Douchey Pilot Things. A list

poser765 said:
This right here. Failure of gear pins being removed is a pilot error. There's really no one else to throw under the bus for that one. Whether it's Douchey Jeff that does it or me.
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Yeah, that's just like basic preflight 101, don't care if you are mil or civilian. I don't do a detailed walk on mil aircraft because I trust my mx and PC, but I'm at least looking at the thing.
 
form810 said:
LOL.
What I'm asking is not whether or not to give a briefing, but rather, "standard calls and aborts" vs. say, "If we're below 70/80 we'll abort for any cautions or warnings. If over 70/80 but below V1, we'll abort for engine failure, fire, loss of directional control..., etc"
The question I'm asking is, is the short form acceptable?
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Part 121 regional, and we don't say any of that in our briefings. We both know what we will do per our sim training (initial backed up by annual recurrent) and the assumption that we are maintaining the standards every time. Seems to be working.
 
Beefy McGee said:
Part 121 regional, and we don't say any of that in our briefings. We both know what we will do per our sim training (initial backed up by annual recurrent) and the assumption that we are maintaining the standards every time. Seems to be working.
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Really? At your operation, you DON'T do pre-takeoff briefs?!?

I mean, good for you if it's all working, but that seems truly outside the norm.

False/unexamined assumptions are typically the things that kill the most...
 
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poser765 said:
lol probably not. You know this one used to bug me. Then I realized it’s just not that important and with context it’s really trivial to understand what they mean or want or are doing. For instance a truck driving telling me he put gas in his truck before he got here tells me he fueled his truck with whatever fuel he found appropriate… which most of the time would mean diesel. I simply don’t care what flavor of explodey Dino water he used. It’s just not pertinent to our conversation.

same with to/two/too or their/they’re/ there. 99% of the time I know what their trying too say. It’s a bit jarring maybe, but whatever, communication still happened.
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That's great.'Specially for you.

Still, M. Stats*, 99.9% of the time accidents don't happen at all. (Mostly because pilot incompetence these days is overridden by extremely robust systems and extremely competent avionics.)

*Also, 87.4% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
 
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Baronman said:
Are you flying around in a CRJ or something with spark plugs? Maybe it was gas?
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Not to put too fine a point on it... I like shiny jets as much as the next guy. But "igniter" and "spark plug" are just brothers from another mother.

Words do matter, unless you're flying with known and trusted Frat Bros. and communicating on clear and empty channels... Then, mostly, the vernacular is ok.
 
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Minuteman said:
"Hello and welcome to airplanecareers.com."

See? It lacks panache; senza brio.
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"Sensza brio"??
"Panache" comes from the French, not the Italian.

Besides, regardless of the lingo (although the French do lay heavy claim to all things aérodynamique), flying is comprised fundamentally of an instinctual flair* for aerodynamics... NOT marketing** terms.

*Review "Office Space". You'll smell how the two English meanings of "flair" can be easily misconstrued and/or conflated.

**That's why Delta pilots are so good. They've got lots of flair. ;)

BTW, I'm totally carbon neutral when I commute. The seatback screen in my Delta Comfort Plus seat told me so.
 
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form810 said:
True. Also, never trust a pilot who doesn't drink.
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I don't drink. That would make you not trust me?

To put it a different way: You're refusing to trust someone because they don't conform to harmful norms. Is that really how that's supposed to go?
 
form810 said:
That's great.'Specially for you.

Still, M. Stats*, 99.9% of the time accidents don't happen at all. (Mostly because pilot incompetence these days is overridden by extremely robust systems and extremely competent avionics.)

*Also, 87.4% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
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I’m not sure entirely what this means.
 
form810 said:
Really? At your operation, you DON'T do pre-takeoff briefs?!?

I mean, good for you if it's all working, but that seems truly outside the norm.

False/unexamined assumptions are typically the things that kill the most...
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We do takeoff briefs, but they don't include the specific stuff that the other poster asked about re: "we abort for X" and "these are our callouts".
 
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