Athene Airheart's definitions

rotor-head

A derogatory term for a helicopter pilot.

Usually referring to the sort of helicopter pilot that ties up the radio because HE can hover and thus has all the time in the world, or who flies way too low over populated areas because he CAN.

Note: not all helicopter pilots are like this. But the ones that are, get called rotor-heads.

Will that rotor-head please quit hogging the radio so I can make my position report before I bust class D airspace?

by Athene Airheart May 13, 2005

groundling

Somebody who can't fly.

Not really a derogatory term, but discriptive. Similar to groundhog.

Don't take your cessna below a thousand feet over a city, you don't want to bother the groundlings.

by Athene Airheart May 13, 2005

groundhog

Similar to groundling but slightly ruder. Someone who can't fly.

I'd like to have started flight school at sixteen but my dad is too much of a groundhog.

by Athene Airheart May 13, 2005

I could buy you and sell you

Essentially, "I am much richer than you." A stronger form of "I could buy you." Usually a derisive phrase.

"I could buy you and sell you," said Bill Gates to his impoverished employee.

by Athene Airheart May 1, 2004

I could buy you

Basically, "I am much richer than you, I am also better than you." Used when someone wants to show how much more powerful they are. Another form is "I could buy you and sell you."

"What? You think you are all that? I could BUY you!"

by Athene Airheart May 1, 2004

ramp rat

Someone who hangs around the airport a lot. Generally, more ramp rats will be found in smaller, friendlier airports, where there are flight schools and such to mooch coffee off of.

The ramp is the large concrete area where planes are parked. Contrary to it's name, ramps are usually fairly flat.

See airport bum.

I made a good landing, even the ramp rats behind the fence thought so when they saw it.

by Athene Airheart May 1, 2004

airport bum

Someone who spends a lot of time at the airport. A good thing to be. Airport bums often hang around maintenance shops and flight schools, watching pilots take off and land. They often drink a lot of coffee and read the magazines in the lobby. They may or may not know how to fly. Many fine fliers started out as airport bums.

See airport, ramp rat.

The person sitting at this computer typing this is an airport bum to the first degree. I almost never leave, actually. I even sleep here. But I also fly. It is fun being an airport bum.

by Athene Airheart May 1, 2004