Yaw Damper, peeve

[Redwine]

I am going to strangle the next person that says yaw dampner. It's yaw damper.

[linecrew]

I am going to strangle the next person that says yaw dampner. It's yaw damper.

LOL! It's funny 'cause I've heard people say that too.

Other favorites for me: nukeeler, suppose-ubly and libary.

[lownslow]

Drives me nuts, too. Likewise, a shimmy damper is the little horizontal shock absorber thing on the nosewheel to keep it from wobbling back and forth while a shimmy dampener is the puddle you just taxied through.

LnS

[Beefitarian]

I heard someone say, "rear window de-frogger" once in a big group so I asked, "What is that, something to get frogs off your back window? Where would you even need such a thing?"

[Kokanee]

LMAO! At first i called it a dampner, then i looked closer and saw it was written damper on the checklist. it was pissing off the training captain.

[cptn2016]

For all intensive purposes its the same thing. You should of not let it bother you, your just out to find escape goats for everything! Irregardless of what you think it is, other people will have they're own reasons for pronouncing it that way. I could care less, it's a mute point. You really should just do a complete 360 in your thinking, don't let it phase you.
Anyway this whole thing is just ironic, per say. I am waiting with baited breath for the next post.

[Flybabe]

For all intensive purposes its the same thing. You should of not let it bother you, your just out to find escape goats for everything! Irregardless of what you think it is, other people will have they're own reasons for pronouncing it that way. I could care less, it's a mute point. You really should just do a complete 360 in your thinking, don't let it phase you.
Anyway this whole thing is just ironic, per say. I am waiting with baited breath for the next post.

Nice. LOL

[seasonaldriver]

Ditto!

[Guido]

For all intensive purposes its the same thing. You should of not let it bother you, your just out to find escape goats for everything! Irregardless of what you think it is, other people will have they're own reasons for pronouncing it that way. I could care less, it's a mute point. You really should just do a complete 360 in your thinking, don't let it phase you.
Anyway this whole thing is just ironic, per say. I am waiting with baited breath for the next post.

Jebus. I got one sentence in and was about to put on my Grammar Nazi hat. Well done.

[L1011]

For all intensive purposes its the same thing. You should of not let it bother you, your just out to find escape goats for everything! Irregardless of what you think it is, other people will have they're own reasons for pronouncing it that way. I could care less, it's a mute point. You really should just do a complete 360 in your thinking, don't let it phase you.
Anyway this whole thing is just ironic, per say. I am waiting with baited breath for the next post.

Exactly, just correct them and move on. Worst case Ontario is they get offended, no big deal.

[freakonature]

So, I tried to do a 360 in my thinking and it's right back where I started.

[Liquid Charlie]

do people who use the phrase yaw dampner also call at FL 070 -- 090 -- 060 -- u get the picture -- lmfaoooooo

[TG]

I know some people in deep need a yawn damper

[beaverbob]

How about disorientated?

[CID]

You spelled "dampener" wrong. Just sayin'.

[Go Juice]

/smart ass on

You're supposed to say FL 070 , 090 if you're flying in std. Alt. region.

/smart ass off

[lilflyboy262]

Also depends where you have been flying.

My last part of the world, the flight levels started at FL070.
Where I started flying it was FL130.

So there is a good chance on some days when I'm distracted making a radio call that I will let a FL0XX slip.

[Liquid Charlie]

You're supposed to say FL 070 , 090 if you're flying in std. Alt. region.

lfaooo -- the correct terminology is sans first zero -- eg FL60 -- FL80 etc --

[oldtimer]

My favorite (fortunatley in a sim).
Airplane experiences LEFT engine fail.
PF says "LEFT engine has failed"
Very excited PNF say "Right" as in correct
PF says "OK- Feather RIGHT ENGINE"
OOPS.
Proper phraseology is very important in stressful situations.
Also, a plane is a woodworking tool, we fly AIRPLANES unless you are proper British then it is an AEROPLANE. IMHO.

[looproll]

damp·en
   [dam-puhn] Show IPA
verb (used with object)
1.
to make damp; moisten: to dampen a sponge.
2.
to dull or deaden; depress: to dampen one's spirits.

Related forms
damp·en·er, noun

[RudderWhat]

For all intensive purposes its the same thing. You should of not let it bother you, your just out to find escape goats for everything! Irregardless of what you think it is, other people will have they're own reasons for pronouncing it that way. I could care less, it's a mute point. You really should just do a complete 360 in your thinking, don't let it phase you.
Anyway this whole thing is just ironic, per say. I am waiting with baited breath for the next post.

Well done!

[CID]

How about "Radar Altimeter". Likely not as big as an annoyance in the industry as "Yaw Dampener". Even Wikipedia lumps them in with the correct term "Radio Altimeter".

True "radar" altimeters exist in civil aviation but usually only on survey aircraft. 99.9% of aircraft equipped with a device that displays AGL use "radio" altimeters. They technically aren't really interchangeable terms but the "mistake" has crept in to daily pilot chatter.

Some super-techs will try to tell you that radio altimeters are just continuous wave radar altimeters. I guess there's some validity to that argument but I use the manufacturer's literature as the definitive guide and they all say "radio".

[trey kule]

What is the proper term for an anal retentive with homicidal tendencies?

I am tolerent those who make little mistakes.. I am not sure, though, that I want to be in the same cockpit with someone who posts they are going to start strangling people for mistakes like this...

but hey,dont let me put a dampner on your rant.

[switchflicker]

I think the name of the unit depends on what the manufacturer called it. Dampner, Damper Radar, Radio. Common words, but who remembers what RADAR stands for? How 'bout RADIO?

[rigpiggy]

"for all intents, and purposes"
"Yaw Damp is On"
" RadAlt's Alive"

Why TF do you have to make it so difficult. Kind of like a 5 min approach briefing, KISS principle, my eyes glaze over after the first 30 seconds