Your biggest aviation pet peeves..

Firebird2XC said:
Stereotypes are funny for a reason, but you can't really use them to win an argument of logic. :p

I've been having mad fun on my layovers lately. I love it when mainline flightcrews slam-click because they don't stay up after 8 pm anymore.

If leaves their flight attendants bored and lonely down by the pool..... :D
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So, you're entertaining mainline FAs now? Well, I guess it's a tough assignment, but someone's gotta do it! :cool:
 
Things I've seen people do that bother me since I started doing this for a living:

GA Stuff
1) Watched someone do teardrop patterns to opposite ends of the runway while I was trying to teach a student how to land
2) CAP airplanes flying opposite direction on a downwind 100ft above TPA without a radio call (they are "patrolling a bridge")
3) People who steal parking spots that say "Reserved for flight school" when they are taking a lunch break from watching a bridge.
4) Dropping skydivers over an airport. I get it...its convenient for you. But that can't possibly be safe.

Airline stuff
1) Watched my captain threaten to kick someone's ass in uniform out front of the terminal in HPN. Bonus points for the handicapped tag hanging from his mirror already.
2) Had captains from both sides of the political spectrum talk my ear off
3) Had a guy make me stop what I was doing so he could go through EVERY NOTAM on the release with a highlighter. Even for the airports we were only flying over. Man were we late.
4) Flew with a guy who made me turn the autopilot on at 600ft (FOM min) and off at minimums for the approach because that's what he did.
5) Other planes using entirely too much power to taxi.
6) Had a captain yelling at me for turning on the cowl anti ice without telling her what I was doing first. "That's my panel. You don't touch anything unless you tell me first"
7) People who get pissed off at the system. So there's nobody to park us. Airlines are operating everything understaffed because they're cheap. Yelling at the guy on the other end of the radio in ops sure isn't going to make them want to help us any more.
8) People who don't care about passengers. I had a guy refuse to let me call for a new gate when we were told ours was occupied. We sat there for 45 mins before I finally did it anyway. I should have done it much sooner because in reality they wanted us on a lead in line between our assigned gate and another. Lots of people missed their connections. His reasoning was "They're not going to fix it until people make them". I really should have intervened sooner.
9) Crazy people. One time in Omaha we got down to the hotel lobby early to be told "sorry, the van is picking up another crew and will be 10 mins late." Captain said "no problem, gives me time to eat my lunch". Van shows up 10 minutes late and he goes freakin loony and starts yelling at the people at the front desk.
10) Married guys hitting on flight attendants and being sleazbags in general.

And this is just the stuff off the top of my head...there's plenty of stories I thought of that I don't feel comfortable typing on the internet. I could write a freakin book.
 
MikeD said:
Why don't you just come out and say 121 guys? :)
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Bumblebee said:
I had alot of fun at my 121 job! once I was working....and we used to go from ACV to CEC at 3000 and look for whales...then we wouldn't cancel our clearance until we were at the gate eating our PBJ's...
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I had alot of fun flying 121 too...nothing like flying from YVR to PDX at 7000ft down the Puget Sound, past Mt. St. Helens and the Olympic Mountains...and even more fun when you pass a VFR Bonanza at 7,500ft doing 250 KIAS and can see the panic in his wife's eyes!

I have to say, I can't stand "Roger That" as a call back to ATC...sounds like nails on a chalkboard.
 
#1. CFIs that have their students fly 2+mile patterns at untowered airfields, becaus they need a "stabilized" approach in an airplane that does an approach speed of 65kts.

#2 People that say they're going to 'position and hold' in an untowered airfield.

#3 CFIs that can't believe anyone would want to fly less than a 2 mile pattern.

#4 Whenever we're flying the vintage/warbirds, the CFIs that complain (and call
the FAA) when we do an overhead pattern at a towered airfield (with the
permission from the tower) when we're coming in with a two ship.
 
Screaming_Emu said:
Things I've seen people do that bother me since I started doing this for a living:

6) Had a captain yelling at me for turning on the cowl anti ice without telling her what I was doing first. "That's my panel. You don't touch anything unless you tell me first"
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Oooohhh, that one used to get me irritated in a hurry....
 
I once woke a captain up to tell him I was going to turn the center pumps off. He looked at me irritated like and said, "You ain't been flyin at SJA long, have ya son. Don't wake me up agin fer sumpin stoopid like that. Jest fly the damn plane like you want."
 
mikecweb said:
Pilots that don't fly oversquare.
Pilots that don't raise the flaps in the flare.
Pilots that don't cancel IFR at the gate.
Pilots that aren't in unions.
Pilots who let anyone sit in their jumpseat.
Pilots that didn't goto an aviation college.
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Roadhouse.
 
Grouchy pilots...dealt with a few of those lately.
Pilots who cause way too much drama (long story).
30 minute preflights on a Cessna 150 when you have 200+ hours
747 patterns
Piss poor ATC vectors (leaving you high and fast, IMC, night, etc)
CFIs who are SO thorough and hard that their student never gets to the checkride
The people who don't answer the phone at the Nantucket station
 
Crism said:
Grouchy pilots...dealt with a few of those lately.
Pilots who cause way too much drama (long story).
30 minute preflights on a Cessna 150 when you have 200+ hours
747 patterns
Piss poor ATC vectors (leaving you high and fast, IMC, night, etc)
CFIs who are SO thorough and hard that their student never gets to the checkride
The people who don't answer the phone at the Nantucket station
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Who takes 30 mins for a C150 preflight:eek: Running every item on our checkist usually takes 15 tops maybe 20.
 
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