Something that should never happen!!!

PilotBeckfizzle said:
It seems like a lot of professional (airline) pilots have their heads so far up their asses these days. They are just straight up weird people.

Granted I only know a handful of airline pilots personally and they are all great guys but a lot that I meet in passing meet the above criteria (asses). Most everyone on this forum seems to be the minority lately; meaning decent people.

Am I just meeting the wrong people and in fact the industry has some 'normal' people?
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95% are consummate pro's and a pleasure to know and work with.
 
Velocipede said:
For all you guys who like to play "big stud Airline pilot" by conducting public cockpit tours, ask yourself this...How easy would it be for someone with a little systems knowledge reach out and pull some critical circuit breakers while you're showing Junior the pretty lights. Then, you may fly the rest of the day with no active Engine Fire Warning system and you'd never even know it. And if you tell me you preflight the circuit breaker panel before every leg, I'll call you a liar to your face.

The general public has NO business in the cockpit inflight OR on the ground. Period.
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Ahem....

I have to confess that I preflight the circuit breaker panel before every leg. We also check the circuit breaker panels during some of our inflight checks. But on a 1900 it's not that difficult. I mean, I'm sitting against the main one. Every time there is an "Aircraft systems" callout on a checklist I run my hand across the breakers to ensure that none of them have popped. Company wants us to do it so I do. I've also caught breakers that legitimately tripped before as well.


Of course, we leave our cockpit doors open in flight most of the time so the passengers can see into the cockpit (it's also in our GOM that we do so as much as possible).
 
Velocipede said:
How easy would it be for someone with a little systems knowledge reach out and pull some critical circuit breakers while you're showing Junior the pretty lights. Then, you may fly the rest of the day with no active Engine Fire Warning system and you'd never even know it. And if you tell me you preflight the circuit breaker panel before every leg, I'll call you a liar to your face..
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You may call us liars but some of us have actual checklist items that call for checking the CB panel. I do it, every flight. So have the people I've been flying with. It WILL be checked!
 
I'm just gonna say I think you've taken this way to personally. Sure as a pilot I'm always interested in what's up front and because of this I will try to make time to talk to anyone and show them around if they ask. I really enjoy doing it because I would be really grateful if someone did it for me.

Now this all changes when we're running late, trying to make what is already a short turn even shorter, I'm tired from a long day and dealing with whatever it was that made us late in the first place, and it's Friday night and I'm going to miss out on whatever plans I had because we're late.

Someone wants to see the cockpit and chat but really, for the whole turn one of us is dealing with dispatch and doing a walk around, while the other is programming the FMS, setting up the speeds ect for the next leg. In this time we maybe have a chance at the end to take a leak and off we go again.

Just saying from my seat if I have a chance I'm happy to talk to people but sometimes there just isn't time.
 
:yeahthat: If I am too busy, I might say something to the tune of, "hey man, we would love to chat but we have been playing catch up all day and need some food and coffee before we leave again. Catch us another time and we will gladly chat and show you around. Have a great day!" :)

Yep.
 
WildCougar said:
Well, those guys should just stick with flying freight. ;)
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Hey us freight dogs have customer service duties to deal with also. We have to deal with people all of the time. I'm the one who has to explain to the customer why I can't take-off with there stuff because the plane is overweight or the weather is bad. You think airline passengers are bad? Deal with some couriers sometime.:banghead:

Freight puppies get no love.
 
I totally feel for the freight guys. When it used to come to bumping bags for us it was simple.

PAX "what do you mean I have to much stuff I only have 150lbs worth" (weight limit on our airline was 50lbs)

ME "well do you want the plane to get off the ground?"

PAX "okay I guess I don't need it until tomorrow it can come on the bus, it's just my dirty work coveralls"

End of discussion
 
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