how do you want to pay for your flight hours for the perfect it's crazy right
now what's going on with the coronavirus at everything that's happening and the
fact that this is even a meme blows my mind
aviation means number five coming up
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US sees 55% spike in alcohol sales as flight attendants actually have to start
before so what's funny about this and of course this is not legal or approved and
it's been going on since I don't know the 70s when my aunt was a flight
attendant is that flight attendants when they would do first-class service there
would be a lot of alcohol left over and that leftover alcohol would be on those
little mini bottles and those mini bottles would sometimes end up falling
into crew bags before they walked off the plane that's obviously stealing so
you should never do that but it does happen in some cases what happens is
something called crew juice gets made and of course I've never participated in
it and it may or may not be in a future cockpit confessionals
but crew juice is basically one of the flight attendants makes a cocktail that
goes into a water bottle so this cocktail that's in the water bottle once
you get into the van will magically appear from somebody's bag and the
entire crew drinks from it before they go out that night of course that's not
something you'd want to do during kovat but you've already been interacting so
close I don't know if it'd make a huge difference but you guys all drink that
juice by the time you get to the hotel everybody's usually pretty buzzed you
run up to your rooms and you change and then you all go out and then later on if
somebody tells me the story it ends up somewhere on carpet confessionals it's
me or the airplane clear problem the clear prop thing what that means is
before you start the propeller of a plane you yell clear prop just so that
nobody around your prop is going to get hit by it obviously it's not something
you do in jets because there's guys that are looking at your engines before you
start them basically what it means is I'm going to
take the plane over the girlfriend is that the right decision I don't know if
your plane is more important than her maybe she's not the right girl for you
well that's odd it could have sworn I was escorting two unaccompanied minors
something I've always done I think a lot of pilots are notorious for it is eating
cookies especially the regionals you're doing so many flights a lot of times you
don't have a chance to eat a really healthy meal or at least I didn't make
it a priority with everything else that I had going on and sometimes I'd come
back to the plane after getting some paperwork or things like that up from
the gate agent I come back and there'd be a bag of cookies sitting there on my
seat and it just goes to show you just taking care of your flight attendants
that you'll end up getting some of the really good snacks before they disappear
because the really good snacks have a way of disappearing sometimes before
they even get to the passengers so being nice to your flight attendants
pays dividends sometimes it's only cookies but still if you love those
cookies it's really worth it wanted one pilot must be trained
navigator engineer computer technician HR manager Communications Officer
customer services operator weather expert and oh yeah must be able to fly a
plane this is so true you know one of the things about being a pilot is really
it's not that difficult of a job once you get through all your training and
you kind of get into your groove of flying your airplane it's really not
difficult but it's very true there is a lot going on with that job that most
people don't realize you have to kind of be the go-between between the gate
agents and the flight attendants the passengers in the flight attendant you
and the other pilot there's a lot that's going on just that on top of flying the
plane and making sure that the whole operation is taken into consideration
there's a lot to being a pilot but once you kind of find out a groove that works
for you it's really not that difficult of a job and I know a lot of people
right now are that our pilots are starting to get a little bit nervous
about what's gonna happen with the economy and with kovat and the impact
that's gonna have and I've been asked a lot about it and I really it's very hard
to say what exactly is gonna happen it kind of depends on how deep and how long
people are left in quarantine so maybe later on I'll talk about it but as it is
right now we're talking about the memes that we're having a good time so later
I'll talk about it but it is very true right now a lot of you are worried
so don't think that I don't know and I haven't been thinking about you is it
okay to use the bathroom now one of the things is when you're a pilot you put
the fasten seatbelt sign on and people ignore you we don't really know the
flight attendant see you but they can't really stop you and force you to go your
seat if the seatbelt sign is on and we hit a bunch of turbulence and you fly up
and you get launched into the karts like what's happened to this kid well that's
kind of on you if we didn't have the seatbelt sign on and then something
happened then that might not necessarily be your fault
did you see the flight isn't sitting in their seat and they're strapped in you
don't want to get up that is not the time to get up
and so that's kind of what's happening here she's strapped into her seat and
this guy is jumping up to I don't know go get snacks or go to the bathroom so
it's true I know it annoys the flight attendants when people do that and I as
a pilot especially in uniform I've had pilots forget to turn this seatbelt sign
off and I'm sitting there I may have to go to the bathroom like please hurry up
and turn the seatbelt sign off and mostly because I'm trying to set a good
example I usually have a pretty good idea just based off of how the plane is
moving if there's gonna be any turbulence but you know if you're just a
normal passenger that flies 2 or 3 times a year you may not have that judgement
or really know how to predict when it's gonna get bad so if the seatbelt sign is
on just stay in your seat and if you're in
your seat and even if the seatbelt sign is off leave your seatbelt on
when we go up to the flight deck I have to go in the bathroom getting food we
buckle our safety belt and the reality is is it's not very likely that you're
gonna hit what's called clear air turbulence but it can happen I've seen
guys get their heads cut because they slammed the overhead panel before and
it's not pretty so just leave your seatbelt on and you'll have to worry
about getting slammed into the ceiling me waiting for the flight attendant to
stop complaining about the needy packs so I can ask them for a refill or take
off I love these little mini Yoda's they're so cool something that I always
did is I would if I wanted something from the flight attendant a lot of you
know that during boarding I'd kind of hang out at that front galley area and I
know some flight attendants don't like it but I did it anyways because I like
to see who's coming on board I like for them to be able to see me I think it
puts them a little bit at ease passengers at ease when they see that
the pilots there and you don't look lost or confused so I like to be there and
greet them and I also like to be there to help
flight attendant if somebody's mouthing off especially if it's a delayed
departure sometimes people get on the plane and they get a little bit mouthy
to the flight attendants up there and it's not the flight attendants fault so
I like to be there because usually there are a lot left the mouthy if a pilot
standing there because they respect the pilot more and the truth is is the
flight attendants over the course of time have saved lots of lives in
accidents but people just seem to kind of treat them like waitresses really the
priority the whole reason they're on there is to save your life in an
emergency so like I said I try to treat the flight attendants if you want a cup
of coffee I'll go up and ask them and I'll stand there at the galley not stand
there in there in there in the flight deck and wait for them to come to me but
I know a lot of pilots do that and pilots are just as whiny as as
passengers are so even though the foot attendants are whining to us about the
whiny passengers and they have to deal with the whiny pilots it's it's not a
really good deal for them crew scheduling be like you still coming in
right yeah I've had it where there's been a horrible storm and it's like
everything shut down and you call them you're like I can't get out and make it
there but the reality is it's easier for them to try to pressure you into getting
to your plane than it is to recored innate and move everybody around to get
somebody else to the plane and a lot of times crew scheduling isn't in the
location where your planes at so I've had it before where it's something like
this somebody's cars broken down and they're overheated on the side of the
road and the flight attendant will come and say my car's overheated on the side
of the road crews scheduler says I have to be there I better get fired
stuff like that it happens a lot of times they're just trying to press you
to go and do it because it's easier than pulling reserve or rearranging all the
schedules it's just you know their whole their whole thing is to move the metal
to get people there to meet move the metal it's just kind of one of the
pushing poles it's kind of like the pilot mechanic relationship the pilots
and the men you can exert always kind of fighting over fixing stuff and writing
stuff in a log book and it's just kind of the ebb and the flow of the business
Cessna 7 6 uniform traffic 12 o'clock one mile southbound me looking for a
tiny white dot somewhere in the sky this is so real and I know it's just you
can't even believe how can you not find a plane in the sky I remember guys
talking about this before with the flight school I was like yeah how can he
not find a plane I have pretty good vision but they
you know they say I can't see the planet I don't see the traffic it'd be like
three miles away then you get up there and you're thinking how could I not see
this plane it's bizarre the other thing that I've had done that is air traffic
control say you know traffic opposite direction 20 miles I mean I got a good
vision but I don't have 20 mile vision it'll fit oh my gosh this is so true
especially for flight attendants that work on the regional aircraft those
smaller ER J's or CR J's you know there's to be two on one side and two on
the other two and one if your flight attendant if you're walking on the plane
of your $0.05 says that bags not gonna fit
I'd say nine out of ten times it's not gonna fit they know exactly what's gonna
fit and not so it's just easier if they say it's not gonna fit leave it there
and let it go inside the belly of the plane it'll be up there when you get
back I know people freak out about it obviously you have to take out the
batteries and what others personal medication and stuff like that because
I've had people with medication where they put that underneath the plane and
then we're getting ready for takeoff and then they freak out and I had to go all
the way back to the gate park and then I actually got off ran downstairs to find
it because I think we were about to go home it was like the last leg before we
were going home and I wanted to obviously get home and be done so I
think I went down there and helped the baggage guys find the bag and ran the
bag up is this your back yeah okay great and then we left it was kind of a mess
but if I didn't tell you it's not gonna fit it's not gonna fit and there's been
so many times where people go kind of just try it they're like yeah okay and
then they walk on the plane it's clearly never gonna make it by the way if you
haven't figured it out I'm in Los Angeles I've been here a bunch lately
I've been doing actually turns in and out of Los Angeles it's not very common
but I went to Tokyo and back I went to San Francisco and back I went to
Anchorage and back and I keep getting back here and having a day which is
giving me a chance to film my whole schedule with the Koba thing has been
totally twisted I actually had a really cool overnight that I was supposed to do
and I wanted to film from but this is the life that I live what gives people
feeling of power money status a smooth landing oh my gosh this is so true I can
tell you some of the smoothest landings I have even my first smooth landing I
can tell you what runway it was and I was in flight school
it's one of those things that you feel so good about we all know that we're
judged on it by the passengers and even when I'm flying cargo we're judged by
the other pilots if you have a smooth landing they're like oh nice if you have
a hard landing everyone's kind of quiet like we all know what happened here so
it's definitely something that we all aspire to do really well and you know
when I'm flying cargo and we're in turbulence we don't really slow down
because it doesn't matter when I'm flying with passengers we do slow down I
made a video about the turbulence and why pilots slow down and turbulence and
things like that but as far as the landing no matter what you have whether
you're flying passengers or cargo you want to make the smoothest landing
possible because it's what we pride ourselves on if you've ever wondered why
your pilot has a really hard landing I'll put a video to it right here I look
forward to hearing from you until then keep the blue side up