Some Observations on Flying

- A good simulator check ride is like a successful surgery on a dead body.

- Asking a pilot what he thinks about the FAA is like asking a tree what it thinks about dogs.

- An airline pilot is a confused soul who talks about women when flying, and about flying when he's with a woman.

- The only thing worse than a captain who never flew as a copilot is a copilot who once was a captain.

- Experience is gained through making mistakes. Mistakes are caused by a lack of experience.

- Hand-flying an ILS in a gusty crosswind is easier than adjusting the shower controls in a layover hotel.

- A smooth touchdown in a simulator is as exciting as kissing your sister.

- Most airline crew food tastes like warmed-over chicken because that's what it is.

- Everything is accomplished through teamwork until something goes wrong.....then one pilot gets all the blame.

- Standard checklist practice requires pilots to read to each other procedures used every day...and recite from memory those which are only needed once every five years.

- A crew scheduler has to be the kind of person who wakes his wife at midnight to carry out the garbage, then sends her back to let the cat in.

- An FAA investigation is conducted by a few non-flying experts who take six months to itemize the mistakes made by a crew who had six seconds to react to the emergency.

- Unlike flight crew members, jet engines stop whining when the plane arrives at the gate.

- Pigs don't become pilots when they drink.

- A dispatcher's desk has never run out of fuel.

182 STOL driver wrote:

- Hand-flying an ILS in a gusty crosswind is easier than adjusting the shower controls in a layover hotel.

I can see that being true! I stay in a lot of hotels with my line of work and I can't tell you how many times I've F ed with the shower knob to get the right water temp!!

58Skylane wrote:

182 STOL driver wrote:

- Hand-flying an ILS in a gusty crosswind is easier than adjusting the shower controls in a layover hotel.

I can see that being true! I stay in a lot of hotels with my line of work and I can't tell you how many times I've F ed with the shower knob to get the right water temp!!

OK Pat. Shall I tell them about my shower when I had to lay over in Emmitt, ID or are you going to. Let me just say that Pat is a greeny and wants to conserve water and natural gass.

Tim

182 STOL driver wrote:
- An FAA investigation is conducted by a few non-flying experts who take six months to itemize the mistakes made by a crew who had six seconds to react to the emergency.

I agree with this one.

Good day

What did you hosers do.... Shower together?

Gump

qmdv wrote:

58Skylane wrote:

182 STOL driver wrote:

- Hand-flying an ILS in a gusty crosswind is easier than adjusting the shower controls in a layover hotel.

I can see that being true! I stay in a lot of hotels with my line of work and I can't tell you how many times I've F ed with the shower knob to get the right water temp!!

OK Pat. Shall I tell them about my shower when I had to lay over in Emmitt, ID or are you going to. Let me just say that Pat is a greeny and wants to conserve water and natural gass.

Tim

Gump...... Tim told me not to say anything! But I see how he didn't hold up to his end of the deal Your know how those Navy guys are?

Bet he cooked ya crepes for breakfast too. That's what Navy guys do.

Gump

GumpAir wrote:Bet he cooked ya crepes for breakfast too. That's what Navy guys do.

Gump

Oh yeah!! And they were fabulous

GumpAir wrote:Bet he cooked ya crepes for breakfast too. That's what Navy guys do.

Gump

Tim makes a pretty good Breakfast --- At his home too>> Been there done that when I stopped there with 182 last year. Tim's "hobby shop" (up hill push)houses his toys including his 182 and "Restoration projects ". I've know Tim and his wife since mid-late 1990's .Santories Sandwich(Burbank,CA) shop is one of his hangouts. He makes some "creaps" at flyin' ins' -great treat on cool mornings at Austin,NV. I kid Tim about being a waist gunner on Sub. or was it a screen door repairman for the Submarine ?

58Skylane wrote:

182 STOL driver wrote:

- Hand-flying an ILS in a gusty crosswind is easier than adjusting the shower controls in a layover hotel.

I can see that being true! I stay in a lot of hotels with my line of work and I can't tell you how many times I've F ed with the shower knob to get the right water temp!!

Pat:
I didn't know you were at Emmit ,ID. -I always stop there and stay overnight when leaving back country Idaho to clean up.Local airport courtisey car is 4 door dodge .Nice little town with great Mexican food restaurant. Airport is on Golf Course -with decent restaurant >>> they need a A&P/I.A. to run FBO in big hanger.

182 STOL driver wrote:

58Skylane wrote:

182 STOL driver wrote:

- Hand-flying an ILS in a gusty crosswind is easier than adjusting the shower controls in a layover hotel.

I can see that being true! I stay in a lot of hotels with my line of work and I can't tell you how many times I've F ed with the shower knob to get the right water temp!!

Pat:
I didn't know you were at Emmit ,ID. -I always stop there and stay overnight when leaving back country Idaho to clean up.Local airport courtisey car is 4 door dodge .Nice little town with great Mexican food restaurant. Airport is on Golf Course -with decent restaurant >>> they need a A&P/I.A. to run FBO in big hanger.

I was on the road out of town the last time you were up there. But yeah, I've been there almost 4 years now. Great little town. Too bad the airport manager and I didn't see eye to eye. But, it's better that my plane is in a nice tight insulated hangar at Caldwell. The 40 minute drive through the country isn't too bad.

182 STOL driver wrote:

58Skylane wrote:

182 STOL driver wrote:

- Hand-flying an ILS in a gusty crosswind is easier than adjusting the shower controls in a layover hotel.

I can see that being true! I stay in a lot of hotels with my line of work and I can't tell you how many times I've F ed with the shower knob to get the right water temp!!

Pat:
I didn't know you were at Emmit ,ID. -I always stop there and stay overnight when leaving back country Idaho to clean up.Local airport courtisey car is 4 door dodge .Nice little town with great Mexican food restaurant. Airport is on Golf Course -with decent restaurant >>> they need a A&P/I.A. to run FBO in big hanger.

And I have heard that they have great pot stickers at the chineese joint.

Tim

Yep...... those were some damn good pot stickers