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    Friendly pilots

    How friendly can pilots are?
    Finnish pilots are proud and waving

    but Belgium pilots are showing the middelfinger to photographers!

    Some airliners are instructing the crew to be so friendly as possible in case of the spotters!
    The galley of the KLM B747-400

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    It depends some pilots are just jerks. I perfer to be nice to spotters personally being a hobbiest myself but some pilots just like to be rude
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    Re: Friendly pilots

    Quote Originally Posted by grazysub
    but Belgium pilots are showing the middelfinger to photographers!
    That's just the Hawaiian Good Luck Sign :!:

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    At this arline it's part of the pilots' checklist to wave at the spotters.

    This co-pilot seems to change the lightbulb in the cockpit rather then waving at us :-)

    But the most SENSATIONAL is this one, where the captain had found some time to wave during take-off!
    See:
    My photos at Jetphotos.net
    Joop Stroes @ Jetphotos
    My photos at Airliners.net
    Joop Stroes @ Airliners.net

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    sometimes are pilots making pictures of us
    [img]http://www.jetphotos.net/img/3/4/7/8...1313325874.jpg[/img]
    The galley of the KLM B747-400

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    I always wave at spotters and try to be friendly! I've got a friend who wrote his e-mail address on a large piece of paper and then held it up in the window in front of a bunch of spotters taxiing out for takeoff. A few days later he got several e-mails from them with pictures of him in the jet and of the takeoff... Pretty cool!

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