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theryanbradley
P1 Joined: 02 Apr 2008 Location: EGNM Points: 950 |
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Posted: 31 Dec 2009 at 11:42am |
Okay it annoys me a little when people post emails they've been sent for some reason but some of these made me laugh and it's off a Facebook Group so it's not the same. You know you do some / most of them oh and feel free to add more.
...you have to make a facebook group about it. ...you almost crash your car because you are craning your neck to look out the sunroof at landing aircraft. ...you notice airport codes on license plates. ...you recognise planes at 33000 ft above your house. ...before you board an aircraft you already know the exact type, reg and seats on it, and maybe even the food! ...you know already wich type is coming along according to the sound it makes. ...you call everyone by their name in phoenetics! ...you whine and fret on every nice day that you’re not up in the air (instrument students and pilots add low cloudy days). ...you whine and fret every day that the wx is too bad for flying. ...you get DUATS or a wx briefing on days you can’t fly, just to see if the wx is really as nice for flying as it looks. ...you get DUATS or a wx briefing on days with awful wx, just to assure yourself that the wx really would be too bad to fly. ...you learn mental methods for flight planning, and spend boring meetings planning flying trips. ...you calculate every expenditure in terms of flight hours (50 cents at the candy machine every day that’s 0.01 flight hours! ...you get in your car and find that it drives itself to the airport. ...you become an instructor so you can be paid to go for airplane rides! ...you build a spotting platform on top of your house. ...when driving in the fog you look at your dashboard. ...when ordering from a drive-in, you sign in with your last used reg for a flight. ...when accelerating on the highway ramp, you turn on your main headlights, you do the same when you are braking from the highway onto the ramp. ...In a traffic jam you request for a diversion airfield on the radio commentator reporting the jam. ...when your kid makes a sudden noise or grasps accedentally your neck you search the transponder for the 7777 highjack code. ...you give a report to the passengers in your car when you turn on the cruise control and give a current temperature readout and ETA. ...your flight simulator folder is 16 GB! ...you've been planning your family's vacations since you were twelve based on what kind of planes you can find. ...you successfully transfer the aviation-virus to some of your relatives and/or friends. ...when you're planning your holiday flights - always choose the ones with the most connections or prefer the ones with aircraft types you haven't flown on yet. ...departure day - you arrive at the airport in the morning although your flight only leaves late in the afternoon. ...you are spotting at night and you know the aircraft types just by the pattern of the landing lights. ...you have a picture of the last plane you flew on or the next you will fly on as your desktop. ...you think of FS as your part time job and not a game. ...you are on a flight and your seat neighbor asks to be relocated because you wont stop talking about aviation! ...you start referring to your airports by their IATA or ICAO codes. ...you are flying from SEA-JFK and you fly across the Pacific. ...you know exactly what plane is flying over your house. ...you fly longhaul flights on Flight Sim. ...your flight sim folder surpasses your computer's memory. ...you use aviation analogies in English class. ...you hope and pray that your flight will be delayed. ...you create your own airline, complete with timetables, and route maps. ...you do a full flight procedure (takeoff - cruise - land) while you're walking. ...you refer to cities by their Airport Code. ...your first date is going spotting at your local airport (might be the only date ) ...you have more flight sim airplanes than actually exist. ...you refuse to stay anywhere other than the airport hotel. ...you preflight your car before every trip. ...you buy a plane ticket just so you can get past security. ...you know more aviation vocabulary than actual vocabulary. ...you paint your car in Airline colors (seen it before). ...you have written more than five ways you know you're addicted to aviation. Link to the group if you fancy joining it: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=226927376264 |
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Many Thanks,
Ryan There's a big difference between a pilot and an aviator. One is a technician, the other is an artist in love with flight. |
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Martyn
Just Flight Staff Development Manager Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Location: Huntingdon, UK Points: 7615 |
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I definitely do that, everything seems cheap compared to flying! 40" LCD 1080p TV, thats equivalent to a mere four flying hours...bargain |
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Martyn
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TomA320
Chief Pilot Joined: 02 Apr 2008 Location: Perth Scotland Points: 10235 |
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...you notice airport codes on license plates.
I am really bad for that, I'm always looking and seeing plates with 'VOR' 'DME'...
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twright
Chief Pilot Joined: 02 Apr 2008 Location: London UK Points: 3303 |
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Yup, i've seen PTU (power transfer unit - the thing on an A320 that barks during engine start!) and AOM (aircraft operators manual) that have made me smile!
Another one i'm guilty of is I ALWAYS type aircraft when they fly over, or when I board them, and often remember their registrations for many years afterwards! When I return home I check it's registration on the online CAA G-INFO database to find out how old it is, how many hours it has on the airframe, and when it's next CofA check is! [snort]
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Tom |
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Dc-10 nutter
P1 Joined: 06 Aug 2008 Location: Northampton Points: 567 |
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Having just read that I realise that I do a lot of things on that list.
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Aircraft Aviation
Chief Pilot Joined: 15 Mar 2009 Points: 2149 |
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To be honest, there's a tonne of things that you can see on a License Plate to do with Avation.
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TomA320
Chief Pilot Joined: 02 Apr 2008 Location: Perth Scotland Points: 10235 |
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Yup, i've seen PTU (power transfer unit - the thing on an A320 that barks during engine start!)
I love when you see peoples reactions when you hear the PTU.
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twright
Chief Pilot Joined: 02 Apr 2008 Location: London UK Points: 3303 |
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Haha yeah they all look at each other as if to say "is it supposed to do that?"
In my opinion the airliner that gives the best sounds is the Airbus A32x. If you get the right seat (over the wing i've found is the best place to sit - sit too near the front and it's too quiet, all you can hear is the buzz at takeoff. Sit too far back and all you get is wind noise from the engines), you get all the sounds - the low grumble of the engines at startup, the PTU, the flap motors, the engine whine during taxi and the fan buzz during takeoff! I do like the 320's!
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Tom |
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SkyFly
P1 Joined: 19 Feb 2009 Points: 604 |
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Haha I regularly do both of these!
you get DUATS or a wx briefing on days you can’t fly, just to see if the wx is really as nice for flying as it looks. ...you get DUATS or a wx briefing on days with awful wx, just to assure yourself that the wx really would be too bad to fly. |
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