Picked up a mx ferry with a DH home for some bonus pay. Show up at the airport wearing jeans and a hoodie and call ops to find out where the plane is. It's at a gate, not the mx hangar or remote parking. Weird. Go over to the gate, seems a little crowded. Weird. Get down to the jet and there's a FA in the galley. Weird. Turns out an earlier flight had cancelled so they turned our ferry into a live flight and never bothered to tell the pilots. Definitely got some weird looks from the pax but it was around the holidays and everyone was just happy to get where they were going.

Ha Ha! No cares given!!

I had a pair of brown shoes once that were the same style as my black shoes. Well at zero dark thirty you guessed it, grabbed the wrong pair from under the bed. I get to work and jump out of the car.. WTH?? Mind racing I conjure up a plan with a giant black permanent marker involved, the kind they leave in the crewroom for comat.
I was sitting in the flightdeck all smug because my crises was diverted with nobody noticing when the F.O. says, hey whats that weird smell??
I say yea uh.. I don't smell it.
Toolish but..he he. I tossed those shoes the next day and went shopping on the layover!

I had a Captain with almost the exact same story, only difference was he had a can of black spray paint just laying around in the back of his truck when he realized it. I wouldn't have noticed if he hadn't told me the story. I had asked "so how was the commute in this morning?", followed by "funny you should ask!"

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That's cool and he looked cool.

Once of the gate, who tells their passengers "Air Traffic Control gave us a wheels up time of 12:13PM ZULU"?!?! Direct quote.

This was at 7:50am lcl so that wheels up time was at 8:13am, nothing terrible. But by saying noon everyone immediately looked at the poor commuting pilot in that back for answers. Yay me.

Way to go crew.

Not really toolish, --it happens, move on.

Kind of toolish. In the US Zulu is 4-8 hours ahead of local, so that could lead folks to think they're going to be very late. Even if you specify Zulu Time, 99% have utterly no idea what you're talking about.

No such thing as AM & PM for UTC.

It's not really toolish, but some of us could do better at speaking in layman's terms when making PA's. It's like telling the pax we just leveled off at flight level 340...most don't know what that is.

Someone once told me a true sign of intelligence is being able to speak to someone about something they know nothing about, without them feeling like you're dumbing it down for them, and without them feeling clueless.

Yes.
A waste of time talking to others outside the profession using nothing but the profession’s slang/designated terms. People tune you out real fast and the terms mean nothing to them. Works like that in any profession.

You can always tell a bright person if they are able to explain something complicated in a sentence or two.

What do you mean by that?

I'm sure you you have had prof's that could explain something in seconds and some that tell you how to make a watch.The guy in the wheel chair that talks by computer is a perfect example.

When I was a numb nutz engineer on the 880 giving the talk about the airplane I never mentioned thrust, but approximate horsepower, that they got. Stuff like that.

Here's what's ironic, most of the people reading this have no idea what that means.

What, numnutz or 880, Convair that is:)

And engineer!

Lol you just got trolled! And if you ask me how, think about it real hard

Did you ever fly Elvis's 880? ;)

Oh, I'd take the 990. Shock cones and all that... :-)

I think it was too clever for some...but I thought it was genius :D

Elvis bought the 880 from DAL, and they threw in two old cranky C&S pilots who lived in MEM. I wonder how that worked out.

Trolling an old guy is like pinching babies, they are both crimes against nature.:eek:

Is putting "old", "cranky" and C&S some kind of redundancy? And, they may have read about the 880, met an engineer, excuse me S/O, but remembering C&S?

GF

Sigh, when everybody had double breasted horse blankets...

i think i would have fallen for it too i have to admit...it was very subtle

Whom ever keeps twisting the supply hose to the O2 masks. It happens on both sides. Get a clue, tool. You don't twist them to stow them!

Saw two today. One walking through the concourse wearing mirrored aviators, after 8pm and the dude who had his uniform pants tailored to make them look like skinny jeans.

Don't worry Cheap Trick. I got it. Excellence in subtlety.

This AA pilot in ORD on Friday.

http://i.imgur.com/cNduzUe.jpg

Tool of the day
 

There's a guy that always wears a backpack on the blue line into ORD. I've seen him multiple times. What happened to looking professional?


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I can't tell in the pic but does that guy have really red hair?

Off to summer camp!

Now Beaver you wait for Wally to take you home after school.

Those damn RJ pilots bringing down the profession again. Oh wait...

No doubt he graduated from an RJ!

...and that guy got through the interview?

(Shakes head)

New interview question..."how do you feel about backpacks?"

Ummmm, that guy is a Republic pilot.

Yup, the backpack look is not a good one. It would be nice to see language in FOMs cleaning up our appearances. I don't get it. I'm proud of what I do. I don't understand the lets wear polo shirts and poke fun of the hat wearing crowd. I'm sure I'm not alone in observing that many from that camp are unenjoyable people to be around for multi-day trips. Every time I cruise though the terminals I'm impressed and glad that Delta peeps are at least upholding dress standards in the profession. It's often shameful to tow my frequently motley crew past a foreign crew at the big airports. ;)

Look like bus drivers...Get treated like bus drivers!