What are the best Pranks/Jokes played on fellow Crew/Coworkers?

[Publishers]

Over Africa one day some of my brightest popped the oxygen masks on a 737 while I was sleeping on a row of seats (ferry flight). A flight who was with us woke me up with "I think we have a problem" The cockpit door was open with no visible crew and the other two or three we had on board were also no where to be seen.
Had my attention for a few minutes.

 

[Skyboy722]

Had a captain fall asleep once so I put dummy frequencies in the navs (to get the nav flags), pulled the fuel indication breakers (indicating zero fuel), and then requested a descent into the cloud deck where I knew there would be turbulence. Just before entering the clouds, I pretended to be asleep also. Imagine waking up to that. He nearly had a heart attack. It was great!

 

[Lostdog65]

Tale related by some Shorts drivers at FlightSafety.

The SD3 has two useless pieces of equipment on it. One is the stall light located on the ceiling behind the co-pilot.

The other is the ice light. It is trigger by accumulation of ice on stick-like vane that is under the nose. The thing spins and as ice accumulates it slows down. When it reaches a certain speed (for lack of a better word), it triggers a light in the cockpit that says "ICE". (It's actually a little more in depth than that...that description is just the basics.)

The captain says you call the F/A up front and tell her that the ice light is on and that she is out of ice for drinks.

(The best ice detector on the SD3 are the nuts holding the wipers on...)

Other than a co-worker leaving his pee in a Snapple Lemonade bottle in the airplane...that's all I have!

Eric

 

[retired guy]

This happened in `67 when I was a flight engineer on the L-100 (Herc to the uninformed). Left LAX in the middle of the night on the way to DAL. Captain was on the bunk asleep, copilot was flying. West of DAL we checked the WX and it was 0-0 (before cat 2 or 3). I called the company, they said just bypass DAL and go on to MSY (our next stop), which we did. Outside the marker for the east/west runway (can`t remember the numbers any longer), the copilot hollered up the captain with "Hey check this out Cap, this doesn`t look like Love Field". The poor guy just about had a heart attack!

 

[Occam's Razor]

The TCAS test button on the DC-9 causes a female voice to announce, "TCAS test...Pass". The cockpit area mic on the overhead panel looks like an air filter screen. We'd monkey with the new F/A's by "testing" the coffee they brought up. One of us would hold it up to the overhead panel while the other hit the test button. The announcement sounded (to new gals who weren't used to the sounds of aviation) as "De-caf test....pass".

More than once we had a gal come into the cockpit and hold a cup of coffee up to the overhead herself, to be "tested".

 

[81Horse]

Okay, this one's really mean:

Flying with my brother in his airplane; his wife and kids are in the back -- the 5-yr. old girl is sound asleep. We land at Denver, drop me off so I can catch my commercial flight, and they taxi away to fly down to the Springs.

The niece never wakes up till they're about to land at COS. When she asks where I am, her dad tells her I jumped out. The niece freaks, 'cause she's old enough to understand there are no parachutes onboard. And her father -- my brother -- thinks this is hilarious. He still tells her I jumped, and she is always surprised when she sees me and I'm not dead.

<does my niece count as crew or cow-orker?>

 

[421Driver]

Heard this one from a friend who worked at Emery flying Electra.

Captain and FO fall asleep on a leg at night. From what I hear, the FE has access to all of the nav/comm and autopilot. FE handles the flight from his bench, talking to ATC and setting the autopilot as necessary. As the flight nears the final destination, FE gets the plane set up on the approach, and on a 2 mile final, taps the captain on the shoulder and tells him to land.


Back when I was a CFI, when I would take students up on their first flight in a 172 from a 152, and passed over the middle marker, I could start looking behind the plane with a look of fear on my face and say "Oh man, they've got missle lock on us!"

 

[dhc8fo]

flying with this crusty old captain who liked to nod off, for some reason or another, i decided to press the annunciator test button. all of the fire lights light up....he about $hit himself....pretty funny

 

[aussiefly]

oh man some of you guys are mean! but i love it lol. Keep em coming.

 

[PTWOB]

Heard this one from an X eastern captain I flew with at another airline.
If any of you have ever flown on a 727 you know how difficult it can be to regulate the cabin temp. The FAs continually call up to request it to be warmer followed 5 minutes later for a colder call.
This guy had flown with a character who had made up a fake thermostat and "stuck" it to the wall in the galley. He also made up a fake letter on Eastern letterhead outlining the new "test" thermostat that Eastern was trying out on just a few aircraft, with instructions for its use.
The FAs would read it carefully, ask a few questions then, go about their business.
This is the best part. For the entire flight the pilots would call back to the FAs every 15 minutes or so with an "its too hot" or "it's too cold" call!
At the end of the flight the FAs would generally complain to the Captain that the new thermostat was a piece of @@#$ and didn't work at all. At that he would say, "Oh well, guess I'll take it back then." He would pull it off the wall, throw it in his bag, and walk off the plane.