Originally Posted by
LNL76
Hate to break your bubble, gents, but as hokey as you or I may think it is, most pax enjoy it. Everytime I've been on a flight where the CA made the military service announcement (sometimes in front of the pax), they ate it up.
It's true. When I mention my thousands of hours of hand flown ILS's in snow storms and ice storms I get nothing.... but when I mention my two space shuttle landings in severe clear, no wind with an auto pilot doing all the work, they eat it up!
If you really want to hear them cheer, on the F/O's leg, you tell them this is his first landing in the airplane, and his wife just had triplets, and he hasn't had a good night's sleep in weeks... so be kind.
And after every "Firm" landing, on taxi in, I'll pick up the mic and say, "Ladies and Gentlemen, I'm sorry about that landing. It's not my fault, and it's not YOUR fault, it's the ASS Phalt!"