Overheard a pilot call a loose rivet 'just a little shimmy'

Honestly, I was doing a walkaround on a Cessna 172 last Tuesday and the pilot was chatting with his buddy. He pointed at a panel and said, 'Oh that? It's just got a little shimmy, it's fine.' Tbh, it was a row of three loose rivets. Ngl, it made me think about how we describe problems versus how pilots might. Has anyone else had a client downplay something that was clearly a write-up?

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robin_henderson8123d ago

Yeah, that's a classic! They have a whole different dictionary for problems. Makes you wonder what else gets called a "shimmy.

the_joel28d ago

Pilots know what actually matters for flight.

hunt.quinn27d ago

But what about the engineers who build the planes?