Originally Posted by
Stormy Knight
Years ago a freighter was headed from the Midwest to the far Southwest in the early AM dark, on top of an undercast. CA snoring since the Big Muddy, and the FO is bored. Uses the fuel qty test button to drive the qty down to about 500 lbs/side, pulls the breakers to "freeze" them there. Sets the panel clocks ahead 2.5 hours. Gets a vector from the center and puts both navs on an unuseable frq. Puts the active com fq on Comm 2, which is selected "off" on the CA side. Slides his seat back, and pretends to be asleep. Drops the clipboard on the floor-LOUDLY. Plays dead while the CA wakes up to believe himself out over the Pacific, out of gas , with sleeping FO. Nearly gets a hernia from trying not to laugh out loud as the CA freaks out.
Stormy,
That is out of control dude. I love it. In the Air Force, we usually have a big crew, so any prank gets many people involved and can get lots of laughs. New LT's or a new flight doc usually was good for an air sample or a harmonics check on an engine. A good one was to put shoe polish on the headset earseals and the quick don O2 mask. We were required to do an O2 drill once a trip. When the mask came off it was Micky Mouse time!!! These days while the victim is in the john, we pull the light breaker then give an emergency call over the PA. The speaker is above them in the latrine and it's loud!!!