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• Don't drink the coffee. The potable water the aircraft is
serviced with is absolutely disgusting. Chemicals are inserted
into the water tanks to prevent bad things from
growing, but the bad taste of the coffee isn't the coffee —
it's the chemicals . . .
• We don't know where we are most of the time . . . (kidding
for the most part). In all actuality, there are much
more sophisticated avionics units on most small general
aviation aircraft. Those units display many aspects of
geographic awareness where most of ours simply display
the route that we programmed in the flight management
computer before departure. We can tell you how far away
we are from the next navigation facility and where we are
in general terms, but aside from that and what we can
see out the window, we typically only have a general idea
of where we are when at cruise altitude. of course we all
carry maps, but not too many of us will open the map
and follow our progress on a three hour flight. (That all
changes as we begin descending toward the airport. Situational
Awareness is extremely important then.)
• We forget about the fasten seatbelt sign all the time.
When you look up at the sign (and disregard it typically)
and it has been illuminated for the last forty five minutes
in smooth air, we simply forgot. Lots of guys will leave it
on all the time. However, sometimes we do have reports
of choppy air ahead and will leave it on until we either
experience it or take a wild guess that the air ahead will
be smooth.
• Some of us carry guns. This is certainly public knowledge,
but Federal Flight Deck officers can carry a firearm in the
cockpit. Lots of protocol exists to ensure that the training,
concealment, and utilization is standardized.
Those are just a few. Happy flying.
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