Lost decade

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Richman said:
Ssssss, oooooh, yea, I’m going to have to go ahead and sort of disagree with you there…

Having been exposed to a lot of “smart people”, including quite few with a some very impressive alphabets after their names, I can tell you pilots have no monopoly on this.

Some VERY smart people can’t wire a doorbell, know which end of the screwdriver does what, or even that diesel cars don’t run so well on gasoline.

Back in the day, we’d call that “the VCR always blinks twelve”…

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I guess much of the tongue-in-cheek part of this depends on your relative values of "smart" and "dumb."

Perhaps it would have been more accurate to say, "Pilots are the least self-and-socially aware tool-using primates you will ever meet."

Fair?
 
killbilly said:
There are, generally, three major concepts I hammer into my primary flight students right from the beginning, whether they are career-oriented or not:

1) Rule one is fly the airplane. No matter what. Fly the airplane. Everything else is second. Fly the airplane.
2) Don't spill my coffee. I cannot teach early in the mornings without coffee. If you spill my coffee, we might die.
3) Pilots are the dumbest smart people you will ever meet. I am not exempt from this rule.
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Man, I think Todd said it best (don't know if was original to him or lifted from someone else) but pilots are intelligent, not intellectual. That fits perfectly and I have to stop and repeat that to myself anytime I see a pilot that thinks they are a wall street expert or a pilot that thinks they are even remotely knowledgeable on communicable diseases and virology.
 
Derg said:
Pilots can be some of the dumbest most idiotic people you’ll ever meet. Sad, but true!

Think about the guys around the airport earning almost a half-million dollars per year complaining because the line at Chipotle is long and how the airline discount is only 10%

If it doesn’t affect them, it doesn’t exist.
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Do they live in Newnan or Peachtree City?
 
killbilly said:
I guess much of the tongue-in-cheek part of this depends on your relative values of "smart" and "dumb."

Perhaps it would have been more accurate to say, "Pilots are the least self-and-socially aware tool-using primates you will ever meet."

Fair?
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Nope. Not even close.

Met lots and lots of non-pilots-but-very-“educated” who are neither.

Some conversations went like “um, yea, while that may technically work, you risk your chemical precursor with the LONG half-life leeching into the ground after your containment vessel of questionable structural integrity fails, poisoning the groundwater, potentially irritating your neighbors and maybe even the local constabulary”

“But you’re saying it would work?”

“…..”
 
Ayork62493 said:
Funny but sad hearing this as I’m doing non stop IOE these days being told they’ll be at United in two years after they upgrade. Then they ask me why I’m still here. “I don’t know, but it’s not for a lack of trying”.
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And you never asked me that stupid question either! Sucks dude, I’m astonished you still haven’t been called.
 
roundout said:
Why'd you stop?
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Dude. I get distracted.

”Hi, my name is Derg and I’m a talking…SQUIRREL!”

Seriously, I’ll get involved with a post and come to the realization that no one is actually reading it and my mind wanders off into other activities.

I even leave little ‘Easter Eggs” in some, from time to time, but few catch them!















The owl ran afoul of the comatose coxswain!
 
Stone Cold said:
There's more to the story as this guy and I have flown together before, but I was astonished at the lack of self-awareness. He had no clue, but had a former Mesa guy cheering him on (junior to him of course). He shook my hand at the end of the night making sure all was good but it was really eye opening to see the stupidity of his argument.

Yes, drinks were involved. It is what it is. I am really not disappointed because of our previous discussions, but was surprised at his lack of awareness again.
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Are you really astonished at the lack of self-awareness though? I’d say it is pretty common unfortunately.
 
Richman said:
Nope. Not even close.

Met lots and lots of non-pilots-but-very-“educated” who are neither.

Some conversations went like “um, yea, while that may technically work, you risk your chemical precursor with the LONG half-life leeching into the ground after your containment vessel of questionable structural integrity fails, poisoning the groundwater, potentially irritating your neighbors and maybe even the local constabulary”

“But you’re saying it would work?”

“…..”
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Ok. I give up. I really do think we're talking about the same thing.
 
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