Bored in Cruise...

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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How much did you have to pay gulfstream to learn these superior captain techniques?
 
///AMG said:
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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Excuse me sir. Seeing as how the VP is such a VIP, shouldn't we keep the PC on the QT, because if it leaks to the VC, you could end up an MIA, and then we'd all be put on KP.
 
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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Why didn't you just slap him for full effect?
 
embraer07 said:
Excuse me sir. Seeing as how the VP is such a VIP, shouldn't we keep the PC on the QT, because if it leaks to the VC, you could end up an MIA, and then we'd all be put on KP.
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I also enjoy hearing,

"American 213 heavy, American 1171 on guard."
With the inevitable chorus of,
"YER ON GARD"
to follow.
 
Doug Taylor said:
Not that I have an aversion to tips or learning better, more efficient ways of getting my tasks completed, but hot damn, learn how to meter that crap out! :) I'm always willing to learn, but sometimes I want to read Wired or stare out the window at the Canadian tundra and be alone with my thoughts. Especially when you're trapped in the cockpit for hours and hours.
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Watch out Doug, the ScreamingEmu cockpit police is out! And gasp....People know who you are!

Get off your high horse Screaming...
 
Autothrust Blue said:
I also enjoy hearing,

"American 213 heavy, American 1171 on guard."
With the inevitable chorus of,
"YER ON GARD"
to follow.
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Ugh! I hate that.

It's more disruptive to start barking at someone on guard than it is to either (a) let them find the noncom aircraft and (b) let them figure it out.
 
Guard police are far better than a couple Portuguese pilots yapping away non-stop on 123.45!
 
Trip7 said:
Watch out Doug, the ScreamingEmu cockpit police is out! And gasp....People know who you are!

Get off your high horse Screaming...
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I said I'd like to. I didn't say I did! :)

I'd also like to do a barrel roll and some ACM when we go head to head with another heavy, but...
 
ProudPilot said:
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.
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Negative on the bathroom. Take a large bottle with you. Need to drop a deuce? Hope you've got a bucket and a bag.

But on flying instrument with the airship. In a normal airship, it really isn't any different. With the one I fly, we've got a large sign on the port side of the ship. That sign causes the ship to be in a constant 5 degree bank to the left. Try convincing your brain that a 5 degree left indication on the attitude indicator is really straight and level.
 
Doug Taylor said:
I said I'd like to. I didn't say I did! :)

I'd also like to do a barrel roll and some ACM when we go head to head with another heavy, but...
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Ah semantics....

If we want to get into specifics, I said I read books/magazines but I never said they weren't company approved books/magazines

Books/magazines I read include QRH Vol I and II, the CRJ 200 Flight Deck Picture Book, and the company magazine:D
 

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My oh my.

"Slow down kid, you're going to hurt yourself"

"Shut up old man!"

*WHUMP*
 
KSCessnaDriver said:
Negative on the bathroom. Take a large bottle with you. Need to drop a deuce? Hope you've got a bucket and a bag.

Try convincing your brain that a 5 degree left indication on the attitude indicator is really straight and level.
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Try convinving your brain that flying an airship is exciting. :bounce:
 
Trip7 said:
Watch out Doug, the ScreamingEmu cockpit police is out! And gasp....People know who you are!

Get off your high horse Screaming...
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I either wasn't explaining what I was trying got say, or you weren't reading it. I wasn't saying "shame on you for reading in the cockpit!" I'm saying that in my opinion its kinda dumb to put yourself out there like that. I know a guy who got to meet a couple of the management guys because he took pictures below 10k on another airline and posted them online under a screen name.

I'm not telling you what to do. I'm not telling you what not to do. I'm just saying that I've heard of people getting called into explain things that are a lot less against the rules.
 
ATN_Pilot said:
I'll try to remember that the next time I'm a captain........in about 20 years.

No, I'm not bitter about the seniority integration. Not at all. ;)
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Now, you finally understand why date-of-hire is so important in seniority integration. It should have remained ALPA's policy for all seniority integrations so that the precedent could never be broken by anyone.

Date-of-hire with conditons and restrictions is the only fair way to integrate seniority lists. I said it many years ago and I still say it today. It's a pity that people won't listen. I feel bad for you and all the guys at Air Tran that have been screwed, I really do. The results have not been fair for you just like they weren't fair for the guys at USAirways.


Typhoonpilot
 
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