Bad pilot etiquette?

Lawman said:
Dip bottles....

F@ck you if youleave those for anybody to clean up anywhere, not just a cockpit.
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Closed bottle is a closed bottle. Inconsiderate to leave it, but no worse than a left bottle of coke.
I think that level wrath should be saved exclusively for the uncapped dip bottles. Or, worse, the ones you mistake for your bottle of coke and take swig from.
To the OP... cockpit etiquette is pretty simple; It complies squarely with the golden rule.
 
What's the opinion on the shoes off crowd?
Had two retired airline guys at the indoc 135 class in the previous company, they were synchronised to the point of being unbelievable
Sit down, move chairs forward, shoes off
 
Crop Duster said:
Closed bottle is a closed bottle. Inconsiderate to leave it, but no worse than a left bottle of coke.
I think that level wrath should be saved exclusively for the uncapped dip bottles. Or, worse, the ones you mistake for your bottle of coke and take swig from.
To the OP... cockpit etiquette is pretty simple; It complies squarely with the golden rule.
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Dip bottles (and I count seeds too with that) are 1 of 3 types of bottles that you will find left in a military aircraft cockpit.

It not about whether it’s closed or not, more if you leave 1 of those for somebody else you will leave the other 2 eventually. One of those other options is full of piss. (6-8 hour missions without the ability to get out require it). Way no bueno. Either for the next crew hot swapping or whatever crew chief has to PMD the next day and finds one from before.




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Jordan93 said:
Shutting down the plane with a crew swap on a quick turn in the middle of summer. Use common sense people.
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Common sense can lead you astray if the FOM differs. e.g. what if that supposed quick turn gets tail swapped, you just left a powered plane with the APU running for who knows how long.. Or if you left it on ground power and it drops off, poof dead batteries... In my years of flying I have seen both happen....
 
Bandit_Driver said:
Common sense can lead you astray if the FOM differs. e.g. what if that supposed quick turn gets tail swapped, you just left a powered plane with the APU running for who knows how long.. Or if you left it on ground power and it drops off, poof dead batteries... In my years of flying I have seen both happen....
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our practice is that an APU is not left running unattended. Also if we leave the plane on ground power the batteries and emergency lights are turned off...if the gpu drops the Batts don't drain. All the same we still have people that like to make it dark on a 40 minute turn...even when I'm standing at the gate.
 
Bandit_Driver said:
Common sense can lead you astray if the FOM differs. e.g. what if that supposed quick turn gets tail swapped, you just left a powered plane with the APU running for who knows how long.. Or if you left it on ground power and it drops off, poof dead batteries... In my years of flying I have seen both happen....
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Our battery master is off if we’re securing the airplane and we have to contact OCC to leave the APU on for environmental reasons if the plane is out in 1.5 hours or less. I can think of very little reasons to completely shutdown a plane if there’s a 25 minute turn at least at my shop. YMMV
 
Seats, radio's, trash, crumbs, etc. Oh and not running the appropriate checklist when shutting down the airplane. And as far as shutting the APU down on a quick turn crew swap, well you deserve to be throat punched for that. Especially on the CRJ-200. Had a guy literally power an airplane down like it was not leaving again and shut the main door as we were walking out to it. That is just begging for a five finger biatch slap.
 
I honestly don't know why people get hung up about this.

Leave the plane however you want. I'll set it up how I want. Eazy peezy.

Just please take out your trash. Else you might find it in your v-file, car, mailbox, bed....
 
Lawman said:
Dip bottles (and I count seeds too with that) are 1 of 3 types of bottles that you will find left in a military aircraft cockpit.

It not about whether it’s closed or not, more if you leave 1 of those for somebody else you will leave the other 2 eventually. One of those other options is full of piss. (6-8 hour missions without the ability to get out require it). Way no bueno. Either for the next crew hot swapping or whatever crew chief has to PMD the next day and finds one from before.




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What's number three?? Wait, are dip and seeds one and two?
 
How do you 170/190 captains like the seat position when you get in the airplane? Full forward or full back and to the side? I’ve heard differing opinions.

The right seat has to be forward to get your bag in the cubby but the left seat is a little different.
 
bucksmith said:
What's number three?? Wait, are dip and seeds one and two?
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You get three options on bottles.

Most start as drink bottles (cokes/Gatorade/etc) and either become empty or become one of 2 other options.

-Dip/spit/seed bottles

-piss bottles

That’s not unique to guys either.

Real fun is mid mission if you’ve got half used drink bottles of gator aid and half full bottles you’ve conducted the transition on.... that’s why you never fly with yellow/lime gatoraid because it all looks the same in the dark.



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Reason number 62, why Blackhawks are better.

2 hours of fuel means a bathroom break, every two hours. :)
 
learhawkerbe400 said:
How do you 170/190 captains like the seat position when you get in the airplane? Full forward or full back and to the side? I’ve heard differing opinions.

The right seat has to be forward to get your bag in the cubby but the left seat is a little different.
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@learhawkerbe400

I prefer full forward. Easier to store my stuff that way and if the seat doesn’t want to easily move aft or sideways, I’ll call maintenance out to lubricate the seat rails. :)
 
Nark said:
Reason number 62, why Blackhawks are better.

2 hours of fuel means a bathroom break, every two hours. :)
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6 more months and it won’t matter to me.

Just in time too since we just got new external tanks which will allow for almost 5 hours of flight time.


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