What Do Gingerbeers Do That Really Annoy You?
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What Do Gingerbeers Do That Really Annoy You?
This was only the next progression from Captains, FO's, and F/A's!
Here's mine.
Write something up, they respond after the check with "Checked & Tested OK" and its still exactly the same as it was before!
...disco
Here's mine.
Write something up, they respond after the check with "Checked & Tested OK" and its still exactly the same as it was before!
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Let me see.................
Working in hot and cold dusty hangars, upsidedown in the bowls of aircraft, arms deep inside somewhere they cannot see....... all in order to keep the aircraft airworthy so that innocent passengers and occasionally ignorant drivers can arrive safely at the end of the flight.
...............but it seems thousands trust them every day with their lives.................not sure what really anoys me about them...
TH
Working in hot and cold dusty hangars, upsidedown in the bowls of aircraft, arms deep inside somewhere they cannot see....... all in order to keep the aircraft airworthy so that innocent passengers and occasionally ignorant drivers can arrive safely at the end of the flight.
...............but it seems thousands trust them every day with their lives.................not sure what really anoys me about them...
TH
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1. borrow my tools without asking.
2. keep on working into the night to get the piece of #### out the door in the morning
3. use my coffee cup
4. Keep on doing work for customers who keep on not paying for services rendered.
2. keep on working into the night to get the piece of #### out the door in the morning
3. use my coffee cup
4. Keep on doing work for customers who keep on not paying for services rendered.
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Engineers demonstrate in front of an audience of your peers that there is nothing whatsover wrong with the aircraft, and that you screwed up.
Of course this is preferable to the reverse situation, and if it occurs I am happy to provide beer. Mars bars, whatever. I far prefer to be thought a live and trembling mechanical idiot then a statistic - and yes I speak from experience.
To put it another way, I assume that I am the stupidest pilot that ever flew, and that everyone else is smarter than me. The jury is leaning to this verdict......but I am alive to contest it.
Of course this is preferable to the reverse situation, and if it occurs I am happy to provide beer. Mars bars, whatever. I far prefer to be thought a live and trembling mechanical idiot then a statistic - and yes I speak from experience.
To put it another way, I assume that I am the stupidest pilot that ever flew, and that everyone else is smarter than me. The jury is leaning to this verdict......but I am alive to contest it.
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When they don't believe the problems you report, but will listen to a fellow pilot with 4 bars who says exactly the same thing.
'Damn young'en, doesn't know anything...there's no way the engine would be doing that...'
'Damn young'en, doesn't know anything...there's no way the engine would be doing that...'
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Stand outside your bedroom window and perve while you're shagging your missus.
I'm still getting counselling over that one!
I'm still getting counselling over that one!
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Was that your Mrs or his Mrs?????.......could explain something?
Us engineers are perfect, just ask us!!! Some of us are pilots too.
So conceited perfectionists
Into bunker....tin hat on......2P!$$ed2dr!ve....will you get that Bundy and popcorn again, think this will get nasty now
J
Was that your Mrs or his Mrs?????.......could explain something?
Us engineers are perfect, just ask us!!! Some of us are pilots too.
So conceited perfectionists
Into bunker....tin hat on......2P!$$ed2dr!ve....will you get that Bundy and popcorn again, think this will get nasty now
J
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* Touch things that aren't broken thus breaking them (avionics guys have this down to a fine art).
* Fail to touch things that are broken.
* Use electric screw drivers or drills with screw driver bits in them to get the cowls access or inspection hatches open and scratch the **** out of the paint by slipping off every second screw, which happens because the screw head has previously been ****** by an electric screw driver.
* Fail to touch things that are broken.
* Use electric screw drivers or drills with screw driver bits in them to get the cowls access or inspection hatches open and scratch the **** out of the paint by slipping off every second screw, which happens because the screw head has previously been ****** by an electric screw driver.
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Ditto on the screwdriver thing.
I hate when you spend a small fortune on stainless steel screws, then spend a huge amount of time putting plastic washers on the screws, only to find your aircraft with a bunch of them cheap, nasty alloy looking things and a bunch of rusty screws from somewhere continuing the rusting process in my cowls, and all the plastic washers missing in action and the paint twisted off by the screw head.
I also hate getting the aircraft back after a service with great big black greasy handprints all over the nicely washed and polished cowls and inspection hatches.
And then theres the overspray on the cowls from the spraycan paint job on your prop during the service. prop is always shiney and paint free by the time I get home, but the overspray just wont come off.
I hate when you spend a small fortune on stainless steel screws, then spend a huge amount of time putting plastic washers on the screws, only to find your aircraft with a bunch of them cheap, nasty alloy looking things and a bunch of rusty screws from somewhere continuing the rusting process in my cowls, and all the plastic washers missing in action and the paint twisted off by the screw head.
I also hate getting the aircraft back after a service with great big black greasy handprints all over the nicely washed and polished cowls and inspection hatches.
And then theres the overspray on the cowls from the spraycan paint job on your prop during the service. prop is always shiney and paint free by the time I get home, but the overspray just wont come off.
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I always wonder why they don't come over and hang out with ya at the pub!
At the end of the day, We don't have a job without them, and they don't have a job without us.
I've always, ALWAYS respected my engineers, and have never been too proud to ask how something works. I love helping out on 100 hourlies etc
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