Trick I like to play when I am flown by a new pilot or co pilot is after introduced my I ask "Can you show me the secret navigation for the flat earth or does that one just take into account the earth is flat?" The look on their face even when I wasnt their boss not knowing what to say LOL If one had already been pranked by me they would enjoy it more than me usually! :) but usually could hold in their lauffter
I’m a retired airline pilot. One morning I was on a flight to Las Vegas. There was a flight attendant trainee on board. On short final the lead asked the trainee if she emptied the coffee pot to which she replied she forgot! Just then tower issued us a go around. The trainee thought we went around because she didn’t empty the coffee pot and was afraid she would get in trouble!
Laughed my butt off! I was on a regional flight and an attendant came and checked my window temp with his hand. I was USAF at the time and knew what was going on. I calmly advised him that he needed to advise the pilot that the propeller warning paint had come off every blade and they needed to be redone with sticky yellow as the paint was now only on the blade tip. I explained that it MUST be due to centrifugal force and that it was rather common in order to save money for the airline. He advised the Capt. The SECOND the aircraft had stopped the Capt and First Officer were out out of the cockpit and waiting for people to disembark, watching who left. Both thanked me for my concern for passenger and ground crew safety with EVIL grins. Neither had heard that one before and no doubt used it many times afterwards.
we use to stick sticky notes to other FAs back that said "I love when passengers laugh at me", and other "secret" notes that would make passengers do or say things without the FAs knowing what they were referring to. It livened up everyone's day and brought smiles to faces not so excited to be crammed into those small seats. Everyone has a better day if you and they are smiling.
Aircrafts are very expensive and delicate pieces of technology, there are restrict procedures to operate every system. Pilots: *brrrr printer prints money lmao*
@@74gear I miss those KLM flights, spent many hours flying back and forth. Funny story a bunch of us Army guys and a soccer team ended up on the flight it was just only us and we drank all the alcohol and played football wiith a rolled up blanket. Marshals met us at the gate 😡 But we had just rolled back from Desert Storm so we just got a stern lecture, probably be in jail today though. Helped my dad was a Deputy Marshal, Uncle was a sitting Marshal. Whew! Good times though!
My airline flight attendants don’t push a drink cart, instead, they just go through the isle with a tray. One day, the other flight attendants put a note on it that said “Single, looking for dates” on the side facing the pax! She was so confused why everybody kept flirting with her! Haha so it’s not just the pilots who play jokes!
Pilot: "We forgot the keys to the aircraft. Go ask the gate agent for another set." Flight Attendant: "Hold on. My boyfriend showed my how to hotwire a car. I'll get it started."
Yeah, I noticed he emphasized that with all the pranks, having some way of making sure the victim could laugh about it, too, afterwards, and isn't just going to resent the more experienced crew for making fun of them. You're probably going to work with that person again, and it's the classy thing to do.
"The ozone test" is similar to a prank we played in the Army on the new guys fresh from basic training and jump school. During vehicle maintenance day, we'd have all the new guys gather "exhaust samples" from every Humvee in the platoon and give them to the maintenance Sargeant. It was a lot of fun watching the maintenance Sargeant smoking all the new guys for delivering him dozens of trash bags full of stinky truck exhaust.
Kelsey, I hope you see this one. Captains mess with ground crew, too. You need to stay with this story to the end. Shortly after starting work with the airline, I was being trained on and checked out for marshaling aircraft. This was my first time on the ramp, so my trainer was standing behind me. My airline also uses different color safety vests or wording on those vests to indicate rookies, experienced, supervisors, etc. So as this plane was taxiing in, with me in a trainee vest and an experienced vest on the guy behind me, the entire world would know I was new and inexperienced. As I start the signals to line up and bring in the aircraft, it starts doing things I am not telling it so, weaving on and off the lead in line, slowing/speeding up/stopping, etc. Of course, I'm in the "WTF am I doing wrong" mode and keep trying to get things under control so I can this plane in safely, parked and let all the passengers go about their day. What my trainer is doing behind me, I have no idea, probably laughing to he's wetting himself is my guess nowadays. I finally get the plane onto the stop bar, chocked and get the jet bridge up to the door. Then I begin my post arrival walk around. Part way around the plane, the captain comes under the wing with a huge smile on his face and sticks his hand out telling me his name and apologizing for messing with me and how he could tell it was my first time and it would be remembered for the rest of my career. We laughed a good one. I have a great sense of humor. But now let me also add, what comes around...you know the rest of that cliche'. His first officer pulled me aside and told me how the captain was enjoying himself and gave me an idea on what to do as a payback, but I assured him, I had a plan already. They had about 90 minutes between arrival and their departure. So needless to say, everyone scattered to do whatever they do in between flights and the crew went to get food. As I entered the terminal, I had a man approach me and ask me what was happening when I was bringing the plane in, he could tell I was being punked and wanted to hear the story. After telling him, I asked him when his flight was leaving and if he's help me with something. He hesitantly agreed since his flight was leaving after ours way. He enjoys planes and always gets to the airport several hours earlier than necessary to watch the ramp and runways. I filled him in on what I wanted him to do for me which was just stand in the window with his suit fully on (he had his coat off and tie loosened) and when he saw me board the plane and enter the flight deck, when he saw me point up at him, he was to sternly motion "come here, now" type gestures. He wanted to know what I was going to do, but I told him if he knew up front, he's probably not help me, but I'd fill him in after the fact. I assured him he wouldn't get in trouble. So the gate agent lets the crew out to the plane. I come along and board, making sure the guy in the window was in position as requested. He was. I enter the flight deck and start talking with the captain and first officer. I point up to the guy in the window and proceed to say: "I'm sorry to be the one who has to tell you this, but see that man in the window"...pause, both look up and the captain says, yeah, what about him. "Ah, he's an FAA inspector and someone reported that you were consuming alcohol in the bar while you were in the terminal and he's here to give you a drug test." My guy is doing exactly as I asked, and became even more insistent the longer the captain looked up at him. The F/O in the meantime, realizing my prank, turned away and was looking out his side window trying to not be noticed laughing, but the captain noticed the shoulder bounce and after processing the matter, looked at me with a nervous smile and cracking voice, "you're joking right, this is just payback for my arrival stunt, right?" I started laughing and said, never screw with a master prankster my friend. I won. At this point , relieved, he wanted to know who the guy was in the window, I told him just another passenger for the flights leaving after yours and I enlisted him to help me out when he asked about you punking me with your customized arrival. He jumps out of his seat and wants to meet this guy. We go up to the concourse and he asks the guy who he is...and he reassures the captain that he's leaving on the next flight. Captain says "So you are not with the FAA?" The guy looks shocked, says no and turns to me asking what he had gotten himself into with me. So we told him. He said to me, had I known your plan, I wouldn't have helped, but now that I did, that's funny. I again assured him he was not going to get into trouble. As I turned the plane out on departure, the captain gave me a huge smile, the sharpest military salute I've ever seen and a wave. He conceded, I won the exchange with that salute. Now this is where it gets better, for over a month, every single crew from his regional airline that flew into my city asked for me so they could meet me. Seems that this particular man had quite the reputation as a prankster punking flight attendants, pilots, mechanics and office staff equally as all were fair game. And having admitted being bested that day, he (or more likely his F/O) shared the story with everyone and the word spread like wildfire. Thus everyone wanted to meet the guy who put him in his place. I can't tell you how many pops, sandwiches, etc. that were purchased for me as a thank you for getting him paid back in a big way from all his fellow coworkers. It was certainly an experience neither he nor I will forget and he certainly did make it one event during my career that I have not forgotten and that's been quite some time ago.
Hi Kelsey! Love these. My good friend was a pilot for PSA (back in the day), and he had new flight attendants turn all the passenger air vents aft because the added 'thrust' would help overcome a low fuel situation.
We had a full airplane -- EMB-120 -- and I made an announcement before opening the door to take boarding passes and letting the passengers out to the airplane. I told them that the airplane was full and very heavy so when they feel the pilot begin to rotate the airplane, they should PULL UP on their seat arm rests to help get the airplane off the ground.
on my first flight they had me go outside with a fire extinguisher to “supervise fueling” and i fell for it and my colleagues had the time of their life watching me prom the inside....😩😩😂😂😂
Lol when I was in the army, we had recruits go ask the logistic office for the "brass magnet" to pick up all the empty shells on the range. That's always been a great laugh when they returned with an angry look on their face! 😂
On the ‘Aircraft Keys’ joke, years ago (pre-internet), I was in the US Navy P-3 Flight Engineer school. I already had 10 years working on F/A-18s, A-6s, etc., so the first time instructor asked me to go get the keys to the airplane during our brief, I tactfully told him that I might be a student FE, but I wasn’t a rookie to aviation. He tried to convince me and I kept pushing back. As it turns out, the P-3 has a hasp built into the main cabin door for a padlock, so there REALLY are keys to the plane (not to start the engines, though). Thousand of hours on P-3s and C-130s and I just landed a job with NASA’s SOFIA 747!
The ''i need the keys" prank seems like the kind of prank the girl who said ''We'll be at an altitude of 300ft and a speed of 6000kts" from Catch me if you can would fall for.
I think you will be safe, even if you get it. You are young and in good shape, shouldn't be an issue. Worst case is you transmit it maybe. But if you are minimizing your contact with people that is the best we can ask. We can't expect the world to come grinding to a halt. Your job is about as essential as it gets. You could stay busy just moving toilet paper lol.
I was on a Greyhound bus going across the Nullarbor Plain Australia...The drivers played a few jokes on the passengers. He asked us to check the air coming out of a row of holes running along below the windows. There was none - He said the air conditioning sometimes messed up and the pipes ran under the floors. he got us all to stand up and jump up and down to fix it...We all did.
Another fun one I’ve heard of is handing the new flight attendant two flash lights and telling her to walk between the passengers to charge the lighting strips on the floor
Omg! That ozone check! I’ve seen that happen. I was confused AF trying to figure out wtf she was doing! Now I know. On another note I know the dreamlifter is performing very important missions. You are saving lives, thank you so much. More than words can say. In these times, it’s comforting knowing that there are brave and wonderful men and women willing to fly all the important equipment where it needs to go!
We did something similar in the Air Force to new crew chiefs. We would tell them we need an exhaust sample from a running jet and give them a garbage bag. This was especially fun on F-15's that sat up pretty high. One of two things would happen. If they stood too close it would burn or blow a hole in the bag and everyone would bust up laughing. If they were smart enough to stand further back it would actually inflate the bag. We would then tell them they need to run across the flightline to NDI shop before it cools off for analysis. Watching new kids running across the flightline with a half inflated garbage bag was always a good time.
I was going to say tell the person, "the previous pilot leaves the keys on top of the front tire of the landing gear." Of course only when safe to do so.
This is a bit evil though as it is really effective with new gate agents as well because they get so confused on what is going on. Hasn’t happen to me yet but now I know as I am relatively new as a passenger service agent for KE (been with the airline for a few months now). Happened to a coworker from what I heard when she was new to KE when a new FA asked her the keys question. Station manager had to explain that it was a common joke for veteran crew to play on new crew/employees.
My favorite pilot prank is when they announce that "This airline has the best Flight attendants in the industry..... Unfortunately, none of them are on this flight!"
@@MaxEPR Actually, after a hard landing the FA's can make some really mean announcements! I've heard a few good ones. The best was "Welcome to Boston. please remain seated while the captain taxis what’s left of the plane to the gate".
These are the same kinds of things that are done to new sailors: Like sending the new seaman deuce down for a bucket of “relative bearing grease” or 20 ft. of “water line”. They have someone go out and stand up in the bow area to watch for the mail buoy or the equator line. Fun stuff!
“They keys? Oh yeah, I brought them in with that ticking box that some dude gave me.” Also, I love how kelsey’s idea of a prank is giving someone $50. You can prank me any day bro haha
A pilot friend of me once told me another prank: When the crew arrives at the plane, the pilots tell the newbie flight attendant they have to do a lights check. The newbie has to put on a life vest (because ... airport regulations), fetch a megaphone if possible, stand out in front of the plane and shout "on ... off ... on" while the pilots switch the landing lights on and off! Hard mode when it's raining!
Oh man, I would love to see that happen, lol! I just hope TSA doesn't come out and take the person into custody thinking they're intoxicated or something.
I'm sitting here cryin' laughing right now. 😂😂😂 See, I was in the Army for a decade, as a Cavalry Scout, one of the "Combat Arms" job specialties. We had some, similar pranks we'd pull on new privates. - Armor Soft Spots Check: Having privates "check for soft spots in the armor" by taking a hammer or a knuckle and lightly tapping in strategic places in the METAL armor of the vehicles to see if anything sounded dull. - Box of Grid Squares: Have a private go to the Supply Sergeant for a Box of Grid Squares. Grid Squares... are the grid squares... drawn on a map. Can't exactly get a box of them. - The Supply Room Haul: Have a private go to Supply to get various legitimate items. In this list of items though, mix in some bullpuckey like Chemlight Batteries, Headlight Fluid, a case of I D Ten Tangos (
On the subject of the missing keys - I used to work in an electrical engineering shop. We once sent a new employee to the stores for some 6mm holes. Fortunately for the employee, the joke backfired, because we used to punch washers out of bakelite sheets, leaving a sheet of material full of 6mm holes. The stores had cottoned on to the joke and made it backfire on us.
A fiend of mine went to work in such a place and he told he had been pranked on his first day... they gave him an 8 inch piece of flat conductor, that was massive copper, 2 inch wide and 1 thick approximately. They also gave him a hacksaw and told him to cut a little bit under 2 inches off of each end so he gets a 4 inch piece. He was half way through the other cut when it dawned on him.
Nice video & I appteciate the laughs/memories of when I was an FA. Now I'm working in a hospital (a bit tired & very overwhelmed), so this video was perfect timing. Thank you and be safe.
When I was in the Marines we usually traveled on Marine Corps C9s. Occasionally we would need to take C130s. We had a prank we would do when someone was new to the unit on their first flight in the C130: The pressurization vents are on the ceiling of the plane and because of the nature of the design, it's normal to see them blow normal air as steam. It can be disconcerting if you don't know what it is. Next to the rear hatch of a C130 is a lever that be safely pumped but doesn't do anything at all when the plane is flying. So we would look up at the steam on the ceiling and appear to be very concerned. "That's not right." "There has to be something seriously wrong with the airplane." So we might talk to the crew chief, tell him quietly what we have planned so he can play along but look like we are alerting them to the dire situation we have noticed. So we go back to the newbie and explain that there's something mechanically wrong with the plane as evidenced by the smoke coming out of the vents. We also explain that the crew chief has informed us that the plane is going to go down unless we pump that lever at the rear of the plane. That duty, we explain, falls on the member with the lowest rank. It's fun to watch a newbie stand back there for a while pumping away occasionally looking up with some fear at what he thinks is steam coming out of the vents. It helps that we keep encouraging the newbie with a little concern of our own: "Keep pumping! Don't let up! We don't want to crash!"
The same prank is done on Ch-53s, the crew chief with his headset on, is talking to the pilot the whole time, but cannot be heard by the Grunts in the helo. There is a pump near the back that doesn't do anything in flight, but the -53 would start dropping suddenly and the crew chief would get up from his seat, go to that pump and start pumping...the -53 would balloon upwards and fly normally. A short while later, the-53 would sink again, the crew chief gets up, and the same routine is repeated. About the third time, however, he would mutter some profanity and wave refuse to get up. Inevitably, one of the newer Grunts would get worried, and go back and start pumping that handle like crazy.
My old station used to do the Ozone Check prank too on new ramp agents that would clean the planes. We would tell them that we needed a "Cabin Air Check" before the pax could board and that they had to walk fast up and down the isle a few times holding the bag above their head to get a "good sample".
Back in 1969 on a B 727 the parking brake had a release lever that was pulled straight up. That was perfect for a first timer prank. The captain would call her to the cockpit and tell her that the toilet flush release hydraulic pump was not working and they had to use the manual override pump. They would show her the parking brake release and tell her to come in every 15 minutes and pump this lever 20 times. We all had a great time helping her keep the time and go pump to keep the toilets flushing!
Man, I love listening to funny confessions. Believe me, this pilot seems very friendly towards his viewers. I'm having a bad time today and now I didn't notice I was laughing while watching lol!
If there’s any such thing as reincarnation, I’m coming back as Kelsey, living life in the fast lane and loving every minute of it, truly brilliant, and unbelievably clever too 🙂
1. A new flight attendant was working a flight on a 727 (We’re talking a long time ago.) I was in the right seat. A flight attendant came up to bring our drinks and get briefed. The captain told her the forward lav (bathroom) was inop but it would be no problem as long as the “manual flush” was used. The captain pointed to the gear-horn cut out lever on the pedestal. She listened diligently and took it all in. This was way before 911 so flight attendants could just come and go from the cockpit. She was very proud of herself because she “knew” things the other flight attendants didn’t know. Periodically from time to time she would pop in the door and ask us if we needed anything to drink while casually pulling the gear horn cut out. Swallowing the orange juice without spitting it all over my shirt was one of the most difficult tasks of my career. The engineer, then said he needed to P. He popped open the door to the Fuel dump panel which is located on the wall next to the bathroom. He announced “ bathrooms empty. I’ll be right back”. The poor flight attendant had a look of shock on her face. “ you mean you can see in the bathroom?”. “Of course. Security! Duh.” Said the captain. 2. Not all airlines order the same configuration from Boeing. We had acquired a 727 from another carrier. The electrical smoke and evacuation procedure was ridiculously long with the previous carrier. Long story short… When the flight engineers gets down to protecting essential power, about all that is left is the basic flight instruments in front of the captain (worst case scenario) . We were acquired in a merger in the mid80s. I was flying with a crew from the acquiring airline. There was a rolled up U-shaped bundle above the captain. They were curious as to what that was for. I explained that with the smoke procedure you would get down to the fluorescent lights which were not dimmable. Releasing the tires over the captain dropped a comically ridiculous looking cloak around the captain to keep him somewhat in the dark so he could see outside in the event of a night approach. It had a hood to go around the glare shield to protect his night vision. The captain pulled the strings and dropped it to have a look. He was envelope and what looked like a black body bag with little canvas ties. At that moment, a flight attendant came in to see if we want to drinks. She saw the captain in his straight jacket looking body bag, her eyes got big, and she asked if everything was OK. Without flinching, the first officer turned around and said that this was the reason for a three-man cockpit. Anytime there is a disagreement, the majority rules. He said not to worry. The captain was just an asshole. : ). Nothing serious. At that moment the captain yelled in his grouchiest voice “ Bring me a damn cup of coffee!” The first officer faced her mouthed “decaf” . It’s a good thing the captain was covered up because he was laughing so hard he was about to lose it.
Love your work. I worked as a "Customer Service Agent" (a/k/a Ramp Rat) for Continental at Ohare from 1972 until 1980 - the dawn of the Jumbo Jet - while going through college and then law school. I loved the job - even working though night shifts in the Chicago winter. Worked mostly international flights as Continental provided contracted ground support for Lufthansa, Air Lingus, Loft Leiter, Mexicana, Air Jamaica and others. It was the wild west back then. We didn't even have ID badges at first. At one time I had a key that would open every door in the then International terminal - this was well before the current international terminal. We also used to prank newbies - such as telling a newbie to go ask the supervisor for the "bin stretcher" while hand loading cargo into older - non-containerized - aircraft such as a DC 8. I still connect about every couple months with some of my former ramp rats. Although, they've all seem to have gotten older than I remember.
Hi Kelsey, although I am not in aviation, I really enjoy your TH-cam videos. From this vantage point it looks like you are in Amsterdam Netherlands. My wife and I were there roughly 9 years ago. Beautiful city. Hope you had time to enjoy it.
My mom's a nurse, and she has similar stories. "Go downstairs and ask for a long weight." Meanwhile staff downstairs would say, "Ok, stand over there." And just leave them waiting.
LOL.. With the "drug test" prank, I can't imagine the expression on the flight attendant's face when she thought everyone was drinking their own urine.
Pretty early in my airline career, I was flying with the youngest, and smallest, captain at the airline. We left Chicago with a new set of flight attendants, just before dark. It was a quick flight to Cleveland, and not long after level off, the Captain climbed into the cockpit coat closet. I called the 'A' flight attendant to the cockpit, and asked her if the Captain could come back to the cockpit, so we could land. She went back through the cabin, but couldn't find him. I asked her to check the lavs, but he wasn't there. I started our descent, and reiterated that we needed the Captain up front. She got the other flight attendants involved...everyone was looking for the Captain. When all three of them came back to the cockpit, with very worried looks on their faces, he popped out of the closet, and they realized that they had been pranked.
One of my colleagues made a prank on another: he opened a PNR and added a special service request for vegetarian meal. The other was telling me: "So, I was flying a duty travel, was hungry and waiting for some meat with anticipation. What was my surprise when instead of a meat a flight attendant brings me a vegetarian meal." - Maybe there is some mistake, i didn't order any vegetarian food - Sorry, but this request was in your PNR - Can you please change it to some food with meat? - Sorry, nothing left except your meal "I was sitting and eating that cabbage :/"
Now that was very funny. I think you would have a wicked sense of humour, Kelsey. It's funny how the newbies, whether it's an apprentice butcher, or carpenter, they ALWAYS get the going over, but it always leaves them with fond memories in their old age.
I was a KC-135R boom operator. We used to get all the new navigators with the radar alignment prank. We’d send them outside during the pre flight and drop the aft hatch down to them and tell them to hold the hatch low then high above their head moving in an arc in front of the nose. They were always so excited to do it until they found out there wasn’t a radar alignment. Extreme cases pictures and video were taken and shown to all crews in the desert during intel briefings.
We do the “ozone check” in the prison with new officers. We call it an air quality check, the bag has to be taken to the captains office so he knows we did it. 😂
I used to actually do a real ozone test with a meter, that detects it. It was a byproduct of uv lamps used in printing. Supposed to be piped out. Dangerous if leaking In to the room. Maybe he need to rethink this prank, because it’s a real thing.
An FA came forward to ask my F/O how fast we were going on behalf of a passenger. He told her we were going "the speed of heat" and had her hold her hand to the inside of the windscreen which was heated. The passenger was not impressed with the answer. The Shorts 360 had separate doors for the F/0 and Capt. One captain, expecting the FA would peek in through the F/0s door in cruise, decided crouch down to the left of the seat and he had the F/0 say: "If he's not in the restroom, they must've taken off without him." She panicked
Innocent pranks are what get you through the day. I work on the ramp and love my job. Years ago when I worked for Mesaba Airlines. We had ramp agents who would tell the newer ramp agents to ask the first officer for the sab key. The first officers were always in on the prank and would send them off on a wild goose chase for a key to the plane. The airline I work for now has a couple of ramp agents who handsome new ramp agents a plastic bag and tell them to collect air on the ramp and take them to maintenance for an ozone check. It usually gets a lot of laughs if someone falls for it. It's usually a form of acceptance to the team. I love your stories keep them coming.
Thanks for keeping us all entertained while we go stir crazy! I noticed someone suggested a Hollywood vs Reality for Stephen King's The Langoliers. I second that notion. Some crazy stuff goes down on that plane!
I have heard about the "keys" joke. My dad was in the Marines and worked in avionics. Always fun to see the new guy trying to find the keys to a jet that was due for maintenance 😉
Thats an old trick in all aspects of commecial/military worlds. Nothing has keys, except radios. That one really screws people up. Because the boots get pranked into "keys for the humvee" which nope, you can steal that all day. But radios do have keys, and I had a guy who just didn't believe me we needed keys(fills) for the radio before going to the field. When in fact we did. But he had been pranked twice already and just wasn't buying it...
We have something similar in the military. We tell the new privates to get an exhaust sample from the Bradley. They take a trash bag and hold it over the exhaust pipe, let it fill, and then they have to run and get it to the mechanic while it’s still hot. If it’s cold they have to do it again lol. We have a lot of pranks in the military too.
When was a maintainer in the Air Force, the new pilots would get asked to assist with doing the WXR (weather radar) check: walk back and forth 50-ish yards in front of the aircraft with a giant wad of aluminum foil on the end of a broom handle held as high as possible. This was necessary to verify the radar was working properly 😂
Reminds me of the story a friend once told me: When he started learning to be a cook at a restaurant the older guys told him to go to the gun store to ask for a raisin gun to shoot the raisins into the cakes.
This story made me flash back to a flight I took as a kid when the flight attendant was quick walking up the aisle with a trash bag open over her head asking everyone to hurry and clear the aisle. I had forgotten all about that until this video. Now I wonder if the pilot was messing with her or if she was just an odd woman 🤣
Oh the look on your face as you convince us you would never participate in any pranks! And sorry but you are just so cute the way you get so excited and happy about this, like a kid in a pilot costume!
I am loving how similar these pranks are to the pranks in the military. Soft armor checks, exhaust samples, filling out an ID10 (dash) tango form. Etc.
When I was in navy service on a german submarine we had the prank to let the rookie go down to the engine room to get the tool to “wind up the magnet compass“. The machine mate then gives them the biggest and heaviest toolbox.
I swear, it was maybe 20 yrs ago. I was on a flight and a beautiful young attendant reached across and felt the window saying excuse me. She continued up the isle putting her hand on each window. 🤣 Wow!
74Gear: I haven't done any of these things. These are all just stories I've heard from others. Also 74Gear: So we're laughing our arses off after making the rookie flight attendant think for the last 10 minutes she's about to get fired on her first day.
I know this video is from 2 yrs ago , but I just stumbled on your channel! When I was a brand new hired flight attendant, the most junior plane to fly was that horrible MD80 sitting all the way in the tail cone by the lavatories . The pilots called me up in the flight deck and ask me if I'd like to watch the moon up close as they have " binoculars " up there. So I went up . This particular peep hole was waaay forward on the side of the f/o . I had to stretch my body to look upthere. My boobs were pretty much in the co pilot face , while the captain stared and " admired " my a$$. Well. I was looking at the reading light . Only after their stares , I figured out what was going on ! At the end , I laughed with them . 🤣 Hate to admit , I totally fell for it. My roommate at that time, she got the " ozone check " one. The pilots asked her they needed an air sample for density check to go in their weight and balance !!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣 Your videos took me bck to those days. Now im the one keeping a straight face during the pranks!!! 🤣🤣🤣
All these pranks take time, time = money so they all have a cost. I know one guy who had to drink his own urine for that last prank because they ran out of apple juice.
I remember once when I was a baby nurse, one of the older nurses told another baby nurse that we had to "pressurize the negative pressure room" (this was pre-covid!) and made her go try to open the unopenable windows. She ended up calling us in to help open the windows all like "there's no way to open the window!" and the older nurse asked her if she could find the "check valve switch" on the frame that would open the window. After another few minutes, she finally told her the windows don't open and showed her how to actually set the negative pressure on the alarm outside the room xD
This from a passenger. My wife and I were returning to Canada from London. There was some difficulty getting an engine started, and some technical persons had come on the assist the crew, and in due course everything was sorted, and we had an uneventful flight home. We were telling friends about this incident, and managed to convince some that the plane had been started by use of jumper cables from another plane which was brought up nose to nose. Some actually believed us.
Did you hear that KLM had their last 747 passenger flight land today at Schiphol? It was supposed to happen next year at the 50th anniversary of their 747 usage but was pulled forward due to the corona crisis...
As a nurse I approve the 'drinking your pee' prank. We have done this to doctors! Put apple juice in a urine specimen container and we also use dark green smoothie type drinks and put them in suction canisters and pretend it nasogastric content. We then nonchalantly drink them at the nurses station in front of a doctor 😂 ... there are more details to make it believable but you get the idea!
Ozone check reminds me of "tuning the radar " on boats. You get the greenest, most gullible crew member, wrap them in aluminum foil, then have them stand on the bow. The captain will give them specific instructions to make them look silly. Everyone has a good laugh.
I was in the Navy on an aircraft carrier. Messing with the new guy is an art form. Only difference is, if the person doesn't catch on or if someone doesn't tell them, you run with it till they detail out (transfer). I was in about 45 years ago. Some people I messed with still don't know it was a joke. I'm afraid there may have been some overlap in my civilian job after I got out...
I worked on cruise ships, in the late 80's and early 90's. Our version of the "keys" prank was the "fog watch". The newest cruise staff (quite often the show dancers) would have to stand out on the front deck, and ring the ships bell every minute.
Practical jokes/Pranks in some industries have become a sort of rite of passage for some, providing the prank isn't actually dangerous (or illegal) or can endanger someone, but a little bit of fun doesn't really hurt anyone. Plus I think some do it as a means to show that while they may be strict (as you mentioned) that they do have a sense of humor (I know some people -- not necesarily pilots -- who are like that, they appear like a "hard-ass" as some would say, but in reality, can have some fun too). I remember back in Cub scouts we used to pull the "lefthanded smoke shifter" prank, where we tell new members (while building a fire) "Ok we now we need the left-handed smoke shifter, go ask the Club master for that" and probably 99% of the time, people fell for it. Only once did someone say "There's no such thing as a lefthanded-smoke-shifter".
"Is this the face of somebody who'd play pranks on a flight attendant?" Yes. Yes it is.
kinda, sus hahahaha
Sussy Baka 😱😱😱😳😳😳😳😳🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😞😞😞😞😞
@@fleaths ipad users be like
@@dornog70 As Im Typing This On My Ipad😂😂😂😂😂
Trick I like to play when I am flown by a new pilot or co pilot is after introduced my I ask "Can you show me the secret navigation for the flat earth or does that one just take into account the earth is flat?" The look on their face even when I wasnt their boss not knowing what to say LOL If one had already been pranked by me they would enjoy it more than me usually! :) but usually could hold in their lauffter
I’m a retired airline pilot. One morning I was on a flight to Las Vegas. There was a flight attendant trainee on board. On short final the lead asked the trainee if she emptied the coffee pot to which she replied she forgot! Just then tower issued us a go around. The trainee thought we went around because she didn’t empty the coffee pot and was afraid she would get in trouble!
On the subject of timing, I’ve opened a door to a government office in KS, as the tornado warning siren sounded. I was a new resident.
I've heard this exact same story from 20 former pilots or flight crew...
Laughed my butt off!
I was on a regional flight and an attendant came and checked my window temp with his hand. I was USAF at the time and knew what was going on. I calmly advised him that he needed to advise the pilot that the propeller warning paint had come off every blade and they needed to be redone with sticky yellow as the paint was now only on the blade tip. I explained that it MUST be due to centrifugal force and that it was rather common in order to save money for the airline. He advised the Capt.
The SECOND the aircraft had stopped the Capt and First Officer were out out of the cockpit and waiting for people to disembark, watching who left. Both thanked me for my concern for passenger and ground crew safety with EVIL grins. Neither had heard that one before and no doubt used it many times afterwards.
Hahaha
Touchè
we use to stick sticky notes to other FAs back that said "I love when passengers laugh at me", and other "secret" notes that would make passengers do or say things without the FAs knowing what they were referring to. It livened up everyone's day and brought smiles to faces not so excited to be crammed into those small seats. Everyone has a better day if you and they are smiling.
yeah, no doubt as that is so hilarious. not
I think ur full of shit.
“I’ve never played a prank on anyone.” Proceeds to tell prank stories in the 1st person.
He's only telling stories about "a guy he knows"
Oh, Cap Hughes is way naughtier than he lets on, I’d bet. 😂 But really, who falls for these? I’d totally be on board for pranks, though.
Aircrafts are very expensive and delicate pieces of technology, there are restrict procedures to operate every system.
Pilots:
*brrrr printer prints money lmao*
🤣🤣
😂😂😂
Good thing the printer is a non-essential system.
I've been a passenger and have seen the ozone check being done by a flight attendant. Years ago on a KLM flight Amsterdam from Houston.
😂 well now you know whats going on!
David Moritz
Me, too! But it was on Delta.
@@74gear I miss those KLM flights, spent many hours flying back and forth. Funny story a bunch of us Army guys and a soccer team ended up on the flight it was just only us and we drank all the alcohol and played football wiith a rolled up blanket. Marshals met us at the gate 😡 But we had just rolled back from Desert Storm so we just got a stern lecture, probably be in jail today though. Helped my dad was a Deputy Marshal, Uncle was a sitting Marshal. Whew! Good times though!
Kelsey was the captain on that flight
My airline flight attendants don’t push a drink cart, instead, they just go through the isle with a tray. One day, the other flight attendants put a note on it that said “Single, looking for dates” on the side facing the pax! She was so confused why everybody kept flirting with her! Haha so it’s not just the pilots who play jokes!
😂 I like that one!
Well is she hot and single and ready to mingle?
@@74gear new material 😂🤣
Southwest, right?
"isle"?
Pilot: "We forgot the keys to the aircraft. Go ask the gate agent for another set."
Flight Attendant: "Hold on. My boyfriend showed my how to hotwire a car. I'll get it started."
"We get this bitch up in the air in no time"
I got some Flight Training from some special forces types they actually showed me how to hotwire a Cessna
@Gabriele Di Lazzaro yah but what if the plane is an "Automatic" ??? 🤣🤣🤣😂😂
@@daviddewey2107 A lot easier than any modern car :\
@@daviddewey2107 "Hotwire"... You mean rip out the magneto grounding wire ?
I'm glad you covered that hapless newbie's tab after pranking her; pranks should never be too mean. Amuse and confuse, but never abuse!
Yeah, I noticed he emphasized that with all the pranks, having some way of making sure the victim could laugh about it, too, afterwards, and isn't just going to resent the more experienced crew for making fun of them. You're probably going to work with that person again, and it's the classy thing to do.
"The ozone test" is similar to a prank we played in the Army on the new guys fresh from basic training and jump school. During vehicle maintenance day, we'd have all the new guys gather "exhaust samples" from every Humvee in the platoon and give them to the maintenance Sargeant. It was a lot of fun watching the maintenance Sargeant smoking all the new guys for delivering him dozens of trash bags full of stinky truck exhaust.
Kelsey, I hope you see this one.
Captains mess with ground crew, too. You need to stay with this story to the end. Shortly after starting work with the airline, I was being trained on and checked out for marshaling aircraft. This was my first time on the ramp, so my trainer was standing behind me. My airline also uses different color safety vests or wording on those vests to indicate rookies, experienced, supervisors, etc. So as this plane was taxiing in, with me in a trainee vest and an experienced vest on the guy behind me, the entire world would know I was new and inexperienced.
As I start the signals to line up and bring in the aircraft, it starts doing things I am not telling it so, weaving on and off the lead in line, slowing/speeding up/stopping, etc. Of course, I'm in the "WTF am I doing wrong" mode and keep trying to get things under control so I can this plane in safely, parked and let all the passengers go about their day. What my trainer is doing behind me, I have no idea, probably laughing to he's wetting himself is my guess nowadays.
I finally get the plane onto the stop bar, chocked and get the jet bridge up to the door. Then I begin my post arrival walk around. Part way around the plane, the captain comes under the wing with a huge smile on his face and sticks his hand out telling me his name and apologizing for messing with me and how he could tell it was my first time and it would be remembered for the rest of my career. We laughed a good one. I have a great sense of humor. But now let me also add, what comes around...you know the rest of that cliche'. His first officer pulled me aside and told me how the captain was enjoying himself and gave me an idea on what to do as a payback, but I assured him, I had a plan already.
They had about 90 minutes between arrival and their departure. So needless to say, everyone scattered to do whatever they do in between flights and the crew went to get food. As I entered the terminal, I had a man approach me and ask me what was happening when I was bringing the plane in, he could tell I was being punked and wanted to hear the story. After telling him, I asked him when his flight was leaving and if he's help me with something. He hesitantly agreed since his flight was leaving after ours way. He enjoys planes and always gets to the airport several hours earlier than necessary to watch the ramp and runways. I filled him in on what I wanted him to do for me which was just stand in the window with his suit fully on (he had his coat off and tie loosened) and when he saw me board the plane and enter the flight deck, when he saw me point up at him, he was to sternly motion "come here, now" type gestures. He wanted to know what I was going to do, but I told him if he knew up front, he's probably not help me, but I'd fill him in after the fact. I assured him he wouldn't get in trouble.
So the gate agent lets the crew out to the plane. I come along and board, making sure the guy in the window was in position as requested. He was. I enter the flight deck and start talking with the captain and first officer. I point up to the guy in the window and proceed to say: "I'm sorry to be the one who has to tell you this, but see that man in the window"...pause, both look up and the captain says, yeah, what about him. "Ah, he's an FAA inspector and someone reported that you were consuming alcohol in the bar while you were in the terminal and he's here to give you a drug test." My guy is doing exactly as I asked, and became even more insistent the longer the captain looked up at him. The F/O in the meantime, realizing my prank, turned away and was looking out his side window trying to not be noticed laughing, but the captain noticed the shoulder bounce and after processing the matter, looked at me with a nervous smile and cracking voice, "you're joking right, this is just payback for my arrival stunt, right?" I started laughing and said, never screw with a master prankster my friend. I won.
At this point , relieved, he wanted to know who the guy was in the window, I told him just another passenger for the flights leaving after yours and I enlisted him to help me out when he asked about you punking me with your customized arrival. He jumps out of his seat and wants to meet this guy. We go up to the concourse and he asks the guy who he is...and he reassures the captain that he's leaving on the next flight. Captain says "So you are not with the FAA?" The guy looks shocked, says no and turns to me asking what he had gotten himself into with me. So we told him. He said to me, had I known your plan, I wouldn't have helped, but now that I did, that's funny. I again assured him he was not going to get into trouble. As I turned the plane out on departure, the captain gave me a huge smile, the sharpest military salute I've ever seen and a wave. He conceded, I won the exchange with that salute.
Now this is where it gets better, for over a month, every single crew from his regional airline that flew into my city asked for me so they could meet me. Seems that this particular man had quite the reputation as a prankster punking flight attendants, pilots, mechanics and office staff equally as all were fair game. And having admitted being bested that day, he (or more likely his F/O) shared the story with everyone and the word spread like wildfire. Thus everyone wanted to meet the guy who put him in his place. I can't tell you how many pops, sandwiches, etc. that were purchased for me as a thank you for getting him paid back in a big way from all his fellow coworkers. It was certainly an experience neither he nor I will forget and he certainly did make it one event during my career that I have not forgotten and that's been quite some time ago.
Long story but well worth it.
Hahaha, that's such a great story!
Hi Kelsey! Love these. My good friend was a pilot for PSA (back in the day), and he had new flight attendants turn all the passenger air vents aft because the added 'thrust' would help overcome a low fuel situation.
That only works if you also instruct them to open the windows.
Aft windows obviously ;p
Someone failed physics… 😂
We had a full airplane -- EMB-120 -- and I made an announcement before opening the door to take boarding passes and letting the passengers out to the airplane. I told them that the airplane was full and very heavy so when they feel the pilot begin to rotate the airplane, they should PULL UP on their seat arm rests to help get the airplane off the ground.
on my first flight they had me go outside with a fire extinguisher to “supervise fueling” and i fell for it and my colleagues had the time of their life watching me prom the inside....😩😩😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Hahahahaha! That’s hilarious
Gold !
LMAO
Hahaha! 😂
Lol when I was in the army, we had recruits go ask the logistic office for the "brass magnet" to pick up all the empty shells on the range. That's always been a great laugh when they returned with an angry look on their face! 😂
On the ‘Aircraft Keys’ joke, years ago (pre-internet), I was in the US Navy P-3 Flight Engineer school. I already had 10 years working on F/A-18s, A-6s, etc., so the first time instructor asked me to go get the keys to the airplane during our brief, I tactfully told him that I might be a student FE, but I wasn’t a rookie to aviation. He tried to convince me and I kept pushing back. As it turns out, the P-3 has a hasp built into the main cabin door for a padlock, so there REALLY are keys to the plane (not to start the engines, though). Thousand of hours on P-3s and C-130s and I just landed a job with NASA’s SOFIA 747!
That's a really cool aircraft to work on! Congrats!
P-3 Radio/Radar/IFT back in the day. Then flew as a civilian for many years at NRL.
Great story!
Wow mate, Sofia!, Congrats, seriously, congrats.
The ''i need the keys" prank seems like the kind of prank the girl who said ''We'll be at an altitude of 300ft and a speed of 6000kts" from Catch me if you can would fall for.
😆 well first few days on any job its overwhelming I think
Info Reverse 💯 XD
Ya lol
I am waiting for the day when a pilot pulls that prank and a flight attendant hands him a mysterious set of keys.
That's like accidentally giving a wind check as 10@290.
Kelsey: "I've never done any of these"
C'mon dude, you wrote the book...😂😂😂👍👍 thanks for another one🍻🍻
glad you enjoyed it Rays
wait this guy has a book?
You have a book🤔🤔🤔
I noticed that he tells the stories in first person, somewhat suspicious if he didn’t do any of them!
" Swoosh".....😂😂😂😂😂
Thanks for continuing to fly cargo in these crazy times and stay safe out there!
doing my very best to stay healthy and feels great to know I am sometimes moving live saving equipment 👍
I think you will be safe, even if you get it. You are young and in good shape, shouldn't be an issue. Worst case is you transmit it maybe. But if you are minimizing your contact with people that is the best we can ask. We can't expect the world to come grinding to a halt. Your job is about as essential as it gets. You could stay busy just moving toilet paper lol.
@CareBare Hair, spelt? I see what you did there.
You did do that, didn't you?
@@leehaelters6182 no, carebare is just a dopey professor.
@@biteme263 many survivors are left with pulmonary fibrosis. That's an expectation of shorter lives for young victims.
I was on a Greyhound bus going across the Nullarbor Plain Australia...The drivers played a few jokes on the passengers. He asked us to check the air coming out of a row of holes running along below the windows. There was none - He said the air conditioning sometimes messed up and the pipes ran under the floors. he got us all to stand up and jump up and down to fix it...We all did.
Another fun one I’ve heard of is handing the new flight attendant two flash lights and telling her to walk between the passengers to charge the lighting strips on the floor
"Her" !??! Sick. There are male flight attendants.
Doubt males get Hazed to the same level. This video was extremely disapointing.
Omg! That ozone check! I’ve seen that happen. I was confused AF trying to figure out wtf she was doing! Now I know.
On another note I know the dreamlifter is performing very important missions. You are saving lives, thank you so much. More than words can say. In these times, it’s comforting knowing that there are brave and wonderful men and women willing to fly all the important equipment where it needs to go!
glad to be recognized for that, and do my small part in helping people during this crisis.
We did something similar in the Air Force to new crew chiefs. We would tell them we need an exhaust sample from a running jet and give them a garbage bag. This was especially fun on F-15's that sat up pretty high.
One of two things would happen. If they stood too close it would burn or blow a hole in the bag and everyone would bust up laughing. If they were smart enough to stand further back it would actually inflate the bag. We would then tell them they need to run across the flightline to NDI shop before it cools off for analysis. Watching new kids running across the flightline with a half inflated garbage bag was always a good time.
@@drz400dude We did similar thing in the Army but it was from Humvee lol Fucking hilarious almost died laughing
Of course they don't have keys. Everyone knows you have to go up to the nose with a big hand crank like a car from the early 1900s!
JustSomeCanuck Don't give pilots anymore ideas, as I can picture a flight attendant with a crank in her hand walking down aircraft steps 😬
I was going to say tell the person, "the previous pilot leaves the keys on top of the front tire of the landing gear." Of course only when safe to do so.
Wouldn't really work with prop planes, assuming that it's old.
This is a bit evil though as it is really effective with new gate agents as well because they get so confused on what is going on. Hasn’t happen to me yet but now I know as I am relatively new as a passenger service agent for KE (been with the airline for a few months now). Happened to a coworker from what I heard when she was new to KE when a new FA asked her the keys question. Station manager had to explain that it was a common joke for veteran crew to play on new crew/employees.
@@ryank1273 If you watch a WWII video of a Bf-109 startup a man puts a crank into the side of the engine cowling and turns it to start it.
My favorite pilot prank is when they announce that "This airline has the best Flight attendants in the industry..... Unfortunately, none of them are on this flight!"
How about the best Fright attendants and they are all on this flight! 😱
Damn that's cold🤣
The reverse is true, too, during the FA's safety announcement.
@@MaxEPR Yall wouldnt do that now, would ya?
@@MaxEPR Actually, after a hard landing the FA's can make some really mean announcements! I've heard a few good ones. The best was "Welcome to Boston. please remain seated while the captain taxis what’s left of the plane to the gate".
These are the same kinds of things that are done to new sailors: Like sending the new seaman deuce down for a bucket of “relative bearing grease” or 20 ft. of “water line”. They have someone go out and stand up in the bow area to watch for the mail buoy or the equator line. Fun stuff!
“They keys? Oh yeah, I brought them in with that ticking box that some dude gave me.”
Also, I love how kelsey’s idea of a prank is giving someone $50. You can prank me any day bro haha
Yeah yeah. I’ll take the money prank any day!
“Most flight attendants believe that pilots are true professionals”
Not a single one of us believes that 😂 small children in grown bodies, you are...
MAYBE the noobs think that...
Stephen Henley I was a noob once. Still didn’t think so 😂 also they warn us in training that the pilots are.....special. It’s why we love them lol
Why all flight attendants are women? Like wtf
Haha ya professionalisms only applies to when pax can see us!
Roodj1 even then, it’s sometimes questionable lol
A pilot friend of me once told me another prank: When the crew arrives at the plane, the pilots tell the newbie flight attendant they have to do a lights check. The newbie has to put on a life vest (because ... airport regulations), fetch a megaphone if possible, stand out in front of the plane and shout "on ... off ... on" while the pilots switch the landing lights on and off! Hard mode when it's raining!
Oh man, I would love to see that happen, lol! I just hope TSA doesn't come out and take the person into custody thinking they're intoxicated or something.
😂😂😂😂😂OH MY GOSH!!!!!!!
I'll try this😂😂😂
They did something similar to me! They had me grab a fire extinguisher and supervise the fueling process 😩😂
So mean!
Yes we believe that Kelsey hasn't done any of these pranks. 😂😂😂
ya man I showed my face of innocence 🤷♂️
Seeing how much he chuckles to every single story (like having vivid recollections) just shows how true it is lol
@@74gear *buuuuuuuuullshiiiiiiiieeet* 😂
"I have never participated in these pranks" 10 seconds later... I tricked someone to find the keys for a 747...
@@74gear if you didn't do any of these pranks, how did you ability to keep a straight face matter in the ATM story
I'm sitting here cryin' laughing right now. 😂😂😂
See, I was in the Army for a decade, as a Cavalry Scout, one of the "Combat Arms" job specialties. We had some, similar pranks we'd pull on new privates.
- Armor Soft Spots Check: Having privates "check for soft spots in the armor" by taking a hammer or a knuckle and lightly tapping in strategic places in the METAL armor of the vehicles to see if anything sounded dull.
- Box of Grid Squares: Have a private go to the Supply Sergeant for a Box of Grid Squares. Grid Squares... are the grid squares... drawn on a map. Can't exactly get a box of them.
- The Supply Room Haul: Have a private go to Supply to get various legitimate items. In this list of items though, mix in some bullpuckey like Chemlight Batteries, Headlight Fluid, a case of I D Ten Tangos (
Pilot: Claims he never pulled any of these pranks.
Also pilot: Tells all the stories in first person because he did them.
this isnt minecraft NOOB
@@sup_a Only noobs are reminded of minecraft by everything.
@@ThatBoomerDude56 its a joke take it easy
@@sup_a Obviously he doesnt have a sense of humor. Time to give up.
On the subject of the missing keys - I used to work in an electrical engineering shop. We once sent a new employee to the stores for some 6mm holes. Fortunately for the employee, the joke backfired, because we used to punch washers out of bakelite sheets, leaving a sheet of material full of 6mm holes. The stores had cottoned on to the joke and made it backfire on us.
A fiend of mine went to work in such a place and he told he had been pranked on his first day... they gave him an 8 inch piece of flat conductor, that was massive copper, 2 inch wide and 1 thick approximately. They also gave him a hacksaw and told him to cut a little bit under 2 inches off of each end so he gets a 4 inch piece. He was half way through the other cut when it dawned on him.
Nice video & I appteciate the laughs/memories of when I was an FA. Now I'm working in a hospital (a bit tired & very overwhelmed), so this video was perfect timing. Thank you and be safe.
thanks Renee, glad you enjoyed it and you be safe thanks for what you are doing!
When I was in the Marines we usually traveled on Marine Corps C9s. Occasionally we would need to take C130s. We had a prank we would do when someone was new to the unit on their first flight in the C130:
The pressurization vents are on the ceiling of the plane and because of the nature of the design, it's normal to see them blow normal air as steam. It can be disconcerting if you don't know what it is. Next to the rear hatch of a C130 is a lever that be safely pumped but doesn't do anything at all when the plane is flying. So we would look up at the steam on the ceiling and appear to be very concerned. "That's not right." "There has to be something seriously wrong with the airplane." So we might talk to the crew chief, tell him quietly what we have planned so he can play along but look like we are alerting them to the dire situation we have noticed. So we go back to the newbie and explain that there's something mechanically wrong with the plane as evidenced by the smoke coming out of the vents. We also explain that the crew chief has informed us that the plane is going to go down unless we pump that lever at the rear of the plane. That duty, we explain, falls on the member with the lowest rank. It's fun to watch a newbie stand back there for a while pumping away occasionally looking up with some fear at what he thinks is steam coming out of the vents. It helps that we keep encouraging the newbie with a little concern of our own: "Keep pumping! Don't let up! We don't want to crash!"
If that happened to me I'd be pissed, but admittedly if I saw it happen to someone else I'd be laughing so hard.
Pricks 😂😂😂 i'd love to see the rookies' faces at the end of the flight when they make the realization.
The same prank is done on Ch-53s, the crew chief with his headset on, is talking to the pilot the whole time, but cannot be heard by the Grunts in the helo. There is a pump near the back that doesn't do anything in flight, but the -53 would start dropping suddenly and the crew chief would get up from his seat, go to that pump and start pumping...the -53 would balloon upwards and fly normally. A short while later, the-53 would sink again, the crew chief gets up, and the same routine is repeated. About the third time, however, he would mutter some profanity and wave refuse to get up. Inevitably, one of the newer Grunts would get worried, and go back and start pumping that handle like crazy.
You asshole. Semper Fi 😆
@@markthomas545 😂😂😂
My old station used to do the Ozone Check prank too on new ramp agents that would clean the planes. We would tell them that we needed a "Cabin Air Check" before the pax could board and that they had to walk fast up and down the isle a few times holding the bag above their head to get a "good sample".
Back in 1969 on a B 727 the parking brake had a release lever that was pulled straight up. That was perfect for a first timer prank. The captain would call her to the cockpit and tell her that the toilet flush release hydraulic pump was not working and they had to use the manual override pump. They would show her the parking brake release and tell her to come in every 15 minutes and pump this lever 20 times. We all had a great time helping her keep the time and go pump to keep the toilets flushing!
"I handed her the $50" and got the weather report lol
#1 - "Daddy's home" is how they are first welcome. That's their baptism by fire.
My Parents: Piloting is a strict and discipline job
Me when I have become a pilot: All that 'good boy in class' has gone to waste...
well I am pretty serious when I am flying these are more for entertainment on down time 😂
@Lost in Australia I don't think he says it seriously, he probably just commented for meme purposes :)
@@74gear Gotcha! Whatever you say, Cap'n!
Man, I love listening to funny confessions. Believe me, this pilot seems very friendly towards his viewers. I'm having a bad time today and now I didn't notice I was laughing while watching lol!
My mother was a flight attendant on the 707. She is 75 now. And she told me about this key prank 40 years ago...
If there’s any such thing as reincarnation, I’m coming back as Kelsey, living life in the fast lane and loving every minute of it, truly brilliant, and unbelievably clever too 🙂
He’s a creep!
You know how I can tell you're lying when you say you've never done any of these things? You almost blinked.
"Is this the face of somebody who would play pranks on a flight attendant?" Well... YA. LOL. Thanks for the laughs. Stay safe.
1. A new flight attendant was working a flight on a 727 (We’re talking a long time ago.) I was in the right seat. A flight attendant came up to bring our drinks and get briefed. The captain told her the forward lav (bathroom) was inop but it would be no problem as long as the “manual flush” was used. The captain pointed to the gear-horn cut out lever on the pedestal. She listened diligently and took it all in. This was way before 911 so flight attendants could just come and go from the cockpit. She was very proud of herself because she “knew” things the other flight attendants didn’t know. Periodically from time to time she would pop in the door and ask us if we needed anything to drink while casually pulling the gear horn cut out. Swallowing the orange juice without spitting it all over my shirt was one of the most difficult tasks of my career. The engineer, then said he needed to P. He popped open the door to the Fuel dump panel which is located on the wall next to the bathroom. He announced “ bathrooms empty. I’ll be right back”. The poor flight attendant had a look of shock on her face. “ you mean you can see in the bathroom?”. “Of course. Security! Duh.” Said the captain.
2. Not all airlines order the same configuration from Boeing. We had acquired a 727 from another carrier. The electrical smoke and evacuation procedure was ridiculously long with the previous carrier. Long story short… When the flight engineers gets down to protecting essential power, about all that is left is the basic flight instruments in front of the captain (worst case scenario) . We were acquired in a merger in the mid80s. I was flying with a crew from the acquiring airline. There was a rolled up U-shaped bundle above the captain. They were curious as to what that was for. I explained that with the smoke procedure you would get down to the fluorescent lights which were not dimmable. Releasing the tires over the captain dropped a comically ridiculous looking cloak around the captain to keep him somewhat in the dark so he could see outside in the event of a night approach. It had a hood to go around the glare shield to protect his night vision. The captain pulled the strings and dropped it to have a look. He was envelope and what looked like a black body bag with little canvas ties. At that moment, a flight attendant came in to see if we want to drinks. She saw the captain in his straight jacket looking body bag, her eyes got big, and she asked if everything was OK. Without flinching, the first officer turned around and said that this was the reason for a three-man cockpit. Anytime there is a disagreement, the majority rules. He said not to worry. The captain was just an asshole. : ). Nothing serious. At that moment the captain yelled in his grouchiest voice “ Bring me a damn cup of coffee!” The first officer faced her mouthed “decaf” . It’s a good thing the captain was covered up because he was laughing so hard he was about to lose it.
I laughed so loud reading #2 that I startled my dog. Brilliant!
The "Coming up" litteraly makes my entire day..!!!
WOW the scenery is AMAZING!
ya not a bad place to be self quarantined for a few days 👍
I once had respect for you.
Now I have even more respect. XD
Kelsey: Tells us he has not participated in these pranks
First story: tells in first person
Come on man, just admit what you've done
He admitted in his first pranks vid that he tells the stories in first person because its funnier, despite it being him or not.
I think he kinda has to say that in order to ensure that he doesn't get fired though...
He probably doesn't wanna admit because he know his airline employer must be watching him lol....😂😂😂😭
Manpreet Singh fair enough
That face cant lie 😋
Love your work. I worked as a "Customer Service Agent" (a/k/a Ramp Rat) for Continental at Ohare from 1972 until 1980 - the dawn of the Jumbo Jet - while going through college and then law school. I loved the job - even working though night shifts in the Chicago winter. Worked mostly international flights as Continental provided contracted ground support for Lufthansa, Air Lingus, Loft Leiter, Mexicana, Air Jamaica and others. It was the wild west back then. We didn't even have ID badges at first. At one time I had a key that would open every door in the then International terminal - this was well before the current international terminal. We also used to prank newbies - such as telling a newbie to go ask the supervisor for the "bin stretcher" while hand loading cargo into older - non-containerized - aircraft such as a DC 8. I still connect about every couple months with some of my former ramp rats. Although, they've all seem to have gotten older than I remember.
Hi Kelsey, although I am not in aviation, I really enjoy your TH-cam videos. From this vantage point it looks like you are in Amsterdam Netherlands. My wife and I were there roughly 9 years ago. Beautiful city. Hope you had time to enjoy it.
OMG the printing money prank! Windsheargenius 😂
😂 glad you enjoyed it
@@74gear I recommend putting your info in and 'printing' the $50. Then put in the FA's and print a $10 and give it to them and see what happens :)
My mom's a nurse, and she has similar stories. "Go downstairs and ask for a long weight." Meanwhile staff downstairs would say, "Ok, stand over there." And just leave them waiting.
LOL.. With the "drug test" prank, I can't imagine the expression on the flight attendant's face when she thought everyone was drinking their own urine.
Pretty early in my airline career, I was flying with the youngest, and smallest, captain at the airline. We left Chicago with a new set of flight attendants, just before dark. It was a quick flight to Cleveland, and not long after level off, the Captain climbed into the cockpit coat closet. I called the 'A' flight attendant to the cockpit, and asked her if the Captain could come back to the cockpit, so we could land. She went back through the cabin, but couldn't find him. I asked her to check the lavs, but he wasn't there. I started our descent, and reiterated that we needed the Captain up front. She got the other flight attendants involved...everyone was looking for the Captain. When all three of them came back to the cockpit, with very worried looks on their faces, he popped out of the closet, and they realized that they had been pranked.
Pilot: "hey my check engine light is on can you send the new girl over to check if the engine is still there"?
I started laughing as soon as I saw the sentence “I need the keys”
so much fun watching these. reminds me of travelling and leaving home at all
One of my colleagues made a prank on another: he opened a PNR and added a special service request for vegetarian meal.
The other was telling me: "So, I was flying a duty travel, was hungry and waiting for some meat with anticipation. What was my surprise when instead of a meat a flight attendant brings me a vegetarian meal."
- Maybe there is some mistake, i didn't order any vegetarian food
- Sorry, but this request was in your PNR
- Can you please change it to some food with meat?
- Sorry, nothing left except your meal
"I was sitting and eating that cabbage :/"
Now that was very funny. I think you would have a wicked sense of humour, Kelsey. It's funny how the newbies, whether it's an apprentice butcher, or carpenter, they ALWAYS get the going over, but it always leaves them with fond memories in their old age.
I was a KC-135R boom operator. We used to get all the new navigators with the radar alignment prank. We’d send them outside during the pre flight and drop the aft hatch down to them and tell them to hold the hatch low then high above their head moving in an arc in front of the nose. They were always so excited to do it until they found out there wasn’t a radar alignment. Extreme cases pictures and video were taken and shown to all crews in the desert during intel briefings.
We do the “ozone check” in the prison with new officers. We call it an air quality check, the bag has to be taken to the captains office so he knows we did it. 😂
I used to actually do a real ozone test with a meter, that detects it. It was a byproduct of uv lamps used in printing. Supposed to be piped out. Dangerous if leaking In to the room. Maybe he need to rethink this prank, because it’s a real thing.
1:37 - "Is this the face of somebody who would prank on a flight attendant?"
Yes. Yes, yours is _exactly_ that face :)
An FA came forward to ask my F/O how fast we were going on behalf of a passenger. He told her we were going "the speed of heat" and had her hold her hand to the inside of the windscreen which was heated. The passenger was not impressed with the answer.
The Shorts 360 had separate doors for the F/0 and Capt. One captain, expecting the FA would peek in through the F/0s door in cruise, decided crouch down to the left of the seat and he had the F/0 say: "If he's not in the restroom, they must've taken off without him." She panicked
Innocent pranks are what get you through the day. I work on the ramp and love my job. Years ago when I worked for Mesaba Airlines. We had ramp agents who would tell the newer ramp agents to ask the first officer for the sab key. The first officers were always in on the prank and would send them off on a wild goose chase for a key to the plane. The airline I work for now has a couple of ramp agents who handsome new ramp agents a plastic bag and tell them to collect air on the ramp and take them to maintenance for an ozone check. It usually gets a lot of laughs if someone falls for it. It's usually a form of acceptance to the team.
I love your stories keep them coming.
More please, and I would love to hear from a flight attendant about their experience with pranks.
Thanks for keeping us all entertained while we go stir crazy! I noticed someone suggested a Hollywood vs Reality for Stephen King's The Langoliers. I second that notion. Some crazy stuff goes down on that plane!
Jason T I Second That!
ya its on the list for sure, glad you enjoyed the video Jason!
LOL I figured I was the only one that had seen that... not exactly a blockbuster :)
“I’ve never done any of these to a flight attendant”
Very specific. I bet you’ve done them to a fellow pilot
I have heard about the "keys" joke. My dad was in the Marines and worked in avionics. Always fun to see the new guy trying to find the keys to a jet that was due for maintenance 😉
Thats an old trick in all aspects of commecial/military worlds. Nothing has keys, except radios. That one really screws people up. Because the boots get pranked into "keys for the humvee" which nope, you can steal that all day. But radios do have keys, and I had a guy who just didn't believe me we needed keys(fills) for the radio before going to the field. When in fact we did. But he had been pranked twice already and just wasn't buying it...
@@DocBeech Are these mechanical keys or encryption keys?
We have something similar in the military. We tell the new privates to get an exhaust sample from the Bradley. They take a trash bag and hold it over the exhaust pipe, let it fill, and then they have to run and get it to the mechanic while it’s still hot. If it’s cold they have to do it again lol. We have a lot of pranks in the military too.
When was a maintainer in the Air Force, the new pilots would get asked to assist with doing the WXR (weather radar) check: walk back and forth 50-ish yards in front of the aircraft with a giant wad of aluminum foil on the end of a broom handle held as high as possible. This was necessary to verify the radar was working properly 😂
Reminds me of the story a friend once told me: When he started learning to be a cook at a restaurant the older guys told him to go to the gun store to ask for a raisin gun to shoot the raisins into the cakes.
Where I come from a carving knife for peas is a classic.
@@TeylaDex Go and fetch some booze to fill up the spirit level.
Hey Kelsey, can you do a Disney vs Reality on "Planes"?
😂 I guess I can look at it Thomas!
That would be interesting, because planes is pretty realistic
@@74gear I'd love to see it!
This story made me flash back to a flight I took as a kid when the flight attendant was quick walking up the aisle with a trash bag open over her head asking everyone to hurry and clear the aisle. I had forgotten all about that until this video. Now I wonder if the pilot was messing with her or if she was just an odd woman 🤣
Oh the look on your face as you convince us you would never participate in any pranks!
And sorry but you are just so cute the way you get so excited and happy about this, like a kid in a pilot costume!
I am loving how similar these pranks are to the pranks in the military. Soft armor checks, exhaust samples, filling out an ID10 (dash) tango form. Etc.
Imagine the FA understanding it and mixing up the glasses on the last one, and suddenly when you drink you hear: "Joke's on you"
When I was in navy service on a german submarine we had the prank to let the rookie go down to the engine room to get the tool to “wind up the magnet compass“. The machine mate then gives them the biggest and heaviest toolbox.
Geez, LOL!
It would have been even better if you only printed a 20 and then hand it to her saying, "make it stretch, it's going to be a long 3 days." lol
Mate, this was absolutely effin awesome. What is the phrase that is opposite of 'click bait'?
You, sir, are a legend. Bravo.
I swear, it was maybe 20 yrs ago. I was on a flight and a beautiful young attendant reached across and felt the window saying excuse me. She continued up the isle putting her hand on each window. 🤣 Wow!
74Gear: I haven't done any of these things. These are all just stories I've heard from others.
Also 74Gear: So we're laughing our arses off after making the rookie flight attendant think for the last 10 minutes she's about to get fired on her first day.
I know this video is from 2 yrs ago , but I just stumbled on your channel!
When I was a brand new hired flight attendant, the most junior plane to fly was that horrible MD80 sitting all the way in the tail cone by the lavatories .
The pilots called me up in the flight deck and ask me if I'd like to watch the moon up close as they have " binoculars " up there. So I went up . This particular peep hole was waaay forward on the side of the f/o . I had to stretch my body to look upthere. My boobs were pretty much in the co pilot face , while the captain stared and " admired " my a$$.
Well. I was looking at the reading light . Only after their stares , I figured out what was going on ! At the end , I laughed with them . 🤣
Hate to admit , I totally fell for it. My roommate at that time, she got the " ozone check " one. The pilots asked her they needed an air sample for density check to go in their weight and balance !!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣
Your videos took me bck to those days. Now im the one keeping a straight face during the pranks!!! 🤣🤣🤣
There's an old Jerry Seinfeld joke about pilots losing their keys being the reason for flight delays
Ive seen this happen in real life. Engines don’t need keys, doors sure as hell do.
@@AidanSM Thats why you bring a Slim Jim or a coat hanger!
Thank you, the idea of going through the pranks your colleagues, it does brings a new dimension to your offering.
Keys to the jet, a couple of yards of flightline, exhaust samples, echo checks, that window heat one is awesome!
Kelsey is a true professional. He would never do anything unprofessional, including pranks. 😆
"I played a great joke on her by giving her fifty bucks. LOLZ!"
All these pranks take time, time = money so they all have a cost. I know one guy who had to drink his own urine for that last prank because they ran out of apple juice.
Gonna put this vid on my "Watch later" playlist in order to find this when I became a pilot
I remember once when I was a baby nurse, one of the older nurses told another baby nurse that we had to "pressurize the negative pressure room" (this was pre-covid!) and made her go try to open the unopenable windows. She ended up calling us in to help open the windows all like "there's no way to open the window!" and the older nurse asked her if she could find the "check valve switch" on the frame that would open the window. After another few minutes, she finally told her the windows don't open and showed her how to actually set the negative pressure on the alarm outside the room xD
This from a passenger. My wife and I were returning to Canada from London. There was some difficulty getting an engine started, and some technical persons had come on the assist the crew, and in due course everything was sorted, and we had an uneventful flight home. We were telling friends about this incident, and managed to convince some that the plane had been started by use of jumper cables from another plane which was brought up nose to nose. Some actually believed us.
Did you hear that KLM had their last 747 passenger flight land today at Schiphol?
It was supposed to happen next year at the 50th anniversary of their 747 usage but was pulled forward due to the corona crisis...
As a nurse I approve the 'drinking your pee' prank. We have done this to doctors! Put apple juice in a urine specimen container and we also use dark green smoothie type drinks and put them in suction canisters and pretend it nasogastric content. We then nonchalantly drink them at the nurses station in front of a doctor 😂 ... there are more details to make it believable but you get the idea!
Would have been even funnier if people switched cups and drank. LOL
Ozone check reminds me of "tuning the radar " on boats. You get the greenest, most gullible crew member, wrap them in aluminum foil, then have them stand on the bow. The captain will give them specific instructions to make them look silly. Everyone has a good laugh.
I was in the Navy on an aircraft carrier. Messing with the new guy is an art form. Only difference is, if the person doesn't catch on or if someone doesn't tell them, you run with it till they detail out (transfer). I was in about 45 years ago. Some people I messed with still don't know it was a joke. I'm afraid there may have been some overlap in my civilian job after I got out...
13:27 "I'm self-quarantined."
Literally a hearse in the lower-right corner, on the bridge.
Now for the bonus question: Do flight attendants ever prank pilots?
yes, they sh!t or piss in their coffee/tea
Kelsey: "this is a picture of me not asking the flight attendant where are the keys of the plane".
I worked on cruise ships, in the late 80's and early 90's. Our version of the "keys" prank was the "fog watch". The newest cruise staff (quite often the show dancers) would have to stand out on the front deck, and ring the ships bell every minute.
Practical jokes/Pranks in some industries have become a sort of rite of passage for some, providing the prank isn't actually dangerous (or illegal) or can endanger someone, but a little bit of fun doesn't really hurt anyone. Plus I think some do it as a means to show that while they may be strict (as you mentioned) that they do have a sense of humor (I know some people -- not necesarily pilots -- who are like that, they appear like a "hard-ass" as some would say, but in reality, can have some fun too).
I remember back in Cub scouts we used to pull the "lefthanded smoke shifter" prank, where we tell new members (while building a fire) "Ok we now we need the left-handed smoke shifter, go ask the Club master for that" and probably 99% of the time, people fell for it. Only once did someone say "There's no such thing as a lefthanded-smoke-shifter".