In the new Lifehacker section, representatives of different professions share their favorite work memes and talk about the sense of humor in their industry.
In the field of civil aviation, ordinary people work, who obey the everyday laws of existence and communication. Aviation-themed memes, of course, exist. These are, as a rule, remakes of popular pictures with some professional component. Sometimes they are incomprehensible to those outside the profession, and may not seem funny at all. And sometimes they are close to everyone who has ever flown.
Jokes about air traffic controllers among pilots are always relevant. For example, about ATIS. This is a service that reports actual weather conditions at the airfield. Each report is assigned an index – a letter of the phonetic alphabet: Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, and so on.
When requesting permission to take off, launch, or taxi, the pilot must report the index: “Russia 6123, parking 234, information Charlie, authorize towing and launch.”
When the summary has changed, it is assigned a new letter. For example, there was Charlie, but now there is Delta. The pilot must take this into account when reporting.
However, pilots have other sources of current weather besides ATIS. For example, on a tablet or phone. You can also easily hear broadcast reports of arriving and departing aircraft.
In the heat of various procedures, sometimes someone forgets to report that they have listened to new information. Well, or he just pretends to have studied it, since everything has already been known for a long time.
In professional humor, I find jokes about excess weight unfunny. I condemn excess body weight among pilots, but I am not ready to laugh at my colleagues. Firstly, these are colleagues. Secondly, with our regime it is quite difficult to maintain good shape. I believe that humor should not be offensive.
*PIC – aircraft captain
Write in the comments which meme you liked the most. And suggest new heroes for the section whose professional jokes you would like to see.