The thread lives. I Was flying with another Capt last week. He told me that he though he was the first one to christen the ATR. He was at his outstation, and the old grumbly in the tumbly took over. He said he had the squirts so bad he thought he was going to have to cancel the flight. The lights in the cargo bay were not working, and said he sat in the dark for the whole 3 hour leg lettin' loose in the trash can. First Bravo Mike I have heard about in the ATR.
Bravo Zulu to you, and thanks for setting the bar fairly high anonymous captain.
I can no longer be above this conversation so I'll chime in with a little hard earned words of wisdom...
NEVER, I REPEAT EVER trust any iced beverage while visiting ANY Latin American country...
Trust me, you DO NOT want to be dealing with some ego maniac customs officer in MFE while your posterior is about to blow off like the side of Mount St. Helens.
This is the funniest thing I've stayed up late to read in a long time. With my gobs of student experience (22+ hrs), I haven't yet had to torque a moonfish mid-air, but I've been up with a few quite gassy CFIs.
Some of you need to publish your stories over on www.poopreport.com. Folks there actually write some amazing stuff bordering on literary genius (sh!t-lit, if you will), and I'm sure many experiences posted on here would bust their readers up laughing.
HAHAH, im new to these forums, some great posts on this thread though!
I have, unfortunatly hand 1st hand experience of this matter, on fina approach, in an AN-225, came crashing down to the runway, and my god il tel you, the heavy landing did my situation no good!
My girlfriend and I went to a pancake breakfast, had a big meal, then on the flight back amidst the July cumulus she turned pale. Luckily I always carry some airline sickness bags, but what to do with the completely full bag that still smells like pancakes? No problem, window open, slow down, bye bye! We were over Iowa, I bet that was nice to find in a cornfield that fall. Its better then riding with it in a skyhawk for another hour.
Also once relieved myself (#1 only) in some sort of garbage bag from the seat pocket of a rental 172 and dropped it. I was at 9500 catching a great tailwind and didn't want to land to pee and then have to make the half-hour climb again in the 172.
No problems flying freight as of yet, but out legs are usualy <1 hour, thank goodness.
We have an air ambulance Lear 35 for a hangar tenet, and one of the pilots ran into some stomach trouble on an empty leg back home. So, he decided to let 'er rip in the lav, in full view of the two EMT's and the f/o. What he didn't know was that the actual lav itself was removed, so there was just a toilet seat on top of the cavity where the lav unit is supposed to go. When they got back on the ground, the pilot asked us to clean it out. Thankfully, we have a company policy that we don't clean air ambulance aircraft. So, the pilot just left it to bake in the South Florida heat. They had a flight later that night, and when the other crew showed up and popped open the door, you could smell the stench on the other side of the airport. The captain on this flight asked us to clean it out, and we told him we couldn't. He threw a fit, was yelling and screaming on his cell phone at the pilot that left the mess, and the EMT's would not go anywhere near the plane. He ended up giving one of our line guys $20 to clean it out with a shop vac.
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