Flyf15 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Posted (6 years 5 months 3 weeks 6 days 17 hours ago) and read 5619 times:
Not out on the newswires yet, but word has it that an ASA FO was arrested in Grand Rapids sometime last night or this morning. He was apparently drunk, naked, and braking the windows of cars in the airport parking lot.... police nabbed him hiding in a nearby cornfield.
UN_B732 From United States of America, joined Jul 2001, 4286 posts, RR: 5 Reply 1, posted (6 years 5 months 3 weeks 6 days 16 hours ago) and read 5558 times:
DL4277 operated by ASA left 3 hours late from GRR this morning, I'm guessing that's what this F/O was slated to operate.
-Mr. X
PWM2TXLHopper From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 1217 posts, RR: 1 Reply 2, posted (6 years 5 months 3 weeks 6 days 16 hours ago) and read 5552 times:
Well if the story is true, at least they didn't find him in the cockpit!
IAHFLYR From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 4722 posts, RR: 25 Reply 3, posted (6 years 5 months 3 weeks 6 days 10 hours ago) and read 5175 times:
or naked in the cockpit of the airplane that the flight attendant was looking to have a catering truck load for their flight...........gotta love a pilot that wants to hang it all out!
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WMUPilot From United States of America, joined Jan 2003, 1473 posts, RR: 12 Reply 4, posted (6 years 5 months 3 weeks 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 5157 times:
Guess GRR is the best place to have a layover now days! What i want to know, is how in the hell did he get back to the airport. The closest hotel to the airport is 2 1/2 to 3 miles away. I bet he was picked up in the hotel parking lot.
2H4 From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 8950 posts, RR: 62 Reply 5, posted (6 years 5 months 3 weeks 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 5146 times:
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Quoting IAHFLYR (Reply 3): gotta love a pilot that wants to hang it all out!
Acidradio From United States of America, joined Mar 2001, 1855 posts, RR: 10 Reply 6, posted (6 years 5 months 3 weeks 6 days ago) and read 4880 times:
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This has to be a joke or a real late April Fools item. But if it's true, wow.
MCOflyer From United States of America, joined Jun 2006, 8553 posts, RR: 14 Reply 7, posted (6 years 5 months 3 weeks 5 days 23 hours ago) and read 4826 times:
Knowing how drunk pilots get on layovers it wouldn't surprise me. I know several pilots and they say the right thing is too keep drinking to a minimum.
2H4 From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 8950 posts, RR: 62 Reply 8, posted (6 years 5 months 3 weeks 5 days 23 hours ago) and read 4776 times:
WMUPilot From United States of America, joined Jan 2003, 1473 posts, RR: 12 Reply 9, posted (6 years 5 months 3 weeks 5 days 23 hours ago) and read 4731 times:
I've got a long list of suspects! I better start making some calls to see if my suspicions pan out
PhilSquares From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 10, posted (6 years 5 months 3 weeks 5 days 23 hours ago) and read 4724 times:
Quoting MCOflyer (Reply 7): Knowing how drunk pilots get on layovers it wouldn't surprise me. I know several pilots and they say the right thing is too keep drinking to a minimum.
MCOflyer
And how do you know this? From your years of experience????
CALMSP From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 3662 posts, RR: 8 Reply 11, posted (6 years 5 months 3 weeks 5 days 23 hours ago) and read 4678 times:
i statrted calling all of my contacts at COEX in GRR, they are unaware of anything..............
okay, I'm waiting for the rich to spread the wealth around to me. Please mail your checks to my house.
Osiris30 From Barbados, joined Sep 2006, 3182 posts, RR: 26 Reply 12, posted (6 years 5 months 3 weeks 5 days 22 hours ago) and read 4623 times:
I'm not understanding why you are all so shocked. I mean I realize there is a tendancy to idolise flight crews on this site, but they are just people. Like all people they get drunk, lie, cheat, laugh, cry, etc.
I don't care what you think of my opinion. It's my opinion, so have a nice day :)
2H4 From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 8950 posts, RR: 62 Reply 13, posted (6 years 5 months 3 weeks 5 days 20 hours ago) and read 4431 times:
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Quoting WMUPilot (Reply 9): I've got a long list of suspects!
Boy, after reflecting on some of the parties I've attended, my own list of suspects is rather extensive....
Ward86IND From United States of America, joined Apr 2006, 294 posts, RR: 0 Reply 15, posted (6 years 5 months 3 weeks 5 days 17 hours ago) and read 4050 times:
Quoting CALMSP (Reply 11): And how do you know this? From your years of experience????
We're Nuts From United States of America, joined Jun 2000, 5705 posts, RR: 22 Reply 16, posted (6 years 5 months 3 weeks 5 days 17 hours ago) and read 3747 times:
I'll be laying over in GRR tomorrow. Guess I'll have to think up something else to do or the papers will call me a copycat.
Bobnwa From United States of America, joined Dec 2000, 5977 posts, RR: 9 Reply 17, posted (6 years 5 months 3 weeks 5 days 15 hours ago) and read 3604 times:
Quoting MCOflyer (Reply 7): Knowing how drunk pilots get on layovers it wouldn't surprise me. I know several pilots and they say the right thing is too keep drinking to a minimum.
How many airline pilots have you seen drunk on layovers? How many airline pilots do know well enough for them to share information this info with you.
Captaink From Mexico, joined exactly 12 years ago today! , 5093 posts, RR: 13 Reply 20, posted (6 years 5 months 3 weeks 5 days 9 hours ago) and read 3210 times:
Quoting Osiris30 (Reply 12): I'm not understanding why you are all so shocked. I mean I realize there is a tendancy to idolise flight crews on this site, but they are just people. Like all people they get drunk, lie, cheat, laugh, cry, etc.
You forgot to add, go breaking the windows of cars, without clothes on.
Edmonchuck From Canada, joined Aug 2006, 44 posts, RR: 0 Reply 21, posted (6 years 5 months 3 weeks 5 days 9 hours ago) and read 3165 times:
Quoting PhilSquares (Reply 19): You may have lived in in the RCAF, but in the "real" world it doesn't happen.
Huh? Pacific Western Airlines is so not military....their Hercs were bigger. PWA bought CP Air, Wardair...and became Canadain...and the Herc Rats still partied...
Curmudgeon From Australia, joined Oct 2006, 695 posts, RR: 22 Reply 22, posted (6 years 5 months 3 weeks 5 days 8 hours ago) and read 3103 times:
Quoting MCOflyer (Reply 7): Knowing how drunk pilots get on layovers it wouldn't surprise me. I know several pilots and they say the right thing is too keep drinking to a minimum.
You know...even back in the day drinking like that was rare. PWA Herc pilots? I know a couple of those guys, and neither of them drank, so it wasn't all of them.
Sometimes we joke about it..."no drinking past V1, because then you're committed". The reality is that I have seen a piss up of that nature maybe once every decade. (And its not like I wasn't looking for trouble for the last thirty years )
PhilSquares From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 23, posted (6 years 5 months 3 weeks 5 days 6 hours ago) and read 3036 times:
Quoting Edmonchuck (Reply 21): Huh? Pacific Western Airlines is so not military....their Hercs were bigger. PWA bought CP Air, Wardair...and became Canadain...and the Herc Rats still partied...
Sorry, I thought it was RCAF. However, I note you aren't doing that any more. I suggest days, like you describe, were few and far between. In this day and age of minimum rest layovers, the risk far outweighs any possible reward.
The other issue is the posters description of pilot's activities defies any type of logic. After all, we spend at least half of the month in hotels, someone woukld have very serious physical problems if they acted as described. Frankly, the poster of those comments didn't have a clue, he's not even 20!
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