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Capn Lucky said:
That was me. I took a piture of the airplane with 9 inches of snow on the wing and ice hanging off the wing. The he announced that he wasn't going to de-ice.
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At least you weren't with him when he landed just a bit wide of the runway in PQI... I never did see that FO again.

Or the time when he put the airplane in a 60 degree bank upon liftoff from 4L and sucked that bird into the left engine...

Or the time he got out of the airplane while #2 was spinning and the FO was boarding to walk into ops...

Or the time..... I could continue on and on and on...

Ok.. I have to add this one. The time he fell a sleep in SYR ops and tried to exit the airport at 4am when it was all locked up. Or the time he was kicked off the PWM airport after he was found sleeping in a tent next to his car... Or the time he woke up in SYR ops and decided to scratch his "friends" in front of a 737 full of people watching him...... Oh the memories.
 
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chperplt said:
At least you weren't with him when he landed just a bit wide of the runway in PQI... I never did see that FO again.

Or the time when he put the airplane in a 60 degree bank upon liftoff from 4L and sucked that bird into the left engine...

Or the time he got out of the airplane while #2 was spinning and the FO was boarding to walk into ops...

Or the time..... I could continue on and on and on...

Ok.. I have to add this one. The time he fell a sleep in SYR ops and tried to exit the airport at 4am when it was all locked up. Or the time he was kicked off the PWM airport after he was found sleeping in a tent next to his car... Or the time he woke up in SYR ops and decided to scratch his "friends" in front of a 737 full of people watching him...... Oh the memories.
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He was gone before I got here but I hear he was good at navigation.
 
gearup5 said:
Working the holiday,but I will be over nighting at home on Christmas. Hell I dropped most of the month. I think they will have the loop hole that allowed that fixed shortly.

How is training going? I am sure you ended up on the 717.
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It's going well so far, but the hard stuff is just starting. Yup, 717 it is. At this point I'm just trying to learn what all the acronyms stand for. :confused:

Glad you get to be home for some of the holiday.
 
"Or the time he woke up in SYR ops and decided to scratch his "friends" in front of a 737 full of people watching him......"


I was told just about that exact thing by an SYR ramper. Said he was in his underwear and t-shirt i think, stretching out and stuff.
 
BRA said:
"Or the time he woke up in SYR ops and decided to scratch his "friends" in front of a 737 full of people watching him......"


I was told just about that exact thing by an SYR ramper. Said he was in his underwear and t-shirt i think, stretching out and stuff.
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Yea... He was in his tidy whities and gave the people a scary view.
 
Don't forget his mail order wife that worked at the golden arches!!

And when he was a FO in BHB, the land lord was in his Apt, and saw nothing in the place but area charts of Boston on the walls, and then called the police!

And the time the BHB airport manager had to kick him and the tent he was living in off of airport property.

Good times! well, not really, but it makes for good stories!
 
No way dude it is more like bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang reload bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang .
 
GEORGE DUBYA said:
Whats wrong with mail order wives who work at mickey d's I have one. Free French Fries BEEYOTCHES
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I never actually met her, but I heard she was very well educated. Probably just using Pring Prang so she could get that research fellowship at MIT.

Another good story: riding his bike to work (he didn't have a driver's license) and after getting it thru security at SYR, he'd ride it side-saddle down the terminal and say "Ready to board Boston!" right before he and his bike got on the elevator down to Ops. :nuts:
 
Wow...these are great stories....I remember hearing about those.
And yeah cpierse....it's me. It must be nice to come back over to the CJC side of things and see what's happening. Not much as you can see, but a nice reunion it must be.
 
How about how he wpuld run the the news stand so he could look at teen magazines. I swear we'll see him on Dateline for a pedophile sting.

On the driver's license thing.... TB had us repo to hef just because prong would not answer his phone. TB met us as we pulled up as he had been without a license for more than a month.
 
We can't forget how he would only wear FO bars and wings so nobody knew he was a captain....

I met his mail order wife once in PQI..... She flew up to "surprise" him, and boy was he surprised.....with his G/F.
 
He told me once he liked to go to South America on vacation because down there he could get a girl to do anything for $25 bucks. But he never took his wife, because she spoiled the fun.

The way he looked at 12 year old girls and younger scared me! Sick dude.

The company would fire just about anybody for anything, but for some reason they protected him, until one of our fellow FO's in SYR sacrificed his career to get the man out of the cockpit.
 
Some one told me his apartment had no furniture. He and his wife slept on the floor.

I also remember him wearing a stop watch to track exactly the off and on times.
 
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CTS said:
He told me once he liked to go to South America on vacation because down there he could get a girl to do anything for $25 bucks. But he never took his wife, because she spoiled the fun.

The way he looked at 12 year old girls and younger scared me! Sick dude.

The company would fire just about anybody for anything, but for some reason they protected him, until one of our fellow FO's in SYR sacrificed his career to get the man out of the cockpit.
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Take out "girl" from your quote and insert "boy", and I think you'll be correct.

One day I was DHing back to PWM and he was the cpt. On the way out as I was folding seat belts, I found a little toy car and brought it up front. He says "I know which boy that belonged to" and ran into the terminal after the kid.

The dude was very strange... We all know why he stuck around as long as he did. It's unfortunate that the SYR FOs had to do what they did to get rid of him....
 
CTS said:
I also remember him wearing a stop watch to track exactly the off and on times.
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I wouldn't doubt this... He would never put in a time sheet, put in for per diem, and worst of all, would never shower. How do you get to the airport at 5am and stink.... in the middle of winter???

The dude was a loser....
 
What did the SYR FOs do to get rid of him? I thought it was him landing in BHB with the lights off that was the last straw? The FO that was flying with him just transitioned to Saaby capitano.

I could be wrong.
 
They all sent a letter to "dirty pack of cigaretts" basically telling him to deal with it or they'll be letting the FAA know what's been going on.
 
He actually told me that sice he was someone's flight instructor, that gave him the infallibilty over the book. If there was a proceure he didn't like, he's have it changed. In the interim, he'd disregard the procedure, callout etc..
 
Holy sh@#... Almost forgot one of the funnier things.

He kept track of every little thing FOs did that he thought was wrong. Say you checked in with center and said "with you" or happen to throw an "and" in there.... You would get a nice letter in the mail with the appropriate section of the AIM highlighted and the letter telling you that you're not following proper protocol or some other such garbage..
 
chperplt said:
Holy sh@#... Almost forgot one of the funnier things.

He kept track of every little thing FOs did that he thought was wrong. Say you checked in with center and said "with you" or happen to throw an "and" in there.... You would get a nice letter in the mail with the appropriate section of the AIM highlighted and the letter telling you that you're not following proper protocol or some other such garbage..
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After flying with him awhile, I used to see how much time I could get him to waste looking up stuff and photocopying it. What a dipsh!t.

When I finally got out of SYR and got based in SHD, ole "Bubba" was the first guy I flew with. People had been hyping up how rough he was to fly with (I think he does harrass FOs a lot if they're very young), but I had a great time. I was cracking up all day with his little one liners.

Me: "...and there's a PAPI on the left. Any questions?"
Bubba: "Yeah. Why you so dumb?!"

Me - after getting ATIS: "I'm back on 1."
Bubba: "No changes. You still dumb... 'n ugly!"
 
cpierse said:
After flying with him awhile, I used to see how much time I could get him to waste looking up stuff and photocopying it. What a dipsh!t.

When I finally got out of SYR and got based in SHD, ole "Bubba" was the first guy I flew with. People had been hyping up how rough he was to fly with (I think he does harrass FOs a lot if they're very young), but I had a great time. I was cracking up all day with his little one liners.

Me: "...and there's a PAPI on the left. Any questions?"
Bubba: "Yeah. Why you so dumb?!"

Me - after getting ATIS: "I'm back on 1."
Bubba: "No changes. You still dumb... 'n ugly!"
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And Jeb thought the we were the cowboys up north....
 
chperplt said:
And Jeb thought the we were the cowboys up north....
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SHD kind of reminded me of the Dukes of Hazzard. Although geographically close to Northern Virginia (where I lived), it was three legs to HEF, which was far enough to keep a low profile most of the time.
 

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