Police Called on Pilots by Cabin Crew
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- Pranking happens in most every profession at some level but when pilots show up to the gate and the police are waiting for them it is never a good thing. This is the story.
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Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:46 - What is That
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"if the other pilot decides to have a heart attack"
Imagine making such an irresponsible decision!
The very least he could have done was wait until the flight was over. The gall of some people who have no patience to delay decisions or any consideration for others. Such narcissists.
Bad pilot! You are a _bad_ pilot. Take up your yoke and fly the d*^# plane.
Any good pilot would include their heart attack in the flight plan.
Heart attacks are forbidden unless it s in the checklist
Definite sign of piss poor impulse control...
PURE embarrassment. ;o)
*Kelsey:* These stories aren't about me.
*Also Kelsey:* Here's detailed information about where snacks are kept.
Kirby 🥴🍙
If you look closely you can see some smoke coming from his pants when he's saying that wasn't him. 😉
We all know Kelsey spent years of hard work to become a pilot just to have free snacks
Some fa's have to hide snack basket from the pilots because they can and would devour entire contents
He flys cargo, they get a self service coffee pot and some bottles of water. The snack thing is part of the story he was reading.
showing your young fresh female colleague you've been secretly recording in the bathroom is like joking with the airport security personnel about bombs in your luggage. you're going down
Absolutely, pranks have no place in aviation for any reason.
Worse is when someone thinks let’s pay them back.
That’s how the trouble started.
Once a security told me to get out of my boots and I asked him, if he really wanted to die. 😂
@@BlackAcePlays
How did that go for you?
Seriously try that in Australia and they would lock you up. Assume they have zero sense of humour.
I have made this mistake.
The "bathroom camera prank" pilots kind of hazed themselves there
"So I taped the video camera in the corner of the bathroom, Your Honour..."
Wonder how he came to the decision that this was ok at all? "Camera in the bathroom, this surely won't get me in trouble"
When the jokes so good HR wants to hear it.
🤣
Lol you got me. I laughed.
Pranks that may be construed as felonies are never a good idea.
I agree!
I'm a retired emt. You don't mess with jump kits (medical kits). They're stocked for each shift for a good reason.
It's disappointing to learn that pilot training doesn't include "snack basket acquisition" and you have to be left to your own methods to figure it out.
Lol, it’s also disappointing that he hasn’t considered consorting with the aircraft cleaners. After about six months or so we learn where *everything* is located on the aircraft and in the galleys, particularly if we’re inquisitive. Plus we can get away with rummaging through the galley in ways a pilot can’t. Now it’s true there are metal boxes and trolleys with tags or locks on them but those don’t usually include the snack boxes, especially on the Lufthansa aircraft. The chocolates are out in the open.
However while I personally don’t take anything without permission, on the Lufthansa planes I usually wouldn’t need to because the flight attendants almost always give me a decent amount of the chocolates themselves. Why they give me chocolate is a bit of a mystery given that they don’t hand out chocolate to all the cleaners and other ground personnel. Still I’d trade snacks for a few minutes of having either the heating on during winter or air conditioning in summer while we’re working. (Or at least having the onboard temperature set to whatever is comfortable depending on the season.)
As a FA its ojt for.pilots to find the snacks. Although, I offered while getting the galley ready.
I got an airdrop from a Lufthansa flight that showed our A330 from below. We were on fingers when he came on and told us to turn on airdrop. We were on a nat trak . Photo showed contrail. Awesome shot.
Ya know, for someone who is telling someone else's story in first person, and insisting that you're not involved at all, you are a remarkable good story teller. You sure these aren't hybrid stories where you are mixing some of your own stories with these? Either way, another entertaining vid!
The part about snacks totally sounds like Kelsey!
@@CaptainKremmen ikr
@@CaptainKremmen absolutely Kelsey there's no doubt about that lol he uses the 747 just for his snack haul jk lol 🤣
I'm sure he's involved in some of them
This incident is why he’s hauling cargo and not passengers anymore.
This is a true prank story: In our airline in the early 1970s ,we had a very mischevious prankster captain. On a flight from Dacca to Karachi on a Boeing 707, he found out that they had a new Air Hostess on her first flight. He briefed the First Class Purser about his trick and the new girl was put in the First Class--which also served the cockpit. The Captain called the girl to the cockpit to take an order for tea for himself, the copilot and flight engineer. It was a night flight in a bright moonlight sky. As soon as she left to get the teas, the three cockpit crew opened the floor hatch behind the captain's seat (to the avionics and electrics bay) and all three went down there. When she returned the poor girl was alone in a moonlit cockpit with no crew! She ran back to the purser to tell him that the aircrew had disappeared. Meanwhile the crew emerged from their hiding place and resumed their seats. The Purser led her back to the cockpit, where the crew were now seated. She collapsed on the jump seat in confusion. The captain explanied to her that "on a first flight new crew are sometimes subject to optical illusions." Weeks later the Hostess was told about the prank. It was a very stupid thing to do because there would have been no one at the controls if an emergency occurred. No one reported the captain but, a few months, later he was permanently grounded with a heart problem.
My old heart couldn't take that,...but it's clever.😁
Funniest prank that Ive ever heard 🤣 but u re right, kinda dangerous
Could you imagine that's the last thing heard on the cockpit voice recorder before a major accident? Like, it would probably be regarded worse than the one with the Russian kid.
Back in the glory days ,when you could get away with all kinds of things with the air hostess...
I am not in favor of a prank that would initiate disciplinary action if found out.
these guys really thought "haha ill make a young woman believe she was sexually harassed, itll be HILARIOUS" and thought there'd be no consequences
That's if their explanation were true.
I'm not even sure the story is true at all. An airline would surely sack pilots even pretending to do this. If the story leaked, what would it do for it's reputation?
It’s funny that you claim to know what they were thinking. oversensitive people like you and Karen are Example of what is wrong with modern Society.
@@andysPARK You wouldn't be fired over a practical joke. And if this got leaked to the press people would have a bit of a laugh and that's it.
@@Athaeus disagree, but respect your opinion 🫡
@@Athaeus You don't usually get fired for a prank. But you get fired for being so stupid that you pull stupid pranks.
Always loved your analysis of flying and found this honesty refreshing. We all are human and I get the prank gone wrong. Thanks for the humanity, mate, stay legendary. The story telling is amazing. I will buy your book
he's bad man
I realize the story is told in the first person, but the snacks story sounded both familiar and authentic. 😉👍
And I'm certain that Senior Mamma (Señor Mama?) knows exactly what's up, too.
He’s missing out by not asking the aircraft cleaners. Provided we’re not new, we know where the snacks are and we can very easily get away with rummaging through the galleys. At least that’s how it is while I work.
@@77thTrombone that's no woman, baby. That's a man, man!
as a cabin crew, i can assure everyone of one thing : PILOTS EAT NON STOP!!! they’re always hungry istg they call us to get a coffee,, then some fruits, when it’s meal time they call to have their meals, then they take a break, come to the galley, get another coffee and ask for more food etc etc AND I FLY SHORT/MEDIUM HAULS. (i eat a lot too, but god, pilots are on another level of hungry hahaha)
@@morwenk4910 hey, waving your arms to fly for 8 hours is tiring work!
For some reason the idea of Kelsey rummaging through snacks like a hungry trash panda is hilarious.
Your videos are great!
He loves to mention those snacks.
How in the heck is this guy so skinny?!
@@LizLeapin1970 it's easy to remain thin when you are a boiled owl! 🦉 🦉 🦉!
@@LizLeapin1970 He's has an ectomorph body type.
High metabolism?
My friend's uncle was a pilot for a major airline, formerly an Army helicopter pilot, was also a man/little boy, as were his colleagues. I remember one time he flew his brother's Piper (either a Cherokee or Arrow) under a bridge. So many stories. They'd think up the craziest hijinx during the boredom of long flights between North and South America. The flight attendants put up with a lot.
This guy was sitting in the right seat while his brother was flying the Arrow, with two of his kids in the back seat. It was a long flight, from New England to Texas, and at one point they hit a sudden and very bad thunder storm. The *real* pilot brother saved the lives of all on board.
It reminds me of going scuba diving with a former commercial diver, who'd retired and become an arborist, routinely climbing to the tops of very tall trees. They are two of the most dangerous jobs there are. He was a lunatic, always goofing around, but if you got into trouble 100 feet down, he's the person you'd want there to help.
A pilot friend once invited a father with his young son into the cockpit ( yes there was once a time that was allowed.) My friend was talking to the young boy and asked him what he thought of all the dials, switches and lights. The boy was properly amazed and then my friend commented that he once knew what they were all for. The father complained to the airline and my friend had a not so nice meeting with the chief pilot.
I remember my dad taking me to the airport to watch the planes take off and land, when I was a kid. We were only about a hundred yards from the runway and the only thing separating us from driving out onto the runway was a chain link fence. Can't get nowhere near that close today. And it was not a podunk airstrip....this was RDU...
That was someone that saw an chance to maybe get some money out of the airline. And they probably got something out of it too.
There was an Aeroflot crash caused by a moron pilot inviting his kids into the cockpit...
You know, before it was banned...
@@LathropLdST Maybe could you do the difference between ALL pilots who invited a kid into the cockpit and the ONE you refer to who let the kid to play with the yoke
@@LathropLdSTIn that incident the moron pilot let his son fly the aircraft and his control inputs conflicted with the autopilot and first officer's control inputs.
Just when you give us plenty of reasons to put full confidence when the pilots and crew, you come along and remind us that they are still crazy humans. 😂😂
Very unprofessional isn't it..
@@nigelwilliams9307 I would much rather them enjoy themselves, rather than get up tight and go postal.
@@AFloridaSon call me old fashioned but I don't want pilots larking about on aircraft when they have flight preparation to concentrate on.
@@AFloridaSon - Aww, c'mon; they're adults. Surely they're not going postal if they're not having fun.
@@wickedcabinboy "Going postal" is a term tthat originated when _adults_ took guns to work at the post office and many of their co-workers did not come out alive. Adults also need to relax and enjoy life.
I do believe Kelsey's disclaimer and that he wasn't involved in these stories, but the one where he told about how the pilot would watch to see where the snacks are stored did seem like an instance where one of these stories did happen to correspond with his own experience. ;)
Unless things are different in the US, he’s missing out by not consorting with some of the more experienced aircraft cleaners. We know where just about everything is aboard the planes we clean and we can rummage through the galley as much as we want, time permitting and nobody bats an eye. It might be different with his airline and as a pilot he might not know that we often have a legitimate reason to rummage. But the second reason is that, well, we’re cleaners. Most of the time neither the pilots or flight attendants even notice we exist and we have access to very nearly the whole aircraft.
Which is a shame, because I would happily work with any pilot to secure the best snacks in exchange for keeping the air conditioning running until we’re done cleaning. You have no idea how fast an unpowered plane heats up in summer, especially during a heat wave. 😁
didnt he say he was the pilot getting policed? also I bet he would be glad to cooperate
I think he has said multiple times that he flies the cargo version of the 747, so no passengers will be on the plane, like he referenced in the video.
@@DraX_x He's also said in the past that before he flew cargo he flew "corporate" or regular passenger airlines. He hasn't always flown cargo.
@@mikoto7693 Likely they cannot let the the A/C on. Where would the power for A/C come from. I assume they cannot let the engines run (safety) and they would not (fuel costs). THANKS FOR YOUR SERVICE. If a machine has a longer stop over the passengers have to leave and board again.
The OP in the first story also missed the point that you don't waste peoples time, cabin crew look to have plenty to do, so even if they do have some down time during a trip, they don't want to waste it looking for "phantom" cameras on the toilet.
It might not have warranted a visit by the police, but defiantly a trip to HR.
And making it look like the senior cabin crew being the problem for lack of humour, it seems like OP didn't learn from the visit to HR:
This has got to be the most creepiest and unprofessional story that you have ever told and admitted to. HR should have terminated!
He didn’t admit anything.
@@jordanmcinroy8427 Not what OP said, goober.
@@oz_jones so he doesn’t literally say “and admitted to” in his post?
What is the most difficult thing in aviation?
Pilot #1: Takeoffs
Pilot #2: Landings
Pilot #3: Good CRM
Pilot #4: Emergencies
Pilot #5: Affording certifications and licenses
Kelsey: Finding good snacks
As a private pilot, my answer is this. By far the most difficult thing is understanding what others are saying on the radio. Most pilots will probably not admit they agree with what I say, but I'll say it. I suspect that a great deal of the time, pilots and air-traffic controllers assume what was said was what they expected was going to be said. Most of the time they're right, because there are very standard series of information that are said by pilots and ATC (controllers), especially during taxi, takeoff, departure from the airport region, arrival into an airport region, landing and taxi (but not so much out in the middle of nowhere). So most pilots most of the time just assume what was said was what they expected ... assuming what was said sounds remotely like what they expected. Honestly, this aspect of flying really annoys me. Fortunately, I'm a STOL, backcountry, "bush" pilot and thus 99% of the time there is nobody else around ... no tower, no ATC, no other pilots or airplanes ... nobody period.
Kelsey: getting to the good snacks first!
@@maxbootstrap7397 Expectation Bias. You nailed it. It annoys me too and can be dangerous.
#5 hit me right in the soul. I'm on year 2 to affording my PPL. Gonna take me another 6-8 months to get there.
@@maxbootstrap7397 So it's fine that you can never understand people on the radio because you spend so much time in remote areas? It's fine for you to ASSUME what someone said because chances are that you're right?
The only time I've seen firefighters not be pranksters is when they are fighting fires. lol.
Even then all they talk about is wanting to jump into the chipper or go out in a blazing glory
I have 2 cousins and an uncle as station captains. Oh the stories they tell…
I like the channel “Firehouse Chronicles”.
Opened a medical kit, phone recording in bathroom?
All I hear is people that need to be fired.
I truly enjoy your stories. As a retired crew member I can truly relate … yes I miss the friendly skies…💔✈️
A pilot I know explained a similar prank involving a new flight attendant while showing her the flight deck and explaining switches ,including the ones he labeled "Contrails" beforehand with a label machine. Then explaining how these are switched on after getting a signal from the government for a vaccination run.
That would be chemtrails. Contrails are what really takes place
Now that is funny.
Now there are probably 20 more anti-vaxxers who believe in chem trails in the world because they heard from a flight attendant who saw that it's real in person
😂😂😂😂😂
@@thepreppingnethinim1254 Yeah, but no pilot would call them chemtrails. And this could very well be where the whole conspiracy theory started!!
As a Jasmine, I'd be pretty freaked out if there was a camera in the bathroom, too!
Ok Jasmine
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The all important SNACK BASKET!
Number of years ago when flying for a large regional airline....A flight crew on a EMB 120 Brasilia, called the new FA to the cockpit (only one FA on an EMB120)....there the light crew explained the Lavatory was "overheating" while gesturing toward some flashing lights in the cockpit, and told her she needed to dump ice in it and flush it until the flight crew gives her the okay. Now the "potty on small regional aircraft is basically a portapotty with a pump that circulates the contents to filter out any solids from the fluid when it is "flushed." What the flight crew did not count on was a very intelligent and concerned FA... After the flight she first went to maintenance to check on the condition of the "overheating" toilet and to find out how often it happened and if it was a hazard in flight. That's when she was informed about being the victim of a prank. Pissed, her next stop was the chief pilot.....who sympathized with the FA and agreed to help her get even.........next day the flight crew were called into the chief pilot's office. Chief pilot immediately confronted the flight crew about their "prank"....after they admitted to the "harmless" joke , the chief pilot then explained how the pump that normally circulated the fluid had burned out due to all the ice they had instructed the FA to dump into it........they were then informed that that pump cost $10,000 and They, the flight crew, were on the hook for the cost of a new pump....and it would be taken out of their checks over the course of a few months!!!! The flight crew were left dangling for months before realizing the tables had been turned on them......
One reason for always having two persons in the cockpit is that there are a least two known instances where the remaining pilot locked the door on the other while he was off the flightdeck and crashed the plane deliberately to commit suicide. There was LAM Mozambique Airlines Flight 470 and after that more well known Germanwings Flight 9525.
And do you think a woman would be able to stop a grown man that could know her out or tie her up? What would that change?
I’m sorry; I’m trying to understand: How does the reason you mentioned (“knowing at least 2 instances where the remaining pilot locked the door”) help, practically? There isn’t a lot that can be done knowing that info. I’d agree if the *reason* was that another person could potentially subdue the offending pilot but that’s a different scenario?
@@aurelianspodarec2629 - I personally know quite a few women who could do that. Increasing numbers of women are doing community facilitated self-defence training, martial arts, becoming police officers, military personnel, and jobs/professions that were once considered solely physically conducive for men. All crew should be incentivised to learn & train in a form of martial arts or self-defence/protection IMO.
@@justicesubito6408 Are you a woman?
A woman doing martial arts won't win against a stronger opponent than her. I've trained Martial Arts and a smaller woman stands no chance against a bigger man. Unless shes a UFC champion on the heavier side, and even then...
What does military or police has to do with anything? WOmen are doing a terrible job at being police officers. They usually wait for men to get physical when needed, and they don't apply the law when its being broken, and I saw that with my own live eyes. How can two small statue women stand up to someone? They can't unless they are 100feet away with a gun and the other person don't have one.
A job title means shit.
You have grown police officers being beat up by some guys here in the UK. And usually women are ususelss, super useless. in such situation, as if they are a liability in that situatoin.
Its not being sexist, its being able to observe how women do in such work and how they behave. Though at that point you might say the videos are fake or the police reports and psychological analysis are wrong.
Also, in an enclosed space like a plane, martial arts is shit. Pure strength wins.
And in terms of strength, a woman that been training for years and has muscle, is at the same level as a kid that been playing video games and never been lifint gout.
And a woman that's one of the strongest woman in the world, lifts as much as your average dude.
What's so hard to understand that men are superior when it comes to physical contact? Also, more men are training martial arts too, and probably more than women do.
So what are you talking about? What is your point?
@@justicesubito6408 Holly crap. I jsut read your other comment.
Are you just splitting some bullshit in these comments?
" (“knowing at least 2 instances where the remaining pilot locked the door”)" - do you think the airlines regulation body is stupid?
If the door is locked, you can unlock it from the inside, FFS. Its locked for the outsiders, but you or anyone can unlock it from the inside. Hence if there are two people there, at least one can always open the door... just because its locked, doesn't mean she wouldn't be able to unlock it
Wow, cameras and bathrooms don't go together under any circumstances. . I know of about 3 times around here, the results were jail. I'm surprised they weren't fired.
Oh, I’m sure Southwest made those two pilots very sorry for tricking a flight attendant into thinking that sick, twisted perverts were spying on women while flying the plane. And, of course, for forcing Southwest to release a public statement confirming that the company doesn’t have hidden cameras in the lavatories of their planes and let the pilots perv on their passengers.
I totally relate to your sense of humor. I also believe when you left the room after they gave you your scolding, they cracked up once you were clear of hearing range. You know they laughed, who wouldn't?
Kelsey has been crafting this for a while. His early videos were, well let's just say were raw.
When my man started, it was a lot of raw stuff going on. He's just gotten better.
Try his earlier videos, if you were born yet.
I don't think you were be malicious with this comment, but maybe a little naive. ❤❤
I've seen practical jokes go way wrong. I never do them.
Oh come, you haven't lived until you send an intern to go buy some wifi cables, or hand them a plastic bag and tell them to take atmosphere samples, but make sure it's representative of all altitudes.
When I was Security Forces in the Air Force back in the 90s, if we had a brand-new troop working the main gate after dark, especially if it was a little foggy, we'd call the phone at the gate and tell the new guy the control tower needed a "visibility check." (Of course, he wouldn't know what to do, and we'd berate him a little for his lack of knowledge regarding his duties.) We'd explain that the tower needed him to go outside and wave his arms and that they the ATC guys in the tower would be looking toward the gate to determine if the visibility was good enough for flight operations. We would of course time this to ensure some cars came up to enter the gate first and have him stop them at the entrance for a moment (so there was an audience for our shenanigans).
After he came back inside the gate shack from the first try, we'd tell him they weren't able to see him, and to go back outside, face the tower wave his arms much more vigorously. This would go on for a bit, and on the third or fourth try we'd have him jumping up and down in the middle of the street and waving his flashlight around as well while cars were backed up waiting to get on base. After a minute or two, we'd let the gate guard in on the fact there was no such thing as "visibility check" request from the control tower.
This was just one of many pranks we did to the new guys back then. Good times!
@@nvelsen1975 Wifi cables are a thing! They're used to connect high gain antennas to access points.
Physical ones can, yes. This was a situational one though. It's not like you ran a wire from the coil into the cabin of the car and wired it under the seat giving your friend electrical burns to the butt.
You do need to be careful but come on, occasional pranks are great.
Your only mistake was not cluing in Karen. If she'd been in on the joke, she could have controlled the fallout.
She would be against it
The joke is a variation of an old prank. The original is you are at a party, you record the bathroom (empty) for about five minutes. When someone goes in to the bathroom you put the recorded video from earlier on the big screen and then start laughing when the person comes out of the restroom.
Either way, not a very smart work-place prank. Too many ways for it to go wrong and a little creepy at that.
That gets into hazing territory where you are picking on the newbie. Go back and read that opening paragraph of the article Kelsey brought up.
It's kind of on the Mamma for escalating things before establishing what was going on. Or she should have been the target. But making the prank about a private area was dangerous in itself
@@Markle2k Oh, I agree. Completely. But it probably wouldn't have made it to HR if he had done so. That was my point.
@Mike Kabakov Yep,probably .
Thank you
Great job
I’m a bush pilot from Alaska for years and have flown many recips twins etc. great gob thank you!
Best story yet , thanks for all the hard work .
I have a friend who Captained 727's for PEOPLExpress back in the Frank Lorenzo days. (After all these years and mergers, he recently retired as 747 captain, but that's a story for another time). Back in the day, he told me that there were a number of access panels in the 727 Cockpit for maintenance guys to access various equipment. Pilots and engineers, being bored ... and being pilots and engineers, used to open up those panels and "investigate" (like raccoons) what was behind the access panels. The maintenance guys did NOT like flight crews messing around with THEIR stuff ... so to ward off the raccoons, they would load up the spaces with the rudest and rankest porno they could find. I'm pretty sure my friend wouldn't mess with it, but I knew a number of other pilots back in those days ... and most of those raccoons LOVED skank.
See, that sounds like an invitation to me. There's interesting stuff behind the panels, and now there's the dirtiest porn ever? I'd be looking at every image no matter how gross, and making sure every other pilot got to see it.
Though... I may be an outlier, who knows. I'm a 31 year old woman but when I was a teen my mother worked for a paper company that got hundreds of magazines and papers, and would deliver however many each store wanted. That included porn magazines. So since I was like 16, my mother has found it hilarious to show me any gross porn she finds.
No matter what, that sounds hilarious. The first and second generation of commercial pilots definitely got to experience the skies and their airplane in a way pilots probably can't anymore. I'm quite jealous of your friend. :)
Check out Captain Boeing here on youtube. All he flies is the 747 and posts videos quite often.
That's like a miniature version of my flight into Baghram. I shared the flight with a few other non-attached specialists, some miscellaneous items, and five GIANT crates clearly labeled "Porn".
Really puts you in the 'this military stuff is very serious' mood if you've been steamed through the academy at breakneck speed and deployed in a hurry.
Coming into the airport there were a lot of very anxious GIs who immediatly got to the plane, really gave meaning to the phrase 'to protect something with your life'.
I remember the panel porn was used on TWA. The maintenance guys liked it.
Im guilty of that too. Even before flying commercial would do that on the C141's
My late aunt was always a nervous flyer in her later years. The reason for this is that she was an Aer Lingus flight attendant in the 1950's & 60's on aircraft such as the DC-3 , Constellation & Viscount; she would tell us in later years that the crazy things that she witnessed back in those days in terms of pranks, mid-air emergencies & near-misses with other aircraft had left her scarred for life!
Real crazy pranks too like her going up onto the flight deck one evening to find no-one there and the aircraft droning away on autopilot (the 1st officer had gone to the toilet, and had asked my aunt to bring the Captain up a cup of tea). The Captain evidently was hiding behind the curtain in the small closet at the rear of the flight deck that some of those aircraft were fitted with back in the day to store the flight crew's uniform jackets and luggage etc, where he then leapt out at her wearing a gorilla mask, giving my aunt quite a fright!
I guess as lot of those guys back then were ex-WW2 combat pilots and were a little bit "loose" by today's standards, judging by some of her stories. Kinda makes toilet camera pranks and the like seem a bit lame in comparison.
Crazy is right. A little upset and there could have been no story to be told. Kind of like that Aeroflot captain who got out of his seat to let his kids "fly" the plane for a bit.
Same experience my relatives have had
@@Markle2k For those who don't know, the plane crashed. Google it. Doting father.
I’m laughing my butt off I know I shouldn’t but I think I saw an above comment mentioning the exact same kind of incident 🤣
I can't see Irish pilots behaving like that...yeah, not much 🤣
As soon as I heard that police were there to meet you guys, I figured at a minimum both of you would be visiting the chief pilot at a minimum, but OMG, HR too! Glad you two still had a job at the end of the day.
Hey Kelsey, I love your videos and always look forward to seeing new content from you! You rock sir, thanks for doing what you do!
that dream lifter looks like it's about to explode from over pressurization in the cabin does it not?
AirDrop range is 30 feet. This is approximately the range of Bluetooth which is required for a 'handshake' between the two devices. This is in unobstructed space (i.e. not surrounded by a metal airplane shell for each device). The photos (or files) are sent over a peer-to-peer WiFi connection between the devices. So... didn't happen. But nice story.
Steve 😊
Not all aircraft have metal shells these days.
Older airdrop did not use any bluetooth for connection setup(new versions do require BT alongside wifi) it was justAapple's bastardized version of WIFI direct.
The WiFi has much more than 30ft of range, in clear air at least 300ft on my property, but as you wrote it would be attenuated by two conductive hulls even if the lower one has windows facing up.
@@Christophthegeek They are still conductive, because otherwise lightnig could cause them severe damage. Some old military aircraft had this issue with their carbon fiber parts and I saw some impressive pictures of CFRP turned into black puffballs.
Bluetooth has a "useful" range of 30 feet. A large part of that range is transmitter power and the inverse square law. There are things you can do on the transmitter side to increase range - for example increase power or reflect more of the signal. (Like holding your car remote up to your chin).
In the first story, if OP had actually thought about his prank first, he might have realized that "there's a camera in the bathroom" means something very different to a person who doesn't know it's fake. The way it was done was fine because he didn't do anything that would risk recording anyone without their knowledge and it seems there was no indecent exposure either. This might be funny among the right group of friends at home, but definitely not in a work environment. In this case, Karen's response was appropriate because she had no way of knowing it wasn't true. If someone *had* been recording in the bathroom, even OP would likely have reacted similarly. I'm glad that no one was harmed because of this. Well told, Kelsey.
This. Think about how people will react and defuse the situation before it gets out of hand.
Would have been a great laugh if the pilot timed it so he was coming back onto the flight deck while the iPad recording showed him still doing his business.
Calling the police based purely on hearsay was not appropriate at all.
@@mytech6779 for Jasmine, it wasn't hearsay; she was a direct witness.
@@christinewolfe5481 Also, apparently she took a picture of the IPad for good measure. Unfortunately I think the police part of the story is fake. This apparently happened to a pair of Southwest pilots and the flight attendant reported them to HR. The whole article can be easily Googled. Apparently the pilots faced no legal ramifications but I’m willing to bet HR made them sorry for pulling such a stupid and cruel prank.
I’ve just discovered your channel Kelsey, and enjoy watching it very much.
I really like how at the end of every video you give us a choice of two other videos to watch next. It's like a little TH-cam choose your own adventure.
Airdrop uses Bluetooth to set up the communication. Those planes would have to be way closer than you want to know for that to be possible.
I think that's why they used the logic of being over the ocean with no interference. Bluetooth is janky sometimes because it uses unregulated frequencies and so there's often interference with electrical noise (which admittedly a plane has a lot of), but if it's minimised by being in a very unpopulated area, then its range might be increased somewhat. Even so, 1,000 feet is stretching it.
AirDrop uses Bluetooth and WiFi. It uses Bluetooth to find devices nearby and sets up a peer to peer WiFi network. It’s still hard to believe since a plane generates a lot of interference itself. But if the WiFi connection is established, the distance should be doable.
@@WaterCrane nominal operating distance for class 1 bluetooth is about 100m or 300ft, that is already under line of sight conditions. But even for wifi on standard mobile device like an iphone or ipad you are not getting significant more range tan that. One of the big problems with 2.4GHz is that water is very good at blocking it, it absorbs the energy like microwave exciting the molecules of water in the air. Being at altitude, the cold would reduce the water in the air helping the range, but it reminds of the top gun scene where he take the picture of the pilot in the other plane flying inverted...
Yeah, that story isn't true. They actually used a long USB cable. /s
That took balls to tell this story in first person. Impressive self confidence.
It doesn't take balls at all. It improves the storytelling and that's enough motivation and consideration
@@alastorgdl I agree. My point was if someone didn’t hear him explain what he was doing, they’d automatically assume he’s talking about himself. And you know how quick rumors spread.
No just being human and from time-to-time jokes in the workplace all make us smile. Many years ago working we had a very old A&P who no longer had to punch in or out and had been in the medical center and he was one of those old masters you could call any time for help.
there was around 50 or so people working there, and it was more like a family now that I look back on it and a place of learning or that's how I saw it just out of the service and now new position in the avionics department
ever one got together and got a belly dancer for a Suprise. He was call over the PA to come to the avionics department, it was not big deal he was call all the time as we were Turing out full avionics builds all the time in aircraft that had a STC and producing a used aircraft that would out preform a new one from the factory
Things could not have been any better as he came in the front door and saw everyone standing around and then the music stared and the Dancer did her stuff, he was total knock off his feet and had a good time, He back into a conner and said my doctor told me not to get excited.
You have to love good war stores as they say
amazing story but the airdroping is fake, they mightve told they had idea of airdroping but cant actually do it
He’s a pilot. Self confidence comes with the job.
Absolutely love the 747. I live just east of KORD and every time one goes over I must stop and watch its graceful glory. Super cool that you get to fly one.
Loving your content. My favourite recent discovery 👍🏻
You're so close to 1mil man. I remember when you had less than 50k. Good stuff!
I remember when subs were 10K...and I was wondering when he would hit 20K.
Good content, reliable schedule, all come together to make 1 mil one day!
I worked for Apple for 8 years. That AirDrop story is company lore and often used to demonstrate how easy AirDrop is to use.
Crone 😒🤧
And it would literally be an airdrop haha
Indeed. Problem #1, AirDrop uses bluetooth with a range of ~30ft. (wifi has a range of about 100ft) Problem #2, unless the top plane is inverted, there's going to be a giant signal blocking wall of metal between the two cockpits. Just try doing that with a ground worker at the gate; it won't work.
@@jfbeam Charlie: Well, if you were directly above him, how could you see him?
Maverick: Because I was inverted.
@@jfbeam 😑👋
LOL, the snack basket. He is always thinking about food. You have to love this guy.
I love the animation and word expression! APRN in ED for years while I was in University, and “pranking” is quite brutal. Every shift and I don’t scare well. I pass out from fear. Not trauma patients but someone hiding in a dark room will knock me over!
Well don't work in the far north of Canada. Only RN on duty one evening in the ER, and a Six ft seven inch indigenous drunk man jumped put of a dark Procedure room grabbed me and threw me over his shoulder and headed out into the subarctic night with me in my scrubs. I didn't faint, had to keep thinking. But I was scared and startled for sure.
@@joywebster2678 what a nightmare! I am so glad that you are here to speak about this. Getting into our ED was like an airport. First your bags and then body scan. Before we had this feature…gang violence rang out as opposing gang members posed as family members and opened fire up in the ED! I was so afraid for my coworkers. I wasn’t on that night. It changed everything for a lot of people. I think RN’s have seen and experienced stories that would startle the population. Your story is a grand and frightening one. I am so thankful that you are here to tell it. You were smart and kept your cunning wits. 🙏🏼❤️
iphone range is 40 feet, so I doubt the airdrop story without having the TCAS kicking in...
airdrop uses bluetooth to find other devices, yeah, i'm also pressing X real hard on that one...
@Mike Kabakov yeah that would result in some red hot debriefing at least...
I am curious about this now. Next time I go up I am going to see if I can airdrop to another plane above me. Granted I am in no airliner, but still will try, out over some unpopulated areas.
My favorite part of this cockpit confessional episode is when you confess to lurking so you can snoop on the snack basket. LOL I think you're my spirit animal.
I love your description of having to talk to HR. Brilliant!
I really enjjoy your videos and the info you provide.
I heardv about a crj captain who bought a numerical dial with a backing plate and some sticky tape. He was doing a rotation with a flight attendant who would call the flight deck numerous times each day complaining about the temp in the cabin.
After rigging the contraption up, he told her its a new upgrade feature and that it would allow her to directly control the cabin temp...apparently she never once bothered the flight deck again!
That's brilliant, I think I'll do that😄
We used to have a similar trick in my previous job in IT support. We'd commonly get calls from our users saying things like "the Internet is down" or "I can't Facebook my Google"; basically misusing jargon. Anyway another common whine was "the network is slow". What I sometimes did in those calls was to say to them "OK, hold on a moment", put my phone near the keyboard and then loudly clicketyclackety on some keys like shift or capslock; I'd then go back with "how is it for you now?" The number of times they'd happily chirp "Oh that's much better now, thank you very much!" and hang up, made it clear to me that sometimes they'd just want to hear the illusion of activity in response to a perceived problem.
Not amusing! Trying to fool a fa is unprofessional. What exactly is a "rotation" ..more than 1 flight? Incorrect term..treat fa like a professional. When pax complains about heat/cold to fa, it's her job to relay to pilot.its not a game
@@barbaracameron5610 Why does gender matter? A rotation? I'm going to guess here, but seeing as they are flying a CRJ jet, which is generally a regional jet, they were doing a day together. Probably 5 to 8 sectors.
And it is amusing, not over the top amusing, but a little giggle there. I'm sure FA's have done many a joke to Pilots as well. Pilots and FA's of varying gender, right?
Family did that with the thermostat in my grandfather's house. Put in a new thermostat a bit out-of-the-way and let him play with the old one as much as he wanted. And what he wanted was *heat*.
I ’m absolutely sure that -in Europe at least - the 2 people in the cockpit at all times came enforced after the Germanwings pilot crashed his plane in the Alps a few years ago . The suicidal pilot refused to open the door for the captain who had gone to the toilet and since he was alone in the cockpit nobody could do anything to prevent him from crashing the plane ...
That's correct.
How do they go to the bathroom?
@@henkeH2 one of the flight attendants gets called up to the cockpit and sits there while one of the pilots goes to the bathroom. That way, if the remaining pilot goes nuts the attendant should still be able to let the other pilot back in.
@@christinewolfe5481 yes , the only funny thing about that tragedy is that they debated for days to find a solution about how to let the pilot and the copilot go to the toilet . I remember they even thought of installing a portable toilet in the cockpit ....not possible , not enough room obviously .they also thought of a special code for the pilot and the copilot that would open the door even if it had been locked from inside the cockpit.Impossible for planes already built...electronics on board wouldn’t allow it
Yeah, the FAA introduced it in 2015 right after the crash. So did Germany, but apparently they stopped requiring it by 2017.
It's a good rule though. There's been several murder suicides with airplanes, where maybe it's a cargo plane with only a few crew, or a huge commercial flight. I'm surprised it took that long to introduce the law.
Keep doing what you do, I love these videos. 👍
More stories please! They’re so entertaining, really fun to listen. Love your vids!
I was in the RAF back in the 80s and we quite often worked alongside the Americans on their UK bases, we got to know many of the guys at places like RAF Little Rissington and Upper Heyford ( probably closed now, it was years ago ) . The Americans were always so hospitable, we would be invited into their bars in the base exchange and the beers always flowed freely, usually bottles of chilled Michelob which I personally loved ! We had a team member on our squadron, who was always a bit out there, a bit of a lad and a joker and the centre of attention if you like. We spoke to the USAF Military Police and asked them to drive to our set up down the airfield in one of their Police vehicles, tires screeching and sirens wailing and come and arrest this joker in our team. Which they did, they hand cuffed him, back of their Police car and went off spinning the wheels, sirens and lights going with him in the back looking out, his face was a picture, with that, what have I done look on his face !! The cops bought him back half hour later and of course, he got the prank and it was beers all round. Great prank.
The 70's were the best to fly.
It's funny how the first thing I associate with RAF is Red Army Fraction. I always get the chills when someone says they worked for the RAF, till I remember that Royal Air Force has the same letters. Or that one time a teacher told about his friends in the IRA. Till we found out he meant some unknown French (or was it spanish) academy and not the Irish resistance.
Calling MYTHBUSTERS - Airdrop test between jets required.
ABC 😶
If you are too far away to pair with bluetooth, you are too far to airdrop.
@@Markle2k That could be, but according to Apple's manual entitled "Apple's iOS Security Guide, 2018" page 40, Apple says "iOS devices that support AirDrop use Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and Apple-created peer-to-peer Wi-Fi technology to send files and information to nearby devices, including AirDrop-capable Mac computers running OS X 10.11 or later. The Wi-Fi radio is used to communicate directly between devices without using any Internet connection or Wi-Fi Access Point." Notice that the bluetooth signal is being transmitted from the WIFI radio. WIFI has a range of 100m vs 10m for Bluetooth. So I'm wondering if an iPhone's range for AirDrop could be 100m because AirDrop uses the WIFI radio for its Bluetooth signal.
I love storytelling abilities. It's like you were involved in everything. I know it's not the case but the way you tell it sounds like that though.
oh my gosh ... hilarious ! This story reminded me of the one I heard about this bus driver who was waiting to be picked up at a stop and found a white cane. He was going to put it in lost and found but before that were to happen this bus driver was also taking over from the other bus driver. The bus driver with the white cane pretended to be blind. The outgoing bus driver decided to play along. He proceeded to describe everything comparing with the clock. Then the driver pretending to be blind yelled out "Just tell me when the light turns green and I'll go!" At that moment all the passengers ran off the bus. Ya, HR didn't like that either.
no shit
I see Kelsey, I click so I can see what’s…
Comin’ up! ✈️
Free tip for viewers. No matter what this man says, you should not call the fight attendant "senior mama." Leave that to the professionals.
Turner 🧐
Lmao Steven you made me laugh so hard I startled my kittens.
Worked ATC for 31 years in NY, Love this channel
Thank you Kelsy for the PSA about hand washing, Also I've got a idea , how about a episode or montage of you talking about snacks and skeeming for meals. Thanks for the laughs.
Love to hear this kind of stories, I respect pilots for being very intelligent people and like to know you act as human beings and not like robots.
Hi Kelsey, so happy to see a video coming up again.Puts me in a good mood immediately.
LOVE THIS CHANNEL!!
actually I had to lough several times and had to shake my head as well in disbelieve. Thank you for entertaining me! 👌
I used to see the Dreamlifter fly over my house every now and then. So cool to think you may have been the pilot aboard! For the audience, if you see this plane in real life, you are amazed it can stay airborne - it’s so big and crazy looking!!!
I’ve seen it several times when I’ve been in Charleston. You’re right, it is big, and crazy looking.
@@organrick Apparently it’s now the world’s largest plane (4 of them total), thanks to Putin’s aggression in Ukraine.
These are some of your best posts, love how you tell these stories!
That camera prank was very imaginative and was also a very very stupid thing for someone to do.
I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL MAN, IM GLAD YOU HAVE A SIDE GIG AS A PILOT TOO BUT KEEP UP THE AWESOME CONTENT.
The first prank sounded like a bad idea from go lol
9:21 Best Apple wireless technology story ever. It literally needs to be made into a Super Bowl commercial.
@Noqat ▪ Brand Strategy & Design
I was thinking no real airline names shown, just Apple. Sort of in the spirit of that Pepsi ad at the beginning of the original Top Gun. A fanciful look at the product.
🤭🤣🤣🤣 your prank was hilarious. And people need to lighten up and enjoy the short time they have on this plane. 👍 Keep up the good work brother. ✈️
Planet... Not plane.
I appreciate your good humor.
Another very interesting video drop from; @74-gear ! Honestly, I've never met such a composed and a good storyteller pilot like Kelsey! Thumbs up 👍 for the great aviation stories and insights as always.
Kelsey, I think you'd do great around a campfire telling stories under the stars while we all make smores! Have a great week everyone!
Oh my goodness that's such a good idea. Imagine a camping/hiking trip to to visit the ruins of some crash site.
Have a great week!
Loved both stories! I gotta admit that my jaw dropped a little on the Air Drop story though.
I love this format ❤
Kelsey, your timing with this is impeccable! Just last night I was flying from ORD - LAX on a 737 Max. At one point I saw the FO standing in the galley area talking with the girls. As he went back toward the flight deck, I wondered if the pilot would have to get up from the controls to let him in. At that point the door opened and the flight attendant stepped out. I remember in the past they had a gate they would close to block off access to the galley & flight deck whenever one of the pilots was away. I didn't notice that this weekend at all.
I work on the 737 max 8 pretty much every shift unless the ramp team is really short staffed. There is no gate. I can’t think of anywhere one would fit. So I think access can be granted by using the keypad which I’m sure the pilots and flight attendants could use, but only with permission from the person inside who has a button or switch to use which grants access and unlocks the door. And a button or switch that rejects the request even if the code is correct. But it sounds like the pilots can just unlock the door anyway even without a code.
I know it’s designed to thwart potential hijackers. The pilots can look through the door and see what’s happening outside so that even if a hijacker were to coerce a flight attendant into giving them the code or making him/her use it, the pilots would see and reject the request. I’m not fully sure but I suspect that there’s also a sort of “deadman’s switch” where it will unlock automatically if the code is input and there’s no response after a certain amount of time to account for the highly unlikely event of double pilot incapacitation.
Love your work Kelsey, congratulations on all your success. Most pilots seem so stiff, would be really cool to fly with you. Thanks for your time. 👍
best way to freak you out about a camera in the bathroom
He mostly flies freight so you would have to be in a box of something!
This was you best vid ever 😂
"I tell them in first person, even though it has nothing to do with me..." Right...
Great video! I'd really like to hear more story's like that!!
Hey Kelsey I love it when you tell these stories 😂✈️❤️
Kelsie scoping out the snack basket - lol!!
This is legendarily funny, I was laughing before you even explained the prank because I knew exactly where it was going. People need to chill!!
I've had to open a land-based OSHA required medical kit for a toothache, another for a minor cut. The amount of paper work I had to fill out because I had a toothache was insane. Glad the medical kit record exists. I'll always keep aspirin, neosporin, band-aids, eye-drops and antihistamines of some kind in my personal tools
Kelsey just to let you know. In UK. if you prank someone like this. Police usually look for evidence. If they see a video of a toilet. They would take you to police station. And lock u up. Then they would call you for interview 3 days later. And you and your lawyer would be discussing your defense :D only at that stage everyone would think it's not funny. Also they would make you pay fine for wasted time. :D not a good idea have pranks. Also if someone gets injured or dies because of the prank. They tract it as manslaughter. Involuntary assault. Here you go Chaps...
Even though I heard you tell us that this wasn’t your story but you were telling it as though you were, you told it well enough that I mostly forgot during the story which was pretty cool. I watch another channel here on TH-cam and the guy explains that the stories he tells, he tells them as though he 100% believes them, but then at the end will normally give his real opinion. But it’s unbelievable how in the comments people really lose their minds on him, I guess they didn’t see that part, or didn’t watch to the end when he says how he really feels. People are funny.
I’m a firefighter full time for 10 years. Pranks are the way we show love to each other ❤
which might explain the stripper hopping out of the San Jose fire truck.
That was a good story. I dated a flight attendant for a while and some of her work stories were absolutely insane. She was also absolutely insane, so that ended pretty quickly...
Lol
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u have to be kinda crazy to be a flight attendant tbh, i cant imagine dealing with stuck up people that berate u on a locked vehicle while sometimes drunk...
Oh yeah. Me too. That was Judy. Right?
Every airline has a Jasmine. I think it's required. Not sure about my current one, but my last three did. As far as this prank...whooeeee, that was a risky move that bit back. Great video. LOL.
Best thumbnail on the 74 Gear channel ever 👍 🤣
dude YOU are a great story teller i must say lol