Airline Pilot Central Forums - Stories from the jump seat

Airline Pilot Central Forums (https://www.airlinepilotforums.com/)

- Major (https://www.airlinepilotforums.com/major/)

- - Stories from the jump seat (https://www.airlinepilotforums.com/major/104689-stories-jump-seat.html)

Jumpseating, the necessary evil for most. Half your pressure is getting to work.

Quote:

Originally Posted by C17B74 (Post 3420993)

Jumpseating, the necessary evil for most. Half your pressure is getting to work.

25% of the stress is getting to work, 75% is getting home.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hedley (Post 3421046)

25% of the stress is getting to work, 75% is getting home.

Corrected for my benefit so I am in total agreement. I enjoy coming to work and doing the international visitation rights. With commuting tickets paid for and hotels included No stress is included so I can acknowledge the correction wholeheartedly, thx Hedley. With things slowly opening up again overseas it’s back to being a kick @$$ ride!

I jumpseated on a Spirit A320. The gate was hectic and all of a sudden the FO comes out of the jetbridge telling the gate agent she’d given him the release from the day before. They let me on, with about 20 open seats. I elect for the jumpseat because, Spirit. Once I’m in there I learn the plane had been overfueled by 10,000 pounds because of the wrong release. What?? So they send the fueler back to empty the truck so he can come defuel the Airbus. On his way back, he flips the fuel truck, spills fuel all over the ramp in Atlanta, and has to go to the hospital. Awaiting takeoff, the captain jetblasts a Delta 737 behind us with about 88% N2 to burn fuel. We proceed to fly ATL-ORD AT 17,000 feet, drop the gear over the lake for the downwind, and land AT MLW. Craziness.

Quote:

Originally Posted by symbian simian (Post 3419462)

Wasn't trying to correct you, the emphasis was more on the last part. Some people just want to be upset, and we should no go out of our way to settle them down.

I agree with that. Sometimes people get upset to a point they are so sure they have a right to be upset, they're not in a position to listen. This was the case then, but I wasn't there. My wife was the one that had to listen to the ***** fest. I got to hear about it later.

Quote:

Originally Posted by BatFastard14 (Post 3417974)

Not an actual story while riding the jumpseat but….

Flight I needed to catch to get back to training was full, so I ask for the jumpseat. There was another passenger on standby who was furious with this poor gate agent. She hears me ask the gate agent for the jump and get it. She asks what that is and I explain.

Go down and ask captain, he says yes I get on. Gate agent comes to grab the paperwork and told me that the standby passenger got ****ed at her because she let an “employee on over a paying customer instead” and that passengers should have access to the cockpit and FA jumpseats if the flight is full.

I cannot believe there are people like this out there.

they’re called medallion members

Quote:

Originally Posted by salukipilot (Post 3422204)

LOL, reminded me of the time I was in a jumpseat going to work one morning, woke up over the middle of nowhere desert southwest and were at 11K feet still a few hundred miles out! Guess we got over fueled.