cockpit confessionals part 2
coming up
hey 74 crew welcome back if you don't know me my name is Kelsey I'm a 747
pilot my channel 74 gear is all about aviation today I'm here in Charleston
South Carolina if you remember the hotel that we stay at in Charleston faces a
pool and there's a bunch of people out there
so I can't show you the view from my hotel but that's where I'm at
hopefully you've already seen cockpit confessionals number 1 and if you
haven't this is definitely not a video that you want to see and watch with your
kids most of my videos are very family friendly this involves nudity people
going to jail things like that so probably not the best thing to watch
with your family also I don't know nor have I ever participated in any of these
stories even though I sometimes tell them in first-person because I think it
makes the video better I am not involved in any of these stories sound like some
bullshit to me let's get into it
if you have a story of something you did with your crew that got out of hand
send it to my Instagram at 74 gear which is coincidentally why this first
story happened one of my most liked and shared pictures from last year was a
picture of this Lambo that we were transporting unfortunately most pilots
are never going to make enough money to afford a brand-new Lambo like this well
at least not on your typical pilot salary only but that didn't stop this
guy during this short flight it was just a captain and a first officer and in the
middle of flight the captain told the first officer he was gonna jump up and
stretch his legs which was totally normal
a lot of times in the middle the flight will jump up and grab some food or go to
the bathroom or things like that so after about 10 minutes past the first
officer started to get worried because the captain hadn't came back yet so he
started ringing the seat belts sign and he started yelling he made an
announcement which is the public announcement system that goes through
the whole airplane he started making all these different things trying to reach
the captain and tell him to come back up after the captain didn't respond he
started to get a bit nervous he started to worry that in this case maybe the
captain had fallen and hurt himself or was having a heart attack or he didn't
know what so what he decided to do was leave the plane on autopilot and run
back and see if he could find the captain now as you can imagine this is
not something we're ever supposed to do of leaving the plane without anybody up
there but he started thinking well if this
captain is dying or having a heart attack I need to help and find out
what's going on so I can help save his life
if you've seen some of the Instagram stories that I do you know that the
forward part of a freighter usually doesn't have a lot of space so it's
pretty quick you can check the galley check the rest area check the bathroom
and a few seats it won't take but a couple seconds to check all those things
but he ran and checked all of those and he couldn't find the captain so after
checking all those spots there was really only two options either one the
captain was in the cargo area of the aircraft or two he disappeared like that
Nicolas Cage film left behind the first officer making this decision to go back
and do this is really a risky move if he goes back there and there's an emergency
or something happens there's nobody that controls and so he's in a way risking
his job and his life by doing this as you can imagine this is a hundred
percent a no-no situation to do but he made the decision in the best interest
of safety which is our one priority was to find the captain to
find out what was going on what so he decided to run back into the cargo area
and see if he can find the captain as he starts running through there he ends up
getting to the Ferrari and finding the captain stuck inside the Ferrari what
had happened was what happened was the captain thought it would be a great idea
to go get some selfies in this Ferrari while they were in Cruz which as you can
imagine is not something that we're supposed to ever do and there was some
safety feature on this Ferrari that basically allowed the door to open but
as soon as it closed he could not open it again because it locked it worked on
some type of a proximity sensor with the key card and the key card was on the
ground at the destination the captain then instructs the FO to run back to the
front of the plane get into the flight deck and fly and land the plane as you
can imagine this is also a big no-no it's obviously meant to have two pilots
in there so the first officer is now having to fly work the radios and do
everything I don't think he declared an emergency or anything I think he just
tried to play it off cool flew in land the plane and tacks it into the gate
once it got into the gate then the ground handlers had to actually come up
there with the key in order to unlock the door so the captain could get out of
the Ferrari as a story goes the captain ended up getting fired from this so
obviously not worth it but sometimes you just got to do it for the gram
something that most people don't know is that flight attendants generally don't
make a lot of money I remember asking a friend of mine how much do you think a
flight attendant makes and she told me I don't know they probably make 80 90
thousand dollars a year and while most flight attendants Candida making that
much later on in their career it's definitely not what they make when they
are early starting off so it makes sense that this flight attendant decided to
start a side hustle it's important to understand in a lot of airlines they
split up the flight attendants and the pilots so you might only do two legs
with your flight attendants and then go to separate hotels often on the layover
is you as a pilot and the flight attendants always don't meet up to go
out and do things together which I personally don't like I like hanging out
with my crew going out and having fun on lay overs on this layover they were
domestic and this flight attendant decided to do her side hustle
the pilots ended up going to a different hotel I think they had only done one leg
with this flight attendant but they had seen everybody and obviously talked to
them before the flight and after the flight they waited for them to get off
the plane and they went out and jumped in their separate hotel vans once the
pilots got to their hotel they decided to go grab some food they went out
grabbed some food and right next to where they were eating or a block or two
away was a strip club and they thought me let's head out to the strip club see
what's going on well after 30 minutes of being out there
on the strip club the girl that got announced was let's call her name
Tiffany which it was not her name but let's say Tiffany gets announced to come
on stage well Tiffany gets on stage and both the pilots look at each other and
go no way it was one of their flight attendants basically what happened is
the flight attendant that did this flight what you would do is look at her
schedule paula head to the different strip clubs and before she arrived she
would call and make herself to premier or the special person of that night I
don't really know how it all works but she had a place to stay transport in and
out so all she had to do was catch an uber over there and make a bunch of
extra money well when she came around to get her tips she ended up running into
these pilots and they ended up talking I guess having a good laugh about it
because I end up hearing about it her story behind it was that she's not doing
it in her town so nobody and her friends or family are gonna end up seeing her
doing this and at the end of the day you know if she wants to go do that for her
man got to make that money turn down to watch
you
on some of the longer layers you know that I've told you have stories going
out with the crew and going out and having drinks her going out and partying
well this story was like that but it went really really wrong the crew
decided to go out and get some drinks and sometimes you get young flight
attendants who don't know quite what their limits are because hey we were all
21 once well this crew went out they had a late
night and they were down in New Orleans and so they went out they had a long
night I think they finished at 3 in the morning and they weren't flying until
4:00 in the afternoon so that was plenty of time well this flight attendant being
new to the drinking world decided to start mixing a bunch of different drinks
together and everybody knows that it's never gonna end up well and that flight
attendant ended up being pretty sick at the end of the night so the crew called
it a night they went back to the hotel and that was it well the next morning
everybody was fine except as one flight attendant wasn't feeling super great but
it was just a one-leg home and she thought I can tough it out for one leg
not a big deal if you're gonna go out and party you definitely don't want to
do more than one leg especially if you're not feeling really well now I
personally don't like to drink more than 1 or 2 drinks when I'm out on a trip
because I'm such a super baby when it comes to feeling ill so I might have one
drink or two if I'm on a layover but I don't like that feeling of feeling
hungover so that's usually the most that'll ever do if I'm about to fly the
next day oh this flight attendant did not have that rule now realize that all
crews always have the option to call out sick if they don't feel well enough to
fly but she felt that she could tough it out and do that one leg home so
everybody boarded the plane everything was secured up and she said hey we're
ready to go close up the door taxi and get ready for takeoff as you know the
flight crew and cabin crew have the shoulder harnesses that we wear for
takeoff and landing now this flight is facing back towards everybody in the
cabin in the front seat of the plane looking backwards so when the plane took
off that feeling getting up in the air made her feel sick the problem is
because she had her shoulder harnesses on she couldn't bend over to throw up
which meant she threw up locked in her seat all down the front of her dress
trying to cover her tracks with all the people that were now staring at her
probably feeling sick to themselves she said I think I have the flu
if you remember the story from cockpit confessionals one where I talk about the
pilot coming down to pick up the pizza in nothing but his Reeboks Papa John's
this story took place in the exact same hotel I don't know how this flight crew
and airline were kicked out by this point after that Reebok Pizza incident
but what happened is this crew is getting out of the van and they started
hearing a bunch of hollering coming from one of the rooms now sometimes the
flight crews won't go out if it's called out or we're being cheap we'll just hang
out and buy a bottle of something hang out in the room and just have some good
left I've done it before it's a lot of fun it's kind of like a tiny little
house party you cheap bastard now it's really strange because in most hotel
rooms you don't have windows that you could open up or anything like that and
I think there's something about suicide prevention that every now and again we
end up at hotels with big balconies so I don't understand the rules of when you
can have a window that doesn't open up but a balcony that you can walk out to
but anyways this hotel had this balcony and there was people that were hanging
out there as a crew is getting out they heard this loud crashing explosion and
glass breaking and then they heard someone screaming like they were at a
frat house one of the pilots decided that he was part of a rock band and
decided to rip the TV off of the wall and throw it off of the balcony after
that story they were definitely kicked out of that hotel
finally this last embarrassing story involves strip clubs strippers and going
to jail and the best first officer you could ever ask for it was me I know that
I have a lot of these crazy stories of pilots and strippers and strip clubs I
just want to let you know that is not the norm but you know these are the
crazy stories that you hear when you're out flying around so that's why you're
hearing them so these two pilots decided to spend some of their hard-earned money
they went out to a strip club and just started hanging out and having some
drinks well one of these pilots is known for being a heavy heavy partier about
1:00 a.m. the first pilot said hey man I'm done I'm ready to go homes
incredibly late he left went back to the hotel and called it a night
well about 10:00 a.m. the next morning his phone kept ringing and he was going
I don't know who this is and he didn't want to pick up the phone it was the
captain the captain was in jail he said bro I need you to come and get me out of
jail because our flights at 3:00 and I need to make the flight the first
officer having the best crew resource management I've ever heard of decided to
jump in an uber run down there go to the ATM and withdraw enough money to cover
the bail after he bailed the captain out they ran back grabbed their flight and
flew out of the country because all this happened outside of the US once they got
up in the flight they heard officers like bro what happened last night the
captain thought he developed this connection with one of the strippers he
was spending a lot of money and she was standing there talking to him so he
ended up getting her number and thinking oh we had this great great connection
what then would have happened after the strip club closed he decided he would
hang outside of the strip club for her to leave so he could talk to her more
now I don't know the rules of strip clubs but I'm pretty sure that violates
all of them this stripper ended up walking home and the pilot kept talking
to her nagging her eventually started to get very irritated because he was drunk
and who knows what he was asking for but she started to get really upset and said
if you don't leave me alone I'm gonna call the cops well as you can imagine he
did not leave her alone she ended up calling the cops that cops came and
picked him up and threw him in jail bad which she taunted don't do that Nevers
now I'm told that after this incident the pilot is not allowed to fly back to
that country anymore so I think the area at first didn't find out and then they
put something on a schedule having him fly back to that country and he said no
no I can't go back there anymore I don't know that that's true but that makes
sense to me being stuck in a foreign jail by yourself with no one to help you
wouldn't feel a lot like being stuck on an island all by yourself if you haven't
seen the Hollywood versus reality I did on castaway starring Tom Hanks I'll put
a link to it right here I look forward to hearing from you until then keep the blue side up