What things in aviation…..

Oh I forgot one! When I look forward to seeing a Syrianair B747SP and see an Airbus aircraft instead!

Business class customers with a separate check in, who think it’s OK to walk straight to the front of the regular class check in queue because they’ve paid more for the ticket. 😡

I know what you mean. When I travel Business class, I have to sit next to these ****. They moan about everything, want to swap seats as theirs isn’t suitable and generally make an arse of themselves. 😡

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6. Everyone assuming that every pilot is making $200,000 a year and work 10 days a month.
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OH, I thought we all are. Only kidding. 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀

When people panically arrive wayyyy too early at the airport and hysterically search their flight number and go to every desk around to make sure they check in for the right flight and board the right flight. Or people that try to explain something to a kid about an airplane, but actually don’t know a *** about it. I remember my dad once told me that aircraft don’t have tail wheels… I couldn’t believe it! And then he told me that the pilots had to be extremely fat to keep the tail off the ground:d!

Ohyeah, thatn there was this Airline episode when an easyJet aircraft had technical problems, and a passenger came to the desk and said “What is the problem exactle because my man is an engineer!” :rolleyes:

When people panically arrive wayyyy too early at the airport and hysterically search their flight number and go to every desk around to make sure they check in for the right flight and board the right flight. Or people that try to explain something to a kid about an airplane, but actually don’t know a *** about it. I remember my dad once told me that aircraft don’t have tail wheels… I couldn’t believe it! And then he told me that the pilots had to be extremely fat to keep the tail off the ground:d!

1. A passenger boarding that must inform you that he’s a pilot and routinely flies a ___(GA)____ aircraft so he knows all about our job.

2. Passengers who assume that if you sit in the right seat that you’re not really a pilot but a seat warmer.

3. Passengers who assume flying ability or skill is based on the size of the aircraft.

4. Passengers who must ask “when are you going to fly something bigger” as if a) we all want to fly something bigger or b) it’s just that easy that one day we’ll decide we want to fly a AA 777 and sign up.

5. Passengers who bitch and moan about a flight delayed for weather especially since the sky outside is clear blue never mind that the destination is being hammered with rain. Or when they inform you that they talked to their cousin at the destination and they said it’s clear skies so we should be going.

6. Everyone assuming that every pilot is making $200,000 a year and work 10 days a month.

…..just my bias view.

I hate it when WN switches from honey roasted peanuts to salted peanuts 😀

People who arrive at the last minute for check-in and pretend to shortcut the line.

u just did

Can I second that comment about Binter.

I hate it when you don’t fly too frequently, but on the day that you do, the air traffic control system crashes, leaving you without a flight or on a flight which is heavily delayed.

Snap. 😉

I hate it when you don’t fly too frequently, but on the day that you do, the air traffic control system crashes, leaving you without a flight or on a flight which is heavily delayed.

Hans, are you sure you’re not a long lost twin of mine? Me and you seem to think alike.

Who knows? We might even have been standing next to each other at Heathrow, Gatwick, Farnborough or some museum. But I never saw someone looking like me… 😉

Business class customers with a separate check in, who think it’s OK to walk straight to the front of the regular class check in queue because they’ve paid more for the ticket. 😡

Oh, how fun! Here is my list: on certain forums in Scandinavia there are –

1. Lots of know-it-alls who always have easy solutions on how to solve the problems in this business. Strange that these experts aren’t employed by the airlines, with their knowledge they would surely be sought after?

2. Lots of younger so-called enthusiasts who brag about knowing someone working for this-and-that airline and if they know a captain never fail to mention it in every post.

3. Self-proclaimed experts, who time and again give out wrong facts and when confronted with it always have a legit excuse for being wrong.

4. Spotters who spend every free day at the runway and take photos of every single aircraft passing by, no matter if it passes by five times a day every day, and get excited over an MD-80 again operating a certain route which has been operated by 737s for the last three weeks. Even if the MD-80 has been flying on that route since 1985.

5. Airline employees leaking internal information, passenger numbers and possible future strategies for certain airlines.

6. Liars who say they have a father who is a captain flying the A321, and was commanding a flight when a go-around involving a Thai 747 occured. A liar who shortly thereafter registered his ‘father’ as a user on the forum as well. This ‘father’ gave out advice on pilot schools and how to fly the A321. Someone from the airline suspected something wasn’t right and checked if he existed. He didn’t. Everyone had fallen for his lies, I must admit that he was quite good at it. Probably several years of mythological training behind all this!

The sensmorale of this is: don’t believe everything you read in the forums, someone who says he’s a captain might very well be a 19-year old loser whose only cockpit experience is riding in the control cabin of a tram in a second-rate Swedish city.

I was once one of the enthusiasts on the outside, trying to look in and wanting to be a part of this business. Since three years, I am. Now and again I have groups visiting my workplace, and if there are enthusiasts among them who are seriously interested and show an humble attitude, I gladly give them the extra time or something else for them to remember their visit. I know I would have appreciated it a lot if I was one of them.

Hans, are you sure you’re not a long lost twin of mine? Me and you seem to think alike.

Oh, how fun! Here is my list: on certain forums in Scandinavia there are –

1. Lots of know-it-alls who always have easy solutions on how to solve the problems in this business. Strange that these experts aren’t employed by the airlines, with their knowledge they would surely be sought after?

2. Lots of younger so-called enthusiasts who brag about knowing someone working for this-and-that airline and if they know a captain never fail to mention it in every post.

3. Self-proclaimed experts, who time and again give out wrong facts and when confronted with it always have a legit excuse for being wrong.

4. Spotters who spend every free day at the runway and take photos of every single aircraft passing by, no matter if it passes by five times a day every day, and get excited over an MD-80 again operating a certain route which has been operated by 737s for the last three weeks. Even if the MD-80 has been flying on that route since 1985.

5. Airline employees leaking internal information, passenger numbers and possible future strategies for certain airlines.

6. Liars who say they have a father who is a captain flying the A321, and was commanding a flight when a go-around involving a Thai 747 occured. A liar who shortly thereafter registered his ‘father’ as a user on the forum as well. This ‘father’ gave out advice on pilot schools and how to fly the A321. Someone from the airline suspected something wasn’t right and checked if he existed. He didn’t. Everyone had fallen for his lies, I must admit that he was quite good at it. Probably several years of mythological training behind all this!

The sensmorale of this is: don’t believe everything you read in the forums, someone who says he’s a captain might very well be a 19-year old loser whose only cockpit experience is riding in the control cabin of a tram in a second-rate Swedish city.

I was once one of the enthusiasts on the outside, trying to look in and wanting to be a part of this business. Since three years, I am. Now and again I have groups visiting my workplace, and if there are enthusiasts among them who are seriously interested and show an humble attitude, I gladly give them the extra time or something else for them to remember their visit. I know I would have appreciated it a lot if I was one of them.

LMAO… you tell em.

I despise que jumpers

When people block my view when I am spotting!

In Brussels back in 2000, I was in the departure lounge watching the aircraft through the window, when a bimbo student type and her boyfriend came and sat right in front of where I was viewing. They weren’t interested in the aircraft, they just seemed to make a point of blocking my view. When that happened again a few years later, also in Brussels, I pushed my way back in front of the view blockers and prevented them seeing anything!

The other week in the aviation viewing park at MAN, I was taking video of an Aer Lingus Boeing 737 as it accelerated down the runway. Just as it was about to lift off, a couple next to me sat their bloody brat on the fence and blocked my filming, so I wasn’t too pleased. People with brats seem to think everyone should shift out of the way and they should have priority in everything, like the family of dross who marched straight to the front of a bus queue in Scarborough the other day. They weren’t going to get on before me, however, and when I made sure I got on first there was the usual yelling accusing me of pushing in front of them, like you get with dross, but I turned round and gave them a mouthful back!

what narks me off the most?

Listening to Spotters bickering on about paint schemes, believing that airlines paint aicraft purely for the spotters enjoyment!

For me, trying to talk about aviation with someone with little or no interest/knowledge in aviation. Sometimes, it seems that I am the only one for 100 miles who has interest in Commercial aviation. Its a good thing that this forum exist.