Non-pilot author needs help with pilot slang
03-12-2010, 11:31 AM
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First, I hope you will forgive me for joining your forum. I love to fly but am not a pilot. I am, however, an author and am writing a book in which one of my characters is a pilot. I foresee the need to know some industry slang and hope you might assist me with my occasional questions.
If I am out of line, I'll shut up and go away. But if you can help, great! I'll put your name(s) in my Acknowledgements.
Assuming we're all okay with this, my immediate question is: how would a pilot (who in my story is a captain with United, flying out of the SFO hub in the late 1960's) refer to what we non-pilots call a roundtrip flight to Hong Kong? ALSO, I am assuming such a flight would last three days (e.g. leaving on a Monday and returning on a Wednesday). Is that accurate?
Many thanks.
If I am out of line, I'll shut up and go away. But if you can help, great! I'll put your name(s) in my Acknowledgements.
Assuming we're all okay with this, my immediate question is: how would a pilot (who in my story is a captain with United, flying out of the SFO hub in the late 1960's) refer to what we non-pilots call a roundtrip flight to Hong Kong? ALSO, I am assuming such a flight would last three days (e.g. leaving on a Monday and returning on a Wednesday). Is that accurate?
Many thanks.
You will get a variety of answers and it might be fun for the responders.
03-15-2010, 10:07 AM
#12
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Having done that very same trip many times as an international pilot for UAL. I can assure you that it is called a trip or a "3 day". I can also assure you that UAL did not fly the Pacific in the 1960's.
A "turn" is an out and back to the same place in the same day. It is impossible to do a Hong Kong "turn" from the main land. We do however do a Narita turn from Hong Kong.
A "turn" is an out and back to the same place in the same day. It is impossible to do a Hong Kong "turn" from the main land. We do however do a Narita turn from Hong Kong.
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