Ramp checked at AVP today

Roger Halstead wrote:

...although it used to be larboard and starboard.

You're old enough to remember when they called it *that*? Wow!!!

George Patterson
This marriage is off to a shaky start. The groom just asked the band to
play "Your cheatin' heart", and the bride just requested "Don't come home
a'drinkin' with lovin' on your mind".

Well, evidently *I* didn't know, for a mad minute there.

Port and starboard are as useful on planes as on boats. Otherwise you
have to say: on the right, as seen from the pilot's seat, or some such
locution.

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 16:15:11 -0700, "PJ Hunt"
wrote:

I wonder how many pilots know where the port side or the starboard side is?

Are we flying airplanes or boats?

PJ

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"Cub Driver" wrote in message
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That's pretty funny. I wonder how many DEA guys know that the pilot's
side in a J-3 is the port side?


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In article ,
wrote:

Well, evidently *I* didn't know, for a mad minute there.

Port and starboard are as useful on planes as on boats. Otherwise you
have to say: on the right, as seen from the pilot's seat, or some such
locution.

otoh - when logging the repair to the left main gear on my airplane
there was no "as seen from the pilot's seat, facing forward" stuff.

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Bob Noel

Port and starboard are as useful on planes as on boats. Otherwise you
have to say: on the right, as seen from the pilot's seat, or some such
locution.

otoh - when logging the repair to the left main gear on my airplane
there was no "as seen from the pilot's seat, facing forward" stuff.

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All of which is why ATC is likely to say "at your nine o'clock position'.

But it seems to me I've also heard them say "Immediate left turn".