Originally Posted by
GunshipGuy
Recently we had three FAA guys going over our plane with a fine tooth comb. Their combined examination determined a megaphone on the aft bulkhead was secured incorrectly. Don't know if the one guy will be able to make do without his compadres today.
One time at Coex in IAH on the E120 the Fed's went right on down the line and downed the 5 airplanes sitting there. But it was an E120. All Feds had to do was ground those airplane from a distance and then go look for something wrong. It'd only take 3 minutes or so to find something.
It's why one day sitting in a long line for takeoff the Captain and I figured out if airliners were women, what kind of women would they be? We figured the E120 was a 17 year old jailbait short cheerleader type. She looked great, she's fast
, you feel kind of hot under the collar with her, she has a ton of issues and would wear you out with her attitude... but if anyone ever caught you with her, you're going to jail.
Her 18 year old sister, the E-145, she was long, proportional, happy to help you, smart, fun, easy, etc.
We were bored. We chalked up the 737 to a old maid. The 757 is what you'd expect, the 753 is taller, the 777 was a Gloria from Modern Family type.
Originally Posted by
flyallnite
Back when I was a stressed out commuter captain, I had a fed inspect the aircraft... he was walking around the outside as I'm doing the preflight in the cockpit, and suddenly the stall warning, sick pusher all goes off. On this particular airplane, the stall warning device on the leading edges looked much like the G. A. version you'd see on a Cessna. But it was worlds apart, heated, and very sensitive... "never touch" was all we ever heard in ground school. So after getting my knees whacked by the yoke, and looking out the cockpit to see this joker messing with MY AIRPLANE, I stormed down the boarding stairs and read him the riot act. I'm sure had I not been 25, poor, stressed, tired and probably hungry, I would have been more diplomatic about the whole thing. He sat quietly in the back of the plane for the flight though... never heard or saw him again!
Remember when TSA used TAT probes to break into aircraft?
TSA Snafu Grounds Nine Planes at O'Hare Field - ABC News
My favorite line:
Pilots were furious at the TSA misstep.
"The brilliant employees used an instrument located just below the cockpit window that is critical to the operation of the onboard computers," one pilot wrote on an American Eagle internet forum. "They decided this instrument, the TAT probe, would be adequate to use as a ladder," the pilot wrote.
And then TSA praises the TSA agent as a hero...
http://www.airlinepilotforums.com/re...anes-hero.html