We have all seen the commercial where a guy dressed as an airline pilot describes how he was able to check the weather on his iPhone which allowed the plane he was piloting to depart on time. Apparently the commercial inspired some chucklehead equipped with an iPhone to challenge a Captain’s weather delay announcement. As you might guess it takes some smarts to fly a commercial jet and this Captain proved he has got more than enough with this wicked awesome response / burn.
On one of the frequent-flier blogs, an airline pilot writes that only moments after informing his passengers of a weather-related ground hold affecting their flight to Memphis, Tenn., he and his captain received a call from one of the flight attendants. Seems an iPhone-wielding customer in the back had a challenge. “Some guy with an iPhone says the weather is good,” the flight attendant says, “and wants to know what the real reason is for the delay. Is something wrong with the plane?”
Reportedly, the captain responded with a public address announcement that was sharp enough to elicit audible laughter from the cabin.
“If the passenger with the iPhone would be kind enough,” he began, “to use it to check the weather at our alternate airport, then calculate our revised fuel burn due to being rerouted, then call our dispatcher to arrange our amended release, then make a call to the nearest traffic control center to arrange a new slot time (among all the other aircraft carrying passengers with iPhones), we’ll then be more than happy to depart. Please ring your call button to advise the flight attendant and your fellow passengers when you deem it ready and responsible for this multimillion-dollar aircraft and its 84 passengers to safely leave.”
Consider yourself burned, SON! You checked a weather map on the internet dipshit. 90% of cell phones available today have the exact same capability but people don’t use them to second guess trained professionals. Only some pompous ass clown with an iPhone would think that said iPhone and it’s internet weather map is better than the millions of dollars of equipment, personnel and training packed into an airport control tower.
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Was that Frank? That sounds like Frank…