Pet Peeves

Joshuajayg said:
Most acronyms drive me mad.
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I recently read the Aviation Instructor's Manual in preparation for my CFI recertification. The overuse of acronyms made it very tough going.

"PBL starts with a carefully constructed problem to which there is no single solution. The benefit of PBL lies in helping the learner gain a deeper understanding of the information and in the learner improving his or her ability to recall the information. This results when the material is presented as an authentic problem in a situated environment that allows the learner to “make meaning” of the information based on his or her past experience and personal interpretation. This type of problem encourages the development of HOTS, which include cognitive processes such as problem solving and decision-making, as well as the cognitive skills of analysis, synthesis and evaluation."
 
FastEddieB said:
"PBL starts with a carefully constructed problem to which there is no single solution. The benefit of PBL lies in helping the learner gain a deeper understanding of the information and in the learner improving his or her ability to recall the information. This results when the material is presented as an authentic problem in a situated environment that allows the learner to “make meaning” of the information based on his or her past experience and personal interpretation. This type of problem encourages the development of HOTS, which include cognitive processes such as problem solving and decision-making, as well as the cognitive skills of analysis, synthesis and evaluation."
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They REALLY need to hire some English majors!
 
FastEddieB said:
I recently read the Aviation Instructor's Manual in preparation for my CFI recertification. The overuse of acronyms made it very tough going.

"PBL starts with a carefully constructed problem to which there is no single solution. The benefit of PBL lies in helping the learner gain a deeper understanding of the information and in the learner improving his or her ability to recall the information. This results when the material is presented as an authentic problem in a situated environment that allows the learner to “make meaning” of the information based on his or her past experience and personal interpretation. This type of problem encourages the development of HOTS, which include cognitive processes such as problem solving and decision-making, as well as the cognitive skills of analysis, synthesis and evaluation."
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I have no idea what PBL is, but it must be pretty good if it leads to the HOTS.
 
jordane93 said:
Non pilots on the phone: "We've been sitting on the runway for an hour and haven't moved." No you've been sitting on a taxiway or ramp.
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Unless it's John Wayne (KSNA) and they do actually queue up commercial jets in the morning on 20L and feed them onto 20R for takeoff. I did a double take when I first saw it!
 
To expand on my dislike of individually wrapped disposable eating utensils and straws, that heat sealed hard plastic packaging is horrid! You can't rip it apart by hand, and a knife won't cut it. Half the time I end up breaking whatever is packaged in it in an attempt to force the packaging open by the use of heavy duty shears.
 
denverpilot said:
Sometimes it's longer than an inch. Usually winter. Frakking cold outside.

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Right now it's shaved off. Hot outside.

:)
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Scary picture! LOL
 
Whoa, I hate to waste plastics/trees/landfill space too, but you really want unprotected plasticware!? After a kid wiped their nose then rooted through them? I have also seen people drop them on the sticky floor below the soda fountain, but they are not thoughtless slobs; they pick them up and put them back with the others!!
 
Seems like Holliday meals keep getting earlier. They used to be a dinner, now everyone wants to eat at 1pm! Now the rest of my day is ruined since I have to make new arrangements for dinner.
Next time I am invited to a Holliday lunch, I am bringing a tofu turkey, like on everybody likes Raymond.
 
Let'sgoflying! said:
Whoa, I hate to waste plastics/trees/landfill space too, but you really want unprotected plasticware!? After a kid wiped their nose then rooted through them? I have also seen people drop them on the sticky floor below the soda fountain, but they are not thoughtless slobs; they pick them up and put them back with the others!!
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To put things in to perspective, observe how your hot dog is made, and incidental contamination of plasticware is mild by comparison.
 
Let'sgoflying! said:
Whoa, I hate to waste plastics/trees/landfill space too, but you really want unprotected plasticware!? After a kid wiped their nose then rooted through them? I have also seen people drop them on the sticky floor below the soda fountain, but they are not thoughtless slobs; they pick them up and put them back with the others!!
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Sac doesn't practice safe fork.

Acrodustertoo said:
Seems like Holliday meals keep getting earlier. They used to be a dinner, now everyone wants to eat at 1pm! Now the rest of my day is ruined since I have to make new arrangements for dinner.
Next time I am invited to a Holliday lunch, I am bringing a tofu turkey, like on everybody likes Raymond.
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Holiday meals midday is just wrong. Then you end up digging around in the fridge around midnight looking for something that's not big enough to be another supper, but bigger than a sandwich.
 
X3 Skier said:
"Color commentators" on any sporting event broadcast.

Cheers
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The one exception is the team of Phil Shoen and Ray Hudson. Ray Hudson is a lunatic! Love listening to them and they do the commentary for my Barcelona games.

 
kyleb said:
Airport pet peeve: People who leave their cars/airplanes/golf carts/whatever blocking the ramp. I've arrived at my hangar a couple of times only to find a locked car parked right in front of it with no owner in sight. I've also had a thoughtless airplane owner park and leave his/her aircraft on the ramp, blocking access to the hangars beyond the parked aircraft.

Really, people?

The excuse is usually "I didn't realize anyone would be...". C'mon man. Park it where there *can't* be a problem. Just because it is 3:00 on Tuesday afternoon, that doesn't preclude someone from wanting to use his/her airplane.
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Yeah, that hits a nerve. Once at Chino, renting a Cherokee out of Dubois, I finished the pre-flight only two find two big turboprop twins and a bizjet blocking me from getting to the taxiway. Two of the three were unattended. Half an hour later, after tracking down the pilots/attendants, they were pushed back in the hangars and I could get through. Arrgh!

Also, when a ship in distress is said to be "floundering" instead of foundering...unless of course the ship is beached on a big pile of dead flounder!
 
denverpilot said:
Holiday meals midday is just wrong. Then you end up digging around in the fridge around midnight looking for something that's not big enough to be another supper, but bigger than a sandwich.
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Gets rid of the relatives sooner. :)
 
Speaking of acronyms, people who use airport designators in their posts or their location; like we all know where that is. :rolleyes:

I'm not going to look up (insert random uncontrolled airport here) to see where you got your hamburger.
 
Timbeck2 said:
Speaking of acronyms, people who use airport designators in their posts or their location; like we all know where that is. :rolleyes:

I'm not going to look up (insert random uncontrolled airport here) to see where you got your hamburger.
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Agree agree agree! :thumbsup::yesnod:

:yeahthat:
 
Timbeck2 said:
Speaking of acronyms, people who use airport designators in their posts or their location; like we all know where that is. :rolleyes:

I'm not going to look up (insert random uncontrolled airport here) to see where you got your hamburger.
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Pfffft. If you don't recognize the identifiers, then we ain't talkin' to you. It's a way to weed out the riff raff. =D
 
After that was brought up on the red board, I started including both the name and identifier, although I probably forget to do that sometimes.
 
Timbeck2 said:
<--- perpetually riff raff.
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Next time you're in the southwestern ZLA area we'll have to be sure to hit up KHHR, KMYF, KSMO, or KFUL for lunch. Then maybe a formation flight out by KSBA or even KAVX for the shiggles and gits. Don't want to spend too much time around KCPM though. Bad neighborhood.
 
Timbeck2 said:
Tower today so I'm lookin' out the winders. And since flight check is coming to certify our new ILS this week, my scope days will be over soon.
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Hey at least FAA flight check doesn't quiz controllers like Air Force flight check!

Why would a new ILS put you out? You still have approach right?
 
mscard88 said:
Hey at least FAA flight check doesn't quiz controllers like Air Force flight check!

Why would a new ILS put you out? You still have approach right?
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I work for the DoD not the FAA so yes, I've been subject to the quiz several times; that is until I figured out that the questions they were asking were supposed to be going to the maintenance guys out there who do all the tweakage.

It gets rid of our PAR which will probably be entered into the Smithsonian. Our PAR was just like the "cone of silence" on Get Smart.
 
Timbeck2 said:
I work for the DoD not the FAA so yes, I've been subject to the quiz several times; that is until I figured out that the questions they were asking were supposed to be going to the maintenance guys out there who do all the tweakage.

It gets rid of our PAR which will probably be entered into the Smithsonian. Our PAR was just like the "cone of silence" on Get Smart.
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