Catch me if ya can..

[Contract Guy]

Am I to understand this guy was being escorted by these armed suits ??

Good story.

I’m not really sure if he was just part of the party, the crew or if he was being escorted by them all. He was the last one in the group, the armed guys (for lack of a better word) were in front with the other two just loosely in trail and he was directly behind one of the middle two.

Heck he could have been the hostee for all that I know, but the plane was truly out of place, completely white and we saw no visible registration in the usual spots although there was something on the tail that looked like some small numbers, but the armed goons kind of put the whole thing over the top.

 

[Northern Lights]

Watching Leo walk through the airport with about 5 FA's dangling from each arm gave me a good laugh!

I don't think that I've ever seen that at the airport.

Good movie, though!

 

[skydiverdriver]

I thought it was a cute film. Yes, the mistakes he made were on purpose, since he was just pretending to be a pilot. A captain I flew with read the book and said he was caught by a crew that asked him what "equipment" he was on. He had no idea what the guy was asking! For the one who asked, the name of the book is the same as the name of the movie, "Catch me if you can." My captain said it was a good read.

 

[ms6073]

Interstingly enough, when I was a sneior in high school ('77), a gentleman who was introduced to us as Mr. Frank Abignale, was a guest speaker for the junior/senior class at our school. He gave a motivational speech lasting nearly 2-hours and included a recounting of most of the incidents you see in the movie including the part about writing a prostitute a bad 'check' for her services. As I recall though he did omit the part about taking the bar exam, getting hired as an assistant DA in Louisiana, and working for the FBI though. I think I am going to have to get a copy of the book to see what I missed in the movie.

 

[Hootie9750]

another thing is those thin file holder briefcases that he was always carrying around. No way you could come close to fitting a jepp binder in there. Really good movie still. Actually, great movie.

 

[PCL Flt-ops]

Watching that movie made me realize that the 60s and 70s were the glory days of aviation. Pilots were on par with Doctors and Lawyers. All the stewardess' were super hot, and the respect that pilots got was awesome. About the only thing better in aviation now is that we have better avionics.

 

[Salty Dog]

Well, that and the fact that we don't die flying nearly as often...

 

[Otto]

I fly General Electrics!

Yes, the mistakes he made were on purpose, since he was just pretending to be a pilot. A captain I flew with read the book and said he was caught by a crew that asked him what "equipment" he was on. He had no idea what the guy was asking!

I read the book and when he was asked about what equipment he flew on by a TWA pilot at the airport, he replied with the seemingly safest answer..."General Electric"! The TWA guy was obviously pissed, thinking it was just a wise a** remark. The part I love best is that he ACTUALLY passed the bar with zero law school! I just like that because an ex girlfriend of mine wanted to be a lawyer and she was always talking down about the ease of being a pilot and the instability of the airline industry. I'd like to see her pass a checkride with zero training. Oh and it gets better...she worked for Arthur Andersen!

 

[LA Confidential]

Re: I fly General Electrics!

The part I love best is that he ACTUALLY passed the bar with zero law school! I just like that because an ex girlfriend of mine wanted to be a lawyer and she was always talking down about the ease of being a pilot and the instability of the airline industry. I'd like to see her pass a checkride with zero training. Oh and it gets better...she worked for Arthur Andersen!

LOL!!!


I have a close friend who incidentally is an Attorney, so is his wife, but anyway…

A several years back he wanted to learn to fly so unbeknownst to me he bought one of those paperback books you could find during the 80’s about how to let your license pay for itself and how to get your license in 5 weeks, 6 weeks etc…

He read this thing then one night over dinner he began barraging me with very specific questions about learning to fly, operating costs and so forth.
He wanted to do it and he wanted to know if it could be done in 6 weeks.

Well I’ve known him all my life, he is a very intelligent man and quick to learn new things, so I assumed that, yes he could if he applied himself as he usually does to other stuff.

Well, after the six weeks had passed I was still trying to solo him, he had about 30 hrs and was about half the way thru the book curriculum and was nowhere near close to me signing him off for the written.

He finally gave up

 

[dsee8driver]

Movie was very...

I thought the movie was very entertaining. Next time I see Spielberg I'm going to ask him how to go from the lav to the wheelwell in a DC8.

BTW, The DC8 in which he escaped from the lav through the wheelwell was one of ours. One of our LA Captains had to taxi around LA one afternoon while they filmed it. It was N867BX a 63 series 8.