Have you got any flying clichés?
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The TRI said to me "."There is no such thing as a stupid question"
I asked a stupid question.
He replied: "Except a bloody stupid question".
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I asked a stupid question.
He replied: "Except a bloody stupid question".
[ 18 August 2001: Message edited by: A Very Civil Pilot ]
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In the media, the heroic pilot always 'narrowly misses a school' on the way down.
Slightly off track, but still a cliche, as a female pilot I invariably get asked where would like to have the catering put?
Slightly off track, but still a cliche, as a female pilot I invariably get asked where would like to have the catering put?
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MaxAOB's post of the 11th is quite correct...
Blackadder and his men are learning to fly. The Instructor is Squadron Commander Flasheart and the student is the dim-witted George.
Instructor: "Always treat you kite (aeroplane) like you treat your woman"
Student: "How do you mean Sir, taker her home to meet you mother on weekends?"
Instructor: "No, get inside her five times a day and take her to heaven and back."
...and finally,
Instructor: "All right, meet you in five minutes for take off" "Chocks away, last one backs a homo"
Blackadder and his men are learning to fly. The Instructor is Squadron Commander Flasheart and the student is the dim-witted George.
Instructor: "Always treat you kite (aeroplane) like you treat your woman"
Student: "How do you mean Sir, taker her home to meet you mother on weekends?"
Instructor: "No, get inside her five times a day and take her to heaven and back."
...and finally,
Instructor: "All right, meet you in five minutes for take off" "Chocks away, last one backs a homo"
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Evening Star--
Yes, there are some blithering idiots in print. No, not everyone's like that -- some of the cleverest, wisest and best-educated people I know are journalists. And there's a difference between papers -- I don't rate the Times at all on science (and as for the Sun. Times... sheesh! One of the many reasions I cannot read that paper), but the Indy's rather good.
There is a great deal of the old CP Snow 'two cultures' out there, in the press as elsewhere. One of my heros, who worked on radar in the second world war and was senior in the UK space industry, would respond to sniffy arts graduates by offering to recite Hamlet to them if they'd reciprocate with the laws of thermodynamics. Usually did the trick.
Incidentally, there's rather a good piece on cliches in journalism at
http://argument.independent.co.uk/co...sp?story=87307
R
Yes, there are some blithering idiots in print. No, not everyone's like that -- some of the cleverest, wisest and best-educated people I know are journalists. And there's a difference between papers -- I don't rate the Times at all on science (and as for the Sun. Times... sheesh! One of the many reasions I cannot read that paper), but the Indy's rather good.
There is a great deal of the old CP Snow 'two cultures' out there, in the press as elsewhere. One of my heros, who worked on radar in the second world war and was senior in the UK space industry, would respond to sniffy arts graduates by offering to recite Hamlet to them if they'd reciprocate with the laws of thermodynamics. Usually did the trick.
Incidentally, there's rather a good piece on cliches in journalism at
http://argument.independent.co.uk/co...sp?story=87307
R
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Useful "cliche" I picked up many years back on the downwind checks.......
Brakes Off, Undercarriage Down & Welded, etc, etc.....
Helps to remember to include the u/c checks when you move from fixed to retractables.....
or maybe not, since you might just say it and forget.......but sometimes it amuses the pax.
and there's always "thumb in bum and mind in neutral" for those moments when you've been caught napping.....
Brakes Off, Undercarriage Down & Welded, etc, etc.....
Helps to remember to include the u/c checks when you move from fixed to retractables.....
or maybe not, since you might just say it and forget.......but sometimes it amuses the pax.
and there's always "thumb in bum and mind in neutral" for those moments when you've been caught napping.....
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A good one that I heard recently was not actually about flying, but applies itself quite nicely:
Experience is a bad teacher because she gives the punishment first and the lesson afterwards.
Experience is a bad teacher because she gives the punishment first and the lesson afterwards.
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an exception to "never assume" earlier for when dealing with soldiers...
always assume that the inviting gap between the trees has a wire strung across it - the sigs love those ready made aerial holders!
an exception to "never assume" earlier for when dealing with soldiers...
always assume that the inviting gap between the trees has a wire strung across it - the sigs love those ready made aerial holders!
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The take-off may be successful and the in-flight movie a means of passing the time but one certainty is that the aircraft is definitely coming down! Hopefully with 8000+ft of runway ahead.
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1. The 7 P's....**** poor planning produces **** poor performance.
2. Kick the tyres..Light the fires..Last one airborne's a poofter.
3. "Tower this is Longhorn 447 - we've three greens in the groove for the ground!!"
4. ATC.."Delta 223 what's the ride like at 370?" D223.." It's so choppy the Captain can't eat his chicken!" ATC.."United 445 what's the ride like at 350?" U445.."Dunno, we ain't had our dinner yet!"
2. Kick the tyres..Light the fires..Last one airborne's a poofter.
3. "Tower this is Longhorn 447 - we've three greens in the groove for the ground!!"
4. ATC.."Delta 223 what's the ride like at 370?" D223.." It's so choppy the Captain can't eat his chicken!" ATC.."United 445 what's the ride like at 350?" U445.."Dunno, we ain't had our dinner yet!"
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There are some more good ones in this thread:
http://www.pprune.org/cgibin/ultimat...&f=12&t=006674
Have a good one, Dave.
http://www.pprune.org/cgibin/ultimat...&f=12&t=006674
Have a good one, Dave.
