NEW "You might be a pilot if..."

- you know the rule '8 hours bottle to throttle'
- you have an CR-2 / E6B / (Flight Computer)
- you pull on the hand brake in an attempt to 'add flaps' to slow down
- you have ever used chocks on your vehicle
- you do the 'Tune, Identify, Test (TIT)' check on the radio before you drive your car
- You know way too many acronyms
- you get in your car and think, “Passenger Brief”
- you no longer check normal weather websites, but rather use NAIPS for the nearest airport / Area (eg. Area 21)
- you see red lights up ahead while driving and use both feet to brake
- You can name all different types of clouds when you look up at the sky
- cars seem weird when you steer and it doesnt bank
- you use “three six zero,” not just “zero”
- you watch EVERY SINGLE plane that flies overhead
- you enjoy the smell of avgas
- you always want to do an 'oil-check' before you start your car every morning
- you would be more worried about losing your logbook than 1000$ cellphone
- you have a compass in your car
- you know what a Cumulonimbus (Cb) can do to your little piper warrior
- when giving directions, you give 'Zero-Niner-Zero (090)' instead of East, and your friends thinks you're crazy
- you conduct a fuel drain test after refuelling your car at a petrol station
- you know what a lenticular cloud is, and appreciate the beauty of it
- your friends always ask you, "why do you always use feet and not metres?"
- you have a copy of NAIPS on your computer
- you get 'pissed off' when the weather turns 'shitty'
- you remember the 4-stroke cycle (Intake, Compression, Power, Exhaust) by remembering "Suck, Squeeze, Bang, Blow"
- you draw pictures of runways, airports, airplanes,etc when you are bored
- you love the joke :
Q: "How do you know when you are flying a Cessna?"
A: "When you get a bird strike from behind."
- you always try to 'trim' your car while driving
- you know exactly what "Bankstown Tower, Uniform-November-Foxtrot, TWRN, One-Thousand-Five-Hundred, Received Whiskey, Inbound." means
- you at the same time hate AND love flight planning
- you use 24 hours time
- you remember the transponder codes by :
7500 - Seventy Five, Staying Alive (Hi-Jack)
7600 - Seventy Six, Radio Tricks (Radio Failure)
7700 - Seventy Seven, Going to Heaven (Engine Failure)
- the first thing you do in the moring is look at the current TAF and METAR from NAIPS
- you constantly say "stand by" instead of 'wait, hang on, etc' when someone asks you a question
- when you do a 60 degrees steep turn in a piper warrior, you think youre in a fighter jet
- you pull out your weight and balance chart while loading your car
- The back seat of your car is full of VTC, WAC, VNC, ERC, TAC charts, and all other aviation junk
- you have busted airspace at least once in your flying
- you always look at your watch while driving, estimating your ETA
- you were sad when you found out concorde stopped flying
- "Say again" replaced "what, huh" in your everyday speech, your friends thinks that you are very polite, but infact, its a pilot thing
- you know more about the plane you fly than your own car (engine, electic systems, hydraulics, etc etc)
- your friends always buy you aviation related stuff for your birthday (
- you have a copy of Microsoft Flight Simulator at home
- your favourite site is 'www.airliners.net'
- you hate Nimbostratus (Ns) clouds
- ERSA & AIP are your bible
- you think flying in the sky is safer than driving on the road
- you remember when sex was safe and flying was dangerous
- you read these the n-th number of times, but you still read them with a smile because they are so truly describing YOU
- you can operate the FMS through the CDU with finesse, but can't figure out Microsoft Powerpoint
- you end your phone calls with you aircraft call letters.
- you have been flying for years, you still remember how your first solo flight was like
- you know you love your course when:
* u think its fine to spend 4 hours on public transport for an hour flying
* u think holiday sucks and can't wait to return to the airport
* u know everyone thinks u are cool even though u are just an normal person
* u think its reasonable to leave the airport at 11PM and come back at 8AM the day after
* u enjoy every single minutes you spend at the airport
* u no longer care about living under the flight path. in fact, u love living under the flight path
- you ever dreamt that during a commercial flight, the pilots passed out and you, the only pilot on the plane, were about to save everyone by landing a 250 tons aircraft safely
- you are either a Boeing fan or an Airbus fan, and not both
- you long to own one of those cool breitling watches
- you are a pilot when you can just press the 'Direct To' button on the gps
- you look forward to the next red bull air race more than christmas
- you wear sunglass all the time to go to work, whatever the weather.
- if you have to explain to everyone that a cross country isnt literally flying across the country.
- You have to explain to your friends that Cross Country is not only a sport
- You know the Definitions for certain certificates:
*Private Pilot - How not to kill yourself.
*Instrument Pilot - How not to kill yourself while in the clouds.
*Commercial Pilot - How not to kill yourself and 20 other people.
*ATPL - How not to kill yourself, 200 other people, and write of a multi-million dollar aircraft.
* Flight Instructor - How to not let another person kill you.
- you go to www.aviation-terms.com to find a name for your pet dog.
-you laugh inside at the sim junkies when they try to apply their fantasies to our reality.
-you wake up at the yoke wondering where you are
- you know it’s “three six zero,” not just “zero”
-EHAA - Everything has an acronym

- if you shout "CLEAR TAB", before opening a beer can
-If you got a big watch worth more than your car
- You might be a single/engine pilot if you always go over the speed limits with your car... we always use more right foot than the left one.
- you think to pull up instead of breaking when you see an obstacle
- you expound for a full fifteen minutes on Bernoulli's Principle and the function of slats and flaps, as - your non-flying friends get that glazed look in their eyes, so sorry they ever asked.
- traveling on an airliner, you pay more attention than anyone else to the safety instructions at the beginning of the flight.
-When this..."KMDW 281745Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 15/5 A29.92 RMK AO2" means it's going to be a "perfect" day!
- you dial 7500 when someone packs you in the trunk and robs your car.
- you know airways better than highways.
- when your wife asks how far are you, you'd say 5.6DME inbound.
- you can´t see a movie that include aircrafts because you are looking for the mistakes, at the end you have a list of errors but you dont know at least the name of the movie
-reading the METAR/TAF text is easier to you than reading the newspaper.
-Your profile pic on facebook is you over or around or in cockpit of an airplane.