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Post by okami on Jan 3, 2009 18:02:12 GMT -5
... Here's a tale I heard a couple of years ago, when I was talking to a retired Sabena stewardess. Her husband had been a pilot on Sabena's heli services at one time.
Now one day, his boss took her husband aside, and told him he would have to do a test flight with one of the S-58s - on a Sunday morning. Naturally, he wasn't all to pleased about this, but later on he heard that while he would have to report early to do the test flight, his boss, on the other hand, would be having the day off, and was planning on sleeping in. Which really didn't have our pilot pleased at all...
Comes the following morning, he reports for duty, and takes the heli for its test - with a spin: his newly submitted flightplan included some low passes over his boss' home...
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Post by Tom/CalClassic on Jan 4, 2009 17:53:59 GMT -5
LOL! Bet that woke him up.
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Post by okami on Jan 7, 2009 13:13:38 GMT -5
... I guess he wasn't expecting that. I also remembered another anecdote she told me on that occasion (now already 3 or 4 years ago). As most pilots would do (and could do back then), her husband flew his heli for some low passes over his home one day. Unfortunately, one of the neighbours was a little annoyed by this low-flying display, but didn't quite know what to do. So a couple of moments later, the neighbour approached the stewardess, and asked her if she had seen the helicopter, and whether she knew where it was from - after all, she knew a thing or two about aviation. Our stewardess, acting rather 'innocently', asked the neighbour to describe its colours - to which she calmly responded: "Oh. Yes. That sounds like it was one of those American Army helicopters. Sorry. There's nothing that can be done about that, they usually tend to fly a little low..."
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