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OT - Quote from a Pilot - 4/8/2012 2:30:17 PM   
wdolson

 

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Status: offline 		I was listening to the radio and I believe the host used to be a commercial or military pilot. He made a comment that cracked me up:

"The only time you have too much fuel is when your on fire!"

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RE: OT - Quote from a Pilot - 4/8/2012 4:40:46 PM   
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RE: OT - Quote from a Pilot - 4/8/2012 6:10:08 PM   
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RE: OT - Quote from a Pilot - 4/9/2012 9:57:24 AM   
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"Three useless things for a pilot:

The sky above you, the airstrip behind you and a half second ago."



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RE: OT - Quote from a Pilot - 4/9/2012 10:03:44 AM   
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RE: OT - Quote from a Pilot - 4/9/2012 7:09:32 PM   
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Status: offline 		I was working at an FBO years ago & heard this one when a plane was going to land w/o landing gear down & locked -

"God I hope I can land this thing ok"

Heard this in reply but no other planes were in the pattern -

"I hope so too"

Landing pilot started to laugh after landing -

"Thanks God"


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RE: OT - Quote from a Pilot - 4/9/2012 7:53:23 PM   
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RE: OT - Quote from a Pilot - 4/9/2012 8:37:52 PM   
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quote:

For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from above.


Manfred von Richthofen

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RE: OT - Quote from a Pilot - 4/9/2012 9:15:27 PM   
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RE: OT - Quote from a Pilot - 4/9/2012 9:17:44 PM   
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If you miss with 4, you miss with 8


Jimmy Thatch, complaining about the F4F-4 wildcat

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RE: OT - Quote from a Pilot - 4/11/2012 5:48:06 AM   
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RE: OT - Quote from a Pilot - 4/11/2012 2:50:50 PM   
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RE: OT - Quote from a Pilot - 4/11/2012 6:54:34 PM   
sandman455


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Status: offline 		One of the more better ones I can remember from my own cockpit experience:

This was an instructor to a student in a TA-4 Skyhawk that was just switched from LA Center to LA Approach and got abused with 30 seconds of instructions from a rather rude approach controller:

"Tell that B**** that we are tac air and you have dropped your F***ing pencil. We need ***damn vectors."

Normally that wouldn't be all that special, but alas the instructor wasn't on ICS.
After the normal cacaphony of stuck mike calls by all the UHF traffic on the freq. . . we got our vectors.


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RE: OT - Quote from a Pilot - 4/11/2012 8:37:45 PM   
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Status: offline 		Today's commerical airliners come with a pilot and a dog. The pilot's job is not to touch anything. The dog's job is to bite the pilot if he does.

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RE: OT - Quote from a Pilot - 4/12/2012 12:03:14 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Rebel Yell

Today's commerical airliners come with a pilot and a dog. The pilot's job is not to touch anything. The dog's job is to bite the pilot if he does.


I first heard that one when I was working on the 747-400 program at Boeing. The lab I worked in tested all the electronics for the aircraft and had flight deck simulators for all the commercial aircraft.

Boeing's bureaucracy made the federal government's look pathetic, but the job was fun.

Bill

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