Oh this is just too good to keep to myself. I got an email from a long time buddy who is also a pilot and he relates this story:
By now everyone has seen the iPhone commercial with the pilot looking at the radar and then talking to his dispatcher, yada yada...
I can't wait for the next ground delay or long taxi due to weather somewhere to get a smartass with a freaking iPhone shoving it in my face saying "Its NOT raining there... SEE?!"
Too late...already happened to me. We push back, get advised of a ground stop in MEM [Memphis for you non pilots] due to storms in the area. Go to the penalty box [holding pad area] and wait. My Captain does the lecture over the PA...not a minute later, we get dinged [internal call from the back of the plane] from the F/A.
"Some guy with an iPhone says the weather is good, and wants to know what the real reason is for the delay. Is something wrong with the plane?"
I want to tell this clown what he can do with his idiotPhone - but the Captain does it even better. He gets on the PA and makes the following announcement:
"If the passenger with the iPhone would be kind enough to use it to check weather at our alternate, calculate our fuel burn due to being rerouted around the storms, call the dispatcher to arrange our release, and then make a phone call to the nearest Air Traffic Control Center to arrange our timely departure amongst the other aircraft carrying passengers with iPhones, then we would be more than happy to depart. Please ring your call button to advise the Flight Attendant and your fellow passengers when you deem it ready and responsible for this multi-million dollar aircraft and its 84 passengers to safely leave."
Needless to say, the pax was pretty embarrassed. The F/A later told us the rest of the plane was outright laughing at this dude. What a clown...
BWAAHAHAHAHAHAHA......to quote Bill Engvall...here's your sign.
Oh I would have SOOO paid money to have been there for that...but then there is the part of my brain that goes "so what about the part where all electronic devices are to be turned off on closing of the door". Heh, guy was stupid AND should have been violated.
So just remember my "slave to fashion" friends, you too can truly be the center of attention. But do you really want to be? *evil grin*
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