Originally Posted by
sailingfun
I commute and can't tell the difference in PA's from one airline or another. You can make any PA you want if the aircraft is stopped. I have not experienced long PA's while the aircraft is moving.
I have though sitting in the back during breast cancer awareness month. Or I saw a pretty over the top example of what not to do.
Originally Posted by
DelDah Capt
There was a similar issue ealier this year when the Weather Channel decided to name an approaching blizzard "Winter Storm Janus"
(yeah, it's juvenile, but it still makes me laugh)
I like being juvenile though.
Originally Posted by
Hawaii50
I like to put my iphone next to my boom mic, blaring the opening music from Top Gun. I use my Donald Sutherland impression to give a complete description of the forces that will occur on takeoff followed by a short bio on the FAs, the weather, density altitude, and any famous people that live at the destination.
HA! That would be funny. Do that on one of those crew relocation flights after a snow storm.
I flew with a guy who made you laugh without trying. He just did funny things and he had the accent and so forth to make it funnier.
My favorite was we got notified mid pushback in MCO about a delay going to LGA. Now prior to push he had been dealing with his son who had lost their dog and a neighbor had found the dog but now the 22 year old son was awol. He was frustrated but we continued normal ops. So as we're pushing he begins to make a PA about the delay. A long PA.
Then the phone rings with one of those old rotary phone ring tones at max volume. He wasn't going to answer. But evidently, he wasn't going to mute it either.
It rang. He kept talking. And rang. Talking continued. And rang. Still talking. Rang some more. Still explaining the nuances of EDCT times. Then voicemail.
On the outside I was looking at the floor is disbelief, on the inside I was...
He was a great guy to fly with, I'd fly with him any day. I'd even be his wingman if it didn't mean losing my certificates and job.