a flight attendant sends an inappropriate picture to a passenger what is this amateur hour and i
give a flight attendant a terrible piece of advice in this episode of cockpit confessionals coming up
hey 74 crew welcome back if you don't know me my name is kelsey i'm a 747 pilot
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i will be the first to admit that i'm not very good with women but there's one thing that i do
know and that is if a girl likes you and you don't like her back the lengths that she will go to to
get to win you over is incredible and that's what happened in this story this story took place when
i was a relatively new regional first officer i showed up to the gate the captain and one of the
flight attendants were there talking and then i introduced myself and the other flight attendant
showed up it was going to be two pilots two flight attendants we were all together so we headed down
to the plane if you don't know the first officer usually does the outside preflight checks make
sure the walk around and all that stuff outside is done so i don't even take my stuff inside the plan
i just set it down there on the jet bridge and do my walk around typically by that point the flight
attendants have put away all their stuff the one that's in the front of the plane is setting up
her galley and i can go put my bag away and not be in the middle of bumping and knocking into
everybody so that was my strategy but this time when i came back from my walk around there was
no flight attendant in the galley there she was actually sitting up in my seat on the flight deck
chatting with the captain in the past i've been on a crew where the pilot is dating one of the
flight attendants and it can be a little bit annoying because if you're on a four-day trip
on all their layovers they're just trying to do their own thing separate from everybody else
and then it's you and the other flight attendant now sometimes the other flight attendant you are
friends and it's not that bad but they're over there sucking face all the time and then it's
you and the other flight attendant it's just kind of a weird force double date if you're not trying
to do that it's just a little bit awkward and i thought okay great luckily this trip was just a
one day turn we were in denver we were gonna go to toronto canada and back so i thought whatever
not a big deal it's going to be one short stop in toronto and then we'll be on our way back
who cares now i was sitting in the back in the cabin there while the flight center was sitting
there in my seat and she was talking with the captain and after like i don't know 10 minutes
or so i was like well i gotta get my stuff done before we get ready to go to work so i go up there
into the flight deck and i say like hey do you mind if i get my stuff in here and and guys if
you're a normal looking guy like me i'm sure you've experienced this where there is some girl
and just the fact of you being around her it annoys her just by you existing she's talking to
some guy and she's like so focused on them just by you even existing you can see she's just annoyed
that was the situation so she gets out you can tell she's a little bit irritated she goes into
the galley i'm getting my stuff ready for the flight and typically before a flight a flight
attendant will come up on the flight deck and say do you all need anything water trash bag things
like that and so i just say oh yeah i kind of just get a regular room temperature water seems
like a pretty normal request that's typically what people ask you'll get some pilots that are like
i want a coffee and i want a juice and i want to water and i want this and then they can get like
crazy demanding i just want room temperature water that's it one bottle no big deal i could see the
look on her face where she was irritated and then she looked over the captain and his name was kin
she looked over to ken and she goes like and what about you can i get you anything he's like no no
i'm fine she's like are you sure water juice anything you need and he's like no no i'm good
and then she leaves and like i don't know five or seven minutes goes by and i still haven't
had my water given to me the galley is like four feet away from the flight deck i mean four feet
she could literally throw it up there which i kind of thought was what was going to happen
so after about 10 minutes goes by she comes back up again hands me the water without even looking
at me just kind of hands it over to me then she looks over to the captain again ken and she goes
hey cappy are you sure you don't need anything are you sure are you sure she asked him like three or
four times i was like dude okay so i'm getting all my stuff done she leaves and i look over and
ken is one of those guys who's just real like chiseled jaw goes to the gym all the time just
really really good-looking guy and so i couldn't really blame her he was a good-looking guy
so we get everything done we push back and we're up in the air and typically what happens is once
we get into cruise especially on a longer flight at the regionals three hours is a long flight we
get up and we just start chatting like where you from how long you've been here what's your plans
where are you planning to go to things like that and so as i said so uh how long have you and this
other flight attendant her name was kim so ken and kim anyway i said how long have you and kim been
together and he goes no we're not together i was like are you sure because i you she was up here
and she seems very attentive and she's like no we're not together i had a girlfriend for a long
time and i just broke up with her like a couple months ago kim found out then she found out that i
was on this trip and there was no flight attendant so she picked it up in open time and for the last
like three months she's just been like chasing me really hard we are not dating now kim was a pretty
good looking girl and guys you can relate to this story if you have no interest in a girl she is
going to pursue you so hard but if you really like that girl it's like trying to chase a 747 a cessna
unless she wants to let you catch her it's just never going to happen and that's kind of what
was happening here so three hour flight we land we de-plane i always get off and i do my walk-around
real quick so i go off and do my walk around by the time i come back all everybody's off the plane
and i get back up there and of course i walk into the plane and kim is sitting back up in my seat
laughing and giggling with ken so i'm like okay for those who don't know when i'm bored i snack
and flight attendants typically hate when you raid their snack cart but luckily i don't care
and i just started raiding through all the snacks and taking the ones that i wanted so
i was sitting in the in the back of the plane and just the beginning part of the aircraft the cabin
area because the other silent flight attendant who still wanted nothing to do with anybody was
now sitting in the back of the plane still on her phone like i don't know she's like anti-social
which is not really common with flight attendants but she's sitting back there so i'm not gonna just
walk all the way to the back of the plane it's kind of weird and creepy so i'm just sitting up
in the front of the plane there uh eating all my snacks like a big fatty fat eventually about 15
or 20 minutes later kim ends up leaving my seat i've eaten like five or six different types of
snacks that were in the cart over there and i was happy to go because i love my snacks so i
go up there we get everything loaded up we load up the passengers and we're back on our way to denver
i'm ready to get this day over with for sure now something that's very different from when you're
flying at the regionals and when you're flying a main line or a large aircraft in the us is that at
the regionals you guys will fly together you will stay together the flight attendants will when we
land we'll get everything ready in the cabin the pilots will usually grab their bags and get their
bags outside and then as a crew of four or three depending on the size of your plane you guys will
walk off together and that's typically how it worked at least at my airline we'd always lead
the plane together we'd arrived together we worked as a team and it was honestly a great time so we
get everything done we're sitting outside we're waiting for one of the flight attendants and she
eventually comes out and we start heading out the jet bridge and just walking off as a crew together
so in the front you have me and silent knight that's sitting in the back with her cell phone
just the two of us are side by side and then of course kim is walking next to ken and fondling
over his eyes or whatever and and chatting back there now little miss quiet knight over there is
texting away on her cell phone so it's basically just me walking in front of the couple that are
not dating so i'm obviously being a dork and listening to what they're saying and i hear
kim kind of quietly say i see you liked the photos that i sent you and now i'm really intrigued i'm
like this should be interesting something i should mention if you're not familiar with it is apple
has this thing called airdrop it allows you to send a picture or a file to somebody that's also
using an apple product near you so you can send it to their laptop or another phone or whatever
you want and you don't have to have their phone number or anything just need to have the name of
their device whatever they named their device so for example my cell phone is called case phone i
know super creative and now you know why i failed art class but that's what my phone is called just
the name that i made for it so you can be sitting up there with another pilot and just send them a
picture if you take a picture out your window and they want that picture you can just airdrop them
that picture without having their phone number so that's what airdrop is now here's what happened
kim was back there and she airdropped this photo so she airdropped this photo and what happens is
when you airdrop a photo to somebody you don't know where you don't have their phone number
what will happen is sometimes the person will have to accept it if they don't accept it doesn't
go through now you can see that they've accepted and downloaded or received that photo or they can
reject it in which case you're going to see that they didn't get the photo so if you send multiple
photos to someone they keep accepting those photos you see that those airdrops are going through
so now that you understand that here's what happened kim says uh i've been airdropping you
photos through the whole flight on the way back i saw you were downloading them and ken looks over
and goes you were air dropping me the photos and she's like yeah then ken reaches into his pocket
and pulls out his phone he goes uh i have an android how are you air dropping it to an android
so here's what's going on so i casually look back and i see that she has this kind of panic
look getting worse on her face so then she says well then what's captain ken is it your ipad
because we use ipad for work so he goes no my ipad name is my employee number and then i have
an android for a phone she goes well then who's captain ken and right there i put it all together
she'd been airdropping nudie photos to somebody on the plane called captain kim
and i'm hoping of some kid who's like a flight simmer but who knows but she's airdropping these
nudes to some guy named captain ken that's sitting there on the plane and i'm thinking i'm wondering
if she's sitting him with her face or not i would be so weird to be sitting like three rows back
and having this flight attendant just air-dropping you nudes and you can see her sitting there in the
jump seat sending them but anyways she airdropped nudes to some passenger the whole way back to
denver i'm sure that guy's like dude this is the best flight of my life and uh anyways long story
short don't be air dropping nudes to randoms on the plane that's never gonna work out well
being a flight crew member cabin crew or flight crew member that is a special fraternity it's
a really unique lifestyle it's very different from really any job and so there's a special
bond that's created between flight attendants and pilots whether you've ever flown together or not
there's just a special bond there internationally it's it's really cool it's really awesome to
be part of that now in this modern day of social media there are photos that every pilot and flight
attendant needs to get as a pilot you have to get a picture of you outside your plane i don't have
that photo because i hate asking other people to take photos of me so i don't have that picture the
other one you need to get is you after the end of your check ride your check rides your final exam
once you get certified to fly that plane i don't have that photo either because i was just so happy
that i'd passed the exam i was just wanted the guy to sign my paper so i could get out of there
because i hate taking exams i do have what we have on the 747 because a lot of passenger planes have
windows out the side so that out the window picture that's one that you have to get we
don't have windows that slide on the 747 we have an emergency hatch and have a bunch of photos out
the emergency hatch so that's our version of that and then of course with all the people being able
to green screen and edit stuff they're able to make it look like they're taking that picture
while they're flying i haven't done that because i don't know i'm just not that fancy so those
are the pilot picks that you have to and most every pilot has taken or takes those pictures
as a flight attendant you have to get some photos as well you have to get the sitting on the card
in the middle of the aisle picture you have to get the sitting in the jet engine picture or standing
in it you have to get the sitting in the captain's seat and typically wearing the captain's hat
so carrie you are going to take this photo again wearing the captain's hat and then of course one
of my favorites is laying inside the bin of the plane picture that one you have to get as
well so those are all traditional pictures that every flight attendant typically gets
over their career of being a flight attendant well in this story i was sitting there waiting to go on
a deadhead i was just going to fly as a passenger you see me put a bunch of different pictures up
where i'm wearing my tie and riding on a passenger plane and that's typically what's happening i'm on
a deadhead so i'm sitting there and i'm waiting for this flight to come and the flight attendants
come by and one of them recognizes me from youtube and she starts talking with me and then the other
one starts talking to me so we're talking and they say hey do you want to board early come on down
with us let's hang out on the plane so i thought yeah sure i'm sitting up here i'll sit down there
whatever so i go down there and throw my bags up and we're all just hanging out and talking
one of the flight attendants says i'm trying to become an instagram influencer will you look at
my instagram account and tell me what you think and see what i can do better yeah sure whatever
so i start looking through her photos and i say man you have some really great photos here
but you don't have a photo of you in the bin why don't you have the in the bin photo that's one
of my favorites now at this point i should mention that i had never seen a flight attendant get in or
out of that bin and i never really occurred to me how they do it because when i take my photos like
out the top of a 747 it's like yeah i just stand on the seat and put my head out not a big deal
i never really thought about how difficult it would be to actually climb into a bin
and then i didn't realize just how ungraceful it would be until i started seeing things like this
of someone actually doing it it would be kind of like if you were doing parkour but in a dress i
don't know it really impressed me but you kind of get the idea it's not a graceful thing going
in or coming out anyway the flight attendant gets into the bin and she poses for some pictures kind
of like what kat is doing in this picture here but i suggest hey why don't you take
the picture like what stella is doing in this picture here climb through the support rack and
take the photo like that now she seemed hesitant to climb through there but due to me suggesting it
and the flight attends encouraging her also known as peer pressure she decided to climb
through that and i should mention as well all of you had that little boy in your neighborhood
growing up who would do things like uh jump off the garage with a trash bag acting or thinking
that it was gonna work like a parachute or putting his head through the bins of a of a staircase
or railing of a staircase to see if he can put his head through or leg through or convincing
one of the other neighborhood kids to do that you guys all have that kid in that neighborhood
i was that kid hi i'm kelsey i'm a 747 pilot anyway so back to my great idea of telling her
to climb through that support beam there we take about 20 or so photos and then i'm thinking hey
this looks good you know 20 photos there's going to be one or two good ones in here now all of you
know that when girls when they get a bunch of photos taken what's the first thing that they
do them and all their friends run over to start looking at their photos so i take all these photos
and then the other flight attendants are now all cuddled up over the phone looking at the pictures
well while they're all looking at oohy and awning like oh yeah that's a good one oh that's great
i kind of glance over and i notice the flight attendant hasn't gotten out of the bin yet and
she has this kind of look of panic on her face and i think uh oh that's not good so then i
start trying to help her get out and the flight attendants go into emergency flight attendant
mode where they're now helping her get out going forward going back and pulling on her
top and skirt and doing all these things to try to get her out and it's not going after about
10 minutes the gate agent comes down and some of you may not know this but typically the gate agent
will come down before boarding and ask the crew is everything ready to go are you guys ready to board
so the gate agent comes down and says are you guys ready to board then sees the flight attendant is
stuck in there and we're all trying to work her out so now the gate agent jumps in and starts
trying to help get her out of the bin and after about five minutes of that she says okay i'm just
gonna have to mark this flight is delayed so i'm just going to say crew's not ready and mark it as
a delayed flight and actually starts walking away i say i need you to call the maintenance people
over here call two of them tell them that we have a bin that needs to get fixed right away before we
can board don't tell them the flight attendant stuck in there and don't call fire and rescue
just tell them you have a band and that needs to get fixed and tell them to come right away
at this point i'm really thinking to myself this girl is going to be in trouble and kelsey you're
probably going to be banned from this airline forever anyway after about 5 or 10 minutes these
maintenance guys show up and i'm thinking man that's fast that's great they walk in look up
and see the girl stuck in there see us trying to get her out and immediately start laughing i mean
hysterically bent over deviled over laughing and they say hey sweetie don't even worry about this
this you are not the first person this has happened to i'll have you out of there in a
couple minutes so they leave and they're laughing and i'm thinking okay this is what a terribly
embarrassing situation for her but better than two fire trucks showing up because then there would
be a ton of attention these guys will get her out nobody will know no big deal they come back after
a couple minutes and i don't know do some screws or something i wasn't i was kind of standing to
the side because i didn't want to be in their way through some screws or something boom she slides
out no big deal and so while they're fixing the bin and getting it back ready to go again
i say you guys all ready and they're like yeah i go up to the gate agent and i say start boarding
now start sending them all now as quickly as you can so we can get out on time so i come back in
i board i sit in my seat and they just fill up that jet bridge that judge bridge is now all
full up and the guys maintenance guys finish as soon as they're done they walk off and all these
people to start streaming on the plane so we get everybody on the plane and we actually pushed back
and we left on time so the moral of this story is trust your pilots to safely get you on the ground
once you're on the ground probably question some of the life advice or ideas that we might
have that don't sound like good ideas just trust your gut on that i should mention that the flight
attendants that are in these pictures have nothing to do or anything to do with any of these pictures
there are some other youtubers that are flight attendants that i sent messages to and asked them
if i could use their photos they aren't involved in this in any possible way i put a link to their
instagram down in the description below in the video go check them out they're all super super
sweet now while i may not give great advice there are some people out there who give terrible advice
if you want to see me roasting some people who give you terrible advice on how to survive a plane
crash check out this video here and if you want to hear some other crazy stories about aviation
check out this video up here i look forward to hearing from you until then keep the blue side up