Delta Pilot

Maybe somebody told them to turn left at the lake.

And of course they have 10,000 lakes so that could be confusing

If I have to explain the joke it' s probably not as funny as I think it is.

Oh well, time for another glass of wine. Or maybe not.

Maybe somebody told them to turn left at the lake.

And of course they have 10,000 lakes so that could be confusing

If I have to explain the joke it' s probably not as funny as I think it is.

Oh well, time for another glass of wine. Or maybe not.

Sure, have a couple more glasses and post again. Love it.

Maybe somebody told them to turn left at the lake.

Interesting you should say this...

I was working the midnight shift in Cleveland one evening and was staffing a couple of sectors that overlie Lake Erie. Well we had quite the poker game going in the control room that night, we've got a table pulled up in front of the sectors and we're smokin' and jokin' and dealing some five card.. We had the communication frequencies "in the speaker" and a handset plugged in with which to communicate with the (few) airplanes that we were working. The frequencies had been pretty quiet for several minutes and some United pilot keys up and (kinda cocky) says "Hey Center. since your so busy tonight how about a vector direct to San Francisco"...Without even looking at the screen (and kind of cocky) I picked up my mic and said "Fly heading 270 (west) until you see water and then turn left". A half a minute goes buy and the pilot says "Hey Center, we're already over water" (Lake Erie)...again without looking my buddy pics up the mic this time and says "Salt water you idiot"...annnnnnnd we went back to playing poker.

Not sure if you have to be a controller to get the humor in that or not...We'll see.

Hmmmm, reminds me of a movie...

I'm afraid you've been found out, Stevie P. You know there are rules about using your real name here.

Oh yes, you know what I mean, Mister Steve McCroskey.

Hmmmm, reminds me of a movie...

I'm afraid you've been found out, Stevie P. You know there are rules about using your real name here.

Oh yes, you know what I mean, Mister Steve McCroskey.

Steve...where do you think they got the ideas for that movie or more recently the movie "Pushing Tin" (which outside of the last 20 minutes of bulls*** was pretty spot on.

Anyway...pretty cool video and actually the last 3 seconds aren't too far off the mark. Our midnight shifts used to be a hoot. One supervisor for the entire building and most often they'd be hunkered down in some office somewhere trying there damnedest to stay out of the line of fire. Some of the fellers used to bring their video games in on the midnight shift...until someone almost drove a couple of planes together one night. <sigh> No more video games. The midnight poker games were pretty interesting. We'd be bellied up at a table in front of the sectors, piles of money on the table, videos of questionable taste playing on the VCR/portable TV (am I dating all of this yet ?), microwave plugged and a sandwich bar set up on the supervisors desk. We even used to have a make shift indoor golf course we'd play throughout the building when we were on break...down one aisle of the control room, up the other aisle, out into the hallway, down the stairs into the admin wing, back out into the hall and up the stairs into the training wing and then back down to the control room. It was all done with a putter and a sand wedge. I think par on a normal midnight shift was around 50. Alas they put a stop to that as well when someone broke the glass out of a Radar scope...fricking moron, he should have had that slice corrected years before.

Ya'll have NO idea....and if you did you'd never have flown back in the late 80's through just a couple of years ago Alas, the "no fun allowed" regime is in control now and it's a pretty sorry profession.