A t-prop in the hands of an experienced crew and gutsy ATC makes for a thing of beauty.
My favorite comments and responses flying the Beech (few of our pax landed in the hub airport in an a330, etc.):
A new gate agent: "Are you the flight attendant?"
- Yep, I'm the flight attendant, baggage handler, mechanic (oil, circuit breakers, etc.) and pilot, what can I do for you?
"This plane is so small!"
- Ladies, it looks a lot bigger if you sit all the way in the back.
"I'm getting off this plane, it's been on fire! (referring to the soot stripes from the exhaust stacks)"
- No ma'am, that's exhaust, I'm just too lazy to jump up on the wing and wipe it off after every flight.
"Is there a movie on this flight?"
- Yes, a melodrama playing on two screens: 'As the props turns.'
"You did a good job flying through those thunderstorms."
-No sir, we flew around the thunderstorms.
"Is this airplane powered by rubber bands?"
- Yup, I'll need to borrow a few of the first officer's braces rubber bands for this flight.
"That was the best landing I've ever had on an airplane!"
- Well, every once in a while a blind squirrel finds a...
Oh, what the heck, thank you!