Flying Humor

[wheelsup_cavu]

On 6/3/2024 at 12:39 PM, Vonrd said:

Anyone who was in the Los Angeles area in the 60s

Cal Worthington was a fixture on late night TV commercials in Southern California well into the 1990's. First time I ever saw one of his commercials was on Johnny Carson the year before we moved to Southern California.

 

Wheels

[Vonrd]

[Vonrd]

That "special" lube... 

 

[Vonrd]

[Vonrd]

Jester:

"Hey um Mav, it's really cool that you want to propose to her but..."

 

[Vonrd]

[Vonrd]

After the next update...

[Vonrd]

Somebody, please find where I can get this helmet   

[Klaiber]

13 hours ago, Vonrd said:

Somebody, please find where I can get this helmet   

That's amazing.

I had to search for it to find the context:

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205369842

Quote

Lieutenant Colonel Louis Houck of the 365th Fighter Group wearing a flying helmet with devil horns in the cockpit of his P-47 Thunderbolt nicknamed "Screamin' Weemie". Image stamped on reverse: 'Keystone Press.' [stamp]. Printed caption on reverse: 'AMERICAN FLYER WEARS "DEVIL'S HELMET" Lieutenant Colonel Louis Houck, 27, commander of a Ninth US Air Force fighter group, waves for contact after donning his "devil's helmet" for a mission against the Nazis. The flyer calls his plane "Screaming' Weemie". Keystone Photo no. 481512. War Pool Photo, not for use in Western Hemisphere or British Isles.'

[Vonrd]

This must give the Captain warm / fuzzies... 

[Vonrd]

Sometimes cheaper CAN be better... I wonder if the D model continued with this trend.

[Butzzell]

11 hours ago, Vonrd said:

Sometimes cheaper CAN be better... I wonder if the D model continued with this trend.

If they take credit cards, I'll take two.

[Ludwig]

Oh the Private pilot in the back....  man I would get those more often than you think. Pre-911 the cockpit door was open before departure and there would be some old guy (my age now.... ouch) come into the cockpit and let us know what seat he was in if we were to need some help. I would say the likelihood of a commercial flight today not having a PPL or higher in the back to be <10%   The planes are loaded with them. 

[loopy]

Seems to me that this would be useful not to fly the plane but to wake the pilots up

[Flyboy]

4 hours ago, loopy said:

Seems to me that this would be useful not to fly the plane but to wake the pilots up

Always someone junior to you who’s anxious to move up

[Vonrd]

And...

[Ludwig]

Some of them are probably better than the guys I have seen upfront. 

Not kidding,

 

 

[Vonrd]

11 minutes ago, Ludwig said:

Some of them are probably better than the guys I have seen upfront. 

Not kidding,

 

 

I think that @Flyboy can confirm that  

[Flyboy]

On 8/7/2024 at 8:40 PM, Vonrd said:

And...

If I play Surgeon Simulator can I get checked out by a dr online so I can finish a surgery for him in case he passes out or something? We could have volunteers who get these certificates wait at hospitals in the event of such an emergency…..”I’m not a dr but I play one online”

 

But seriously, I can’t imagine a crew ever doing this. Maybe, just maybe, they would call a jumpseating pilot up front to help, especially if they worked at same airline, but otherwise no. Jumpseaters have helped in an emergency in the past. An unknown passenger would not only be a potential security issue but a safety liability up there. 

[Britchot]

Hell, a jumpseater was recently a liability. If a 2 person flight crew can’t handle it, what does a guy in back think they’ll be able to do.  If they come back and ask, sure I’ll step up. I’ll crash anything I don’t have a dime in. 

[wheelsup_cavu]

“You Can Always Go Around” Song

https://aviationhumor.net/you-can-always-go-around-song/

https://youtu.be/Ccq30minme8

Well there I was on some fine Sunday afternoon

just me and my airplane on a little airport we’ve never been to before.

 

We’re on short final and nothing was looking right.
I was seeing red over red, white over white
and I couldn’t seem to remember how that saying went anyway but
I was staring straight down at the runway
and all I could think of was about setting myself up
to ungraciously dismantle this perfectly good little airplane.
And, and then off in the distance, I heard a voice
and I think it was that of my flight instructor saying

“You can always go around”.

You can always go around
if it don’t look right coming down.
Don’t wait until your sideways, maybe sliding on the ground.
You can always go around.

I know that when, when I learned to fly
my instructor was yelling in my ear
how we’re in carb’ heat cold, climb out, pitch, flaps to go
take it ’round the patch, one more time again

But I know now, he was showing me
that’s just because the nose is pointing down.
If it doesn’t look right,
give it one more try.
You can always go around.

You can always go around
if it don’t look right coming down.
Don’t wait until your sideways, maybe sliding upside down.
You can always go around.

You’re coming in,
you see you’re high and fast,
but your mind is set on somehow getting down.
The runway leads to grass that leads into trees.
Little beads of sweat are dripping from your brow.

You still got time.
Simply change your mind.
It would sure be nice to fly this plane again.
With the wings still straight
this ain’t no place to hesitate.
Pitch and power, gear and flaps.
Hey, “Go around”!

You can always go around
if it don’t look right coming down.
Don’t wait until your sideways maybe sliding upside down.
You can always …
You can always go around!

 

Wheels

[Klaiber]

11 hours ago, wheelsup_cavu said:

“You Can Always Go Around” Song

https://aviationhumor.net/you-can-always-go-around-song/

https://youtu.be/Ccq30minme8

Well there I was on some fine Sunday afternoon

just me and my airplane on a little airport we’ve never been to before.

 

We’re on short final and nothing was looking right.
I was seeing red over red, white over white
and I couldn’t seem to remember how that saying went anyway but
I was staring straight down at the runway
and all I could think of was about setting myself up
to ungraciously dismantle this perfectly good little airplane.
And, and then off in the distance, I heard a voice
and I think it was that of my flight instructor saying

“You can always go around”.

You can always go around
if it don’t look right coming down.
Don’t wait until your sideways, maybe sliding on the ground.
You can always go around.

I know that when, when I learned to fly
my instructor was yelling in my ear
how we’re in carb’ heat cold, climb out, pitch, flaps to go
take it ’round the patch, one more time again

But I know now, he was showing me
that’s just because the nose is pointing down.
If it doesn’t look right,
give it one more try.
You can always go around.

You can always go around
if it don’t look right coming down.
Don’t wait until your sideways, maybe sliding upside down.
You can always go around.

You’re coming in,
you see you’re high and fast,
but your mind is set on somehow getting down.
The runway leads to grass that leads into trees.
Little beads of sweat are dripping from your brow.

You still got time.
Simply change your mind.
It would sure be nice to fly this plane again.
With the wings still straight
this ain’t no place to hesitate.
Pitch and power, gear and flaps.
Hey, “Go around”!

You can always go around
if it don’t look right coming down.
Don’t wait until your sideways maybe sliding upside down.
You can always …
You can always go around!

 

Wheels

Words to (literally) live by!

[Flyboy]

I just sent this to my FO from yesterday. He had just told me a story about how he was flying with another capt who was over 40 kts fast and too high at 500 ft but forced the landing. The FO is new and young so he thought the capt must know what he’s doing so I had a big discussion with him about just this subject and that as an FO he now has the ability/right to call a go around himself and the capt is supposed to comply. Too many airplanes have run off in the weeds from that kind of crap. Plus the FOQA (black box) is going to tell on you and you’re going to at least get a call from safety. 

[Vonrd]

When it's really... REALLY hard to make that Go-around decision... 

[wheelsup_cavu]

Wanting to do one maybe, making the a decision about one no, that decision has already been made for you. You are definitely going to be or had been a witness at the scene of the crash.

 

Wheels