09-22-2009, 08:16 PM
Funny story about private jets - I was riding shotgun on a prop job and we were sitting in the pilots room at some airport in PA waiting for them to load the plane. It was late at night and we were BS-ing with a couple other pilots, all of us in shirt sleeves and tie - no jackets, about things we'd done or seen, gear up landings and the like. Off to one side, conspicuously not taking part in the story telling was a very neatly uniformed pilot acting a bit snobbishly. Time passes and a line boy wearing coveralls with headphones hung around his neck comes into the lounge, looks around and says "who's flying the Lear?"
Mr Cool just nods in his direction as if it should have been clear. The line boy says "well, your boss asked me to tell you, and these are his words, 'if you don't get your ass back to the plane, they'll leave without you.'"
He suddenly became so small that I believe he could have slipped out under the door if it had been closed. We were kind enough not to laugh until he was out on the runway hightailing it to he plane.
Mr Cool just nods in his direction as if it should have been clear. The line boy says "well, your boss asked me to tell you, and these are his words, 'if you don't get your ass back to the plane, they'll leave without you.'"
He suddenly became so small that I believe he could have slipped out under the door if it had been closed. We were kind enough not to laugh until he was out on the runway hightailing it to he plane.