O/T Attention Airline Pilots - YTMag

Attention to all Airline Pilots:

DO NOT become mesmerized by the YT site on your laptops as you search for the infamious MNJoe over Minnesota. I understand you are from Washington and Oregon, but please keep the safety of your passengers in mind!

That is all:

Also no Broke Back Flying, you may miss your exit

Speakin of the devil, Wonder what has happened to the oil buzzard ? kinda miss telling him the truth .

They didn't go far enough south to look for him. He lives down by Winona Minn. Cedar valley to be correct. He goes by Go Zeke now.

Rumor has it that he"s enrolled in <a href="http://www.santaclausschool.com/">school</a>.

I missed an airport once and had to turn around and find it while out for a ride in my dads Cub.All 65 screaming hp of it and I didnt make the news!My moment of fame gone.... Hoss

I startled the snot out of a U.S. air pilot one dark night, flyin' from Charlotte to LaGuardia. We'd been flyin overland, and then hit a stretch with no lights directly below us but lights of smallish towns off to starboard, I figured we were headed up the Chesapeake. Confirmed it for myself when I picked up the lights of the Bay Bridge and Annapolis. About that time, we turned a loop, about two minutes east, four or five minutes south, a couple more minutes back west and then went back over where we'd just been.

I waited to be last to get off the plane and the poor fella had been noddin' his head and sayin' b'bye to folks for fifteen minutes when I asked what that loop back down from Annapolis was all about. It kinda stunned him, enough to make him stammer a little, but it turned out to be an ATC time-killer while they cleared out a jammed pattern in New York.

I don't know if any of the small carriers still fly the old 19-seaters with the curtains behind the pilots that have to be open for takeoffs and landings. I've spent enough other time in the right seat of small planes, but I think every passenger would benefit from the view out the front window. They'd be surprised at what pilots cue on for airport approaches. There was quite a kerfuffle ten years or so ago in New York, when the company that owned them tore down some old oil storage tanks in Queens. They'd been painted in red and white checks and were a marker on what the pilots called the "tank" approach. The controllers would call out a turn when thye got there, but they all used to anticipate it. Now they have to wait for the call and coming into LGA from the south or east sometimes requires a litle more throttle work banking over than it used to.

I recall bein' on a flight that was crabbed around so hard landin' in Boston one morning that I had a view straight down 14 at Logan from my seat in the rear, but that's another story . . .

Made a short cross-country flight from Greenville, TX to Red Bird Airport just South of Dallas, TX.

Was very late in the afternoon just at sundown.

Was flying West/Southwest and the entire horizon was orange.

Relying on visual ground reference, crossed over I35 South where Red Bird Airport was located and flew past the airport.

Maintained contact with tower before landing and was given OK for straight-in approach.

Made a spiral approach in the Cessna 150 and did a touch-and-go back to Greenville, TX.

Had a knocking noise all during the flight; seat belt on passenger side was outside right door and banging on fuselage.

Yeah I know; pre-flight inspection checklist.

It is always Northwest. If they had kept the heading for 20 more minutes it would have been Canadas problem. In June of 2004 I was on a NWA flight into Rapid City SD regional Airport one night and we made an "unscheduled stop at Ellsworth Base". They are only a few miles apart. Back in the 1980's I was flying a pre dawn NWA flight from North Dakota to Minneapolis. Upon arrival the aircrew was arrested for being drunk. The had closed the hotel bar down and started duty at 5AM the next day. They are joining Delta now, I am sure going to miss that airline.