I believe the temp controller for the courier area was mel'd! MX said they just put it on full cold... Yea, that's it!


I'll just let this one go!

 

Back then there was no union so Non Member wasn't an issue at the time. He was a future non member until he retired. Sure hope he doesn't have any problems in retirement requiring union help.

And, the main reason I went was to see, if given the sub $1 chance, he would buy a beer. Just curiosity, but I couldn't help rubbing it in when given the chance.

 

Okay, for my jumpseat tonight I picked up some Pepperridge Farms Milanos for the Airbus crew, you know, tradition and all! Got half way to Raleigh, 1+05hr drive, and realized that I had left them on the kitchen counter. Pull over at the next service station - VOILA, box of Fig Newtons. Not Milanos, but the tradition wasn't sullied!

(I didn't have time to bake cookies today, too much barn and tractor "work" to do!

 

WOW ........you want a gold star or something?? Or maybe a cookie??

 

Thankfully, there doesn’t appear to be a direct link between cookies and jumpseat area heat, or lack thereof. However, contention, on the other hand does directly affect cabin temperature. When I first started to fly for UPS, I was the flight engineer on the DC-8. One night this management pilot walks into the cockpit and tells the captain (in a rather abrasive tone) that he was riding with us to Ontario, and not only that, but that he is sitting in the cockpit. After a long, tense discussion, the Duty Officer was called out to the jet. After the three of them conferred for a while, the management pilot got up and stormed to the back, and on his way out of the cockpit, he slams the door. Nobody said a word for maybe 3 minutes. Then the captain turns to me and says “son, when we get airborne, make it cold back there.” Hey, I was on probation, what was I to do? It was so cold in the back that you could have hung meat. I thought that that guy would die from hypothermia. However, to his credit, he took the cold and didn’t say one single word the whole 3 hours from SDF to ONT. I do remember him, however, departing rather quickly, once I had opened the 1L door. And not even a “Thank You.” Can you imagine that?

 

Gold star, I probably wouldn't eat the cookie and either give it back or offer it to the Flight Coord. folks.

 

There's an old airline folktale about a UAL 747 on a ferry flight with F/A's downstairs.

Up at cruise the captain called the lead and asked for some coffee.

"Our contract doesn't require us to serve the crew on ferry flights," she said.

The captain grunted, hung up and turned to the F/E. "Turn the heat off."

Later the lead called him: "It's cold down here!"

Captain says, "Our contract doesn't require us to heat the cabin on ferry flights....."