Bored in Cruise...

cmill said:
It's gotta take you 3 hours just to shoot an appch.
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Took me 1.6 to get vectored for an approach, go missed for real, get vectored back around and make it in. IMC in an airship is a totally different ballgame. More on this later when I'm on a computer rather than a phone.
 
KSCessnaDriver said:
Took me 1.6 to get vectored for an approach, go missed for real, get vectored back around and make it in. IMC in an airship is a totally different ballgame. More on this later when I'm on a computer rather than a phone.
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I hope they have bathrooms on the ones you fly. I'm thinking of all the times I was in a hold for a 20min missed and try again in a cessna. If you're at 1.6 hrs for my 20min... it's gonna be a long day.

Better yet, I want a video of a CFI teaching in a blimp doing steep turns, slow flight and stalls. That would be funny. Time for slow flight... turn off the engines. Good work, now we're a balloon.
 
Ipod and small earbuds to slip under your headset. Check out Skullcandy's offerings. There is a good selection of cheap ($12) buds, the sound quality isn't terrible, and they sit snuggly inside my ears (unlike the factory ipod/iphone earbuds which fall out at the slightest hint of a breeze) and stay secure under my headset's earcups. I wasn't sure the first time I tried it, but it is no issue listening to music at a reasonable volume and being able to hear every ATC transmission clearly. It's preferable to built-in audio panel or headset "aux inputs" as well because your music isn't being constantly interrupted on busy frequencies.

Also, crossword puzzle FTW.
 
For those of you who put in earbuds to listen to music, please take them out when descending through FL180 and things are starting to get busy. I remember flying with an FO who was missing one radio call after another on approach into DTW, and I finally asked him what was going on. He lifted his headset up and showed me the earbuds, and I freakin' lost it and started screaming at him. It's rare that I lose my temper in the cockpit, but that one really pissed me off. You want to listen to music in cruise? No big deal. But it had better be off by the time things get busy. Missing radio calls and not knowing what's going on because you're listening to your iPod is completely unacceptable.
 
If the cockpit door is locked, so is what you do to stave off boredom.
 
ATN_Pilot said:
For those of you who put in earbuds to listen to music, please take them out when descending through FL180 and things are starting to get busy. I remember flying with an FO who was missing one radio call after another on approach into DTW, and I finally asked him what was going on. He lifted his headset up and showed me the earbuds, and I freakin' lost it and started screaming at him. It's rare that I lose my temper in the cockpit, but that one really pissed me off. You want to listen to music in cruise? No big deal. But it had better be off by the time things get busy. Missing radio calls and not knowing what's going on because you're listening to your iPod is completely unacceptable.
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Jfk-Pilot said:
3 Hours in the the aerial survey/mapping world is child's play. Try flying over the same spot for 6 hours straight, land for fuel, take off and do it again for 6 hours. Thank god for my ipod. :)
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Yup, did 10.5 yesterday and Lady Gaga got real old
 
If I ran into an F/O with earbuds or whatever (really, this is way outside anything I've seen at UPS), and they were missing calls, I'd not yell at them but ask them if they would like me to just work the radio's for them the rest of the flight. If that didn't shame them into doing their damn job, I'd be talking to pro standards and talking to the union chat forum about what's up with them.
 
ATN_Pilot said:
For those of you who put in earbuds to listen to music, please take them out when descending through FL180 and things are starting to get busy. I remember flying with an FO who was missing one radio call after another on approach into DTW, and I finally asked him what was going on. He lifted his headset up and showed me the earbuds, and I freakin' lost it and started screaming at him. It's rare that I lose my temper in the cockpit, but that one really pissed me off. You want to listen to music in cruise? No big deal. But it had better be off by the time things get busy. Missing radio calls and not knowing what's going on because you're listening to your iPod is completely unacceptable.
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Screaming? Damn son, not to say he was in the right, but y'know...
 
If you're missing calls because of music, something is wrong. My Uflymic setup doesnt cut out the music when radio calls are made, and by own very scientific studies (ie bullcrap,) ive determined that i miss no more radio calls than someone not listening to music.
 
I prefer to do things like finding new places to stash "adult artistic photography" in the cockpit, flicking boogers at the Capt while he naps, pretending to be a GA plane on guard so I can piss off "guard nazis"...anything to disrupt the normal flow of order.
 
SurferLucas said:
pretending to be a GA plane on guard so I can piss off "guard nazis"...anything to disrupt the normal flow of order.
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I swear one day I am going to drive down to my local FACSFAC, find the guy transmitting "beaver/giant killer on guard, test 1, 2, 3 test 1, 2, 3", and beat him to death. It is nearly unbelievable to me that he, without listening in on any comms whatsoever before making such untimely and incredibly disruptive calls with no sense of urgency at all, can find the precise moments that are the most critical to safety of flight or general SA to make his call in quite nearly 100% of the time. I think I have screamed more obscenities into my mask during his little fun broadcast time than any other moments in my flying career. My point being that I find ATC (I've heard this from civilian agencies as well) to be a FAR greater culprit in this crime, than the stereotypical GA weekend jockey stuck on guard. I will tolerate 1, maybe 2 quick concise calls to an aircraft that has lost radio contact, and that is absolutely it. If he hasn't responded by then, he's not going to. Give it the F up. He ain't up on guard
 
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