Yes and he was a Delta Employee.

As long as the taxi instruction does not include more than four instructions. Detroit hits my four instruction Front End Processor checksum buffer limit resulting in data - copy inefficiency when they go to six, or seven instructions, as a query must then be re-sent.

I'm placarded as a four instruction FO. The grey hair around the ears gives me away as a first generation model.

BB ... first gen, van callin', meat servo.

Yea, I get checksum errors after about the 4th one as well. My cassette drive hooked to my TRS-80 processor needs to be cleaned again. I tried upgrading, but no one makes 5.25" floppy drives anymore.

Nu

I nominate those skippers and or F/Os who make PAs from the main entry way and think its good customer service.




:D

I received an explanation of the Paleo diet and the merits of cross fit for about 30 min one flight. Also why drinking water from the Dasani bottles and hot liquids from styrofoam cups causes cancer. He had to explain to each new A-line about how he wanted his coffee from the china that they serve first class.

Another CA just read some conspiracy theory book about the economy and the Federal Reserve. I had to listen to this for 4 DAYS!!!

It's just naive...it's great customer service to the one or two who really appreciate it. The other 94% of the target audience is now wondering whether personality equates to flying skills...or if you're really gonna have to use the earphones on this flight. Besides...if you're out there they can see all the coffee stains and seat belt grease.

which reminds me...i want to nominate the seat belt lube guy...thanks dude...really...thanks again

When you, as an airline pilot, make this facebook comment to some young mom's joking post about needing a helicopter to bypass traffic:

"You know I agree completely. In fact I keep wondering why they think that pesky laws and regs should even apply to yours truly. Having plunked down a plane on a boat and while wearing speed slacks and looking all "Tom Cruiseish" in my younger days should produce a lifetime exemption. Heck. Maybe longer!"

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I nominate the JB FO and CA, at MCO, last thr, between 10am and 12pm, that made PA's at the GATE with his mirror shades, until CA America took the mic away from him, and told him, "that's a no-no" only CA's and gate agents!:eek:

Good friend of mine was standing in line at the roachburger joint before flying a delayed by 84 hours LGA flight. He was chatting it up with a Mesa capt going the same direction when an inebriated passenger interrupted asking what the weather was is NYC because his wife is scared to fly in bad weather. My friend looks at him and says "CRAPPY" then exits the line leaving the Mesa guy to deal with the fallout.

Did this turn into 'Hero of the Day' thread? Awesome!

My Tool of the Day and Month
 

The woman screaming at the gate agent in Key West because she waited for the very last flight from EYW to MIA for a JFK connection. When our lovely ATR had a maintenance issue they had to send another down and this woman was screaming how she is now going to miss her wedding. Who waits for the last flight the day before their wedding?

Then she went ballistic again when every single airline from MIA, FLL, TPA, MCO, and Jax all had oversold flights and there were no seats available.

I really don't know how the gate agent put up with it. I had leave for fear of laughing too hard.

Hmmm, where to file this one? The height or hubris or stupidity??

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True that. What was it that Steve Martin said about rounding:

“If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a slice of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if you've got a million bucks and you spend 29 cents on a slice of bread, you've still got a million bucks. There's a math lesson for you.”

And he didn't come remotely close to bringing 940k (plus all his other compensation) in value to a fake ACMI provider rolling in guaranteed profits. He was just along for the ride and got richly over rewarded simply for being there.

Yeah it was novel when it was new but now everyone from legacy to so called LCC to regional all seem to do it from time to time.

I think the best thing we can do is to make as few PA's as possible other than those required and the very few others generally appreciated like holding but even then only when its going to make you late. One turn while you're projected to be 35 minutes early does not qualify for a PA.

Our FA's and even gate agents already spam the poor pax and that's after they've endured the audibile shellacking in the concourse. The vast majority of the time the best PA we can give is no PA at all.

Any pax that thinks they are entitled to get any other airline to automatically "honor their ticket" from another airline. Tool of the day.

I had a Capt who briefed the entire electrical fire checklist(s) including everyones responsibilities - every F/A change...Really?

At my last outfit, I had a guy lecture me for 4 days about how vaccines were poison.

It took all my will not to laugh him out of the cockpit...but I tried to be a "good guy", and hopefully save one of his kids from having something bad happen.

I have a degree in molecular biology, but no amount of careful explanation on how things really work seemed to phase him in the slightest.

I've come to realize that most people are drama queens, in some form or another, and will latch on to anything, no matter how foolish it makes them look, to further that.

Nu

oooh, reminds me of flying with the angry preachy vegan

Yea, but I usually don't have anything to say to the preachy vegans. They're already living in a world without bacon, and I, for one, can't think of any level of hell worse than that. No need to pile on.

Nu

I think there's a lot of guys here that can do without More Bacon.

Yup.......and I'd kill myself if I had to live without a hunk of cow from Outback from time to time:D

I've always liked the guys who start with, "ya know, we gotta take our country BACK"

It doesn't matter if the guy is from the left or right, the rant seems to always start with that one liner:D

In my experience, the most vocal vegans and health-food conscious individuals are usually the ones who smoke cigarettes and drink to excess. Go figure!

That's cuz cigarettes and beer glasses don't have faces.........duhhhhh:D

I just say, "Yes, as a member of the Lakota nation, I agree."

That usually shuts them down.

Yeah but still...

Amen.

If God didnt intend for us to eat animals he wouldn't have made them out of meat.

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Its funny how so many who post on here have such a low opinion of those they work with and their respective airlines but such high opinions of themselves. Perhaps those thinking everyone else is a tool should look in the mirror.

Oh I agree.........I see a hammer in the mirror every morning, oh wait I mean hammered:D

Oh jeeze sailing, lighten up :) The original poster even called himself a tool for starting the thread. It's just for fun. I have another one by the way:

The Captain I flew with when I was at my previous airline job that told me he had started "his own business". I said "oh what kind of business is it?" Then I ended up having to hear his entire lecture, including diagrams and demonstrations that was all part of a pyramid scheme (literally an hour!) on stickers that make pain go away, make you super strong, or have good dreams among other silly claims, while he tried to get me to not only buy them (for only about $50 for 4 stickers!!) but also become a seller too. Which, by the way, he did not come up with on his own, he simply "started his own business" by being sold into it by someone else (as those schemes go)

^^Irony at it's finest!^^:rolleyes:

Pot meet kettle!:D

GJ

Good form!

I usually say, "easy there Tonto, I wasn't talking about you...we stole this land fair and square!" That usually get the conversation going good...

Great show!

Ahh yesss... Captain Amway... Bose Head Set... "Recall Action Items" Intercom Switch to "OFF":D

Well, there you have it! Today's tool!:D (And I didn't even have to look very far)! :p

lol i see what you did there.