Bad pilot etiquette?

Boris Badenov said:
I saw them take the outflow valves out of one of Air 1st's MU-2s, once. They were ORANGE. I never smoked in the cockpit, but I'm pretty sure everyone else did.
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I've seen the pictures - you can't fool me! Lol.

I tried smoking in flight once with one of the captains who was a smoker - at 10,000' cabin altitude, it was objectively awful. Hilariously, I also watched a captain drop his cigarette in his dip can as we were getting ready to start down, "time to get serious."

A friend of mine worked for an adhoc place where some enterprising pilots had figured out that you could get the window of the airplane (I think he said it was a Bandeirante?) to open a bungie cord and a leatherman positioned "just right" and still keep like 4PSID - they used to drop down to the mid teens to smoke, then climb back up when they jettisoned their cigarette somewhere over the Mexican desert.

Ahhh, the good ole days.
 
Seat position is aircraft specific. In the bus, please leave the seat full forward so I can easily walk in with all my stuff and strap it in behind me with room to spare. Not like there isn’t enough space, but just sayin’.

Really, just clean up after yourselves. And crackers...where are all these cracker crumbs coming from?!
 
JordanD said:
Seat all the way forward and up is one, but seat all the way down to the floor too. Know a captain that twisted or sprained something getting into one and ended up being out of work for a while.
Radial volume as mentioned but I've made r a habit to put that where I want it before I put my headset on. This one I think is more mechanics, but cranking the cabin or cockpit temp all the way up or down. Just an ass thing to do.
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We have some people who put the seat all the way forward after they get out "so it's easy to stow your bag." It is easier to stow my bag, but then I have to contort myself into a pretzel and wait for the seat to slowly move back before I can stow myself.
 
mikecweb said:
I’m not getting the seat thing, why can’t you just move it before you get in?
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In the CRJ at least the answer to that is usually no, unless you get lucky. The position of the force if you're not in the seat tends to jam it.

I havent tried in the E175 because it slides aft and to the side, so it's pretty much always left there, some people do leave it all the way up, which is dumb.



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trafficinsight said:
In the CRJ at least the answer to that is usually no, unless you get lucky. The position of the force if you're not in the seat tends to jam it.

I havent tried in the E175 because it slides aft and to the side, so it's pretty much always left there, some people do leave it all the way up, which is dumb.



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Ugh, I had happily forgotten about the struggle of moving the seat in the CRJ until you brought it up. Thanks.
 
mikecweb said:
I’m not getting the seat thing, why can’t you just move it before you get in?
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In the airplanes my I fly the seat is just difficult enough to slide back when not sitting in them to be a pain. You have to slide it back to get out, anyway, so just leave it back. I also find it harder to stow my flight case with it forward. I think I'm the only one who feels that way, though.
 
I get proactive......I always leave a wet wipe in the chart holder for the next pilot. God knows they dont want to touch the plane after ive been using it :)

Derek
 
etflies said:
This too! I thought I was the only one who was bothered by finger goop on the windows. Why some folks play patty cake with them is beyond me.

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I’ve only done it once on purpose. Plane sat in YUL overnight and it just never got warm. Put my hands on the heated glass much of the way down to ATL because I was freezing my nards off.
 
My pet peeve is food debris. CLEAN UP YOUR CRAP BECAUSE YOUR DOTING SPOUSE AINT HERE. And napkins. No need to leave your extras in the cockpit because the probability that I'm going to assume your hands were clean when you procured them is asymptotically approaching zero.
 
Not a pilot, but cracker crumbs seem to be an issue no matter what your "workstation" is. Same thing with questionable sticky substances. Good grief people! Nasty!
 
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Derg said:
My pet peeve is food debris. CLEAN UP YOUR CRAP BECAUSE YOUR DOTING SPOUSE AINT HERE. And napkins. No need to leave your extras in the cockpit because the probability that I'm going to assume your hands were clean when you procured them is asymptotically approaching zero.
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Extra napkins are a non deferrable item. If they're not there, I'm grabbing some from the galley to make sure the next guy doesn't have to go looking for them when he needs them.
 
Lets turn the thread around. I laugh under my breath at the clean freaks. They sit down in the seat and immediately open up a Sani-com wipe and go to town on the throttles, yoke, O2 mask, and everything else possibly touched by their predecessor. What did we do before Sani-coms? Did pilots die from thrust level contact induced hepatitis or something? I just think it's silly.....
 
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