- 2) On a small commuter flight one sunny day, the captain was told his passengers
were nervous about being on a "small airplane.
He decided to take action: "Good afternoon ladies and gentleme... - 3) (This one really happened - the FE was suspended
) On some air carrier operations, a video camera was installed in the cockpit so that passengers could watch the pilot land the plane.... - This T-38 pilot ran out of fuel and decided to put it down on a road.
He managed to coast into a gas station and said to the attendant, "Fill 'er up!... - This story was told to me by a friend who "swore" he heard it on an IFR flight in Germany.
- A friend of mine in my unit in Germany used to tell this story on himself
and I thought it was hilarious.
Seems he was flying an Army UH-1H, Huey, one day somewhere up around Chicago. As has happe... - Tower: "12345, are you a Cessna?" 12345: "No....I am a male hispanic.
- Controller sitting next to me is trying to change Mooney 45Q to my freq, but gets no response.
- A while ago while waiting to depart from Jeffco (Northwest Denver area
airport) I heard
An obvious student in a Cessna 152... - Scenario: Crystal clear CAVU moonless night, following the northern
shore of Lake Ontario back from Hamilton to Toronto.
I wanted to get fairly high to get the carpet-of-lights effect for my passe... - One of my instructors in FE school told me about this.
Apparently the loadmaster on a USAF C-130 was invited to take the engineer's seat for awhile....
