Too much flight simming when...

[dodgy-alan 1,587]

When you look for Shift+E on the cars computer to open the doors!

[dodgy-alan 1,587]

As I did yesterday, Made sure my B747 was on course and the autopilot behaving itself before going out to the kitchen make a cuppa. I'd also done it earlier when I sat down to have dinner! ( it was a long haul flight, Easter Island to Santiago)

[Captain Coffee 2,030]

2 hours ago, dodgy-alan said:

As I did yesterday, Made sure my B747 was on course and the autopilot behaving itself before going out to the kitchen make a cuppa. I'd also done it earlier when I sat down to have dinner! ( it was a long haul flight, Easter Island to Santiago)

 

I dash out to check the laundry in the building at the end of my docks while Air-Hauling...gotta have an AP when working the cargo.

I had to walk away a few times from a F-100 on autopilot from Honolulu to Midway Island yesterday...2 hours is too long to sit in a cramped cockpit when it's sunny outside.

[hlminx 301]

When turning on your FS rig, with its networked PCs, multiple screens and every peripheral known to man makes your electricity meter spin faster than the 'Griswalds Christas lights' ...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMekQj5w7MU

[Jess-b 420]

6 hours ago, hlminx said:

When turning on your FS rig, with its networked PCs, multiple screens and every peripheral known to man makes your electricity meter spin faster than the 'Griswalds Christas lights' ...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMekQj5w7MU

I try not to think about it!

[dodgy-alan 1,587]

When you set your flight to Real World Weather just to see if whats on the sim is the same as what's going on outside!

[dodgy-alan 1,587]

When you insist on landing your aircraft safely and then shutting down before doing anything else! 

[Captain Coffee 2,030]

When you think Alan (and most contributors to this thread) has his (their) priorities correct.

[J G 927]

When you're dozing on a longhall flight and you hear the captain anouncing an out of memory error.

[adrians69 159]

When a "bandit" cuts you up on the road and your finger instinctively reaches for the ACM Master Mode switch! (BMS pilots will understand!)

[dodgy-alan 1,587]

When you refer to you cars central locking button as "doors to manual!"

 

[Tim_A 996]

When you're on downwind to the checkouts at Sainsbury's

[dodgy-alan 1,587]

Something I've done ever since I drove coaches airside at Heathrow etc. Just as an aircraft will turn its rotating beacons and lights on before moving off the stand, I also turn on my Hazard lights when reversing out of a parking bay in the car! That way there is no way any other driver (or pedestrian)should not be aware that I'm moving, as together with the tail lights and reverse lights i'm lit up like a christmas tree!

Our airside coaches also had orange rotating beacons on the roof as required by CAA regulations.

[hifly 925]

You check the wind direction before you fart. 

[Captain Coffee 2,030]

Just now, hifly said:

You check the wind direction before you fart. 

 

That's just common courtesy. Ok...it's actually Uncommon courtesy and you are awarded +10 Karma points for it.

 

Checking the wind direction while doing automobile GPS navigation "pre-flight" is however a bit over the top...although it could technically affect my fuel use.

[hifly 925]

1 hour ago, Captain Coffee said:

 

That's just common courtesy. Ok...it's actually Uncommon courtesy and you are awarded +10 Karma points for it.

 

Checking the wind direction while doing automobile GPS navigation "pre-flight" is however a bit over the top...although it could technically affect my fuel use.

 

Karma, a karma ran over my dogma.

[Captain Coffee 2,030]

Dogma is my bitch copilot when I drive my Karma.

[Tim_A 996]

2 hours ago, Captain Coffee said:

 

That's just common courtesy. Ok...it's actually Uncommon courtesy and you are awarded +10 Karma points for it.

 

Checking the wind direction while doing automobile GPS navigation "pre-flight" is however a bit over the top...although it could technically affect my fuel use.

 

It's a bitch when the wind is straight across the driveway and it exceeds your car's crosswind limits . . .

[Captain Coffee 2,030]

Just now, Tim_A said:

 

It's a bitch when the wind is straight across the driveway and it exceeds your car's crosswind limits . . .

 

That's the time to use the crosswind strip along the sidewalk.

[dodgy-alan 1,587]

We call our car SatNav voice Bitchin' Betty! The Cruise control I refer to as the Autopilot!

[Chairman7w 1]

On 4/30/2016 at 04:21, phil white said:

The wife says its me or the computer, you can't have both!

 

Better learn to cook Phil.

[mutley 4,487]

1 ... When you fly to this years/last years holiday destination.. many times, to prove you could have made a better landing than the pilot did the time.

2 ... When you fly to this years/last years holiday destination.. and you can enjoy the flight by flying it yourself without all  those  bloody screaming kids making it hell!

[Captain Coffee 2,030]

When you accidentally reply "Go ahead Tower" after Dispatch pings your courier radio.

[Jess-b 420]

6 hours ago, mutley said:

1 ... When you fly to this years/last years holiday destination.. many times, to prove you could have made a better landing than the pilot did the time.

2 ... When you fly to this years/last years holiday destination.. and you can enjoy the flight by flying it yourself without all  those  bloody screaming kids making it hell!

I've actually raced a flight in real time .  

[brett 2,284]

Instead of counting sheep to go to sleep I think about doing a complete walk-around and startup procedures for the same aircraft every night.