Common Aviation Quotes / Pearls of Wisdom

[KBayDog]

And why are you up at 5am? Saturday FCF or just getting home from Friday night are the only acceptable answers (unless you have kids).

What, pray tell, is this "Saturday FCF" of which you speak?

I'm up early on Saturday morning because SoCal offers a concept called "recreation." I like to get up early, knock out the Honey Do list, and carry on with my weekend.

AW is on as "background noise" as I go about my business.

 

[Pags]

What, pray tell, is this "Saturday FCF" of which you speak?

I'm up early on Saturday morning because SoCal offers a concept called "recreation." I like to get up early, knock out the Honey Do list, and carry on with my weekend.

AW is on as "background noise" as I go about my business.

And here I was patting myself on the back because I was done with the gym and had started the chores by 10. Fucking Marines.

 

[KBayDog]

And here I was patting myself on the back because I was done with the gym and had started the chores by 10. Fucking Marines.

I've usually pissed off a dozen hippies by 10.

 

[nittany03]

I've usually pissed off a dozen hippies by 10.

As a denizen of the Redneck Riviera . . .

What are these "hippies" you speak of?

 

[NavAir42]

I'm a little surprised no one has mentioned one of the phrases I've heard constantly since flight school:

"Waive-offs are free."

 

[MasterBates]

At the boat, they ain't.....

 

[Pags]

I've usually pissed off a dozen hippies by 10.

To piss off hippies all I have to do is take my dog and his pinch collar outside. Mrs. Pags and I are routinely stopped and instructed by douches in PETA t-shirts that there are more "humane" options available for 60lbs of stupid half pit/half lab.

 

[callsignecho]

Refusal is the speed (corresponding to the runway remaining) on the takeoff roll wherein you can no longer stop on the runway. After the copilot calls "refusal", even if you lose an engine: you're going flying.

It's also called "GO" in other aircraft.

In the civilian world, we just say V1.

Ahh...Rog.

 

[Gatordev]

At the boat, they ain't.....

The boat can get over itself.

 

[FLY_USMC]

If you're a Marine, strive for the first and last time you wear a triangle patch to be in API.

"It's a safe bet that the old man's first turn will be nose high"<----not from me, but he was right.

 

[MasterBates]

The boat can get over itself.

Think big boat with pointy things.

Taking own waveoff = bad juju (unless LSO is AFU, and I suspect A4s will be by shortly to comment on that)

 

[Gatordev]

Think big boat with pointy things.

Taking own waveoff = bad juju (unless LSO is AFU, and I suspect A4s will be by shortly to comment on that)

Yeah, I gotcha. I've read the threads. I stand by my statement.