I have only had one very unfortunate experience with a corporate pilot.
On the ramp at Fredericksburg, Texas (T82), at the self-service fuel pump, after doing some pleasure-flying and practice approaches with another PoA-er (
@DavidWhite), we saw a King air 200 land, and taxi at full-hustle to pull up at the city terminal (not the FBO) to pick up a 13-year-old girl who was going home from summer camp (she chose her parents well, I think). The city terminal is immediately adjacent to the self-serve fuel pump, and I anticipated that he would make the loop so he could pull up with the front of the plane facing the fueling stand, but instead, he taxied in such that a 90° turn to the right to park in front of the city terminal had David and me immediately behind him after his turn. He could have done this relatively cleanly, had he simply relied upon momentum to complete the turn, as I have often seen done with good success, but, no, he turned, then throttled up to bring himself to his desire parking spot. It was a hell of a blasting, grit in our teeth, my cabin door jumped the prop-rod and closed, we held the plane to keep from from rolling, all that. No darned fun.
After he had shut down and open the airstair, and his passenger was walking out to board, I called him out (firmly but politely), and asked him if he had given any thought to the effect that his prop blast would have on the people behind him.
Based upon his reaction, I think it was neither intentional, nor the result of arrogance, but rather, an oversight, because he was very contrite, and he further insisted on assisting us in pushing the plane back into its tiedown spot before he started up. He admitted that he was a bit behind schedule, which led him to rush, but he also freely acknowledged that that was no excuse for what he had done. I am confident he was sincere, and I wished him a safe flight back home to Pampa.
