Best kept Flying Secrets
-That if the oxygen masks drop down, you only have about 15 minutes of oxygen from the point of pulling them down. At altitude, you have 15-20 seconds before you pass out. Put yours on first, then do your kids. Passing out for a few seconds won’t harm the kids.
-When a plane is landing at night, they dim the interior lights in case you need to evacuate upon landing… your eyes are already adjusted to the darkness so you’ll be able to see better once outside the plane.
-The captain has almost limitless authority when the doors are closed. He is allowed to arrest people, write fines and even take the will of a dying passenger
-2 pilots are served different meals and cannot share, this is done in case of food poisoning.
Stealing food, even if they are going to throw it out can get you fired instantly. You can ask your supervisor, but you cannot take food. They don’t want people messing with it.
-Flight attendants turn on their phones and text after telling plane to turn off their electronics?
-A trick for making more space for yourself? Run your hand along the underside of the armrest, just shy of the joint you’ll feel a button. Push it, and it will lift up. Adds a ton of room to the window seat and makes getting out of the aisle a helluva lot easier.
-Do not EVER drink water on an aircraft that did not come from a bottle. Don’t even TOUCH IT. The reason being the ports to purge lavatory shit and refill the aircraft with potable water are within feet from each other and sometimes serviced all at once by the same guy. Not always, but if you’re not on the ramp watching, you’ll never know.
-If you give your FA a fiver(tip) with your first drink you’ll probably drink for free the rest of the flight.
-1/2 of pilots sleep while flying and 1/3 of the time they wake up to find their partner asleep.
-If you have ever spread your peanuts on your tray and eaten, or really just touched your tray at all, you have more than likely ingested baby poo. More dirty diapers laid out on those trays than food.
-The majority of domestic flights have human remains or organs on them.Watch out the window for long boxes that say, “Head” at one end
-A plane can glide 6 nautical miles for every 5000 feet. So at 35,000 feet, a plane can glide about 42 miles without power. Its why most accidents happen landing or taking off.
-The drinking water, that is used for making coffee, tea, etc., should NEVER be consumed. The holding tanks in these sometimes 60 year old planes are never cleaned. They have accumulated so much greenish grime on the walls that in some places it can be inches thick.
This one is very known by all airline employees.
-If you pack a toy in your bag,
take the batteries out because if it vibrates,the lead has to come pull you off the aircraft and you have to open your bag and turn off your toy in front of a bunch of giggling grown women and men.lol.
-If the plane is being hijacked when the pilot lands they will leave the wing flaps up that slow the plane down, this is to signal the airport that there is something happening in the plane.(wonder why they decided to publish it).
-Ashtrays in the lavatories are mandatory equipment even though the FAA banned smoking on flights years ago. The reasoning is that if people do decide to smoke, they want them to have a place other than the trash can to throw the butt.
Quote:I have been a pilot going on 47 years now. I have seen everything there is to see.
If I’m not sleeping in the cabin which 90% of the time I am, I am smoking. Too bad I don’t let you. And if I’m feeling frisky, I’ll shake the plane up so damn hard just to hear from the FA’s what everyone’s faces looked like. Truth is, we get really bored in there.
Sometimes I like to play the angry birds also.
Now as far as the cleanliness, wow. The idea that human beings are actually allowed sit in those seats is beyond me. At least on my flights; do you know what those seats get cleaned with when they’re dirty with spots of food? Some spit and a fingernail. Gets’ er all warshed up and ready for the next one.
Oh this next one is great, about some baggage, one time one of my FA’s and I found a carry on as we were leaving the aircraft. It had this whole stash of cash, some snacks, a Discman (it was the mid-90′s) and some prescription Vicodin! It was a particularly swell parting gift.
Don’t drink the coffee. Don’t. Ever. Even I care about you too much.
Hope to see you next flight.