You know you've spent too...

[Skyward]

When you start a thread about spending to much time on the board!

 

[Eagleflip]

-- ...when PFT means something more to you than the sound your son makes when changing his diaper.

-- ...when your wife would prefer that you were looking at porn instead of reading the latest thread.

-- ...when you pass up an opportunity to, ahem...get lucky...just to finish that "perfect post."

 

[banned username 2]

-- ...when PFT means something more to you than the sound your son makes when changing his diaper.

-- ...when your wife would prefer that you were looking at porn instead of reading the latest thread.

-- ...when you pass up an opportunity to, ahem...get lucky...just to finish that "perfect post."

As sad as it is, I can relate to these... more so than I should probably admit to!

 

[Deftone45075]

-your one of the top ten posters.

-you abbreviate members names when replying to them.

-your avatar changes every 24 hours.

-your a CFI or 135 guy and know everything about PFT, scope, RJDC, jumpseats, codeshares, and everything else that pertains to 121 operations.

 

[Typhoon1244]

Originally posted by FlyChicaga
You know you've spent too much time on Flightinfo when...

--you find yourself including i /i, , and ROFLMAO in everyday speech.

--your wife knows who "that guy Avbug" is.

--it's 1:15 in the morning and you're passionately arguing why the C-152 is a better airplane than the Tomahawk...neither of which you've flow in six years.

--it's 1:20 in the morning and you're challenging the veracity of a fourteen year old boy who says he's a Concorde pilot.

--your first officers notice you're beginning to sound like Michelle on American Pie: "this one time...on FlightInfo..."

 

[LR25]

After you fly all day and then come back home to the board to discuss aviation, I mean come on!

 

[jergar999]

...when your child is born and the only thing you can think is "hey, he looks like SkywestCRJpilot's avatar".

 

[ilinipilot]

When you can get a quicker response from someone but posting a reply to there thread instead of calling, emailing, IMing them.

D

 

[WrightAvia]

I don't know if I can say I spend TOOO much time on FLIGHTINFO dot com...but it sure does a good job of making those annoying little voices in my head go away.

In fact the other day, while I was sitting on the couch enjoying a chat with my shrink, he told me it's not a bad thing to hear voices in your head or even to talk to yourself. He did say if you ARE talking to yourself and answer...that's not a bad thing either. But he also warned that if you talk to yourself, answer and then say "WHAT?!!?" you may want to come in and have that looked at.

 

[Snakum]

-your a CFI or 135 guy and know everything about PFT, scope, RJDC, jumpseats, codeshares, and everything else that pertains to 121 operations.

Or even worse ... you're a desk pilot and you know all these things. I could probably fake my way thru a jumpseat ride on US Air if I stole a PSA uniform.

This could be a new post on the aviation dork thread: 250-hour Private Pilot stands around airports and talks with regional Captains about work-rules, the jumpseat, Mesa and AA TAs, the SCAB list, etc.

Jesus ... I'm such a dork.

Minh
(Love'n the crackpipe!)

 

[Typhoon1244]

I could probably fake my way thru a jumpseat ride on US Air if I stole a PSA uniform.

Careful, the TSA might be listening! (You don't--god help us--look like Leonardo DiCaprio, do you?)

 

[LearLove]

1. When you argue with other members on topics so much that it sounds like you'd be at each others throats if in real life but in reality you'd give that guy the shirt off your back if he needed it. Its all about the brotherhood of flyin.

2. You realize this place is the worlds biggest crew room.

3. and you've made a post with more misspelled words than words spelled correctly.


"Or even worse ... you're a desk pilot and you know all these things. I could probably fake my way thru a jumpseat ride on US Air if I stole a PSA uniform. "

PSA and mainline uniforms are the same.

 

[Snakum]

Catch Me If You Can II

A dorky desk-pilot scams US Airways to ride the A320 jumpseat all over the Northeast US while dressed as a PSA First Officer. With a lone, dried, two-day old Ramen noodle hanging off his chin, our hero winds his way across the East Coast on a food stamp robbery spree, pursued by a crack TSA officer played by Danny Devito.

 

[Typhoon1244]

...a crack TSA officer played by Danny Devito.

Jim Carrey would be more realistic. (Think of Me, Myself & Irene.)

 

[generaltso]

you know you are a flight info geek when you update the hours in your profile after every flight.

or if you don't round your hours... you guys know who you are. I saw a decimal once... and the dude wasn't kidding.

 

[Flying Illini]

You know you're a flight info geek when in your profile under ratings you put:

C172 Typed (you know who you are generaltso!)

But it's cool...I update my hours about every week. I know, I'm a dork but I'm darn proud of every one of those hours spent sitting on my backside!

Is it also bad to put on an old school leather aviators helmet and goggles when you type threads?!?!
speaking of which, I need to go put that on!

 

[Deftone45075]

Is it also bad to put on an old school leather aviators helmet and goggles when you type threads?!?!

Just be sure to remember the scarf!

 

[bigD]

Speak louder guys! I can't hear you with my DC's on!

 

[AA717driver]

If we weren't all aviation geeks, we'd be at the porn site instead of here!

Good post Eagleflip--for some reason, my wife got a real laugh out of it... TC

 

[Snakum]

If we weren't all aviation geeks, we'd be at the porn site instead of here!

Actually, I go back and forth. I love that Alt-Tab button combo!

Minh

 

[Salty Dog]

You come to the startling realization during a conversation with several soon-to-be ex-mil pilots with jillions more hours than you that you actually know more about the profession than they do.

I actually felt MORE confident knowing that these clowns were going to be my competition during an interview some day.

Thanks to all for the great info, insight, and especially Mark for putting it all together - and resisting the urge to pull the plug back in 2001 when the flames-to-facts ratio was worse than the bypass ratio of a water wagon!

 

[bigD]

Schlitz!?? That stuff is trashy. I drink and post with class - Boonesfarm all the way!

 

[bobbysamd]

You KNOW you've spent too much time on Flightinfo.com

--When you lead the membership in number of posts.

--When you budget your time according to time spent reading the board.

--When you wake up in the middle of the night to read new posts on Flightinfo.com.

--When you feel compelled to run searches to find documentation to support your positions on P-F-T and other issues.

--When every Kit Darby post provokes a knee-jerk reaction on your part in opposition to his pilot "shortage."

--When you love every P-F-T discussion, feel that it's incumbent upon you to advocate against P-F-T in each one, even though most are rehashes of the SOS.

--When you've been out of town for a few days and the first thing you do when you turn on the computer is to log on to Flightinfo.com.

--When your wife knows whom you're talking about when you tell her about specific posters.

--When you see a beater on the road and think that it's someone's "airport car."

--When you run into former students and people who know people you know or have known or know who they are.

--When you run into people who frequented the same restaurants that you did in the cities in which you lived while a pilot.

Finally,

--When you realize how many interesting people you've become acquainted with and how much you enjoy reading their comments, and what a blast it is to participate -

Then you know you've spent too much time on Flightinfo.com.

 

[mullet]

PSA and mainline uniforms are the same.

but, PSA's uniforms are cheaper to operate!!!!

 

[Typhoon1244]

You know you spend too much time on FlightInfo when...you just got your DSL service hooked up a couple days ago, and you look up and see all of the new replies for the last thirty minutes in ten different threads are yours!

 

[alimaui]

---When you petition for help on your homework

http://forums.flightinfo.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17233

Ali

(Yea I know this one is really pathetic)

 

[Flying Illini]

First of all:

I gotta say that Schlitz IS trashy but hey, I only make a CFI wage!
Second: I know that I spend too much time here...my home page is flightinfo.com. Everytime I open the internet, there it is, staring me in the face, begging me to read the posts! I can't help it!!!!
well, I guess it's time to take the medicine again...

 

[skyking1976]

Re: You KNOW you've spent too much time on Flightinfo.com

--When you run into people who frequented the same restaurants that you did in the cities in which you lived while a pilot.

...when you end up going to those same restaurants and the conversation over dinner is about either what you read or what someone else wrote on the "board". And for that matter when you refer to the Flightinfo.com Hangar message board as "the board" and you expect that everyone knows what you are talking about.

Cheers,
Skyking

 

[JediNein]

If you go to a "ratings mill" and already know all of the instructors AND students there because of their posts.

If you cut n paste all of your posts to a word document, and have to split it because the program can't handle more than 43 MB of text.

If you rerun your top ten posts from 4 years ago, and everyone notices.

SETI-at-home is running 24/7 on at least 3 of the 10 home computers, Flightinfo.com is on at least 2. . .

If you have nothing else to do, and log on, to start a "you know you're ..... if..." thread.

If you have a lot of stuff you really don't want to do so spend the time adding another post to the "you might be a dorky pilot" thread.

If you haven't missed a week from this site. And you remember the logbook pro version .01 A.

Fly SAFE!
Jedi Nein

 

[Deftone45075]

- When your posts are as long as Avbug's.

- When you know what the latest is with ACA and Mesa, but can't remember what the deal is with your own company.