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But I also wonder which is the most boring time for a pilot during a flight? (waiting at the gate for a take off clearence, waiting for an empty gate after landing, long take off sequenes, etc.)
| Quoting MD88Captain (Reply 5): LAX-SYD about 6hrs after takeoff. Only 9 more to go. CPDLC. No radio work. Dark with nothing to look at. That's boring. |
| Quoting vio (Reply 7): Depends what type of pilot you are. I think waiting for a call (medivac) while trying to kill time in a crew house, somewhere in the Canadian Arctic, with -50C temperatures outside. That's the most boring part in my opinion. |
I think Vio is not telling us the whole story here. 
| Quoting yellowtail (Reply 10): Unless you have a single attractive female pilot to keep you warm I think Vio is not telling us the whole story here. |
However wishful that may be, I assure you it's almost as rare as seeing an arctic fox
| Quoting 777ord (Reply 13): Flying across Iowa with a 35kt headwind..... in a C-172!!! Spending your time coutning how many cars are passing you below, OR, how many cops/speed traps you can see. |
| Quoting MD88Captain (Reply 5): Domestically, I'd say a 4 1/2 hr sit between flights in any airport is tough. |
| Quoting vio (Reply 7): I think waiting for a call (medivac) while trying to kill time in a crew house, somewhere in the Canadian Arctic, with -50C temperatures outside. That's the most boring part in my opinion. |
| Quoting MD88Captain (Reply 8): Caddyshack is only funny for the first 100 viewings. |
| Quoting web500sjc (Reply 4): Long solo cross country flights across rural Illinois.... |
| Quoting canoecarrier (Reply 17): The iPad and downloadable movies might be the best thing that ever happened to the low time charter pilot. |
| Quoting vio (Reply 19): Every single pilot at our company has an iPad and or iPhone. I guess there are things called "books", but I don't know how many of us like that... after all, that's why we became pilots |
| Quoting yellowtail (Reply 16): in a GA8 |
| Quoting flyhossd (Reply 2): recurrent ground school |
| Quoting SEPilot (Reply 3): And that was in the 40's, much of it during a war, and when automation was primitive compared to today's. It also did not feature 14 hour flights. |
| Quoting airproxx (Reply 15): Most boring time while I was a business airline pilot: 7 hours spent on ground in Wroclaw, Poland, during winter, with -10°C, waiting for a dude having an appointment there. When you spend all this time in a Citation Jet with no APU and nothing but some good old Jeppesen paperwork to do... Yeah your pilot job can be boooooooooring! |
| Quoting SEPilot (Reply 3): It also did not feature 14 hour flights. |
| Quoting MD11Engineer (Reply 28): Actually some WW2 maritime patrol aircraft like the PBY Catalina were capable of doing flights of up to 20 hours, albeit at low speed, like when searching the sea for U-boats. |
| Quoting web500sjc (Reply 25): I count cornfields, but i'm hoping to figure out something else to do. |
| Quoting airproxx (Reply 15): |
| Quoting airproxx (Reply 15): Most boring time while I was a business airline pilot: 7 hours spent on ground in Wroclaw, Poland, during winter, with -10°C, waiting for a dude having an appointment there. When you spend all this time in a Citation Jet with no APU and nothing but some good old Jeppesen paperwork to do... Yeah your pilot job can be boooooooooring! |
LOL!!! How true!