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I Deserve to Hear an Airport Story
Jan. 15th, 2008 10:57 pmI had dinner with family today. Not technically my family, but same kind of thing. Lots of story telling. Here is some of what I learned.
Most importantly: if you are around a helicopter, stay away from that small propeller in the back. The big propeller is nine feet up, but that small one in the back is dangerous. And if you're in a helicopter, don't keep anything loose. Don't wear flip-flops, and have your camera attached to a strap around your neck. This is to prevent things falling out of the helicopter and hitting that back propeller, thus making it impossible to control the helicopter.
In some kind of teaching helicopter, there's a way to make the instruments much harder to use and you can really mess with your students.
If you live in a neighborhood with a landing strip where you have to have a pilot's license even to be allowed to buy the land and then you have to build a hangar on your property, it might be fun to refer to the neighborhood association as the strip club.
When thirty(?) people watch out the window as their plane lands on ice and then takes thirty minutes to come to a stop while sliding back and forth across the taxi area, it's quite possible that all but six of the passengers of the next flight out might suddenly decide they don't really need to get on a plane just now after all.
There are some kinds of cars where you can cut the roof off and the car won't fall apart and the windows and doors will even still work, but you might have these big hollow spaces you need to fill up somehow. Meanwhile, if you use this vehicle to deliver your refrigerator and dishwasher, lashed to the back seat, to your new house, you might not be making the best impression.
If you have calluses on your hands, it might be fun to try to convince manual laborers that your desk job is also hard work. Well, okay, a pilot might try to convince plane mechanics that it's a lot harder to work the controls once the plane is in flight.
If you decide to open your country's borders to immigrants, do it gradually so that the infrastructure can keep pace with the growth.
Most importantly: if you are around a helicopter, stay away from that small propeller in the back. The big propeller is nine feet up, but that small one in the back is dangerous. And if you're in a helicopter, don't keep anything loose. Don't wear flip-flops, and have your camera attached to a strap around your neck. This is to prevent things falling out of the helicopter and hitting that back propeller, thus making it impossible to control the helicopter.
In some kind of teaching helicopter, there's a way to make the instruments much harder to use and you can really mess with your students.
If you live in a neighborhood with a landing strip where you have to have a pilot's license even to be allowed to buy the land and then you have to build a hangar on your property, it might be fun to refer to the neighborhood association as the strip club.
When thirty(?) people watch out the window as their plane lands on ice and then takes thirty minutes to come to a stop while sliding back and forth across the taxi area, it's quite possible that all but six of the passengers of the next flight out might suddenly decide they don't really need to get on a plane just now after all.
There are some kinds of cars where you can cut the roof off and the car won't fall apart and the windows and doors will even still work, but you might have these big hollow spaces you need to fill up somehow. Meanwhile, if you use this vehicle to deliver your refrigerator and dishwasher, lashed to the back seat, to your new house, you might not be making the best impression.
If you have calluses on your hands, it might be fun to try to convince manual laborers that your desk job is also hard work. Well, okay, a pilot might try to convince plane mechanics that it's a lot harder to work the controls once the plane is in flight.
If you decide to open your country's borders to immigrants, do it gradually so that the infrastructure can keep pace with the growth.