Pilots Miss The Minneapolis Airport

[Uncle Cracker]

C'mon you never had an argument with your wife/gf over the phone and missed an exit on the freeway.

I never gave my wife or my girlfriend my phone number... or each others, either...

[herb fellows]

Anybody who has been there doesn't 'miss' the Minneapolis airport.

[Mr__Bill]

Anybody who has been there doesn't 'miss' the Minneapolis airport.

My favorite part is on the highway just south of the airport. They have a set of stop lights on the freeway to keep cars away from the end of the runway when there is an emergency. The last time I was by there a large sign told motorists that "Crossing Traffic is an Airplane, You Shall Stop and Remain Stopped on Red". I always wondered how many drivers believed that sign. Wonder if they have put in a tunnel yet?

Bill,

[docrowan]

I'm not a pilot, but I've flown in the co-pilots seat in our corporate jet from Jackson, MS to St. Louis, MO before and he was busy doing something the ENTIRE flight. There was never a point where he wasn't talking with controllers, changing altitude up or down, fiddling with throttles, etc. He kept on being handed off from controller to controller. I was surprised that with all of the electronic gadgets on a plane that it wasn't more hands off. I can relax a lot more on a two lane road than he could with autopilot.

I can buy a pilot and co-pilot falling asleep flying across the Pacific, but coming in to Minneapolis - a major city with fairly heavy air traffic - doesn't make sense to me.

[herb fellows]

My wife works for major airline, so I have had access to the cabin (prior to 9/11, a no-no now).
The pilot was explaining to me that the plane basically flies itself. I told him that I would be worried if a machine was able to do my job. He said 'I'm not worried; I'm here for that one time when the 'machine' says 'drop 1000 feet, drop 1000 feet, drop 1000 feet, drop 1000 feet....

[L. D. Jeffries]

Yeah, I've missed freeway exits, but not by "150" miles!!!