You know you're a pilot when....

[B Fraser]

You mend a classic car using lockwire to secure the nuts, it passes an MOT but you can't fix an aircraft that is more straightforward as you don't have the right licence.

[Jan Olieslagers]

other people who know and use the phonetic alphabet. They can't all be pilots, surely?

Friend of mine knows them from her police job. We once used them at an informal meeting and one person was highly offended, thinking we were mocking him in our secret code language.

[Pilot.Lyons]

Haha jollyrog

[VP-F__]

you get into the car on the left side and wonder why the wheel is not in front of you

[Jan Olieslagers]

Easy solution is to come and live on the Continent.

[Barcli]

"When installing a cat flap you find yourself measuring the height of your cat in nautical miles and then drilling everything, sawing everything, based on nautical miles."

Love this - been `DIY,ing in the house for about 15 yrs with the same nm ruler - why does it not lose itself after a week like any normal ruler ?

[mikehallam]

BTW. Whilst the Final(s) discussion continues - surely proof the wx in Albion is poor this week. And thus on a similar pedantic vein............

'A rule is a measuring device, a ruler is a thing for drawing straight lines', is what my maths master used to drill into us.

mike hallam.

[piperboy84]

While out for the Sunday drive with the wife your attention is constantly drawn to the PCAS unit you have stuck up on the dash for the afternoon

[Doodlebug]

Yes, yes, yes Jollyrog!

[BroomstickPilot]

You are a pilot when...

The following question evinces the following reply: -

"How fast do you usually drive on the motorway"?

"77 mph indicated; 70 true".

Regards,

BP.

[DavidWoodward]

Originally Posted by fireflybob

You turn off all the electrics on your car before switching off the ignition and are offended when others don't do the same.

Haha! I do this all the time!

[Gertrude the Wombat]

... you hear your family asking each other to "Say again"

Yup, that happens in my family

[Ultranomad]

Love this - been `DIY,ing in the house for about 15 yrs with the same nm ruler - why does it not lose itself after a week like any normal ruler ?

Because it has an anti-loss device built in - why else would it cost ten times the normal ruler?

[Pitts2112]

...you absent-mindedly increase the pressure on the gas pedal when the nose of the car drifts to the left.

...an hour of flight time becomes your basic economic unit..."Lessee this dinner is costing me...ummmm...an hour and a half of flying! Sod that. We're eating at home!"

[NightWolf]

You hear an electric bell and automatically think fire drill and look to press the red engine fire switchlight in front of you.

[BackPacker]

...you come upon an inconvenient detour in your car, and think "I have not seen a NOTAM about this."

[jez d]

... the word 'flaps' no longer elicits a school boy chuckle

[AfricanEagle]

...an hour of flight time becomes your basic economic unit...

Very true

[transmitforDF]

told a customer on the phone the other day "read you fives" when they were concerned about their line not working, you can imagine the confused reaction....

[funfly]

When you never ever tell anyone about that moment when you were flying when you thought "Oh !!!!".