Don't read books about airplanes while on an airplane.
Jun 11, 2013, 1:31 am
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On a previous flight, I was reading a physics textbook.
It included a chapter on atomic nuclei, and another that discussed how airplanes flew!
Given this flight crews reaction to a mere WW1 book, I should never be allowed to fly again!
I suppose it was a good thing that I didn't brng my copy of the Qur'an.
TSA did inspect my Bible.
It included a chapter on atomic nuclei, and another that discussed how airplanes flew!
Given this flight crews reaction to a mere WW1 book, I should never be allowed to fly again!
I suppose it was a good thing that I didn't brng my copy of the Qur'an.
TSA did inspect my Bible.
Jun 11, 2013, 3:30 am
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I believe that a friend was reading "Elements of Propulsion: Gas Turbines and Rockets" by Jack Mattingly. He wasn't questioned, oh, and he's Indian, so he'd be the perfect subject for profiling.
Jun 12, 2013, 12:33 pm
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Jul 31, 2013, 1:55 pm
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This is my first post, so please go easy on me. I have been reading FT for ages, but never got the guts to post.
I was once sat at the gate at LHR for a CX flight to HKG, when I was (very politely) asked by security not to read a book called "The Naked Pilot" which is all about the human factor in aviation accidents. I complied with his request, and put it away.
Frequently, if I have a connection exceeding two hours, I will sit watching the runway with my scanner and an airport diagram. A lot of the time, LE or Security come and politely ask me what I am doing. I particularly remember an HPD officer at IAH ask me where I got the airport diagram. When I told him I downloaded it from faa.gov he said "Don't these people know we're at war with terrorists?!" Then he spent half an hour having me answer questions like "What's the difference between a 767 and a 777?" and "What does the DC in DC-10 stand for?"
But he did give me one little thing that I still quote to people to this day - "Too much security is better than not enough."
I was once sat at the gate at LHR for a CX flight to HKG, when I was (very politely) asked by security not to read a book called "The Naked Pilot" which is all about the human factor in aviation accidents. I complied with his request, and put it away.
Frequently, if I have a connection exceeding two hours, I will sit watching the runway with my scanner and an airport diagram. A lot of the time, LE or Security come and politely ask me what I am doing. I particularly remember an HPD officer at IAH ask me where I got the airport diagram. When I told him I downloaded it from faa.gov he said "Don't these people know we're at war with terrorists?!" Then he spent half an hour having me answer questions like "What's the difference between a 767 and a 777?" and "What does the DC in DC-10 stand for?"
But he did give me one little thing that I still quote to people to this day - "Too much security is better than not enough."
Jul 31, 2013, 9:23 pm
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This is my first post, so please go easy on me. I have been reading FT for ages, but never got the guts to post.
I was once sat at the gate at LHR for a CX flight to HKG, when I was (very politely) asked by security not to read a book called "The Naked Pilot" which is all about the human factor in aviation accidents. I complied with his request, and put it away.
Frequently, if I have a connection exceeding two hours, I will sit watching the runway with my scanner and an airport diagram. A lot of the time, LE or Security come and politely ask me what I am doing. I particularly remember an HPD officer at IAH ask me where I got the airport diagram. When I told him I downloaded it from faa.gov he said "Don't these people know we're at war with terrorists?!" Then he spent half an hour having me answer questions like "What's the difference between a 767 and a 777?" and "What does the DC in DC-10 stand for?"
But he did give me one little thing that I still quote to people to this day - "Too much security is better than not enough."
I was once sat at the gate at LHR for a CX flight to HKG, when I was (very politely) asked by security not to read a book called "The Naked Pilot" which is all about the human factor in aviation accidents. I complied with his request, and put it away.
Frequently, if I have a connection exceeding two hours, I will sit watching the runway with my scanner and an airport diagram. A lot of the time, LE or Security come and politely ask me what I am doing. I particularly remember an HPD officer at IAH ask me where I got the airport diagram. When I told him I downloaded it from faa.gov he said "Don't these people know we're at war with terrorists?!" Then he spent half an hour having me answer questions like "What's the difference between a 767 and a 777?" and "What does the DC in DC-10 stand for?"
But he did give me one little thing that I still quote to people to this day - "Too much security is better than not enough."
Aug 13, 2013, 5:43 pm
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Geez, with all the aviation paraphernalia I have on my briefcase (actually a Brightline flight bag), the AOPA cap or lapel pin I usually sport, and my headphone bag that's embroidered with "Flight Crew" (a gift from a client: Embry-Riddle), I'm surprised I'm not serving multiple life sentences by now. Oh wait, I am, it's just called being a Frequent Flyer...
Jan 1, 2014, 3:54 pm
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Thought of this thread on a trip I took last week. I was flying Christmas night and got Air Disaster: Volume 2 as a gift and I was anxious to read it.
Thankfully, if anyone noticed they didn't complain.
Thankfully, if anyone noticed they didn't complain.
Jan 7, 2014, 1:05 am
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Nothing to do with TSA.
Some people are anxious about flying.
Kids get scared. Etc etc
I'm a doctor and wouldn't read a gory pathology picture atlas in public.
I wouldn't read a hustler magazine in a church.
I wouldn't read a beer connoisseur magazine in an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.
Obnoxious.
Jan 7, 2014, 4:34 am
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This is just silly to read on a plane. What a "look at me" thing to do.
Nothing to do with TSA.
Some people are anxious about flying.
Kids get scared. Etc etc
I'm a doctor and wouldn't read a gory pathology picture atlas in public.
I wouldn't read a hustler magazine in a church.
I wouldn't read a beer connoisseur magazine in an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.
Obnoxious.
Nothing to do with TSA.
Some people are anxious about flying.
Kids get scared. Etc etc
I'm a doctor and wouldn't read a gory pathology picture atlas in public.
I wouldn't read a hustler magazine in a church.
I wouldn't read a beer connoisseur magazine in an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.
Obnoxious.
Jan 7, 2014, 6:51 am
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I didn't see anyone getting upset or kids getting scared, and a film with those graphic scenes is much more obvious than someone paging through a book or magazine held low in their own space.
Just mind your own goddamn business.
Jan 7, 2014, 8:52 am
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Jan 7, 2014, 10:51 am
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