Trick I like to play when I am flown by a new pilot or co pilot is after introduced my I ask "Can you show me the secret navigation for the flat earth or does that one just take into account the earth is flat?" The look on their face even when I wasnt their boss not knowing what to say LOL If one had already been pranked by me they would enjoy it more than me usually! :) but usually could hold in their lauffter
I’m a retired airline pilot. One morning I was on a flight to Las Vegas. There was a flight attendant trainee on board. On short final the lead asked the trainee if she emptied the coffee pot to which she replied she forgot! Just then tower issued us a go around. The trainee thought we went around because she didn’t empty the coffee pot and was afraid she would get in trouble!
Laughed my butt off! I was on a regional flight and an attendant came and checked my window temp with his hand. I was USAF at the time and knew what was going on. I calmly advised him that he needed to advise the pilot that the propeller warning paint had come off every blade and they needed to be redone with sticky yellow as the paint was now only on the blade tip. I explained that it MUST be due to centrifugal force and that it was rather common in order to save money for the airline. He advised the Capt. The SECOND the aircraft had stopped the Capt and First Officer were out out of the cockpit and waiting for people to disembark, watching who left. Both thanked me for my concern for passenger and ground crew safety with EVIL grins. Neither had heard that one before and no doubt used it many times afterwards.
we use to stick sticky notes to other FAs back that said "I love when passengers laugh at me", and other "secret" notes that would make passengers do or say things without the FAs knowing what they were referring to. It livened up everyone's day and brought smiles to faces not so excited to be crammed into those small seats. Everyone has a better day if you and they are smiling.
Pilot: "We forgot the keys to the aircraft. Go ask the gate agent for another set." Flight Attendant: "Hold on. My boyfriend showed my how to hotwire a car. I'll get it started."
My airline flight attendants don’t push a drink cart, instead, they just go through the isle with a tray. One day, the other flight attendants put a note on it that said “Single, looking for dates” on the side facing the pax! She was so confused why everybody kept flirting with her! Haha so it’s not just the pilots who play jokes!
Aircrafts are very expensive and delicate pieces of technology, there are restrict procedures to operate every system. Pilots: *brrrr printer prints money lmao*
Kelsey, I hope you see this one. Captains mess with ground crew, too. You need to stay with this story to the end. Shortly after starting work with the airline, I was being trained on and checked out for marshaling aircraft. This was my first time on the ramp, so my trainer was standing behind me. My airline also uses different color safety vests or wording on those vests to indicate rookies, experienced, supervisors, etc. So as this plane was taxiing in, with me in a trainee vest and an experienced vest on the guy behind me, the entire world would know I was new and inexperienced. As I start the signals to line up and bring in the aircraft, it starts doing things I am not telling it so, weaving on and off the lead in line, slowing/speeding up/stopping, etc. Of course, I'm in the "WTF am I doing wrong" mode and keep trying to get things under control so I can this plane in safely, parked and let all the passengers go about their day. What my trainer is doing behind me, I have no idea, probably laughing to he's wetting himself is my guess nowadays. I finally get the plane onto the stop bar, chocked and get the jet bridge up to the door. Then I begin my post arrival walk around. Part way around the plane, the captain comes under the wing with a huge smile on his face and sticks his hand out telling me his name and apologizing for messing with me and how he could tell it was my first time and it would be remembered for the rest of my career. We laughed a good one. I have a great sense of humor. But now let me also add, what comes around...you know the rest of that cliche'. His first officer pulled me aside and told me how the captain was enjoying himself and gave me an idea on what to do as a payback, but I assured him, I had a plan already. They had about 90 minutes between arrival and their departure. So needless to say, everyone scattered to do whatever they do in between flights and the crew went to get food. As I entered the terminal, I had a man approach me and ask me what was happening when I was bringing the plane in, he could tell I was being punked and wanted to hear the story. After telling him, I asked him when his flight was leaving and if he's help me with something. He hesitantly agreed since his flight was leaving after ours way. He enjoys planes and always gets to the airport several hours earlier than necessary to watch the ramp and runways. I filled him in on what I wanted him to do for me which was just stand in the window with his suit fully on (he had his coat off and tie loosened) and when he saw me board the plane and enter the flight deck, when he saw me point up at him, he was to sternly motion "come here, now" type gestures. He wanted to know what I was going to do, but I told him if he knew up front, he's probably not help me, but I'd fill him in after the fact. I assured him he wouldn't get in trouble. So the gate agent lets the crew out to the plane. I come along and board, making sure the guy in the window was in position as requested. He was. I enter the flight deck and start talking with the captain and first officer. I point up to the guy in the window and proceed to say: "I'm sorry to be the one who has to tell you this, but see that man in the window"...pause, both look up and the captain says, yeah, what about him. "Ah, he's an FAA inspector and someone reported that you were consuming alcohol in the bar while you were in the terminal and he's here to give you a drug test." My guy is doing exactly as I asked, and became even more insistent the longer the captain looked up at him. The F/O in the meantime, realizing my prank, turned away and was looking out his side window trying to not be noticed laughing, but the captain noticed the shoulder bounce and after processing the matter, looked at me with a nervous smile and cracking voice, "you're joking right, this is just payback for my arrival stunt, right?" I started laughing and said, never screw with a master prankster my friend. I won. At this point , relieved, he wanted to know who the guy was in the window, I told him just another passenger for the flights leaving after yours and I enlisted him to help me out when he asked about you punking me with your customized arrival. He jumps out of his seat and wants to meet this guy. We go up to the concourse and he asks the guy who he is...and he reassures the captain that he's leaving on the next flight. Captain says "So you are not with the FAA?" The guy looks shocked, says no and turns to me asking what he had gotten himself into with me. So we told him. He said to me, had I known your plan, I wouldn't have helped, but now that I did, that's funny. I again assured him he was not going to get into trouble. As I turned the plane out on departure, the captain gave me a huge smile, the sharpest military salute I've ever seen and a wave. He conceded, I won the exchange with that salute. Now this is where it gets better, for over a month, every single crew from his regional airline that flew into my city asked for me so they could meet me. Seems that this particular man had quite the reputation as a prankster punking flight attendants, pilots, mechanics and office staff equally as all were fair game. And having admitted being bested that day, he (or more likely his F/O) shared the story with everyone and the word spread like wildfire. Thus everyone wanted to meet the guy who put him in his place. I can't tell you how many pops, sandwiches, etc. that were purchased for me as a thank you for getting him paid back in a big way from all his fellow coworkers. It was certainly an experience neither he nor I will forget and he certainly did make it one event during my career that I have not forgotten and that's been quite some time ago.
@@74gear I miss those KLM flights, spent many hours flying back and forth. Funny story a bunch of us Army guys and a soccer team ended up on the flight it was just only us and we drank all the alcohol and played football wiith a rolled up blanket. Marshals met us at the gate 😡 But we had just rolled back from Desert Storm so we just got a stern lecture, probably be in jail today though. Helped my dad was a Deputy Marshal, Uncle was a sitting Marshal. Whew! Good times though!
on my first flight they had me go outside with a fire extinguisher to “supervise fueling” and i fell for it and my colleagues had the time of their life watching me prom the inside....😩😩😂😂😂
Yeah, I noticed he emphasized that with all the pranks, having some way of making sure the victim could laugh about it, too, afterwards, and isn't just going to resent the more experienced crew for making fun of them. You're probably going to work with that person again, and it's the classy thing to do.
On the ‘Aircraft Keys’ joke, years ago (pre-internet), I was in the US Navy P-3 Flight Engineer school. I already had 10 years working on F/A-18s, A-6s, etc., so the first time instructor asked me to go get the keys to the airplane during our brief, I tactfully told him that I might be a student FE, but I wasn’t a rookie to aviation. He tried to convince me and I kept pushing back. As it turns out, the P-3 has a hasp built into the main cabin door for a padlock, so there REALLY are keys to the plane (not to start the engines, though). Thousand of hours on P-3s and C-130s and I just landed a job with NASA’s SOFIA 747!
Lol when I was in the army, we had recruits go ask the logistic office for the "brass magnet" to pick up all the empty shells on the range. That's always been a great laugh when they returned with an angry look on their face! 😂
"The ozone test" is similar to a prank we played in the Army on the new guys fresh from basic training and jump school. During vehicle maintenance day, we'd have all the new guys gather "exhaust samples" from every Humvee in the platoon and give them to the maintenance Sargeant. It was a lot of fun watching the maintenance Sargeant smoking all the new guys for delivering him dozens of trash bags full of stinky truck exhaust.
Hi Kelsey! Love these. My good friend was a pilot for PSA (back in the day), and he had new flight attendants turn all the passenger air vents aft because the added 'thrust' would help overcome a low fuel situation.
We had a full airplane -- EMB-120 -- and I made an announcement before opening the door to take boarding passes and letting the passengers out to the airplane. I told them that the airplane was full and very heavy so when they feel the pilot begin to rotate the airplane, they should PULL UP on their seat arm rests to help get the airplane off the ground.
“They keys? Oh yeah, I brought them in with that ticking box that some dude gave me.” Also, I love how kelsey’s idea of a prank is giving someone $50. You can prank me any day bro haha
The ''i need the keys" prank seems like the kind of prank the girl who said ''We'll be at an altitude of 300ft and a speed of 6000kts" from Catch me if you can would fall for.
A pilot friend of me once told me another prank: When the crew arrives at the plane, the pilots tell the newbie flight attendant they have to do a lights check. The newbie has to put on a life vest (because ... airport regulations), fetch a megaphone if possible, stand out in front of the plane and shout "on ... off ... on" while the pilots switch the landing lights on and off! Hard mode when it's raining!
Oh man, I would love to see that happen, lol! I just hope TSA doesn't come out and take the person into custody thinking they're intoxicated or something.
I was on a Greyhound bus going across the Nullarbor Plain Australia...The drivers played a few jokes on the passengers. He asked us to check the air coming out of a row of holes running along below the windows. There was none - He said the air conditioning sometimes messed up and the pipes ran under the floors. he got us all to stand up and jump up and down to fix it...We all did.
I think you will be safe, even if you get it. You are young and in good shape, shouldn't be an issue. Worst case is you transmit it maybe. But if you are minimizing your contact with people that is the best we can ask. We can't expect the world to come grinding to a halt. Your job is about as essential as it gets. You could stay busy just moving toilet paper lol.
I was going to say tell the person, "the previous pilot leaves the keys on top of the front tire of the landing gear." Of course only when safe to do so.
This is a bit evil though as it is really effective with new gate agents as well because they get so confused on what is going on. Hasn’t happen to me yet but now I know as I am relatively new as a passenger service agent for KE (been with the airline for a few months now). Happened to a coworker from what I heard when she was new to KE when a new FA asked her the keys question. Station manager had to explain that it was a common joke for veteran crew to play on new crew/employees.
Another fun one I’ve heard of is handing the new flight attendant two flash lights and telling her to walk between the passengers to charge the lighting strips on the floor
My favorite pilot prank is when they announce that "This airline has the best Flight attendants in the industry..... Unfortunately, none of them are on this flight!"
@@MaxEPR Actually, after a hard landing the FA's can make some really mean announcements! I've heard a few good ones. The best was "Welcome to Boston. please remain seated while the captain taxis what’s left of the plane to the gate".
Omg! That ozone check! I’ve seen that happen. I was confused AF trying to figure out wtf she was doing! Now I know. On another note I know the dreamlifter is performing very important missions. You are saving lives, thank you so much. More than words can say. In these times, it’s comforting knowing that there are brave and wonderful men and women willing to fly all the important equipment where it needs to go!
We did something similar in the Air Force to new crew chiefs. We would tell them we need an exhaust sample from a running jet and give them a garbage bag. This was especially fun on F-15's that sat up pretty high. One of two things would happen. If they stood too close it would burn or blow a hole in the bag and everyone would bust up laughing. If they were smart enough to stand further back it would actually inflate the bag. We would then tell them they need to run across the flightline to NDI shop before it cools off for analysis. Watching new kids running across the flightline with a half inflated garbage bag was always a good time.
My mom's a nurse, and she has similar stories. "Go downstairs and ask for a long weight." Meanwhile staff downstairs would say, "Ok, stand over there." And just leave them waiting.
I know this video is from 2 yrs ago , but I just stumbled on your channel! When I was a brand new hired flight attendant, the most junior plane to fly was that horrible MD80 sitting all the way in the tail cone by the lavatories . The pilots called me up in the flight deck and ask me if I'd like to watch the moon up close as they have " binoculars " up there. So I went up . This particular peep hole was waaay forward on the side of the f/o . I had to stretch my body to look upthere. My boobs were pretty much in the co pilot face , while the captain stared and " admired " my a$$. Well. I was looking at the reading light . Only after their stares , I figured out what was going on ! At the end , I laughed with them . 🤣 Hate to admit , I totally fell for it. My roommate at that time, she got the " ozone check " one. The pilots asked her they needed an air sample for density check to go in their weight and balance !!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣 Your videos took me bck to those days. Now im the one keeping a straight face during the pranks!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Hi Kelsey, although I am not in aviation, I really enjoy your RU-vid videos. From this vantage point it looks like you are in Amsterdam Netherlands. My wife and I were there roughly 9 years ago. Beautiful city. Hope you had time to enjoy it.
Man, I love listening to funny confessions. Believe me, this pilot seems very friendly towards his viewers. I'm having a bad time today and now I didn't notice I was laughing while watching lol!
We have something similar in the military. We tell the new privates to get an exhaust sample from the Bradley. They take a trash bag and hold it over the exhaust pipe, let it fill, and then they have to run and get it to the mechanic while it’s still hot. If it’s cold they have to do it again lol. We have a lot of pranks in the military too.
When I was in the Marines we usually traveled on Marine Corps C9s. Occasionally we would need to take C130s. We had a prank we would do when someone was new to the unit on their first flight in the C130: The pressurization vents are on the ceiling of the plane and because of the nature of the design, it's normal to see them blow normal air as steam. It can be disconcerting if you don't know what it is. Next to the rear hatch of a C130 is a lever that be safely pumped but doesn't do anything at all when the plane is flying. So we would look up at the steam on the ceiling and appear to be very concerned. "That's not right." "There has to be something seriously wrong with the airplane." So we might talk to the crew chief, tell him quietly what we have planned so he can play along but look like we are alerting them to the dire situation we have noticed. So we go back to the newbie and explain that there's something mechanically wrong with the plane as evidenced by the smoke coming out of the vents. We also explain that the crew chief has informed us that the plane is going to go down unless we pump that lever at the rear of the plane. That duty, we explain, falls on the member with the lowest rank. It's fun to watch a newbie stand back there for a while pumping away occasionally looking up with some fear at what he thinks is steam coming out of the vents. It helps that we keep encouraging the newbie with a little concern of our own: "Keep pumping! Don't let up! We don't want to crash!"
The same prank is done on Ch-53s, the crew chief with his headset on, is talking to the pilot the whole time, but cannot be heard by the Grunts in the helo. There is a pump near the back that doesn't do anything in flight, but the -53 would start dropping suddenly and the crew chief would get up from his seat, go to that pump and start pumping...the -53 would balloon upwards and fly normally. A short while later, the-53 would sink again, the crew chief gets up, and the same routine is repeated. About the third time, however, he would mutter some profanity and wave refuse to get up. Inevitably, one of the newer Grunts would get worried, and go back and start pumping that handle like crazy.
These are the same kinds of things that are done to new sailors: Like sending the new seaman deuce down for a bucket of “relative bearing grease” or 20 ft. of “water line”. They have someone go out and stand up in the bow area to watch for the mail buoy or the equator line. Fun stuff!
I swear, it was maybe 20 yrs ago. I was on a flight and a beautiful young attendant reached across and felt the window saying excuse me. She continued up the isle putting her hand on each window. 🤣 Wow!
On the subject of the missing keys - I used to work in an electrical engineering shop. We once sent a new employee to the stores for some 6mm holes. Fortunately for the employee, the joke backfired, because we used to punch washers out of bakelite sheets, leaving a sheet of material full of 6mm holes. The stores had cottoned on to the joke and made it backfire on us.
A fiend of mine went to work in such a place and he told he had been pranked on his first day... they gave him an 8 inch piece of flat conductor, that was massive copper, 2 inch wide and 1 thick approximately. They also gave him a hacksaw and told him to cut a little bit under 2 inches off of each end so he gets a 4 inch piece. He was half way through the other cut when it dawned on him.
I'm sitting here cryin' laughing right now. 😂😂😂 See, I was in the Army for a decade, as a Cavalry Scout, one of the "Combat Arms" job specialties. We had some, similar pranks we'd pull on new privates. - Armor Soft Spots Check: Having privates "check for soft spots in the armor" by taking a hammer or a knuckle and lightly tapping in strategic places in the METAL armor of the vehicles to see if anything sounded dull. - Box of Grid Squares: Have a private go to the Supply Sergeant for a Box of Grid Squares. Grid Squares... are the grid squares... drawn on a map. Can't exactly get a box of them. - The Supply Room Haul: Have a private go to Supply to get various legitimate items. In this list of items though, mix in some bullpuckey like Chemlight Batteries, Headlight Fluid, a case of I D Ten Tangos (
Back in 1969 on a B 727 the parking brake had a release lever that was pulled straight up. That was perfect for a first timer prank. The captain would call her to the cockpit and tell her that the toilet flush release hydraulic pump was not working and they had to use the manual override pump. They would show her the parking brake release and tell her to come in every 15 minutes and pump this lever 20 times. We all had a great time helping her keep the time and go pump to keep the toilets flushing!
LOL.. With the "drug test" prank, I can't imagine the expression on the flight attendant's face when she thought everyone was drinking their own urine.
Nice video & I appteciate the laughs/memories of when I was an FA. Now I'm working in a hospital (a bit tired & very overwhelmed), so this video was perfect timing. Thank you and be safe.
Ozone check reminds me of "tuning the radar " on boats. You get the greenest, most gullible crew member, wrap them in aluminum foil, then have them stand on the bow. The captain will give them specific instructions to make them look silly. Everyone has a good laugh.
Pretty early in my airline career, I was flying with the youngest, and smallest, captain at the airline. We left Chicago with a new set of flight attendants, just before dark. It was a quick flight to Cleveland, and not long after level off, the Captain climbed into the cockpit coat closet. I called the 'A' flight attendant to the cockpit, and asked her if the Captain could come back to the cockpit, so we could land. She went back through the cabin, but couldn't find him. I asked her to check the lavs, but he wasn't there. I started our descent, and reiterated that we needed the Captain up front. She got the other flight attendants involved...everyone was looking for the Captain. When all three of them came back to the cockpit, with very worried looks on their faces, he popped out of the closet, and they realized that they had been pranked.
If there’s any such thing as reincarnation, I’m coming back as Kelsey, living life in the fast lane and loving every minute of it, truly brilliant, and unbelievably clever too 🙂
We do the “ozone check” in the prison with new officers. We call it an air quality check, the bag has to be taken to the captains office so he knows we did it. 😂
I used to actually do a real ozone test with a meter, that detects it. It was a byproduct of uv lamps used in printing. Supposed to be piped out. Dangerous if leaking In to the room. Maybe he need to rethink this prank, because it’s a real thing.
I was a KC-135R boom operator. We used to get all the new navigators with the radar alignment prank. We’d send them outside during the pre flight and drop the aft hatch down to them and tell them to hold the hatch low then high above their head moving in an arc in front of the nose. They were always so excited to do it until they found out there wasn’t a radar alignment. Extreme cases pictures and video were taken and shown to all crews in the desert during intel briefings.
All these pranks take time, time = money so they all have a cost. I know one guy who had to drink his own urine for that last prank because they ran out of apple juice.
I remember once when I was a baby nurse, one of the older nurses told another baby nurse that we had to "pressurize the negative pressure room" (this was pre-covid!) and made her go try to open the unopenable windows. She ended up calling us in to help open the windows all like "there's no way to open the window!" and the older nurse asked her if she could find the "check valve switch" on the frame that would open the window. After another few minutes, she finally told her the windows don't open and showed her how to actually set the negative pressure on the alarm outside the room xD
This story made me flash back to a flight I took as a kid when the flight attendant was quick walking up the aisle with a trash bag open over her head asking everyone to hurry and clear the aisle. I had forgotten all about that until this video. Now I wonder if the pilot was messing with her or if she was just an odd woman 🤣
This from a passenger. My wife and I were returning to Canada from London. There was some difficulty getting an engine started, and some technical persons had come on the assist the crew, and in due course everything was sorted, and we had an uneventful flight home. We were telling friends about this incident, and managed to convince some that the plane had been started by use of jumper cables from another plane which was brought up nose to nose. Some actually believed us.
Now that was very funny. I think you would have a wicked sense of humour, Kelsey. It's funny how the newbies, whether it's an apprentice butcher, or carpenter, they ALWAYS get the going over, but it always leaves them with fond memories in their old age.
Oh the look on your face as you convince us you would never participate in any pranks! And sorry but you are just so cute the way you get so excited and happy about this, like a kid in a pilot costume!
"ozone check" 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣. When I started landscaping and we were building a rail road tie retaining wall, and the foreman told me to go get the "wood stretcher" about 2 hours later and me asking everybody on the build site for a "wood stretcher" mr foreman let me in on the gag, as did the entire work site..🤦♂️ they busted my chops on that for the rest of the summer, all good because there was always a green horn to mess with, it was very important to keep good morale on a work site as your life literally counted on it, and you had to work with other trades and work with each other not just everybody doing there own things, that's how fingers, legs and heads get lost...
One of my colleagues made a prank on another: he opened a PNR and added a special service request for vegetarian meal. The other was telling me: "So, I was flying a duty travel, was hungry and waiting for some meat with anticipation. What was my surprise when instead of a meat a flight attendant brings me a vegetarian meal." - Maybe there is some mistake, i didn't order any vegetarian food - Sorry, but this request was in your PNR - Can you please change it to some food with meat? - Sorry, nothing left except your meal "I was sitting and eating that cabbage :/"
An FA came forward to ask my F/O how fast we were going on behalf of a passenger. He told her we were going "the speed of heat" and had her hold her hand to the inside of the windscreen which was heated. The passenger was not impressed with the answer. The Shorts 360 had separate doors for the F/0 and Capt. One captain, expecting the FA would peek in through the F/0s door in cruise, decided crouch down to the left of the seat and he had the F/0 say: "If he's not in the restroom, they must've taken off without him." She panicked
@@74gear well... why not mount a bike pump in a permanent secure fitting on a visible surface in a crew only compartment for shits and giggles with an "Emergency landing gear reinflating device" Bonus: it would confuse the ground crew techs too XD
When I was in navy service on a german submarine we had the prank to let the rookie go down to the engine room to get the tool to “wind up the magnet compass“. The machine mate then gives them the biggest and heaviest toolbox.
As a nurse I approve the 'drinking your pee' prank. We have done this to doctors! Put apple juice in a urine specimen container and we also use dark green smoothie type drinks and put them in suction canisters and pretend it nasogastric content. We then nonchalantly drink them at the nurses station in front of a doctor 😂 ... there are more details to make it believable but you get the idea!
74Gear: I haven't done any of these things. These are all just stories I've heard from others. Also 74Gear: So we're laughing our arses off after making the rookie flight attendant think for the last 10 minutes she's about to get fired on her first day.
I have heard about the "keys" joke. My dad was in the Marines and worked in avionics. Always fun to see the new guy trying to find the keys to a jet that was due for maintenance 😉
Thats an old trick in all aspects of commecial/military worlds. Nothing has keys, except radios. That one really screws people up. Because the boots get pranked into "keys for the humvee" which nope, you can steal that all day. But radios do have keys, and I had a guy who just didn't believe me we needed keys(fills) for the radio before going to the field. When in fact we did. But he had been pranked twice already and just wasn't buying it...
We do pranks in the auto industry as well. I used to send Engineering Co-op students to go get the casting stretcher. I always started with the line with, "This casting is undersize.... please go to QA and get the casting stretcher for me" 😁
I was in the Navy on an aircraft carrier. Messing with the new guy is an art form. Only difference is, if the person doesn't catch on or if someone doesn't tell them, you run with it till they detail out (transfer). I was in about 45 years ago. Some people I messed with still don't know it was a joke. I'm afraid there may have been some overlap in my civilian job after I got out...
Reminds me of the story a friend once told me: When he started learning to be a cook at a restaurant the older guys told him to go to the gun store to ask for a raisin gun to shoot the raisins into the cakes.
The apple juice prank is pretty dam funny I think. My A&P teacher had us "clean & service" the ASH receiver for a quiz on an old Saberliner. Yep, they had ash trays. Then he had us test the "cockpit intercom" Which was where the pilot took a piss. That was fun. I enjoy your show, carry on.
When was a maintainer in the Air Force, the new pilots would get asked to assist with doing the WXR (weather radar) check: walk back and forth 50-ish yards in front of the aircraft with a giant wad of aluminum foil on the end of a broom handle held as high as possible. This was necessary to verify the radar was working properly 😂
Thanks for keeping us all entertained while we go stir crazy! I noticed someone suggested a Hollywood vs Reality for Stephen King's The Langoliers. I second that notion. Some crazy stuff goes down on that plane!
Lol when I worked at a lumber yard we would go to the restroom and call and ask the new guys how much a board stretcher was, they would go up and down the isles looking for it 🤣
I remember one April fools morning 'I work in a club' my manager told one of my colleague to collect air samples from the dance floor by waving a black bag about😂😂😂 most funniest thing I ever witnessed in my whole life!!
Me: **Call back to the flight attendants.** "Umm...hi. We're getting an indicator that there is a high level of hydrogen sulfide in the cabin. Can you check each row and let us know where it's coming from?" Basically, you just sent your flight attendants out to find farts.
Love your work. I worked as a "Customer Service Agent" (a/k/a Ramp Rat) for Continental at Ohare from 1972 until 1980 - the dawn of the Jumbo Jet - while going through college and then law school. I loved the job - even working though night shifts in the Chicago winter. Worked mostly international flights as Continental provided contracted ground support for Lufthansa, Air Lingus, Loft Leiter, Mexicana, Air Jamaica and others. It was the wild west back then. We didn't even have ID badges at first. At one time I had a key that would open every door in the then International terminal - this was well before the current international terminal. We also used to prank newbies - such as telling a newbie to go ask the supervisor for the "bin stretcher" while hand loading cargo into older - non-containerized - aircraft such as a DC 8. I still connect about every couple months with some of my former ramp rats. Although, they've all seem to have gotten older than I remember.
My daughter was a flight attendant with United back in the 90's. I told her about your pranks. She then told me that the pilots once told a new flight attendant that the landing gear was stuck and to go back aft and jump up and down in an effort to get the gear down. And she did! LOL!!
My dad Vinnie became a United pilot in the early 60s. He has a lot of friendly hazing stories, but my favorite is from his days in the 727, a small jet with a 3 man crew. Dad was the junior engineer on this flight, so it must have been in the 60s. The captain's wife sent him along with a thermos of hot homemade soup for his lunch. They had a young flight attendant and he decided to prank her, so in mid flight he had the first officer call her up and ask for an airsickness bag, as they were bouncing over the Rockies. After she left they poured about half the soup in the bag. Five minutes later they called her in again, and the FO handed her sealed up bag full of warm slosh. Just as she was taking it away the captain said "Hey! Wait a second. Bring that here!" She turned back, and he pulled it out of her hand, opened it, and took a big swig from the bag. Unfortunately they didn't have iPhones with cameras in the cockpit back then. Her expression was priceless.
