World's unfunniest pilot? Captain's cringey comedy routine fails to get a laugh on bo

[BuckMurdock1]

Every flight on Virgin I believe. Sometimes it's fine.
I personally go with the Oz man behind the curtain

Just got to know and do you and not take advantage of the captive audience just to hear your own voice in an attempt to get everyone else to think you're as special as you think you are.
Personally I think people want short, pleasant, professional and confidence inspiring--- quick, relevant info and then to shut up so they can get back to doing their thing. If you can do a genuine joke that goes over and won't get you fired in a 3 second 1-liner, knock yourself out. If not, save it for the bar

It's why I'm so long winded and cocky on FI-- get it out of my system so I'm not tempted to be that in real life

At VX, we're actually 'required' to do this, although on quick turns or during IROPs sometimes admittedly I just do it from the flt deck to save time. I have my spiel down to about 20 seconds and I mention all the crew, dest forecast WX, flt time, and that's about it. Our "guests" don't want to hear ANY MORE than that! They are busy watching their IFE and every time someone does a PA (and they get enough of them from inflight), it pauses the system-- so if someone is watching live TV..they miss that content during the PA. They don't want to hear some pilot drone on about every cow-town they'll be flying over from LAX-JFK. They certainly don't want to hear some wanna-be comedian 'test' his material on a captive audience. Just my $.02. And yes-- this video is painful to watch..someone needs to pull this dude aside.

 

[wood pecker]

The best tutorial for giving a PA is on youtube. Pilot talk by Barely Air Part 1. Sorry I'm too, stupid to use fancy link button.

 

[CTflyer]

That routine outdorks even those of JB pilots.

Not really...We have Anne....


http://youtu.be/HzJnDIzl8BE

We also have this one.....Not Anne

http://youtu.be/iKFWVnrulXo

 

[B6Busdriver]

Not really...We have Anne....


http://youtu.be/HzJnDIzl8BE

We also have this one.....Not Anne

http://youtu.be/iKFWVnrulXo

See page 3.

 

[wms]

"I can't believe they pay me to fly this thing..." After listening to that, neither can I.

:laugh::laugh::laugh:

 

[Mach 80]

The passengers already know where they are going and they know what the weather is and will be there when they get there. Unless there is something that they should be prepared for such as moderate or worse turbulence soon after take-off, I don't bother with a PA. The people have been yelled by PAs non-stop since the first set foot in the terminal and don't need a useless PA from pilots to add to the noise clutter in airports and airplanes.