Random items you take with you on each flight...

[Vladimir Lenin]

gum, a notepad and a pen

 

[avbug]

Extra ammunition and a spare handcuff key. Never leave home without it.

 

[TurboS7]

Leatherman-AHAHAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH that sounds so nice. Wish the TSA would see it that way. A letherman is a tool for terroist and if you have one you are one. With a letterman you can cut, arm a bomb, make a bomb, you can do anything. After 911 I dumped all my tools out of my flight bag and carry on, 15 lbs of screwdrivers, wrenches of all sorts, etc., etc. Not one would the TSA let me carry in my flight bag. The other day I said I will try the TSA out. I bought a leatherman(cheap one) and broke all the knife portions off of the tool. I carried it through several check points without any problem. Then the SJU TSA found it. What a mess, in the end they let me take it to the airplane-only because I have a license that says Airframe and Powerplant on it. Oh well. The airplane I fly now you don't need to work on it you just shut it down and then start it up again and it fixes itself. Pretty neat.

 

[Daveman]

Condoms. Or am I the only one getting laid on RON's?

 

[Fury220]

The folks who are listing their Leatherman, how are you getting that through security ? You must operate where you don't have to suffer that indignity ?

I fly with the great ol' USAF, and we're actually ENCOURAGED to bring knives/survival tools with us. Thank God

 

[Steve]

Two to three cans of Skoal longcut wintergreen. Depending on how many days I will be gone.

Amen to that. I'd probably kill someone if I couldn't pop a dip at alt to calm the nerves.

 

[Fury220]

Amen to that. I'd probably kill someone if I couldn't pop a dip at alt to calm the nerves.

Why does it seem like so many pilots "dip" all the time. Seems like I see it all over nowadays.

Back in my T-37 days, I had an IP who would pop a dip while I was preflighting the jet. He'd have it in during the whole sortie...and I have NO IDEA where he put the spit. I honestly think he just swallowed it (sts).

 

[Saabslime]

If you are going to put a big ol' chaw in, at least have the courtesy to remove your spit cup. I had an FO one time who just sat down to start his flows during pre-flight and saw someone had left a cup in the cupholder. When he picked it up to put it in the trash, he clipped the bottom of the cup on the yolk and dumped somebody's nasty brown chaw juice all down the front of him. I almost puked...............

 

[Fury220]

If you are going to put a big ol' chaw in, at least have the courtesy to remove your spit cup. I had an FO one time who just sat down to start his flows during pre-flight and saw someone had left a cup in the cupholder. When he picked it up to put it in the trash, he clipped the bottom of the cup on the yolk and dumped somebody's nasty brown chaw juice all down the front of him. I almost puked...............

I agree totally.


I have a buddy who dips all the time. He was eating dinner with his wife at home and using a coke can to spit. His wife was reading something while she was eating and just reached out for her coke without even looking. You can see where this goes...


..the story ends with my buddy not allowed to dip at home any more. I guess his wife was praying to the porcelin god for about an hour that night. ha.

 

[garf12]

Whats this radio disney you speak of? Im tired of the crappy talk radio on the ADF.

 

[Cardinal]

Almost forgot. . . XL Zip-Ties. For use if diplomacy fails.

 

[urflyingme?!]

Card,
thats a great idea.

 

[Buschpilot]

Why the hell is it that Disney only plays Kelly Clarkston???

I'm sick of her, for sure.

The only thing I can add to the list is my cut-out of Eva Longoria. What a lonely trip it would be without Eva.

 

[jknight8907]

I take a backpack which contains:

Maglite
iPod
power cables as needed
book/magazine
sunglasses (2)
batteries for headset
laptop (on overnight or longer trips)

In my pockets I have:

Knife
Pen
Wallet


When going on an airliner, I leave the knife (although one time I forgot I had a pocketknife with a 4" blade in the outer pocket of my backpack, went MEM-HOU-SJU-TUPW-SJU-HOU-MEM and noone said a word. Didn't know it was in there till I got home)

 

[Wankel7]

XM radio.

And some other stuff

Wankel

 

[Raskal]

Some things in mine...

-library book (bars eventually close, and hotel cable can be boring)
-leatherman
-knife
-calculator (I'm prohibited from doing math in public)
-gum
-pens to donate to needy captains
-digital camera
-laptop and various chargers
-paperwork
-cr-6...I have no idea how to use this...I dont even know how it got here
-hotel/car rental point cards
-flashlight
-tons of what appears to be crumbs from those orange peanut butter crackers