The wife comes down to sit beside you on the sofa and you tell her her seats on the right hand side. ====== The kids come into the room and you ask to see their flight deck authorisation.

when you reverse, and you finished, you put your car in park and wait for the pin on the right/left hand side...... also before you drive off, you say "clear on the left/right" and check back just to see if anything is actually there rather than using the trusty wing mirrors!

when you are waiting to see that beautiful flight attendant in the cockpit and finally got your wife seated next to you saying: Hurry up, the market is closing in 10 minutes!

when you read this

when you engage cruise control thinking its Auto Pilot Michael Garza

When you sit on your driveway for hours waiting for a pushback

When on a cold winther day, and your car won't start, your find your self scrolling throug the GPS looking for the Ground Connection Menu. When you're constantly searching the internet for a new livery for your car When spending more time on planning your route and calculatiing your weights than driving that car to work

... When you rip your car apart to find the pogo stick...

--when you flip down the visor in your car and wonder who replaced the HUD (sadly, this is true) --when you're flying another PMDG a/c and are annoyed when you can't find the HUD --when you start calling the traffic display on your GPS "TCAS" dan davison

When you think that switching from 1st to 2nd gear in your car will cause the speed brakes to go up.

...when I'm stopping at an highway intersection under a red light and wait for ATC clearance to "cross the active." ... when you release the parking brake in your car and wait for ground crew to say "clear to start engines." ... when you check and verify that the APU has been up and running before you shut down your car. BTW I love this thread!

...when you get to work too late and say that you've missed your slot ...you're calling real world ATC for startup clearence befor you drive to work

when you look for your jeppesen approach plates and call for landing briefing in your car

I've just returned from a week in the Canaries - and both flights were in a 757-300.On the flight out the Captain revealed that, because of a 'broken' A300 trapped at Barbados, we were aboard a replacement. The APU was 'broken, and there was no hot water - therefore no tea/coffee, even for the flight deck. I wonder if he was aware of how Sullenberger had to depend on his APU to run the systems ?I was already picturing the APU startup switches, and the startup procedure..and I couldn't get onto the flight deck to advise him... Bill Cusick

When you're looking at a real plane's cockpit photo or watching a flight deck DVD, and you wonder if all of the switches are modeled.