PHL Based AWAC Pilots

[mnalpha]

you mullet,
go plays some flitesimz biatch, when yourz girl be smoking my clown

i gota bounce kid, old school al da way

 

[mullet]

Yes, Philly sucks, just go get some Asian Bistro on "C" and dont take it so personal. Believe or not, it used to be worse. Ah, the good ole days when you had to hurdle the gangsta's feces on the the way to the urinals. Express used to have just a ramp with an op's trailer. The sooner you realize you are an Express pilot at sh1tthy company the easier the sight of incompentence will be. Unfortunately, you get what you hire.

 

[LearLove]

Ah, the good ole days when you had to hurdle the gangta's feces on the the way to the urinals. Express used to have just a ramp with an op's trailer.

In a weird sort of way I miss the old ramp and the "crack shack". 90% of the kiddies on this board today were not around to exp. it and all its pleasure.

-pools of piss running out of the mens restroom

-stopped up toilets in the mens bathroom

-rampie fights in the back where they hid out and watched TV and played video games while you and your pax waited on spot 18 to get parked.

-the smoking room or closet

-bootleg movies running in the rampie section, I saw Pearl Harbor the day it was released while in the crack shack on a 4 hour Allegheny ABE out-and-back productivity sit.

-the time the rampies got in a fight and one of them shoved the other into one of the vending machines in the center section of the trailer busting the front glass/plexiglass. They all ran away for about 10 seconds until they realized the fully stocked machine was exposed then proceded to clean it out in the next 10 seconds. The only thing left was rack that had pretzels on it.

-lice infested couch

-"mesa's" new crew room, and the new "mesa" couches.

- porn on Mesa's crew room computer

- the time someone super glued the mesa computer mouse to the desk

- the line 5 Air Midwest Capts. deep to use the crew room phone to call in MX write-ups

- how every single bus had some kind of physical body damage too it

-walking to SPOT 25

-the time the wheel came off the bag cart while it was being tugged and rolled across the ramp and across taxiway K and onto RWY 27R. I just happened to see that one myself from spot 17.

- the time someone drove a tug home down Essington or Bartchum Ave.

- the ALG/PDT picnic table that just wouldn't die, until the day it collapsed pinning down a BGM flight attendant

- the best though was in the last weeks before they opened terminal F, they wouldn't pay to have the city fix the broken restroom facilities but people kept useing them anyway eventhough nothing would flush down and it was june/july and 90+ degrees. You would hold your breath, run in and grab the release as fast as possible and get out.

 

[d328pilot]

memories :'(

 

[OPECJet]

- the time someone drove a tug home down Essington or Bartchum Ave.

AWESOME!!!!!

 

[mullet]

-the time the rampies got in a fight and one of them shoved the other into one of the vending machines in the center section of the trailer busting the front glass/plexiglass. They all ran away for about 10 seconds until they realized the fully stocked machine was exposed then proceded to clean it out in the next 10 seconds. The only thing left was rack that had pretzels on it.

Oh, yes I remember that one. Priceless...not looting, they call it surviving nowadays.
Delayed for over 2 hours one Christmas Eve, due to the rampers having a throw down. Airport Police confiscated their badges, so we watched Supervisors and Station Managers in their suits slinging bags in the snow!

 

[Taco Rocket]

Don't forget:

Drug deals in the fuel farm -- fuel drivers handing each other small envelopes as they pass on the ramp...

Buses spinning 360 degrees on the slick pavement, while being overtaken at 75mph by a luggage cart...

The "Mesa Couches?" The place was organized like an elementary school cafeteria: my ALG tables, your PDT bench, .....

 

[91100 100 set]

I miss the old PHL trailer too. I think Learlove hit all the highlights. One positive note for the airplane watchers like myself, there were a few parking spots on the old trailer ramp (can't remember the numbers though) right by the intersection of Echo and Kilo that were very nice for watching everybody land on 27R and 35. It actually was kinda nice sitting there, reading a paper and drinking coffee between flights, watching a plane land right there every few seconds.

The F terminal was beautiful when it first opened. Despite the fact that is was the same lousy help running the place, it was a nice facility. It's such a shame now to walk through at the end of the day and see the stained carpets, the trashcans overflowing, and old newspapers and ticket jackets laying around. Even the jetways are a mess. I know that jetways are beyond the normal area that the regular cleaning people get to, but would it kill somebody to come through and clean up and maybe vaccuum every once in awhile. The other day, I picked up a full cup of coffee that somebody had set down in a corner of the jetway. It had been sitting there long enough for the cream to coagulate into a solid layer of whatever on the top of the cup.