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Summary: The funniest moments for a co-pilot include humorous communication with air traffic control and queasy trainees. Hear about this pilot's funniest moment in this free video on career information.
Dennis Conroy has been a flight instructor for over a year at the Ogden Airport in Ogden, Utah.read more
"Funny moments...ah...in general are actually....the things that are funny to listen to is other people when you're out flying. And communication with others, as far as the tower, and air traffic control goes, is, is listening to other people screw up. 'Cause it's always funny when you're not the one that screws up, and you can listen to other people screw up. As far as training, some....a particular experience I had that wasn't so funny at first, but to look back on it afterwards actually was pretty funny, is not, like I said, not everyone is made for flying. And I had a particular experience where I was sitting in the right seat, teaching somebody how to fly, and he began to get a little queasy, a little sick. And he wasn't too quick about telling me that he was sick, and he actually didn't really let me know until he was about ready to throw up that he was sick. And, it's kind of back when I first started. I wasn't quite sure where to find the bags for that. I searched through the aircraft. I looked in the little glove box, I was searching behind the seats looking for a bag for him to throw up in. And I never did get to the bag in time, and at the last minute I just decided to tell him to open up the window, and just throw up out the window. And he was relatively new and wasn't quite sure if it was safe to open the window, so I had to convince him that first he could open the window, and then again to remove the microphone from his face before he threw up. And then, at the....in an aircraft, generally the speed you're flying at, once he did finally throw up outside, it painted pretty much the whole left side of the airplane with his lunch, and then as we got back down, had to kind of help him....walk him through how to clean it up. So, at the time it wasn't so funny, but at the end of the day I looked back at it, and it was actually a pretty funny experience."
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lashawnhamilton said
on 5/11/2009 This was really funny and a great story. I would suggest anyone wanting a career in this field to tell their own funny story should check out http://www.AviationCrossing.com. It is a really great job search site to get a position going in this field. Its such a great experience and once registered with http://www.AviationCrossing.com, the possibilities are endless
richrwc said
on 5/11/2009 Oh man! Looks like this guy needs to get to http://www.aviationcrossing.com and find a real career and not teach kids who get queezy in the air! At least on http://www.aviationcrossing.com the job descriptions would be enough to tell that you're not teaching human lunch-tossers.