Originally Posted by
IslanderDriver
"If I don't take control of the airplane I'm not doing my job!" always threw them for a loop too.
I need to borrow that one, that's good.
"What about the crash axe that is REQUIRED to be on the airplane, in the cockpit, before we can depart?"
There is a story (probably urban legend) of a pilot who did just that. After the full-on junk jiggle, he proceeded to his gate in disgust, took the crash axe from his jet, returned to the unsecured side, and attempted entry.
Sirens whoop, SWAT bursts out of the ceiling. The pilot calmly states, "THIS crash axe and MY warm body needs to be in THAT airplane before we can move 1 foot. Deal with it."
I'd like to think it's true.