you know you've been around planes too long when...
saw this really interesting thread on the a.net forum. guess i'd post some that describe me and some of my own. here goes...
you know you've been around planes too long when...
-You spell with the phoenetic alphabet
-While talking to someone and you hear a plane you ignore the conversation and look up at the plane.
- Your "ideal beach" is SXM
-Things on your computer have some reference to planes - wallpaper/screensaver
-you watch movies and as soon as a plane comes across the screen, you yell out exactly what it is.
-When you call a city by it's airport code (sometimes)
- You've ever requested to sit on a certain side of the plane to see certain landmarks or sights while in flight (example - when flying south, sitting on the right side of the plane so you can see the sunset)
- If you've ever chosen to take a connecting flight even when a non-stop was available, just to get one more takeoff and landing (we flew QR to europe because it was cheaper than SQ, but i'm not complaining cos of the extra plane rides!)
- Airplane noise is not noise to you (as an anetter so aptly put it, it's the sound of freedom)
-you go through friend's facebook photo albums from their trips, and only looking to see if they have any photos from the flights to and from.
you know you've been around planes too long when...
-You spell with the phoenetic alphabet
-While talking to someone and you hear a plane you ignore the conversation and look up at the plane.
- Your "ideal beach" is SXM
-Things on your computer have some reference to planes - wallpaper/screensaver
-you watch movies and as soon as a plane comes across the screen, you yell out exactly what it is.
-When you call a city by it's airport code (sometimes)
- You've ever requested to sit on a certain side of the plane to see certain landmarks or sights while in flight (example - when flying south, sitting on the right side of the plane so you can see the sunset)
- If you've ever chosen to take a connecting flight even when a non-stop was available, just to get one more takeoff and landing (we flew QR to europe because it was cheaper than SQ, but i'm not complaining cos of the extra plane rides!)
- Airplane noise is not noise to you (as an anetter so aptly put it, it's the sound of freedom)
-you go through friend's facebook photo albums from their trips, and only looking to see if they have any photos from the flights to and from.
- When on holiday you take trillions of pictures of the clouds/wing
-one of your best memories from 2008 is the day when you visited the A380 cockpit
-your ringtone is the FSX song and the message alert the 'too low terrain' warning
-in the middle of the night when you were going back to bed from the toilet you saw 4 planes in the horizon (identifiable by their flashing landing lights) and ignoring your body's desperate pleas for sleep you dashed to the window to watch
-your french family brought you the airbus factory in toulouse because they know you love planes
-your ringtone is the FSX song and the message alert the 'too low terrain' warning
-in the middle of the night when you were going back to bed from the toilet you saw 4 planes in the horizon (identifiable by their flashing landing lights) and ignoring your body's desperate pleas for sleep you dashed to the window to watch
-your french family brought you the airbus factory in toulouse because they know you love planes
-you are dismayed that the 'future pilot' caps and tshirts that they sell in the airbus store has only kids' sizes
-your french teacher knows that you want to be a pilot even though you didn't tell him that
-your french teacher knows that you want to be a pilot even though you didn't tell him that
-you'd gladly give up french (your 2nd favourite subject) in jc just to concentrate on SYFC
-your favourite subject is physics (purely for flying purposes)
-during the last physics test when the question asked you to draw a thermocouple in a jet engine you draw it and label it the 'rolls royce trent 900 (found on A380s)'
-you laugh out loud when you see an aviation-related question in your test paper
-when you hear/see an aircraft flying overhead you stop whatever you are doing and listen/watch it until it's out of sight.
-one of your favourite tv show is 'air crash investigation'
-you count 'the pilot's handbook of aeronautical knowledge', 'your pilot's license' and 'the dictionary of aviation' as some of your prized possessions
-one of your favourite tv show is 'air crash investigation'
-you count 'the pilot's handbook of aeronautical knowledge', 'your pilot's license' and 'the dictionary of aviation' as some of your prized possessions
-you signed up for the lyon exchange programme purely for the plane ride
-you're thinking of going to bordeaux this year just to fly on the A380.
-you want to print a tshirt that says 'plane spotter and proud of it'
-you can't stand it when people complain 'how boring' or 'how long' their flight was
-you'd gladly fly on the jumpseat instead of SQ's first class suite anyday (not that either is possible though)
-you want to print a tshirt that says 'plane spotter and proud of it'
-you can't stand it when people complain 'how boring' or 'how long' their flight was
-you'd gladly fly on the jumpseat instead of SQ's first class suite anyday (not that either is possible though)
-you'd rather be a pilot than a first class passenger
-the thing that you want most in the whole world is to become a pilot and you'll do anything it takes to become one, even if that means giving up something you love
-the thing that you want most in the whole world is to become a pilot and you'll do anything it takes to become one, even if that means giving up something you love
-you're planning to buy a DSLR just to take pictures of planes
-you can't wait for the prelims to come so you can sign up for SYFC
-you would love to live under a flight path, preferably next to the airport
-you can't wait for the prelims to come so you can sign up for SYFC
-you would love to live under a flight path, preferably next to the airport
-the first website you visit whenever you open your browser is airliners.net (aka porn for pilots)
-you get really worked up when you see an A380 even though you've seen it thousands of times
-you have plane related songs in your handphone
-you dream of planes (one of mine involved me in a flight school's cafeteria, the other a race between a ferrari and a 747)
-choosing a job for job attachment, you pick the inflight catering job even though the pay isn't that good
-your friends buy you an A380 model on your birthday
-you can't help noticing that your football club's shirt sponsor is Emirates Airline
-on the plane, instead of watching movies you have your IFE on 'flight tracking' and you spend most of your time gazing out of the window, even if it's pitch dark outside
-you see the word 'ppl' and you automatically think of a certain pilot's flying certificate
-you refuse to throw away your broken F-15 model
-you will give anything to be in SYFC
-your blog url is bravo-sierra.blogspot.com
-your blog url is bravo-sierra.blogspot.com
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