Pan Am

[dougdrvr]

Another inaccuracy, in 1963, I think, you needed a fourth man in the cockpit. That was a navigator to cross the oceans. I know in the early 70's they were still using navigators to cross the ponds.

True, and there would have been significantly more of a generation gap between the cockpit and cabin. All the Captains probably had flying boat time. The engineer was a professional FE and probably older than the Captain. But the most glaring inaccuracy is no one is smoking?

I know a Pan AM retired skipper who started on the boats in 1943. Then he went to a really fast airplane, as he described it, the DC-4. On to the DC-7 and the Boeing 377. His first upgrade was in the 707 and he retired off the 747 in 1985.

 

[zasca]

The dude got hired at 18 at Pan Am??? 42 year career? For real?

 

[PBRstreetgang]

I doubt anyone cares about the fact that they didn't put an extra pilot in the cockpit. The masses are more worried about what guy these FAs are going to bang next. I'm not going to watch this because it's most likely filled full of cliches that the flying public wants to believe really happens. Still hopefully it helps us get hotter FAs in the business!

Why would you care about the F/As? Just dress up one of hulas's goats you are felching, almost the same for you.

 

[pilotyip]

T But the most glaring inaccuracy is no one is smoking?

That is the truth, I remember my first cockpit visit in 1953, a EAL Connie, everyone was smoking, the cockpit was IFR on the inside.

 

[Flyer1015]

I changed the chanel the moment during the takeoff roll when the FO looked to the Captain (and the Captain looked in return) and smiled to each other gayly.

 

[B-J-J Fighter]

That is the truth, I remember my first cockpit visit in 1953, a EAL Connie, everyone was smoking, the cockpit was IFR on the inside.

LOL! Yip I bet your buddy regretted leaving Dal.

 

[dougdrvr]

The dude got hired at 18 at Pan Am??? 42 year career? For real?

I thought he said he was 23 when hired so it must have been 1980 when he retired. Fascinating stories, I shared a beer with him on many overnights. Sharp as a tack. Said many of the flying boat Pacific crossings would spend the first couple of hours just above the waves until they burned off enough fuel to climb.

 

[COOPERVANE]

A spy-stewardess? GMAFB.

Not saying it happened, but many of the storylines from the show are supposedly taken from actual Pan Am crewmembers who the writers interviewed. One Stewardess supposedly did act as a courier for the CIA and did plant devices in "persons of interest" luggage. Supposedly she slipped lsd into more than one suspect Russian spy's drink. Does that make her a "spy"? I don't know. She said some flight crew members were given the rank of 2nd lieutenant in case they were detained so that the geneva convention applied to them.

The producers said the writers couldn't make some of this stuff up.

 

[Uncle Bunkle]

Too bad HR doesn't make our new FA's step on the scale like they did in the show...

 

[JettBoii]

No kidding.

 

[Freebrd]

Too bad HR doesn't make our new FA's step on the scale like they did in the show...

An ugly scale would be cool too.

 

[Flyer1015]

Too bad HR doesn't make our new FA's step on the scale like they did in the show...

They don't not because of employment and labor laws, but because the scale itself doesn't go as high as what many FAs currently weigh.

 

[AutoTransfer]

Another beautiful takeoff....shared with a dude!

If I had a nickel for every time I've gazed across the center pedestal longingly into my FO's eyes grinning from ear to ear.......

 

[Freebrd]

If I had a nickel for every time I've gazed across the center pedestal longingly into my FO's eyes grinning from ear to ear.......

I bet that was JennyLeigh gazing into Oys-Yo-Yo's eyes, oh wait, never mind those two putz's are the same girl huh

 

[crxpilot]

How bout when the captain called Boston Center and asked them to contact Pan Am HQ to locate what happened to his lead purser Bridgette. I thought about asking Atlanta Center today what happened to my flight attendant but then I changed my mind......