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Old 12th April 2008 | 13:51
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Luke SkyToddler
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From: Domaine de la Romanee-Conti
Top tip for you guys - aerosexuals make the worst pilots

The only time in my 15 year flying career that I've ever made a formal report / complaint against any FO I ever flew with, was a bloke who just couldn't function as an effective crew member due to his complete obsession with admiring every passing aircraft that was bigger than ours (just about all of them since we were a 19-seat turboprop). He'd break off mid-approach-checklist to dig out the camera and take a picture of a B747 doing an approach on a parallel runway, or dig into his spotters handbook to find out some obscure callsign we'd just heard on the radio, and was generally utterly useless whenever we were within visual range of a big jet of any sort.

All this discussion about "flying in the blood" is generally something that's reserved for PPLs, wannabes, retired old nostalgic types and people who haven't actually spent a long time in the 21st century commercial environment. I know where you guys are coming from but sadly I haven't had any of those "awesome, I'm a jet pilot" moments for a looooong time now
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