How sad is it

[slackass]

How sad is it that when you get to your hotel for a decent overnight your entire crew isn't old enough to drink! Hell I thought I should take them to Chuck E. Cheese's.

 

[Salukipilot4590]

Wow, who do you work for?

 

[CX880]

Thanks for this post, pretty funny. I'm guessing your hotel wasn't in Mexico.

 

[Dumb Pilot]

Too bad there isn't a minimun age for posting

 

[crashpad]

On a happier note:
Two out of four of my crewmembers on my last trip were pregnant...
and not one by me!

 

[MauleSkinner]

How sad is it that when you get to your hotel for a decent overnight your entire crew isn't old enough to drink! Hell I thought I should take them to Chuck E. Cheese's.

It gets worse...they're not old enough to drive the rental car, either, so I'm the designated driver!

Fly safe!

David

 

[avbug]

I was annoyed as an 18 year old flying formation beneath powerlines at the common disregard given in igorance such as we see here...as if youth in aviation is a crime. I'm just as annoyed by it today.

I went for years as a kid, arriving to pick up passengers and being told to present my driver's license becasue they didn't think I was old enough to fly them. I bore the brunt of rejections from the "come back when you're a few y years older, kid." I did it in the face of being a kid with more experience than those doing the hiring, and more demanding experience, and have never ceased to be disgusted by the attitude.

I've never ceased to be disgusted with the correlation between alcohol and flying, either (since when has the QB been more than a drinking fraternity?). Old enough to drink? Who cares. Old enough to fly is all that counts.

Kids come out of service who risk their lives and die on behalf of their country who still can't buy a beer, but it doesn't stop them from being leaders and professionals. Age is really meaningless in the face of ability.

I've been on more than a few crews when I was the designated driver as the only one that didn't drink. I've had to drive cars for F/O's who couldn't get car rentals. All I care about is their ability to be a professional and fly an airplane, and I'll even cut the a little slack because they're allowed to be a kid, up to a point. Some of us once were, some of us still are. That's not entirely a bad thing.

 

[NW_Pilot]

How sad is it that when you get to your hotel for a decent overnight your entire crew isn't old enough to drink! Hell I thought I should take them to Chuck E. Cheese's.

Then you need to be a good person and contribute to their delinquency!

 

[NW_Pilot]

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Kids come out of service who risk their lives and die on behalf of their country who still can't buy a beer.

I will be one of the first to buy them a beer or a bottle when they return home and want to have a drink it would be my patriotic duty!!! If they are old enough to serve their country they should be old enough to have an adult beverage! When are you an adult 14, 18, 21 dam why don't they just pick an age!!!!

I still think it's funny that you can buy a Rifle at 18 but need to be 21 to buy a hand gun????? or you can vote/serve in the forces at 18 but not drink till 21???? and you can be 14 and tried as an adult and sentenced to death?

 

[Buckeye]

Eighteen to die, Twenty-one to buy. Ironic isn't it?