Stupid Linecrew Tricks!

hazatude · Post by **hazatude** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 9:25 am

Post your stories about the dumbest/funniest thing you've ever seen a, "Ground Person" do.

Please no names of people or FBOs.

Panama Jack · Post by **Panama Jack** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 9:26 am

What??? You mean linepeople are now turning tricks to survive!?!?

Brutal industry

Pajock · Post by **Pajock** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 9:33 am

I got 2.

1. In Boston one day. Parked. I was sitting in the cockpit, seen a baggage cart start rolling by itself right at the airplane. This 200 lb black girl working the ramp seen it too. She went into NFL linebacker mode, ran at it, and deflected it off course , saving the day.

2. In YYG. Just landed. Seen an AC tug working its way across some taxiways, by ityself. It eventually made its way onto the runway, and got stuck in a snowbank on the other side of the runway. I think it was trying to escape the union. It didn't work.

CrimsonSkies · Post by **CrimsonSkies** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 10:23 am

we aked the new F/A to check if Mr Robert Loblaw was onboard, she made the PA and told us she couldn't locate him.............we told her maybe he goes by Bob...........PA "Bob Loblaw....Bob Loblaw....Blah Blah Blah........too funny.....we all had a good laugh

Doc · Post by **Doc** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 10:39 am

Well, one winter day in CVG, I got a little bored and asked the lady on the PA in the terminal to page Mike Hunt....she did....several times!

capt. · Post by **capt.** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 11:00 am

well I think that the dumbest thing that I have saw yet is people starting engines while the engine tents are still on...
Or I know one guy actually ran the tow bar over, the ground crew took it off but didn't take it away.

richpilot · Post by **richpilot** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 1:08 pm

I Once saw a citation fire up and taxi away without the nose wheel pins connected, they made it about 50 feet until they had to make a turn and realized the problem. They had to shut down, get out, reconnect it and then fire up again. Ouch, how embarrassing

pilotbc69 · Post by **pilotbc69** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 1:24 pm

We would ask some of the new pilots to go to the competition to find brass magnets...or call up the maintenance and ask if they had any piston return springs or muffler bearings. They always knew we were playing tricks on the rookies and would say "we don't have any but you might try so and so at another number." It happens in every industry and is pretty funny.

chipmunk · Post by **chipmunk** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 1:48 pm

And then you can always ask the new rampie to go get a bucket of prop wash from the hangar (the old AME kept a bucket of ball bearings in the corner for just this purpose.)

shitdisturber · Post by **shitdisturber** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 4:49 pm

Back in my groundcrew days in the military in Germany, the wanna be cops, (MP's) used to show up at our line shack periodically. While they were inside we would then chock the back wheel of their car with a large rubber Herc chock we kept handy for such an occasion. They would of course never check and attempt to drive away without much luck. Rather than risk a little embarassment and look when they were having difficulty driving away; they would rev the snot out of the car until they could get it to jump the chock. I don't know how many times we pulled that one on them but they never figured it out and we never got tired of it!

Wally3Wheels · Post by **Wally3Wheels** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 4:50 pm

I watched a production manager ask the new apprentice to go down the ramp to another AMO and get a bucket of Prop Wash...told the apprentice that it was extremely corrosive and set him up with the ventilator, rubber apron and sholder length rubber gloves. Poor guy jumps on the tug and takes off, the other AMO put the bucket of water on the hangar floor covered it with plastic rap. The guy showed up, looked like he was from a quasi hazmat team, brought the bucket back and cleaned the props...because he was keen! They told him the truth a week later.

Wrench monkey · Post by **Wrench monkey** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 5:59 pm

Oh man Wally, that has to be the best we have been able to make that joke work! We had plans to send him back to his school with a vial of the 'prop wash' to give to his teacher. It is the new Low Temp Prop Wash! We didn't have the heart and let him in on the joke. He didn't find it quite as funny as the rest of us for some reason...

jet a1 · Post by **jet a1** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 7:51 pm

this is along the same lines as the prop wash. you get the new guy to go ask an AME for a "long stand". the poor guy gets told to wait right there.(for a long time) and thus a long stand....ha ha ha.
later.
jet

pilotbzh · Post by **pilotbzh** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 8:24 pm

a wile back in France, I was doing my time with the military, and I got a few funy one with aprentice ( the mecanics where very serious about breaking in new guys ) I had one looking for a new spark boxe for the hold plug, another for some "line of fire" for the armor vehicule, but nobody will ever forget the "hamer to flaten the glass" the poor guy looked for it for 3 days and ended up at the headquarder to order a supply of new hammer that can fatten glass....

but I was looking very serious in those days

Longtimer · Post by **Longtimer** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 9:05 pm

We used to send the new guy to borrow a "skyhook" from another carrier as it was needed to speed up an engine change..... then we would phone ahead so they would be able to redirect him to the next likely location. Most fun in winter......

northpilot54 · Post by **northpilot54** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 10:32 pm

Working at AC we use to put what ever we could in a Can (AKE, AkH..etc) so that we didn't have to put it on a pallet. This one time we had this printer machine that was a little too big...only a couple of inches...but it would not fit...so we sent this know it all bitch to go to Maintenance to get a "can extender".Obviously there is no such thing because the cans have to fit underneath. We had half the building waiting for her to get back... Maintenance gave her a 2x4 with "Can extender" written on it. Same girl we sent her to Maintenance to get the keys for a A340...telling her that the pilot forgot the keys... She shut up for a while

I_Drive_Planes · Post by **I_Drive_Planes** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 12:22 am

When I first started at the heavy duty truck shop where I do cleanup part time the little boss decided to have a bit of fun with me. He sent me down to the local parts store to get some "chrome muffler bearings" for the shop truck. I'd heard this before so when I went to the parts store I told the guys there what the deal was, and I had them put some old bearings in a box, and do me up a fake invoice for $5432.84. When I got back I evaded the little boss and went to the big boss and told him "I got those bearings that (little boss) wanted me to get, they sure are expensive for what's there." I thought his head was going to explode, he seeked out little boss and tore him a new one, while I was having a good laugh as I swept my floor. Everyone had a good laugh once they found out how it had backfired. They no longer play jokes on me.

chowda · Post by **chowda** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 1:27 am

Years ago in yvr, the company had hired a fresh pilot for washing airplanes. He was extremly enthusiastic, to say the least, and proceeded to scrub down the a/c on the flightline.
Apparently no one mentioned to him, that of the 5 a/c on the line, only 3 belonged to us, and he proceeded to wash the competetions a/c also

Youngback · Post by **Youngback** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 2:43 am

I was once sent to maintenance for a left handed rivet stretcher. I was only 16 then.

Flying Low · Post by **Flying Low** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 3:18 am

What???? No one sends the newbies for 5 yards of "flightline" anymore?

hazatude · Post by **hazatude** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 4:00 am

Don't forget the Apron Pins.

Northern Skies · Post by **Northern Skies** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 4:21 am

Newbie on the ramp is handed a bunch of runout cargo and told, "quick, go pack this in the belly of that plane!"...... newbie then rushes to plane (727), packs the main landing gear well, and hurries back with a straight face.

Spiraldive · Post by **Spiraldive** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 9:22 pm

Northpilot:

Yah, we used to send the rookies up to socc to "get the keys for the 767 because the cpt forgot his, and hurry, because they're out in 20 min.". One of them came back with a set of keys some wag in dispatch offered him, and proceeded to the flightdeck to save the day. The pilots laughed all the way to LHR.

Never got tired of that one.

grounded · Post by **grounded** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 10:17 pm

Had a CSR at the Aerocentre I worked at paging Mr. Herman Nelson to the front desk all afternoon. Weeks later when she found out what a Herman was she was not happy!

bigred · Post by **bigred** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 10:49 pm

While I was a rampie we had a Instructor working in the class room in regards to some aspect of flight training or the other, with a student and upon completion of the book work and the manditory pee stop she and the student pulled the plane out of the hangar (C172).She then told the student to always remove the tow bar and engine tent prior to starting the engine. The student and her completed the walk around and removed the egine tent entered the pland fired it up and proceded to taxi away through the snow drifts with the tow bar bouncing along the ground in front of it. Once she got to the run up area and had to make a turn she felt the extra drag from the bar and shut it down just as the other instructor and myself were arriving at the plane. This just goes to show that the pilots can also make silly/stupid mistakes I just felt that I had to defend some of the slower rampies out there who havent caught on

Stupid Linecrew Tricks!

Stupid Linecrew Tricks!

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