What do you airline guys do in cruise?

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Screaming_Emu said:
Drink obscene amounts of coffee.
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RJ COFFEE???????
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On longer legs, and if the captain ever stops yakking, I will literally try to read a chapter of the PRM (aka POH) just because I forget how like 90% of the systems work. Mostly though I try to keep direct sunlight from touching my skin. Read magazines. And if we got a USA Today, I'll try to do a crossword puzzle.
 
Bandit_Driver said:
Sports scores are to satisfy passenger requests ;)
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I jacked a Captain I was flying with up one day by playing dumb with regards to sports. Told him I didn't know the difference between any of the sports because I grew up in an Amish village where such frippery wasn't permitted. Kept mixing up the where the hoop was located on the diamond in football.

The fishing was good with the bait I was using. The hilarity was good for at least two position reports.

Richman
 
Richman said:
I jacked a Captain I was flying with up one day by playing dumb with regards to sports. Told him I didn't know the difference between any of the sports because I grew up in an Amish village where such frippery wasn't permitted. Kept mixing up the where the hoop was located on the diamond in football.

The fishing was good with the bait I was using. The hilarity was good for at least two position reports.

Richman
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Personally, I think the more disturbing part of the story is the fact that you were flying with someone who believed he was sat next to an Amish airline pilot! :)

Please give him my number, I have some beachfront property here in Phoenix he might be interested in.
 
I'm not an airline guy, but charter flights. During cruise I usually have something to read on my iPad, I also study the checklist, aircraft systems in the POH (also saved on my iPad), find VOR's and cross check with the GPS, I have a curiosity about weather and physics of flight so I try and study those subjects as well.
 
While just a part 91 guy. I've "heard" of several headsets that have audio inputs. If some one were to have such capability, they could easily download their favorite SiriusXM show, say Howard for instance and listen to it during cruise. I've "heard" it's a great way to pass the time.
 
PositionAndHold said:
While just a part 91 guy. I've "heard" of several headsets that have audio inputs. If some one were to have such capability, they could easily download their favorite SiriusXM show, say Howard for instance and listen to it during cruise. I've "heard" it's a great way to pass the time.
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Yeah I've heard headsets like that with a phone with spotify can make doing jep revisions at cruise so much less of a chore.

Or so I've heard.
 
X-Forces said:
Personally, I think the more disturbing part of the story is the fact that you were flying with someone who believed he was sat next to an Amish airline pilot! :)

Please give him my number, I have some beachfront property here in Phoenix he might be interested in.
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It's all in the delivery & context. Baldfaced, outrageous lies are told with a perfectly straight face. The truth is delivered with a dismissive giggle.

As for context....my girlfriend is one of the smartest people I know. Scary smart...both book and street. She sees through my BS instantly %99.995 of the time. We got talking about the genetics of earlobes, attached or not attached (weird conversation...granted, but we're both biology geeks). During this, I mentioned to her that another weird genetic anomaly was the little piece of skin that connects your nose cartilage to the tip of your nose....IE some people have it, some don't. So, she starts digging around checking to see if she has it, and stops about midway through, with her finger in her nose, realizing what I had done.

Mission accomplished. Beware the Batman.

Richman
 
Richman said:
It's all in the delivery & context. Baldfaced, outrageous lies are told with a perfectly straight face. The truth is delivered with a dismissive giggle.

As for context....my girlfriend is one of the smartest people I know. Scary smart...both book and street. She sees through my BS instantly %99.995 of the time. We got talking about the genetics of earlobes, attached or not attached (weird conversation...granted, but we're both biology geeks). During this, I mentioned to her that another weird genetic anomaly was the little piece of skin that connects your nose cartilage to the tip of your nose....IE some people have it, some don't. So, she starts digging around checking to see if she has it, and stops about midway through, with her finger in her nose, realizing what I had done.

Mission accomplished. Beware the Batman.

Richman
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I am so trying this with my wife. And if she buys it, I'm erecting a shrine in your honor.

You, sir, will be a God among Men.
 
Derg said:
The band or the guy with the microphone who, in addition to Fox News, makes upper middle aged white men ask me bizarre questions when I'm waiting for the airport shuttle? :)
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"I love listening to you speak........where you raised by a white family???"

Then again, that was a lower class white woman, does that count too?
 
POH and Sudoku. That and coffee keeps me alert. Oh and listening to piston guys talk about their wives on guard....true story.
 
Derg said:
You... You don't sound, ya know...umm, I mean you speak so well!
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You have to finish that conversation off with, "I'm so hood I can't help it."

Watching their head explode has to be one of the funniest things life will ever give us.
 
X-Forces said:
"I love listening to you speak........where you raised by a white family???"

Then again, that was a lower class white woman, does that count too?
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WTFO? Did you ask if they were a beat reporter for the Onion?
 
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