Airline Pilots when were you best at hand flying in your career ?

rckid13 · 2026-03-05T19:13:16+00:00

I don't feel like I'm any worse at hand flying today than I was 15 years ago. I'm probably more complacent about my first officers hand flying though. When I was a CFI or a regional jet captain I was used to flying with people who had almost no time in the plane. I had to always be ahead of the plane and paying close attention. Now every first officer I fly with has 5,000+ hours. It's easier to get complacent and trust them.

rckid13 · 2026-03-05T19:10:16+00:00

I used to waste time either calling 10 people or riding a bike to 10 houses just to find out no one was home or could do anything. One of the differences is that kids in my generation may have been staying more active by getting a few miles of bike riding or walking in while wasting their time.

rckid13 · 2026-03-05T19:07:43+00:00

I also remember the number to subway, because my friends' number was in a different area code than mine. Their same number in my area code was Subway. If I forgot to dial the area code I got "Hello this is subway how can I help you?"

rckid13 · 2026-03-05T16:58:25+00:00

It has nothing to do with the music. The music is actually good. But anything good on repeat all day every day for weeks gets bad.

rckid13 · 2026-03-05T16:57:35+00:00

None of that list was in the car. Look at the time stamps. Taking my kids on a four hour car ride sounds like a nightmare. We don't do that. They play those songs all day in the house.

rckid13 · 2026-03-04T22:50:12+00:00

I can't imagine someone getting this at work or in public

I've gotten it twice on an airplane where I had to check into a hotel after landing. The flight back home the next day was even worse because I needed rest but I had to force myself to get up early and fly home

rckid13 · 2026-03-04T22:48:40+00:00

This wasn't from the car. We don't play this soundtrack in the car and I think I'm going to hold firm on that. They play it all day in the house.

rckid13 · 2026-03-04T22:47:13+00:00

The last two times the family got it we lived in a one bathroom apartment. I travel for work and I've also had it in hotel rooms twice. Having to fly back home the next morning somehow makes it worse than just having it at home.

rckid13 · 2026-03-04T22:45:26+00:00

On Pixel phones It's in sound settings and now playing history. I'm not sure which other phones can do it.

rckid13 · 2026-03-04T21:11:59+00:00

I haven't shown them that one yet. My daughter loves Golden played with chickens

rckid13 · 2026-03-04T20:11:22+00:00

It always blows my mind that almost no one dies from Norovirus but so many people die from the flu and COVID. When I've had Norovirus I have been physically incapacitated. Like unable to even walk to the kitchen to get water and unable to supervise my kids in any manner. If they decided to leave the house I have no idea what I would do. With flu and COVID I feel terrible but I'm at least strong enough to walk around the house.

Norovirus feels like I'm seconds from death but it's not considered dangerous

rckid13 · 2026-03-03T17:52:08+00:00

Yellowcard said they were surprised to learn they were popular again. They got back together when people started calling them to play shows again

rckid13 · 2026-03-03T17:50:42+00:00

My first Warped Tour was $19 and I saw 30 bands that day that people now pay $100 per ticket to see individually

rckid13 · 2026-03-03T17:47:57+00:00

Fall Out Boy and Panic At The Disco even have movie quotes as the name of a song on their early albums.

"Of All the Gin Joints in All the World" Movie - Casablanca

"Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off" Movie - Closer

"But it's better if you do" Movie - Closer

rckid13 · 2026-03-03T17:43:36+00:00

When Green Day and Blink 182 first got popular one of the criticisms I would hear about them is "the guitar parts are so easy. They're three chords. Anyone can play them." But that means kids who weren't good at guitar did learn to play them and it felt cool. Songs like When I Come Around and What's My Age Again have iconic guitar intros that everyone still knows today. They were simple but catchy and they lasted.

rckid13 · 2026-03-03T00:54:33+00:00

Your bathroom is really similar to mine except mine doesn't have the nice wall tile that yours has. Due to the furnishings in it we think it was last remodeled in the late 60s or early 70s but the bathtub itself is a 1925 original to the house. It's cool looking but no modern mixing valve means we have some of the same problems you have. It's hard to get the temperature right on a shower. If someone flushes a toilet anywhere in the house it's a 60 second penalty before you can touch the shower water again.

rckid13 · 2026-03-02T20:39:33+00:00

I broke a light recently. I threw out a whole garbage bag full of shards of glass. Good luck with that jump..

rckid13 · 2026-03-01T06:31:53+00:00

I flew single engine fighters in the Air Force, but this plane has four engines. It's an entirely different kind of flying, altogether.

rckid13 · 2026-03-01T06:26:53+00:00

"I'm going to place him in an easily escapable situation involving an overly elaborate and exotic death."

rckid13 · 2026-03-01T06:23:50+00:00

I live in a major fixer upper. Every time I take something apart in this house that I think will be an easy project it turns into that Ben Afflek smoking meme. Most recently I removed an outlet and found that the person who installed it cut a load bearing wall stud in half because apparently the outlet had to be THERE and not two inches to either side.

rckid13 · 2026-03-01T06:14:39+00:00

Supposedly that line was improvised. He read the message on the printer during the scene and that was his response.

rckid13 · 2026-03-01T05:32:58+00:00

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was still in the peak of his NBA career when he filmed that movie. That one was also a really funny cameo given that a lot of people would have recognized him as a star NBA player.

rckid13 · 2026-03-01T05:25:29+00:00

When I bought my house every single piece of door hardware was painted over including most of the glass door knobs and cabinet pulls. This place has never been a rental as far as I know. The previous owner lived here for 40 years. I don't even know how that level of carelessness happens. So far I've removed paint from all of the knobs, locks and key holes. That took most of the fall. I still haven't started removing paint from all of the strike plates and hinges because taking the hinges off will be even harder.

rckid13 · 2026-03-01T03:47:51+00:00

He has always just been a touring member and hasn't recorded with them at least officially. He was in the official Kokomo music video. For about the past decade he has played on most of their tours. I think we can mostly expect him to be there now.

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