Best cockpit announcement yet.
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@13pt8plus There was "Welcome to Honolulu" as we landed at Stansted in a typical English day of endless grey drizzle, but I think that was cabin crew rather than cockpit. (Air UK, those were the days. See the baked beans saga for another example of their sense of humour.)
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Fantastic comment! And so apt, for giant hub airports.
A few years ago, when I was headed home to San Antonio after a conference in Washington, I had to change to a connecting flight at DFW. The airport was very busy, it was a foggy night, and there was some confusion in ground traffic control. We taxied forever, it seemed, and the pilot made almost a dozen turns. He told us, "Be patient, folks. I know there must be a parking place around here somewhere!"
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Fantastic comment! And so apt, for giant hub airports.
A few years ago, when I was headed home to San Antonio after a conference in Washington, I had to change to a connecting flight at DFW. The airport was very busy, it was a foggy night, and there was some confusion in ground traffic control. We taxied forever, it seemed, and the pilot made almost a dozen turns. He told us, "Be patient, folks. I know there must be a parking place around here somewhere!"
@oldclumsy_nowmad Hahaha! Nice one. My comment was from Orlando, after we were rerouted due to thunderstorms, and had to wait by our gate while they reprogrammed their, "Get-Me-There Computer".
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@oldclumsy_nowmad Hahaha! Nice one. My comment was from Orlando, after we were rerouted due to thunderstorms, and had to wait by our gate while they reprogrammed their, "Get-Me-There Computer".
Oh, a different context. But it is fun to hear of humorous comments by airline pilots.
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Let me pipe in too, if I may...
Flight to Male (Maldives) in the 1980ies where the pilot, on approach, announces that it is 30°C, and sunny, and "remember, ladies and gentlemen, a sunburn is only a question of your intelligence..." 🫳
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@13pt8plus i think i had the same departing in Amsterdam/schipol, where the runway is outside of the city limits (?)
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@13pt8plus Reminds me of #schiphol Airport. #polderbaan
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@13pt8plus i think i had the same departing in Amsterdam/schipol, where the runway is outside of the city limits (?)
@lobingera @13pt8plus Certainly when landing at Schiphol, it's a common question of whether we're taxiing in from Amstelveen or Halfweg (yes, there's a town literally called "halfway").
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@13pt8plus I'm so happy that so many other folk also immediately thought of the Polderbaan at AMS.
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@13pt8plus back in the 70s, humor columnist Art Buchwald posited that ever-increasing airport concourse lengths would eventually result in simply walking to your destination.
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@13pt8plus I remember flying in an Aurigny Air Trislander (16 passenger, three prop aircraft) between Channel Islands in the 80s.
They did it terribly proper "Would passengers for flight 1 to Alderney, go to gate 1" (The door on the side of the waiting room, there was no gate 2) etc.
Once seated the pilot came up with, "We'll be flying at 1000ft, for a duration of approximately 15mins. Weather at the destination is much the same as here. No need to adjust your watch, unless it's broken."
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@13pt8plus I remember flying in an Aurigny Air Trislander (16 passenger, three prop aircraft) between Channel Islands in the 80s.
They did it terribly proper "Would passengers for flight 1 to Alderney, go to gate 1" (The door on the side of the waiting room, there was no gate 2) etc.
Once seated the pilot came up with, "We'll be flying at 1000ft, for a duration of approximately 15mins. Weather at the destination is much the same as here. No need to adjust your watch, unless it's broken."
@13pt8plus The "In flight magazine" was two sheets of A4 folded and stapled down the middle. The center spread of which was a diagram of the cockpit console naming the dials and controls etc. I wondered if this was part of the safety instructions.
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