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A selection of aircraft terms from the pro pilots forum...
Latitude - Margin for error when calculating one's position
Overhead - The additional time and fuel used by being unable to do a direct join.
Airframe - Blaming someone else when reporting a notifiable incident.
LAX - Inattention to proper airport operating procedures
Terminal Manoeuvering Area - Status of Teresa May's current Brexit negotiating position
Big Ben - junior pilot's wrist watch
Hangar = Rees-Mogg's callsign
Birdstrike - Cabin crew industrial action over equal pay
Flaps Forty - To be in a state of extreme anticipation. See also "the hangar doors are open", "like a Nimrod on short finals" and "wet wet wet".
Countryside - assassination of the roster manager
Systematic - overhead avionics bay
Avgas - Flatulent
Airbrake - compressibility
Turbine -the inner city in yorkshire
Biplane - aeroplane that goes both ways
Rotation - learning Malaysian by repetition
Defence - de wooden boundary at de end of de garden
Missile - the gap in the middle of a church where a miss becomes a mrs
Glass Cockpit - windscreen
Bernoulli: when you need a fire, and all you have is some oulli.
Douhet: When the livestock rogers the fodder
Taxi: What the IRS does to an imaginary number
Rotor: past tense for a letter home to Mother
Skids: the marks on briefs, boxers, or panties after a difficult crosswind landing ...
Cobra: a shared mammary support
Airbus - Wot yer comb yer barnet wiv
Groundspeed - crushing your amphetamines prior to inhalation
Overshoot - unfortunate sexual practice
Pancake landing - from being a bad tosser
Attitude Indicator - Captain's newspaper (useful for smart FOs to know what topics to steer clear of en-route)
Dutch roll - the snack you get on KLM flights
Fishtailing - the snack you get on SAS flights
Zero roll rate - the increasing tendency of airlines to not serve free snacks
Pitch Authority - Soccer referee
Carb heat - warm up some pasta
Spitfire - Journalistic term for any aeroplane fitted with a propeller
Jumbo Jet - Journalistic term for any aeroplane that is not a Spitfire
Latitude - Margin for error when calculating one's position
Overhead - The additional time and fuel used by being unable to do a direct join.
Airframe - Blaming someone else when reporting a notifiable incident.
LAX - Inattention to proper airport operating procedures
Terminal Manoeuvering Area - Status of Teresa May's current Brexit negotiating position
Big Ben - junior pilot's wrist watch
Hangar = Rees-Mogg's callsign
Birdstrike - Cabin crew industrial action over equal pay
Flaps Forty - To be in a state of extreme anticipation. See also "the hangar doors are open", "like a Nimrod on short finals" and "wet wet wet".
Countryside - assassination of the roster manager
Systematic - overhead avionics bay
Avgas - Flatulent
Airbrake - compressibility
Turbine -the inner city in yorkshire
Biplane - aeroplane that goes both ways
Rotation - learning Malaysian by repetition
Defence - de wooden boundary at de end of de garden
Missile - the gap in the middle of a church where a miss becomes a mrs
Glass Cockpit - windscreen
Bernoulli: when you need a fire, and all you have is some oulli.
Douhet: When the livestock rogers the fodder
Taxi: What the IRS does to an imaginary number
Rotor: past tense for a letter home to Mother
Skids: the marks on briefs, boxers, or panties after a difficult crosswind landing ...
Cobra: a shared mammary support
Airbus - Wot yer comb yer barnet wiv
Groundspeed - crushing your amphetamines prior to inhalation
Overshoot - unfortunate sexual practice
Pancake landing - from being a bad tosser
Attitude Indicator - Captain's newspaper (useful for smart FOs to know what topics to steer clear of en-route)
Dutch roll - the snack you get on KLM flights
Fishtailing - the snack you get on SAS flights
Zero roll rate - the increasing tendency of airlines to not serve free snacks
Pitch Authority - Soccer referee
Carb heat - warm up some pasta
Spitfire - Journalistic term for any aeroplane fitted with a propeller
Jumbo Jet - Journalistic term for any aeroplane that is not a Spitfire