Wierd Capt / FO / FE

[Way2Broke]

Has anyone heard about the "Ice Cream Man" at Mesaba?

 

[dollacrackho]

"hamster man" at mesa. he brings his own hamsters and pvc pipe.

 

[altscap]

Dear Mr. Parker:

First, I must apologize for changing the subject of your post.

Now then, as you are now the head of an international airline don't you think it would be most embarrassing if one of your regional partners used a CRJ to create a smoking crater somewhere in the western U.S.? Don't you think it's time that Mr. Orenstein and Mr. Lotz started treating their employees like professionals? Don't you think that their pilots deserve adequate rest? Don't you think it's UNSAFE TO HAVE PILOTS SLEEPING ON AIRPLANES AND IN AIRPORT TERMINALS "IN FRONT OF PAYING PASSENGERS" JUST TO SAVE A COUPLE HUNDERD DOLLARS ON HOTEL ROOMS!?!?!?!

It’s only a matter of time before the media gets hold of this unwise, unsafe business practice and passengers begin BOYCOTTING America West/US Air Express and choosing alternative airlines to fly on. Airlines that don't schedule pilots to sleep on airplanes. Airlines that don't USE REDUCED REST REQUIREMENTS AS A SCHEDULING GOAL. Airlines that treat their pilots like assets and the professionals they are, not some liability that must be endured for the sake of doing business.

I urge you to "convince" Mr. Orenstein and Mr. Lotz that their business practice is folly before YOU are the one who has to answer for their UNSAFE SCHEDULING PRACTICES.

Thank you for your time Mr. Parker.

 

[Doug Parker]

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Need I remind you who it was that accepted the job at Mesa ??

It won't matter for long as we slowly bring all jet flying back to mainline..................

By the way, are you the "Hamster Man" referred to in the previous posts ???


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[altscap]

Yeah, your right. I've made my own bed, now I have to sleep in it...even though someone else dropped a log between the sheets. Should have gone to a company that doesnt do everything half-a$$ed and depends on every other company in the industry to help them out. If it wasn't for mechanics who violate OSHA mandates because we begged and pleaded, and other airlines who understand why they should own an airstart cart at an outstation our performance would have cost us several contracts by now. They won't even let you run the ramp because you will cost too much, even though on-time #'s would probably go up. This past summer is a perfect example...check out those August #'s, it's amazing wht happens when people would rather walk off the job than be strong-armed and forced into working double shifts or loose their job anyway, all because we can't keep the ramp staffed during the summer. When you take care of your people they wil take care of the company.

What's with that 0900 bank anyway. I love taxiing for 45+ minutes because your scheduling people think it's physically possible to launch 150 departures in 60 minutes...and that doesn't include WN's departures. I'm sure ATC appreciates the business as well. At least there' no place to park because the gates are all full.

You're just teasing us by saying all the jet flying wil go back to mainline. RJ's don't belong on 1,000 mile legs. What's "regional" about that? PAX don't like them, they can't even buy a meal for $5, and we can't t/o with a full load in the summer. Why have an 86 seat a/c that can only haul 70 PAX?

Sorry, I'm not the hamster guy...I already carry my gom, 2 cfms, and 4 binders of plates; I just can't find room for the pvc pipe in my flight bag. . .

 

[A1FlyBoy]

Anyone every fly with Capt. W.O.W at Delta? He would inform his crew that he must be called "captain WOW"... there was an article in the Wall Street Jounral about him several years ago.. it is worth a post if someone can find it.

 

[Captain X]

3 Cups also thinks that 401K plans are a government conspiracy to gain access to all your money.

We also have the short guy who wears fingerless gloves (the kind with mesh backs and padded pleather palms) but only for landings.

Had one captain (he was actually pretty cool) that on particular overnight gets pissed in the hotel bar and in front of me and the FA starts talking crap to some old man who made a "pass" at the FA. During the shouting match that ensues the CA says..."You know what, you're right we don't need to take this outside. Why don't we just tie our dicks together and have a tug-of-war and whoever cries first is the loser." The FA said "Okay, on that note I think it's time for everyone to turn in."

That crazy fucker flies for Alaska now.

 

[YellowLab]

3 cup

So "3 cup" is his name now huh? He was in my new hire class when I was at COEX. We used to call him "Ran-dy Wat-son!" If anyone remembers that line from the movie Coming to America with Eddie Murphy during the assembly. He absolutely hates it!

Just saw him a couple of months ago and said "Hey Randy" and I thought he was going to explode.

I like 3 cup alot better, that is absolutely hilarious. I do feel bad about the LIT incident but he was 3 cup bound way before that.

 

[jbDC9]

We used to call him "Ran-dy Wat-son!" If anyone remembers that line from the movie Coming to America with Eddie Murphy during the assembly.

"Sexual Chocolate!"

 

[El-Rushbo]

Anyone every fly with Capt. W.O.W at Delta? He would inform his crew that he must be called "captain WOW"... there was an article in the Wall Street Jounral about him several years ago.. it is worth a post if someone can find it.

I remember that guy. Here's the back story.

December 1 -- Indications of turbulence. [SIZE=+0] An arbitrator has awarded veteran captain Wayne O. W---ter, "known by his initials as 'Captain WOW,'" partial back pay in his protracted dispute with Delta Air Lines. "The Atlanta-based carrier had removed him from duty and questioned his mental fitness to fly after he got into an argument with his co-pilot and flight engineer in the cockpit. That incident followed his arrest and commitment to a psychiatric hospital after he was accused of threatening his wife....His case was the subject of a page-one article in The Wall Street Journal in 1996, highlighting the difficulties airlines and regulators face in determining when a pilot's mental state is grounds for removing him from duty." Eventually Capt. Wit--r won a battle with the Federal Aviation Administration to get back his medical certificate, but too late to resume flying Delta passengers, since he's now past the FAA's age limit of 60 for commercial pilots. (Martha Brannigan, "Grounded Delta Pilot Wins Back Pay Following Dispute Over Mental Fitness", Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition, Nov. 19 (online subscription required)).[/SIZE]

 

[LowlyPropCapt]

Is he SBY based and boo- koo senior? If it's who I think it is,I flew with him in the Dash in the late 80's. One leg into BWI he try's to engage the gust lock 20 miles out while I'm flying. Told him if he tried anything like that again while I was assigned as his F/O, I'd walk off the trip on the next leg. Strange. I also rememer "The Alien". Quite a bunch of characters...

PHXFLYR

Don't forget he took some paint off the tail of a -300 in FAY too. Still a captain... If I pulled a stunt like that I'd be tarred and feathered for sure.

 

[Ernst]

Here is a contender for the prize:

While on the crew bus to the parking lot after my last flight ever before being furloughed, Capt Ralph B*****n spontaneously blurted out that he was looking forward to picking up extra time while the company downsized. Something to the effect that: "The cutbacks will be a good opportunity to pick up white slips and green slips." It was no secret to him that the past few days were my last trip with the company before the first 400 guys and gals were laid off. By the way, he would fly the aircraft from the flight guidance panel on the FO's legs.


Here is a runner up:

In the crew lounge in Sept or Oct of 2001, shortly after the junior crew base meeting with management explaining the need to start furloughing, a captain said in a booming voice loud enough for everyone to hear: "Well, at least I won't have to fly with so many junior guys."

Here is poetic justice:

I am probably making more now than both of those self-absorbed pieces of FOD and that company is about to void what remains of their contract through bankruptcy.

Good luck to the decent folks left at that particular company and in the industry as a whole!

 

[BrazPilot]

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[mar]

A Blast From the Past

I just flew with a guy who apparently thinks I'm unraveled.

When we met in the hotel lobby for the first time he spotted some loose thread on my belt and quickly snapped it off (the thread). Told me I needed a new belt.

Later in the flight we were talking and I noticed his eyes kept looking down at my sleeve. When I paused he picked some lint (or maybe another thread) from my shirt.

Later, he wanted to know why my left shirt pocket was unbuttoned.

I DON'T KNOW!!! 'Cause that's where I keep my loose threads????

I just flew with this same guy the other day. We were talking about our contract and I called it the CBA.

He said, "Don't call it the CBA. Call it the contract. One less syllable."

WTF?

Weird.

 

[Capt. X]

Hey English, I believe your last airline is my airline, who are you talking about?

 

[Whataburger]

I flew with a CA who claimed he was an alien from planet Zurkon and was hatched from an egg. In addition, before every takeoff and landing he put on a pair of Isotoners (the ones with the knuckles cutout and didn't cover the tip of the fingers). The alien thing is fine with me however I did ask about the gloves. He responded that he put the gloves on so that if we crashed he could pull people out of the wreckage if it was burning. Well, I suppose that made me feel safer. My personal choice would have been oven mitts or welding gloves. Actually, he was a pretty good guy once you got to know him.

 

[FN FAL]

We have one that used to tell the crew that they had to walk in single file in the terminal (CA, FO, FA), among other things he does. Had a 4 day with the clown an he is my "no fly" list.

If I saw a CA, FO, and FA walking shoulder to shoulder in the terminal, I'd think that was weirdest. It's not the freaking MOD squad, it's people efficiently getting down an asle.

Maybe the FA should lead? Who cares, but walking three or four abreast would be a pain.

Now if the captain called cadence while you were doing this and insisted on you starting off with the left foot, then I could see where this would be getting weird.

 

[scar1900]

...I belive he was the same one who took his 7 year old son with him in the jumpseat for 4 legs because they junior manned him and he did not have a baby sitter. Crewservices said too bad bring him along, so I guess he did.

I'm sorry, but that's awsome. You gotta respect a guy like that!

 

[Huck]

All these pages and no ASA guy has yet mentioned Pickin Pete the boogerman.

Or the ATR captain that carried glamour shots of his cats.

Or the two Brasilia captains that lived in Panama City and used to have Ugly Contests (the loser would stand outside and watch the winner through the window)....

Or Cousin It, the Brasilia captain who had hair down to his waist. He would pin it up and wear a wig until the cockpit door was closed (actually a real cool guy if he's reading this....)

Or the Gemini guy who passed out on New Year's Eve in the elevator of the Holiday Inn in Seoul. The Koreans saw him on the security camera and went in and put a blanket on him. He rode the elevator for ~4 hours, Koreans in fancy clothes stepping over him. That same guy used to complain because the hookers in Nairobi charged more if you didn't wear a condom.

 

[CKJET]

Now this is going back to 1995, I got on the shuttle bus from the employee lot at EWR to the terminal. This thing got on the bus in pilot uniform (CAL) It was a man dressed like a woman. The Capt. I flew with that day told me his/her name and that it was a 737 F/O. Anyone know anything about this thing? That was the only time I ever saw it. I can't imagine flying with her/him!!!