Manual transmission shitbox car or someone who drives one, usually a common compact vehicle like a hot hatch, generic enough to to be disposable but fast enough to get easily killed driving at high speed.
There go's another shitbox fighter pilot in a golf GTI, living on borrowed time in a world that despises thim. Live your best life little buddy.
The thing you were supposed to plan 3 days ago while on a max duty day, rolling into a min rest, followed by another 6 legs.
Oh, you didn’t pack a bunch of that shitty hotel breakfast in your flight bag? Guess your eating a pilots lunch today.
A pilot who has not yet attained an Instrument Rating - the qualification required to fly in instrument meteorological conditions, such as through clouds or in thick fog.
"I was hoping to take the Cirrus for a spin today but it's thick as mud out there!"
"Sucks to be a sunshine pilot."
A term for a pilot who after reaching the mandatory retirement age of 60 would not retire, but instead would move into the Flight Engineer seat, which does not have a mandatory retirement age.
1) My Second Officer was a herpes pilot. Those guys just wont go away.
2) The herpes pilot I'm flying with said he can't retire because he's got 3 ex-wives to pay off.
An activity planned as a test or trial. A trial, run, test. The act of testing something.
Synonyms: Trial, model, test, sample, or experiment.
Our Dual Sports program was established as a ‘Pilot Project.