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12-13-2007 | 10:48 AM
#81
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From: E-170 F/O
I was on an overnight in RIC a couple nights ago and my CA and I went to dinner. When the hotel picked us up they had to go to the airport to pick up a crew. Well three Airtran flight attendants got on board as my CA and I were discussing the Alaskan flight with the stabilizer problems, and were talking about ditching. Well we were in plain clothes. This one flight attendant invites herself into our coversation and begins to give us a lesson on ditching, and how the 717 is safer than the 737 and why. We were totally shocked, she just kept rambling on. When we were almost at the hote she asked what brought us to RIC. We enjoied the look on her face when we told her we were pilots and were on an overnight.
12-13-2007 | 11:39 AM
#83
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I had a passenger who would not get on the aircraft till she finished her phone call, all the paperwork had been handed up and we had started doing our calculations-she was still yacking on the jet bridge!
I got out of my seat and told her I would not delay this flight for her convenience, and that if she wanted to go to her destination she needed to hang up now and get on board. Her reply - just a minute, I'm almost done,(and added with a tone of indignation) you people have no courtesy!
Well, the gate agent said she'd take care of it, and while she(the talker)was still yacking away, the gate agent pulled the jet bridge away, and we closed the door. Miss. talker didn't even realize we had started to push back till the gate agent closed the storm shutter.
I got out of my seat and told her I would not delay this flight for her convenience, and that if she wanted to go to her destination she needed to hang up now and get on board. Her reply - just a minute, I'm almost done,(and added with a tone of indignation) you people have no courtesy!
Well, the gate agent said she'd take care of it, and while she(the talker)was still yacking away, the gate agent pulled the jet bridge away, and we closed the door. Miss. talker didn't even realize we had started to push back till the gate agent closed the storm shutter.
12-13-2007 | 11:42 AM
#84
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From: C182
The flying public are just subservents to a voice and a chime.
It always amuses me that for a bunch of people sitting in a terminal, as soon as preboarding starts...everyone is up and loitering in a 20 foot distance from gate for a good 10 minutes or so, cause you know...they may have a seat reserved for them, but what if someone is already on the plane and called 'dibs'
...and of course, when chocks are in and the pax seat belt light comes off...everyone is up from their seat, grabbing their bags, and are still in row 25or so...maybe if the FA says theres only 5 minutes of o2 left in the plane they might deboard faster...who knows...
It always amuses me that for a bunch of people sitting in a terminal, as soon as preboarding starts...everyone is up and loitering in a 20 foot distance from gate for a good 10 minutes or so, cause you know...they may have a seat reserved for them, but what if someone is already on the plane and called 'dibs'
...and of course, when chocks are in and the pax seat belt light comes off...everyone is up from their seat, grabbing their bags, and are still in row 25or so...maybe if the FA says theres only 5 minutes of o2 left in the plane they might deboard faster...who knows...
"subservents"?
12-13-2007 | 11:45 AM
#85
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From: C182
After we landed in Albuquerque, New Mexico (coming in from IAH) I actually had a flight attendant ask me why the passengers don't have to fill out the customs paperwork. I responded kind of confused, not sure if she was joking and said "Because we're in New Mexico...." and she responds "Yeah...don't they need customs paperwork?" I was literally speechless.
Nothing new......I went to medical school in Albuquerque. One of my mother's friends heard that and said that it was a shame I could not go to school in the US.
12-13-2007 | 11:47 AM
#86
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From: C182
my dad went to china a month ago, and accprding to him they hit some turbulance and a passenger next to him stated the pilots of the 747 didn't have a clue how to fly that plane. My dad said "really, these things are so easy to fly that the youngest pilots fly these. Fresh out of flight school." They guy said "see, I figured" and then told his wife the same.
I went out to SFO from ATL 2 years ago on a 767-200. On landing the left breaks kinda stuck, scared some people. I laughed, and after the plane was off loaded i went to the flight deck. I asked the FO what happend, he told me, then got a good laugh at the passengers that thought we were crashing. AHH, good times.
I went out to SFO from ATL 2 years ago on a 767-200. On landing the left breaks kinda stuck, scared some people. I laughed, and after the plane was off loaded i went to the flight deck. I asked the FO what happend, he told me, then got a good laugh at the passengers that thought we were crashing. AHH, good times.
The "left breaks"? Did the right one break too?
12-13-2007 | 11:49 AM
#87
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From: A320 CA
Does it bother any of you other lowly FO's when people ask if you're the co-pilot? It's obvious they think we do nothing...borders on disrespectful, even.
The other day in the crew-lounge I heard another FO refer to us as co-pilots too and I wanted to slap him LoL what a tool!!
The other day in the crew-lounge I heard another FO refer to us as co-pilots too and I wanted to slap him LoL what a tool!!
You obviously have a superiority complex that you haven't earned yet.
Last edited by blastoff; 12-13-2007 at 12:02 PM.
12-13-2007 | 11:54 AM
#88
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From: CRJ-200/700/900 FO
I can't believe that people can be that ignorant about geography, but they are...I saw a story on tv that said 1/5 of Americans can't even find the USA on a map of the world. What's this country coming to....
12-13-2007 | 01:29 PM
#89
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From: Burrito Bomber
Its a daily routine on the 19 hundo. If you have a problem with someone talking on the phone, just stand there and let the other passengers know we aren't moving till the phone is turned off. A mutiny quickly arises and the phone is promptly turned off.
And the poor co-pilots...errr FO's don't even get co-pilot status as far as the passengers are concerned. They get worried since the FA is climbing up into the pilot's seat.
BTW...What's the inflight movie...I just thought that one up right now.
And the poor co-pilots...errr FO's don't even get co-pilot status as far as the passengers are concerned. They get worried since the FA is climbing up into the pilot's seat.
BTW...What's the inflight movie...I just thought that one up right now.
12-13-2007 | 01:47 PM
#90
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From: E190 CA
About 10 years ago on local TV an airliner of some sort returned to the local airport with a rubber jungle deployed after a problem with the ECS system of some sort. They interviewed some of the pax deplaning and one of the aviation experts stated: "Well, the oxygen masks came down, but I don't think they were working because my ears were still popping."
I guess he didn't watch the safety demo where the FA clearly showed how to put two masks over one's ears...
I guess he didn't watch the safety demo where the FA clearly showed how to put two masks over one's ears...
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