Scary but cute "little" airplane

MikeOH58

MikeOH58

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So I just log onto facebook, and a female friend of mine did a mobile upload of the Q400 she was flying with the caption "Scary, but cute little airplane".

Enjoy your cute ride colganites! hehe
 
Haha - terrible. I guess a Q400 is "cute" and "little" relative to a 767 - but only C-172's and other similar sized light aircraft are actually "little".

The FAA should re-word the regs to include "little" when referring to the category of aircraft.

When someone asks me what I fly, and I describe the airplanes, they usually always say something to the effect of "oh jeez, you fly those *little* airplanes? They're so dangerous!"

Then they'll usually start telling a short story about how one of their good friends/relatives died in one of "those little airplanes". I always hope it's going to be a positive story, but it rarely is, :laff:
 
MikeOH58 said:
So I just log onto facebook, and a female friend of mine did a mobile upload of the Q400 she was flying with the caption "Scary, but cute little airplane".

Enjoy your cute ride colganites! hehe
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Wow, maybe she deserves to be making $16k
 
When I went from a C-340 to an ATR-72, I didn't think there was anything little about it. It felt enormous...but I loved it. Best plane I ever flew.
 
Seems that 1 out of every 10 aviation person has a positive experience of when they went up in a GA plane. That female friend of yours should check out the Cri-Cri to get an idea of *little cute* plane. IDE hit it...
 
I hear about my "tiny airplane" daily (C402). Someone's always a critic back there. :)

Actually, that reminds me of my first day on IOE at XJT in the ERJ. By far the largest airplane I've ever flown. I'm in there trying to remember my receiving flow, hoping to hell I can even land the damn thing, when a passenger comes in and says "Oh man, this is the small plane!"

I guess it's all relative.
 
dasleben said:
I hear about my "tiny airplane" daily (C402). Someone's always a critic back there. :)

Actually, that reminds me of my first day on IOE at XJT in the ERJ. By far the largest airplane I've ever flown. I'm in there trying to remember my receiving flow, hoping to hell I can even land the damn thing, when a passenger comes in and says "Oh man, this is the small plane!"

I guess it's all relative.
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When ever a passenger use to say that to so that I could hear it, I use to turn around and say, "You think so? How big is your airplane?". That usually shut them up. Sometimes they would say, "well I'm just a tall guy and these planes aren't comfortable for me". I'd say, "I'm 6'6", how tall are you?". That usually ended it.
 
I once went to get on my commute from SLC to EWR, and as the plane pulled up somebody next to me groaned, "Oh my God, it's another one of those little airplanes."

It was a Boeing 757-200.

Don't hold it against folks, they have no idea what they're talking about, but they also have no frame of reference.

People at school ask me if I flew those "little planes," and I tell them, "Yeah, it was tiny if you consider a 55,000 lbs. jet that is 3 stories tall, 100' long and 100' wide little. Oh and did I mention that it cruises at 37,000' and 80% the speed of sound?"

Once you give people a frame of reference, it makes more sense to them.
 
Seriously guys, who cares? I'm amazed at how offended some of my fellow crewmembers get when someone complains about the size of our airplane. Guess what? It's small. B737s are small. B777s can be small if you spend 14 hours on them. Some people just don't like getting locked in a tube and getting hurled across the country... But it's become a necessity. Don't take it personal.

I'd love to make another comment here, but I'd have to give myself an infraction, so ask me what I was going to say when we see each other at NJC. ;)
 
I heard at least two people in the past two weeks call the CRJ-900 a cropduster. Then one redneck on the phone said "well it's old and it's got a low tire!" Gotta love em.
 
No, THIS is an ugly airplane:

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The Shorts 360. Fiercely loved by the crews that flew it, ugly as sin.
 
flyinawa said:
When ever a passenger use to say that to so that I could hear it, I use to turn around and say, "You think so? How big is your airplane?". That usually shut them up. Sometimes they would say, "well I'm just a tall guy and these planes aren't comfortable for me". I'd say, "I'm 6'6", how tall are you?". That usually ended it.
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The comments about the airplane's size don't bother me anymore. They used to, but now they just roll off my back.

What really gets my goat still is when someone starts making comments that disrespect me in the process.

"Oh, I hope we're not going to crash!"
"This little airplane is so scary. Are you sure this is safe?"
"I don't think I'm going to be doing this again." (Said as they're boarding)

And my personal favorite:

"Are you sure the airplane can carry all these people and bags? We're not going to fall out of the sky, are we?"

Seriously people. I do this for a living. This is how I pay my bills. Do you think that I care so little about my own life that I'd put myself and everyone else onboard the aircraft at risk? Do you think I'm suicidal or don't have a life of my own?

This job has taught me one thing about the general public: Most of them have no class, and don't think before they speak.
 
My favorite is when pax follow up a comment on the size of my plane with a question on whether or not I'm old enough to fly it.
 
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