Aviation Humor

[Paul G]

http://www.doyletics.com/tidbits/militaryadvice.pdf

[ITSA426]

Some of my favorites.  Thanks

[Charger_Fan]

"A good landing is when you can walk away from the plane".
"A great landing is when you can reuse the plane".  Too funny!

Lots of cool pics & quotes in that link, thanks for sharing!

[69rtse4spd]

 Thanks for posting.  .

[JB400]

Some good ones in there

[skip68]

  

[charge69]

As a retired Air Traffic Controller, I can tell you some stories that will raise the hairs on the back of your neck! 

[Ryan.C]

As a retired Air Traffic Controller, I can tell you some stories that will raise the hairs on the back of your neck! 

Dont keep them to yourself now. 

[charge69]

OK, I'll try to be brief.   When Emirates Airlines first started flying into and out of Houston, it was a once-a-week flight.
When they got to Houston one week the airport was closed due to a line of heavy thunderstorms right over the field and not moving!
He held on the NE side of Houston for about an hour and then moved to another holding stack on the NW side of Houston expecting the front to push on thru.
Didn't happen and he held for about an hour and got low on fuel (it was a 17 hr flight from Abu Dabi if all went well)
Had to divert to Austin to take on fuel however, Austin does not have customs there so everyone had to stay on the plane! They've been on this 777 for almost 20 hrs, now!
About an hour later they take off and go to the NW side of the Houston Airport and, all of a sudden, the line of weather backs up and closes the airport again.
They hold for about another hour NW of Houston and the weather is slowly backing up (heading NW instead of SE) so we decide to vector him out of the stack and try to get him in over Galveston (the gulf arrival corridor).  He had to go about 100 miles out in the gulf to get in line with the massive amount of holding aircraft we had waiting to get to Houston.
When he landed, the passengers had been on the aircraft a little over 24 hrs!
Not a scary (I have plenty of them), just a crazy story about how things can go wrong due to weather!

[Charger_Fan]

OK, I'll try to be brief.   When Emirates Airlines first started flying into and out of Houston, it was a once-a-week flight.
When they got to Houston one week the airport was closed due to a line of heavy thunderstorms right over the field and not moving!
He held on the NE side of Houston for about an hour and then moved to another holding stack on the NW side of Houston expecting the front to push on thru.
Didn't happen and he held for about an hour and got low on fuel (it was a 17 hr flight from Abu Dabi if all went well)
Had to divert to Austin to take on fuel however, Austin does not have customs there so everyone had to stay on the plane! They've been on this 777 for almost 20 hrs, now!
About an hour later they take off and go to the NW side of the Houston Airport and, all of a sudden, the line of weather backs up and closes the airport again.
They hold for about another hour NW of Houston and the weather is slowly backing up (heading NW instead of SE) so we decide to vector him out of the stack and try to get him in over Galveston (the gulf arrival corridor).  He had to go about 100 miles out in the gulf to get in line with the massive amount of holding aircraft we had waiting to get to Houston.
When he landed, the passengers had been on the aircraft a little over 24 hrs!
Not a scary (I have plenty of them), just a crazy story about how things can go wrong due to weather!

That doesn't sound fun at all. Did all the other planes give up & land at other airports too?

[charge69]

Most did and got back in the air to Houston later creating a crazy-busy day for us. They just did not need customs to de-plane the passengers for a rest before coming back to Houston.  International flights had to go where there is a customs presence or they would not be able to get off the aircraft.

[Charger_Fan]

Gotcha, that makes sense.