Or vice versa. Or otherwise accidentally electronically shared something with someone?
Once upon a time, before COVID-19 put an end to the career, I was a pilot flying short haul in New Zealand and the surrounding regions (Australia, Pacific Islands, etc).
This one time, I was flying a domestic leg, approaching our descent point and had just started an approach brief using the aeronautical chart app on the iPad as a reference.
“So we’re flying the Davey 5A into the ILS for Auckland, loaded in the box and I see you’ve checked it… ah, what’s this?” I was interrupted by the airdrop sound, and a picture.
“Emily would like to share this file with you, accept, decline” (or whatever the words are.)
Well, I had no idea who Emily was, but I couldn’t decline the picture. Thanks Em, a bit of a chuckle to break up the day. (Click for the full photo)
My sister has her cell phone paired to her car. On one occasion when I was visiting her, I borrowed her car for an errand. When I returned, she was inside her house on her cell phone talking to a friend of hers. As I pulled her car into the garage, her phone automatically connected with her car, meaning I had involuntarily hijacked her conversation. So suddenly instead of my music, I was listening to her friend explaining something or other; it took me a second to figure it all out, and I finally had to interrupt her friend and explain who I was and what had just happened.
I changed my cell phone number a few months ago and since have received two WhatsApp messages from unknown numbers, one saying “Hey, when will you be at work next week? ”, the other “Hey, here’s my new number: xxxx-xxxxxxxx. ”. I first assumed that I’ve “inherited” a number that had been active before and just responded with “Sorry, you got the wrong number”. But I got suspicious about both profile pics from these numbers showing attractive young women and suspected some kind of scam. But they both never contacted me again. Maybe it was a ploy to test if my cell number is active, but I also never got any other spam later.
I’ve had my current phone number for about 15 years. For the first couple of years, I got personal messages sent to the previous user of the number. I still get spam messages on it addressed to Gloria. I’ve been trying to find her to give her the messages for years and years.
I gather you’re talking about AirDrop, then, not an airdrop. If it had been capitalised in the OP and other posts, I would have recognised it as the name of something I’d never heard of, and might have looked it up, instead of wondering what airdrops had to do with a picture of camelids.
I was part of a group hike in the late 1980’s. The organizers hired a pilot to drop off some beer, steaks, and eggs etc. at a cabin. I didn’t meet the pilot. I think he was a crop duster. I heard there was a landing strip a few miles from the cabin. I assume he used an ATV or maybe a 4WD for the last leg of the trip.
That stocked cabin was a very welcome sight after a three day hike. I remember it was pretty rugged ground. I was in a lot better shape back then. Nothing like a cold beer out in the middle of nowhere.
I am a Mac/Apple user and I still assumed something along the lines of the Berlin airdrop, which was actually an airlift.
I sometimes want to AirDrop something to my husband and I’m amazed how many other people I see who have this option turned on. Same as people who want to offer their phones as personal hotspots.
I’ve asked a Mod to change the title and I see it has been done. For those reading post mod, the original title had “airdrop” with no Apple style capitalisation.
I have often been annoyed by notifications like that coming in at the wrong time, stealing focus from the app while I am involved in some critical activity.
My wife and I have been playing as a piano/bass combo at church for many years. All of our music is on our iPads, and I have a neat Bluetooth pedal that changes pages for me as I play.
In a typical service, there are 8 to 10 songs in our playlist, if you count all of the “regulars” like the introit and the offering song.
From time to time we have been right in the middle of a song when someone’s text message … or AirDrop… showed up on the screen, covering the music and stealing focus. I have to skip a couple of measures as I tap on whatever annoyance needs to be dismissed, then find where I was. That is certainly not a feature.
I figured out how to turn all of that stuff off soon after the first few occurrences.
Now, of all of the activities more time-sensitive than following sheet music, flying an aircraft would certainly be near the top of that list.
I hope your flight software doesn’t pop up a random “Please rate this app” notification every once in a while.
Thank you. I didn’t open the thread, but I was wondering how many people have access to planes to drop goods on you in your back yard, which has not happened to me.
”, the other “Hey, here’s my new number: xxxx-xxxxxxxx. 