Celebrities in FBOs

[TrafficInSight]

When we flew him he asked about a dozen times if we were going to carry his luggage OFF THE PLANE. No, you moron we're going to leave it. I've always wanted a tack-a-licious Louie Vuitton bag full of SeanJean shirts and furs in case I decide to take up Pimpin' for a hobbie.

Hey pimpin' aint easy. It's incredibly hard to get into the profession these days without a lot of pimpin' experience, most major playas require 1000 hrs PIC (pimp in command) time before they'll let you pimp any more than 3 ho's. Some unscrupulous "pimp schools" have offered young aspiring pimps the chance to "PFP," or Pay For Pimpn' but what they don't tell you is that it's not PIC time. In the end you're still not a real pimp and you owe Pmasta down the road thousands of dollars.

 

[Midnight Flyer]

Tried to get through a small crowd at a Signature at Detroit City on our way to Canada to drop off one of our mechanics. I was a little annoyed with a group of teenagers dressed in "trendy rags" and they shuffled by me from the counter to their G-IV or V. I was chatting with the guy at the counter and said something like "nice plane those guys have... rich parents?" He laughed and said it was Maroon 5 and I guess with some of their friends.
Adam

What the heck is Maroon 5? Some sort of MOA you had to fly around or something?

 

[dayshift]

Flew a C-152 to Truckee one winter day. Tied the plane down, walked into the FBO for couple of minutes, departed the FBO for the aircraft. As I was walking the pilot of a C-206 who landed behind me was headed towards the FBO, he says to me as we pass, little 152, I reply, oh yea, got me here, I stopped turned around, thinking to myself, that was Robert Conrad, look at the C-206 his sons were busting up.

 

[xdrvr]

No .... just flew him a few weeks ago couldn't believe how much shtuff they brought. when they pulled up looked like presidential motorcade all black suvs and sedans...

 

[PseudoName]

....flown many celebs....some treat ya like people, some treat ya like trash

In that mix of celebs, one that I have flown several times, enabled me to make lots of $$$.

I can't print her name, young singer, blonde....oops I.....

How did I make the $$$? My co-captain left one of her bags on the airplane by mistake. He took the contents and sold it on ebay and gave me some of his profit.

I don't know why people would be interested in buying someone elses dirty laundry.

 

[coolyokeluke]

Don't know that you can classify this as a celebrity but I just jumped on Alaska Airlines SEA-ANC and govenor Murkowski was up front in first class. I guess he doesn't have his Astra yet.

 

[DL_Infidel]

Michael J. Fox

SLC-JFK Accidentally walked in on his wife, Tracy Pollan, in the 1st class lav....she forgot to lock the door. Fortunately, she was washing her hands.

Did a Falcons charter last year and Jets after their loss to PIT.

 

[Snakum]

When we flew him he asked about a dozen times if we were going to carry his luggage OFF THE PLANE. No, you moron we're going to leave it. I've always wanted a tack-a-licious Louie Vuitton bag full of SeanJean shirts and furs in case I decide to take up Pimpin' for a hobbie.

LMGDFAO!

Life just isn't fair when you can't kick worthless wastes of airspace like Puff (this) Daddy in the groin, just on GP.

Minh

 

[spitfire1500]

I saw Ron Jeremy in CLT on his way to CAE. One of our crews got him to sign tne release as a souvenier!! He smelled kinda bad!!

 

[bafanguy]

There's a famous story about Oprah Winfrey in 1st class, who decided that the white #1 wasn't good enough to serve her, and demanded the African-American FA in coach trade places with the #1. Since I wasn't there, I can't vouch for the truth of it, but apparently Oprah is one of the most demanding, irritating passengers ever to grace a commercial flight.

.

Why would Oprah ride commercial with us common rabble when she's rich enough for a fleet of anything with wings ? Does she really do this ?

Was in an FBO circa '72 ( I don't get out much ) when James Brown stormed in ready to leave, but the crew for his airplane wasn't there. He fussed & fumed and came up to me saying something like, "...you know how to fly that thing ? ". I said I didn't so he stomped off. We had to leave before his crew arrived, but I'd have paid money to see what happened when they did. I say I've had a job offer from the Godfather of Soul, but turned it down.

Had Trump on board once in his Marla Maples days...very nice guy. Came to the cockpit and chatted. Wasn't even upset when we waited in ATL for a parking crew for 10 minutes on arrival ( "We're not happy 'til you're unhappy.")

My wife has had a boatload of celebs on flights.. Says Walter Cronkite was the nicest. Somehow, I find that reassuring.

 

[FrozenPilot]

Green Day pulled up next to me yesterday in their Lear 45. You should have seen all the airport staff staring out their windows! The line guy got a nice autographed band photo out of it, and I still have to download the couple pics I nabbed.

 

[leardawg]

Turned around and almost collided with Dick Cheney in a hurry to get to an airplane (did the left/right dance; he nodded Hi). This was a couple of years before he became VP.

 

[leardawg]

More I have flown:

Al Gore: came up front to chitchat; said he invented GPWS, and TCAS too. Was strangely possessive of a small metal box. When I went back to use the lav, he broke off a beer bottle, waving it at me and yelling: "No one gets near the lock box! No one!"

Charlton Heston: When we showed up to pick him up (6 hours late on a rescue trip), apparently he expected a bigger plane. The company also screwed up his transportation and catering. When he threw a scene at the FBO, security came and started dragging him away. He told one burly guard "Get your hands off me, you filthy ape!". As he was being dragged through the FBO door he was yelling "It's a madhouse! A MAAADHOUUUSE!".

On a later flight, he apparently fell asleep, and woke up at CGF a few years in the future ( through as-yet-unexplained laws of physics and time travel.). As he surveyed the ruins of OCC (with the Flight Options logo sticking out of the rubble), he dropped to his knees, and pounding the pavement, yelling "The bastards finally did it! D*mn YOU ALL TO HELL!!" Meanwhile, underground below the rubble, horribly disgfigured, telepathic mutants led by M. Scheeringa, Tim Shedden, and Tim Montie worshiped "The Bomb" (actually 507CW loaded with fuel),and were engaged in a life-or-death struggle with surface-dwelling ex-FLOPS pilots living in the ruins of the Holiday Inn. (Driving around the green hotel vans with recoiless rifles mounted on the roof).

R. LEE ERMEY (the drill seargent from Full Metal Jacket). When we informed him that we had gone mechanical, he got in our faces and yelled "Holy s**t, if it isn't The Great Waldo Pepper and Forrest Gump! You pussies give pussies a bad name! You make me wish I had taken a horse instead of a plane, after 3 nights in a Mexican wh*rehouse! What ARE you doing to my beloved Fractional Share! You must have ridden to school on the SHORT short bus! ... He left us on the ramp sucking our thumbs with our pants down around our ankles.

 

[Snakum]

ROFLMMFAO!




More! More!

 

[User546]

I saw Rudy Giuliani today at the Piedmont-Hawthorne FBO at Dulles.

He came racing in from the ramp with three or four of his cronies quickly in trail.

 

[kilroy]

Andy Roddick and Mandy moore last year.. The next day flew Ludacris and his entourage.

Russell Simons and Rev Run from RUN DMC.. Rev Run was throwing cheese and crackers all over the airplane.

Pissed next to Jerry Bruckhiemer in PIE.

Flew General Schwarzkoph and General Tommy Franks really nive guys. Schwarzkophs wife served us sandwhichs.

Saw Bon Jovi, Heather Locklear. Faith Hill, Tim Mcgraw hanging out on the ramp in TPA

 

[atrdriver]

Also had Lee Greenwood and his band last year on the 4th of July, and have flown Stormin Normin, and Gen Horton several times, all of them seemed very personable.

 

[FlyChicaga]

Flew Jesse Jackson while on IOE. Sat in the second row, and waved to me when I looked back like a little kid. Pretty dang funny. Very personable, but his aid was a pain in the ass. Flew Batista, some wrestler from the WWF, not too long ago. My FA thought it was The Rock. Dude was h-u-g-e. Also commuted with Neil Cavuto going to work early one morning. While sitting three seats over, he was on the phone talking about doing a piece on the airlines, and interviewing pilots from Delta, American, United, etc. about their paycuts. I just rolled my eyes. Had some others on board, like Wayne Newtons band, who nearly tipped our poor Saab on its tail with all their band gear. I don't bother with the celebs much. Figure they want to be left alone.

 

[atrdriver]

R. LEE ERMEY (the drill seargent from Full Metal Jacket). When we informed him that we had gone mechanical, he got in our faces and yelled "Holy s**t, if it isn't The Great Waldo Pepper and Forrest Gump! You pussies give pussies a bad name! You make me wish I had taken a horse instead of a plane, after 3 nights in a Mexican wh*rehouse! What ARE you doing to my beloved Fractional Share! You must have ridden to school on the SHORT short bus! ... He left us on the ramp sucking our thumbs with our pants down around our ankles.

Now I've got to clean the coffee off my monitor...

 

[Stifler's Mom]

BANANA GEORGE. He was easy to recognize by the yellow cowboy hat, yellow suit, and yellow boots. He handed out bananas to the crew as well.

LOU HOLTZ when he was still at Notre Dame.

RANDY JOHNSON. Then a Mariner pitcher, man he is tall.

And some guy who was a Soap Opera actor, I had no idea who he was but the Flight Attendants recognized him.

 

[navigator72]

I have some

I used to fly a KBHB (Bar Harbor, Maine), alot of famous people fly in for the weekends. I used to see Martha Stewart on a weekly basis. I watched Gwenyth Paltrow almost back her Range Rover into a King Air that was taxiing out.

 

[Swass]

And some guy who was a Soap Opera actor, I had no idea who he was but the Flight Attendants recognized him.

The male flight attendants?

 

[leardawg]

Another Charlton Heston anecdote: after dropping him off at CGF, he was suddenly met and hauled off by some goonish-looking FLOPS personel. He yelled out a curious and kind of ominous warning: "Don't eat the crew catering!!! It's made from ex-Flight Options pilots!!! IT MADE FROM PEEEOOOPLLE!!!"

H. Ross Perot: Brand-new to the Fractional world, he came up front and asked a bunch of questions: "Now let's see here. Let me get this straight. Ah buy part of an airplane, but seldom if ever get to fly mah airplane. Ah have zero, repeat zero, control over which Tom, Dick an' barbecue eatin', tabbacca chewin', nose pickin' an flickin', fartin' gas-bag Harry flies on MAH airplane?! That don't add up to a Chihuahua's turd of sense to me! Ah'm as frustrated as a thirsty Armadilla at the bottom of an empty swimmin' hole! Ah feel as unfullfilled as Michael Jackson at a Girl Scout jamboree! Yabada, Yadada, Yababebadabadoo .."

Clint Eastwood: He and I did not see eye to eye on a particular issue. A scuffle ensued, and a gun fell out of his shirt onto the floor. I thought of going for it, but he sensed what I was thinking, and pulled out a much larger cannon of a pistol. "I know what you're thinking? Is the gun loaded? But being that this is the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow you clean away, you just have to ask yourself one question. Do I feel lucky? WELL DO YAH, PUNK?! As I lay there on the floor, I realized he had me beat, but could not resist asking the question burning in my mind: "I GOTS TO KNOW!!"

It was empty!We shared a good laugh over it afterwards.

 

[cforst513]

lol!!! nice, dawg.

 

[skydash]

All members of YES in ABQ-Rick Wakeman(God of all keyboards) was super nice and funny.

OJ Simpson in ATL(before murdering his wife)
Vanessa Williams and Rick Fox in HPN(she's still hot).
Victor Borge in DCA-got stuck the night before due to a cancelled flight...was still in his tux....very funny.

 

[leardawg]

Also flew:

Elvis Presly: The King still lives, albeit anonymously (the guy is really overweight and huge!). I overheard him in back talking on the Flightfone, trying to hook up with an ex-girlfriend: "Hello baby, it's me, it's the King. I want you back in my life baby! I want you back real bad. And on your way back, could you stop by a Krispy Kreme and pick up a dozen jelly doughnuts, and a dozen Crullers too? Love me tender, love me truuuuue, and pick me up a pizza pie toooNE WITH SAUSAGE, PEPPERS AND CHEEEESE, OH PLEASE, OH PLEASE, OH PLEASE ...I think she hung up on him.

Billy Joel: The FBO at HTO was apparently used to and ready for his departure. A loudspeaker blared "Code Red! Code Red !" and the hard-hat wearing FBO crew went diving for cover. Suddenly, there's a screeching noise as this BMW comes tearing through the ramp gate, airborne. It rolls several times, pieces flying off and everywhere. It slides to a stop, upside down, only a few feet from the plane, hissing and smoking, tires still spinning. A hub cap wobbled and rattled on the tarmac. Mr. Joel crawled out, dusted himself off, and said nonchalantly "Are we ready to go?" and tossed the keys to the un-fazed line guy standing nearby. And off we went.

Mel Gibson: He flew into CGF, arriving in the future on the same time-travelling airplane as Charlton Heston. The scene was quite different from present-day, very run-down and apocalyptic looking.(Tall pipes emanated from the buildings, flaming from burning the methane produced below). During a meeting with Scheeringa, over a dispute with the Pilot's Union, they were interrupted over an intercom system. It was the head of the Union: "Who run OCC?" said the high-pitched voice. Scheeringa replied in a somber tone "You know who runs OCC!" . "Say It !" barked the voice. Scheeringa, through gritting teeth, replied "OK. Master ... Blaster ... run ... OCC." The voice replied: " Gooood! Now, EMBARGO!!!" And the 126th pilot strike was on.

Eventually, things deteriorated to the point where the good guys decided to make a run for it, to greener pastures out west. They all piled into a souped up Legacy, stripped of wings, with a humungous snow-plow blade mounted on front, and a water cannon mounted atop on a large, swiveling turret. With Gibson driving, they took off down the Interstate, with Scheeringa and his minions in hot pursuit: an odd assortment of wingless Beechjets, Hawkers and Citations with spikes and blades on the wheel hubs, battering rams attached to the noses, and armor plating welded all over. These were driven by a freak show of leather-clad, mohawked maniacs (many wearing the old Flight Options tie as an accessory). Scheeringa himself stood on a platform welded atop a Challenger, wearing a horned Viking helmet and, wielding a large staff, exhorted his troops during the high speed pursuit. The wreckage and carnage on both sides was spectacular, and a few survivors eventually reached the promised land (a fortified Net Jets compound in the middle of the Arizona desert). Alas, Mel didn't make it, having been last seen in a spectacular fire-ball of a collision between his and Scheeringa's vehicles.

 

[WMUSIGPI]

Passed John Travolta and Greg Norman on the Signature ramp at JAX. Passed Chris Jerico in the US Airways terminal in PIT.
Saw Steve Yzerman and his wife in CYQA
Saw Jesse Jackson during the final days of the '04 campaign at Atlantic Aviation PHL...If only I wasn't in uniform....no my mom always said if you don't have something nice to say don't say anything....

 

[RichardRambone]

I worked at the FBO in Higginsville, MO. Small operation with maybe 3 airplanes to fill upon the weekend. Tony Stewart dropped in in his Citation (I think) b/c he has a house near there. I went up to the plane and asked if they needed fuel and was ran over by him and his posse. Next thing I know Im in the middle of his posse. They just kept walking by. What a prick.

 

[Av8ing]

I saw "Pappa John" at TAC air LEX

 

[wrxpilot]

Andy Roddick and Mandy moore last year.. The next day flew Ludacris and his entourage.

Mandy Moore's dad (Don) has been in the front seat of my car, lol! Ok, to make this aviation related:

Mandy's dad is or was at the time a capt w/ a certain airline. Had a trip into DEN w/ a FO I knew. FO gave me a call and said let's go do something w/ the capt (I didn't know who he was at first). Anyway, ended up taking them downtown for dinner. He was a very cool guy, absolutely insisted on paying for everything.