Rover et al,
The engineers and pilots forums on this site just seem to be crewroom chat writ large.
Go into an engineers crewroom and you will hear talk of football, sex, politics, shared hobbies and interests, beancounters, getting the job done, computers!, and a whole host of other topics that will never be raised in this forum.
Go within 50 yards of a pilots crewroom and you will hear the sound of a single spool low-ratio bypass turbine at ground idle. ie a lot of whining.....Duty hours, poor rates of pay!!, have to park my car with all the other plebs, not enough gold bars on my sleeve, 4 star hotels when others get 5, male stewards, crap co-pilots, crap captains, crap ops, allowances too low.
I know which crewroom I would rather be in.
4R
