The Brits and Aussies can certainly be tools in their own right, but this guy gets a free pass for life! Perfect! Chalk one up for "Cool of the Day."

I keep wondering exactly what these D-Bags think guard is for? Do they think it's the RF equivalent of a sacred cow, set aside as holy that no one should ever use?

I thought Guard was only to be used for making practice PA's, around 30West, about 3am...?

No?

Must have been a big problem for them to have the hood up.

Probably just the...Fan Belt! :D

Just brought back a memory....

Had an overnight that didn't have any food nearby. The van driver offered to take us through the drive thru on his way back to the airport to pick up a PSA crew. I decided to order extra food for the inbound crew since we would be packing Mickey D's with these guys in the van and I thought it lousy not to have enough to go around since they'd have to smell it and might be hungry.

Crew gets it, I hand two out of three individual bags with a burger / fries or whatever it was to very appreciative crewmembers who hadn't eaten in a while. Third guy curtly tells me "I don't eat that crap". Um..... OK dude......

Every airline has them.

The "company men" who make it their life's mission to not only do everything "by the book", but to make a point of demonstrating to you that they do everything by the book at every opportunity. These tools have every letter and punctuation mark of the FOM memorized; with the notable exception of the words "judgment" and "discretion".

(For example, the tool that tries to taxi a heavy airplane out of an alley on a 100-degree day on one engine, because "the book" [written by tools who never fly the line] says you're supposed to single-engine taxi.)

And at most airlines, there seems to be a greater number of these lemmings concentrated at certain domiciles.

So I'm riding in the back of a trans-con red-eye one night. Every time we would encounter so much as a ripple, Capt. Weenie would turn the seat belt sign on, and make the obligatory announcement required by the FOM when manipulating the seat belt sign.

And as soon as it would smooth out again, he would turn the sign off, and then make that obligatory announcement. He must have done this at least a half-dozen times during the flight.

On a (bleep)ing red-eye!

(I won't say what carrier this was, but when I told the story to a buddy who flies for that company, he immediately responded, "'Must've been a Bubba from [a particular domicile].")

I was thinking the radiator.

I think I'm going to start using a new defense against the proselytizing captain:

"I only discuss _____ with people I'm trying to nail. And you don't look like you put out."

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(For example, the tool that tries to taxi a heavy airplane out of an alley on a 100-degree day on one engine, because "the book" [written by tools who never fly the line] says you're supposed to single-engine taxi.)

Isn't that what the APU is for?:D

And as soon as it would smooth out again, he would turn the sign off, and then make that obligatory announcement. He must have done this at least a half-dozen times during the flight.

Maybe he was new? I flew with a new CA the other day, and he did exactly the same thing. You could tell he was trying to do everything right. I didn't have the heart to tell him he was over-doing it.