes (also with the motion and condesending tone). The poor kid asked a question and you knew what he meant. Relax "dude."
- Jack