Pilots who annoy me...

TUCRACEMAN said:
This thread is funny. I do have one thing that annoys me. Guys doing practice approaches calling out the name of the fix they are at. Um, most guys out here are flying VFR, where is NABPI?

~D
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Good call.

Said already but...

"Clear of the active" means nothing to me. I'm not suggesting that you don't announce when clear, just say it properly. Say "clear of 20" or clear of 2." If I'm monitoring the CTAF from 5 miles out and I hear, "clear of the active," I don't know which runway is currently in use; if there are multiple runways, I don't know which runway is in use. What if you announce "clear of the active," and now you're taxing across an intersecting runway?
There is no "active runway" at a nontowered field.
 
ATC: "Cessna 12345, traffic 2 o'clock, 3 miles, altitude 2,500 feet unverified"
Aircraft: "Yep - we've got him on TCAS"


and: "Tally-ho"
 
Over a long enough sample period, you're all going to irritate me due to the crime of not being me and perfect (like I am). With that said, 99% of the time, I find that getting heartburn over what other dudes do or don't do A) Does you absolutely no good whatsoever and B) Probably says more about you (or me) than it does about the transgressor.
 
Boris Badenov said:
Over a long enough sample period, you're all going to irritate me due to the crime of not being me and perfect (like I am). With that said, 99% of the time, I find that getting heartburn over what other dudes do or don't do A) Does you absolutely no good whatsoever and B) Probably says more about you (or me) than it does about the transgressor.
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:yeahthat:

That sums it up perfectly.
 
ppragman said:
I used to fly (I just left my old job) for the one of the most busy air taxis at PAMR, where UAA's flight training is located. Needless to say, I listened to a lot of "I'm a professional piloting major with 60hrs," or whatever when I was in the halls doing other classes. The best time for me was right before I left when two of the people in the local ROTC came into my work talking trash about how dangerous 135 was, and then expected me to concur. They asked me, "so what do you do here? work the ramp or something?" To which I replied, "yep, I'm a student pilot," about that time, my boss came over and said, "Hey Pat! you've got a 10:30 to beluga, 5 pax!" I grabbed my trip sheet and walked out of the office with my 5 and their mouths agape.

A week later I saw them before calculus, and they gave me a weird look, and they said, "did you really fly them?" And I said, "yep, I fly for them, and I've got about 2000TT"
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Wow, you are SO COOL! I'm gonna start hanging around Embry Riddle in uniform so I can have the young'ns look up to me too!
 
Not much on the radio bugs me.

The only thing that kind of annoys me is when pilots call final when they are on about a 3 mile base on the wrong side. Final's final, left traffic is left traffic, go over top and enter the flow bro. I guess what it boils down to is proper traffic pattern entry and departure, but I don't really care what you say on the radio as long as it's concise and worded somewhat properly.
 
TUCRACEMAN said:
This thread is funny. I do have one thing that annoys me. Guys doing practice approaches calling out the name of the fix they are at. Um, most guys out here are flying VFR, where is NABPI?

~D
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Maybe because the AIM recommends calling when you are departing the FAF. I am familiar with the fixes that are close to my home airport.
 
dhc2tacksby said:
Achoo (91.113) snifff snifff,
Did someone let a cat in?
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Not sure how you could apply this to your situation.

91.113, Right of way rules

(a) Inapplicability. This section does not apply to the operation of an aircraft on water.
Self explanitory
(b) General. When weather conditions permit, regardless of whether an operation is conducted under instrument flight rules or visual flight rules, vigilance shall be maintained by each person operating an aircraft so as to see and avoid other aircraft. When a rule of this section gives another aircraft the right-of-way, the pilot shall give way to that aircraft and may not pass over, under, or ahead of it unless well clear.

Self explanitory, we see you(most of us) so we avoid you.
(c) In distress. An aircraft in distress has the right-of-way over all other air traffic.

Are you declaring an emergency??? Because if you are, RELEASE THE DAMN BANNER!!!!!
(d) Converging. When aircraft of the same category are converging at approximately the same altitude (except head-on, or nearly so), the aircraft to the other's right has the right-of-way. If the aircraft are of different categories—

This depends on who is on the right.
(1) A balloon has the right-of-way over any other category of aircraft;

Are you towing the banner w/a ballon?
(2) A glider has the right-of-way over an airship, powered parachute, weight-shift-control aircraft, airplane, or rotorcraft.

Or are you using the GoodYear blump. Doesn't it have a lighted sign. Why do you need a banner then?
(3) An airship has the right-of-way over a powered parachute, weight-shift-control aircraft, airplane, or rotorcraft.
However, an aircraft towing or refueling other aircraft has the right-of-way over all other engine-driven aircraft.

Is that rope attached to another sirplane that's towing the banner?
(e) Approaching head-on. When aircraft are approaching each other head-on, or nearly so, each pilot of each aircraft shall alter course to the right.

O.K. You win on this one, we'll pass on the right
(f) Overtaking. Each aircraft that is being overtaken has the right-of-way and each pilot of an overtaking aircraft shall alter course to the right to pass well clear.

If your towing that banner with a beer picture on it (mmmmmmm:drool:), you certainly are not landing. You need to drop your banner 1st.
(g) Landing. Aircraft, while on final approach to land or while landing, have the right-of-way over other aircraft in flight or operating on the surface, except that they shall not take advantage of this rule to force an aircraft off the runway surface which has already landed and is attempting to make way for an aircraft on final approach. When two or more aircraft are approaching an airport for the purpose of landing, the aircraft at the lower altitude has the right-of-way, but it shall not take advantage of this rule to cut in front of another which is on final approach to land or to overtake that aircraft.


Did I miss anything?
 
vigilance shall be maintained by each person operating an aircraft so as to see and avoid other aircraft. When a rule of this section gives another aircraft the right-of-way, the pilot shall give way to that aircraft and may not pass over, under, or ahead of it unless well clear.
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You asked.
 
Don't sit in front of the FBO with your loud turboprop engine running while you get your ATIS, clearance, program the GPS, run the checklist. Get the ATIS and clearance before you start. It ain't going to drain your battery. Write down the clearance, start up, taxi out to an open area on the ramp and program the GPS.

While waiting for pax last night, I sat in the airplane and watched some dickweed sit under the canopy of a particular central Florida FBO for a good 10 minutes. Not only was it loud and disruptive to any conversation that was occuring inside the FBO, but it was also discourteous to the line crew (including two wing walkers) to make them stand there for that length of time wondering when the hell he wasgoing to start taxiing. They've got better things to do, like tending to the other 3 aircraft that were preparing to depart. To top it off, he didn't just flick the taxi lights to indicate ready to taxi; he turned them on and left them on, along with the strobes. No freaking need for all that, and simply unprofessional as far as I'm concerned. If you're flying an MU-2, you've been around the block long enough and you should know better.
 
HeyEng said:
Maybe because the AIM recommends calling when you are departing the FAF. I am familiar with the fixes that are close to my home airport.
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I dont have a copy of the aim in front of me, but i dont see how that could pertain to VFR. Regardless, "thunderbolt 69 FAF inbound" doesnt mean a damn thing to VFR traffic at a small airport.


Yeah, i get it, ur an uber-cool hero pilot practicing an instrument approach, at least tell me what run way you're going to. And maybe, while you have your eyes glued to your GPS, just que up the mic and tell me how far from the airport you are.
 
TFaudree_ERAU said:
Don't sit in front of the FBO with your loud turboprop engine running while you get your ATIS, clearance, program the GPS, run the checklist. Get the ATIS and clearance before you start. It ain't going to drain your battery. Write down the clearance, start up, taxi out to an open area on the ramp and program the GPS.

While waiting for pax last night, I sat in the airplane and watched some dickweed sit under the canopy of a particular central Florida FBO for a good 10 minutes. Not only was it loud and disruptive to any conversation that was occuring inside the FBO, but it was also discourteous to the line crew (including two wing walkers) to make them stand there for that length of time wondering when the hell he wasgoing to start taxiing. They've got better things to do, like tending to the other 3 aircraft that were preparing to depart. To top it off, he didn't just flick the taxi lights to indicate ready to taxi; he turned them on and left them on, along with the strobes. No freaking need for all that, and simply unprofessional as far as I'm concerned. If you're flying an MU-2, you've been around the block long enough and you should know better.
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my first guess was a cirrus...
 
If practicing instrument approaches at an uncontrolled field, such as at KCGZ, I throw in a quick mileage following an FAF call over unicom ala: "CGZ, XXX, Roxie inbound, 4 mile final runway 5, CGZ." Just gives Joe VFR pilot somewhere to look for me, especially now with GPS IAPs, there are a good number of named waypoints that guys may not recognize.
 
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