You know you've been flying too long...

[rice]

Re: You know you've been flying too long . .

. . . .when you wish that NOTAMs were issued for highway construction, road blockages and road closures.

Bobby's been battling the Denver T-REX nightmare for one to many days.

Feeling your pain friend.

 

[DenverDude2002]

Bobby's been battling the Denver T-REX nightmare for one to many days.

Lets not forget the huge mess on North I25 to. The traffic seems worse from the new E470 interchange- Longmont/119 exit because of the lane changes (and theres always a million idiots there to causing accidents).

And the joy I'll have tomorrow night when I go pick up a friend from DIA...

 

[bobbysamd]

Car flows

When you have a shutdown checklist for getting out of the car.

Originally posted by Flyingtoohigh
So true... I actually have one.

I run a flow.

 

[bobbysamd]

Road NOTAMS

Bobby's been battling the Denver T-REX nightmare for one to many days.

True, but the T-Rex project's "NOTAMS" are least published on its website and are on TV. The ones that get me are the minor ones that spring up without notice and !$#@!! road paving in the summer that shut down everything.

 

[mar]

You've been flying too long when...

...you've finally gone deaf.




I SAID:
YOU'VE BEEN FLYING TOO LONG WHEN YOU CAN'T HEAR NO MORE!

 

[jetexas]

WHAT??
Say again? I thought you had said something about hearing?

 

[KATL8R26L]

yep

I use the say again when ever the wife says some thing,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, or standby,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,the last time she handed me a list, well i made some corrections to like , well get rid of this , and this now lets see you are cleared to,scratch this one also, and that leaves only one thing to do.

 

[skyking1976]

Re: Whey you

Reading the stuff back at burgerking realy messes them up..........

Tell me about it...

Drive-thru employee: 2 Whopper Jrs. and a large Coke, that will be $3.49 and the next window.

Me: Roger, $3.49, next window for 3128.... ahhhh, cr@p!!!

 

[bobbysamd]

You know you've been flying too long . .

. . . when you wear NOMEX flyers' gloves while driving (in cold wx)!

. . . when you're on the phone, the person on other end is unintelligible and you say "say again" to have them repeat what they just said.

 

[Eagleflip]

...when you're driving on the interstate and see a milage sign for Dothan, Alabama that says 94 miles and you figure you'll be there in just about 10 minutes, give or take a few seconds.

15 minutes later you wonder why you aren't there yet. You then realize that, oh...I guess I'm not doing .9 in this POS Chevy rental...

True story..

 

[Timebuilder]

I'm with a lady friend, and we're going to the house where her friend, a nurse, lives with her husband who flies for options.

My friend is not very good at giving directions. We are driving down a road (too fast to make a turn) and she says "that's the road!!!" when we are just about on top of the thing.

My first response?

"Going around".

Sheesh.

 

[JediNein]

When your non-flying family uses "roger," "standby," "disregard," and "say again."

After flying Pipers and old 182s, you step into a rental car with a center console gear shift, and have to stop yourself from "flaps 20" when turning final for the driveway.

The first thing you do when you step outside is look out then look up to check the visibility and ceiling, then the intersections (intersecting contrails).

And the second thing you do is verify visual separation with the traffic, overhead, a Cessna 172, eastbound, 5500', no factor.

You actually refuse a non-job-related flight because you don't feel like it.

You sit in a car to drive for the first time in a week and the sight picture is all messed up. You instinctively check the gear lever to make sure it's down.

You had a last minute change of aircraft and go through the entire flight calling it the wrong N-number. It takes the tower controller 5 traffic patterns to realize the voices match the N-Number, but the paint job does not. Tower: "Uh, NXXXXX, that doesn't look like NXXXXX." And both you and the other pilot glance then stare at the N-Number placard, "what?!?"

Your cell phone has a PTT (Nextel) and it takes several minutes of conversation before both of you realize you've been using your call signs the entire time.

(And for the newly minted flight instructors, the dog can teach the private pilot syllabus but needs extra practice on the stall series. The cat mastered spins but has difficulties with water landing techniques.)

Fly SAFE!
Jedi Nein

 

[Typhoon1244]

When you refer to the posted speed limit as "knots."

Makes that old song hard to sing:

"Can't drive forty-seven point eight..."

 

[poorFITgrad'02]

.....when on your sixth leg home from the airport at 445 am, after putting the car in reverse before rolling, you check the crew door lock (C-402) only to find there isn't one.