Man, flying is boring...

ZapBrannigan said:
I'll admit it. I don't care for long flights. Anything over 3 hours and I'm looking to swap out of it. Still love takeoffs, approaches, and landings. Long haul? Thanks anyway. I've been flying for 26 years. Doing it for a living for 19. It's just not the thrill that it once was.
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If it takes more than 3 hours, you need a faster plane.
 
jtrain609 said:
If I need excitement, I'll go do something that doesn't involve the public being attached to my every move. Those folks in the back didn't sign up for increased levels of risk because I'm bored at work.
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Your position implies that those who are opposed to boredom are quantifiably more dangerous than those who are fine with it. I've never understood this attitude, though it's common, especially in aviation.

Boredom is bad, and that's okay. While I agree that crews can't let boredom drive their decision making, I don't think industry-wide acceptance of boredom is... well, acceptable.
 
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I still think when it comes to domestic flying the transcon markets are the easiest kind of flying you'll ever do. 5:00 - 6:45 block depending on city pair and direction and very typically one leg days. Although 95% of my overnights are either SFO or LAX and it can get boring being in the same two hotels day in, day out. I joked to my wife that [hotel chain same for both SFO/LAX ] are my second home.
 
PFGiardino said:
Your position implies that those who are opposed to boredom are quantifiably more dangerous than those who are fine with it. I've never understood this attitude, though it's common, especially in aviation.

Boredom is bad, and that's okay. While I agree that crews can't let boredom drive their decision making, I don't think industry-wide acceptance of boredom is... well, acceptable.
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I didn't take that from his post. I took him to mean that extra excitement = extra risk, which is probably true. Boring = nothing unusual or risky happened.

So I just read that as "don't inject excitement into your flying merely because you are bored." Is that incorrect @jtrain609?
 
PhilosopherPilot said:
I didn't take that from his post. I took him to mean that extra excitement = extra risk, which is probably true. Boring = nothing unusual or risky happened.

So I just read that as "don't inject excitement into your flying merely because you are bored." Is that incorrect @jtrain609?
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I can agree with that. We're supposed to brief the biggest threat for every T/O & LNDG brief, and whenever it's a repo leg I brief that in itself as the biggest or one of the biggest threats, mitigated by flying as if we have 70 VIPs in the back.

The aviation world is full of crazy stories about bored pilots, repo legs, and dangerous antics. While I've never personally witnessed it at my airline, I have seen it in charter and corporate, and it is most definitely a real threat.
 
L-16B said:
This is why I'll never quit flying on my days off. The most fun I've had out of the 4 and soon to be 5 121 planes I've flown was the Saab hands down.
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Hell yeah! I love the SAAB. Especially the B+. That thing is amazing. After flying A/B models, it is so refreshing to click off the autopilot and fly the B+.
 
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Not a bad place to spend some of the 10 hours.
 
dasleben said:
RNAV 1 departure, unfortunately. They want us to turn the automation on ASAP, and well, "they" write the checks. :)

Same thing with the autoland, too. The company specifically asked us to get one done last night. Boooring.
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Hey that's weird they just did the opposite on the 747 fleet. Now it says "AP or FD must be used on RNAV dep." Also clarified hand flying up to cruise is ok even in RVSM because the reg says autopilot must be on in LEVEL RVSM. Ya'll should complain about commonality.
 
MikeD said:
Boring (although nicely done here):



Interesting:

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I talked to a truck driver one time years ago that mentioned he was also a commercial helicopter pilot, so I asked why he was trucking.
His answer was;
" imagine landing offshore on a brokedown fishing boat in a storm -at night."
 
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