Nice! Start talking politics with them... or better yet, tell them what your route is. And yes, you do get scared sometimes flying that airplane and you aren't sure what all the buttons do in the cockpit. You're just the copilot though, someday you'll get the big man's seat and get to fly!

 

Oooh. That's a good idea.

Annoying passenger: "Do you ever get scared?"

Pilot: "oh yeah, all of the time."

Annoying passenger: "REALLY?!"

Pilot: "Yeah... I'm scared they're going to put me on a middle seat deadhead beside someone like you."

 

The other night I was at the hotel and it was 1 in the am and Airplane! was on. On in its entirety without commercial interruption and no editing. Cuss words, in. Bouncing boobs, in. Uncovered boobs, in. Totally different movie then I remember after all of these years watching it on tv.

Anyways, Elaine Dickinson... no underboob. none. Flat as my back.

 

Just lean over and give the wife your best "how you doin?"

 

Ohhhh, there's no doubt that a political discussion wouldn't last long. Hubby, to the right, is watching a Michael Moore docu-crappa on his IPad. Mummy, on the left, is watching Robert Klein comedy on the IFE. Snotty teenage kids are three rows back.

I'm watching Tracy Morgan on the IFE and surfing.

 

Last week I had reserved the jumpseat from ATL to PBI, two days in advance and coded as personal. I show up at the gate one hour before push and some FAA guy is standing there in his short sleeve shirt and outdated tie. I check in with the gate agent and she informs me that Mr. FAA has the cockpit jumpseat. All seats and the F/A jumpseat are taken. I asked the captain if he knew why the FAA was on this flight, he told me that Mr. FAA was just catching a ride to PBI. When I asked Mr. FAA if he was on official business or just getting away for the weekend he said he was just going from point A to point B. What ever that means.

Normally I would blow this off but the same thing happened two days later on my way back home. ***? I thought someone should have called me and said the J/S would be taken by the FAA. I also thought they had to have some reason other than "catching a ride".

I try not to hold a grudge but now I hate the FAA with a passion.

Is their a way to go about reporting this? If so, to whom?

Thanks
BFS

 

Ha! No thanks. NOT my type.

 

Send it to the jumpseat committee. I had this happen years ago. The fed offered to take the next flight. I later went into the FSDO with a nice thank you letter for his supervisor. They were really shocked that a pilot came in to say something nice.

 

Sorry dude, but no one is going to risk ****ing off the FAA about the jumpseat. I've seen it before, and seen the response as well. FAA pretty much owns the jumpseat if they want it.

 

OK, newb question, but one I've never seen an answer to. If you are on reserve and put in qualifiers in PCS for "Select Preference Qualifiers If Needed To Fly" will they be considered if you don't reduce your RAW score?