april fools day!!!

flyinhigh · Post by **flyinhigh** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 11:42 pm

well ladies and gentlemen, its april 1st now.
so let's here what some of your pranks have been? or what you will be doing this year?
once the day is up I'll post mine, just so that I don't give it up..

hazatude · Post by **hazatude** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 4:11 am

We're making the kid at work sing the theme song to dirty dancing over the PA. Keep your ears open YHMers

We will be doing this around 0800

Bede · Post by **Bede** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 5:57 am

I didn't actually do this today but a couple weeks ago. A crew was coming in from a satalite base to pick up an airplane. I left a note for them to make sure that the plane stays clean because it was just washed, and that someone had complained about how dirty their plane was. Signed, Ops Manager and Chief Pilot. The funny thing was it just rained and their regular airplane was full of mud (they had flown into a gravel strip). Anyways, the crew hit the roof and were about to go into the ops manager and give them a piece of their mind. Someone stopped them on the way to the office and told them it was a prank.

1st timer · Post by **1st timer** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 7:30 am

Had a friend call in and book an $8000 charter. All the pilots then refused to return the dispatchers pages for an hour. Then had my friend cancel the charter. I had 47 seperate pages within the hour.

NFA · Post by **NFA** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 9:06 am

JetsGo starting up again is got to be a joke, right?

DeskDriver · Post by **DeskDriver** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 9:16 am

Some bastard made a 50-50 mix of salt and coffee mate at the coffee machine this morning.

spoiler · Post by **spoiler** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 9:18 am

oh my god.

Two years ago we played the BEST prank on our medic.
It started with the SARS outbreak. Having to take ear temperatures. Well, one day just prior to april first, the other pilot and myself were waiting for a patient to be dropped off, and we came up with a funny idea to play a joke. Now new directives were comming down from sunnybrook daily/hourly, so we figured we might get away with this one.
We decided to change a new memo to 'rectal' temperature, instead of 'tempanic'. We changed everything. The memo's, things from head office, everything. Then we faxed the changed info to thunder bay to get them to fax back, so would have the right #'s on the top, etc. We also told the head of medics, and let everyone else know.
The next day, which happened to be april 1, the medic in question came into work and was informed of new procedures. he called head office, only to be asked if he had seen it, and 'sucks to be you". Then new first officer arrived (and he had been flying up in yts base, so he did not know medic at all), and did not miss a beat, started telling medic that up in yts the medic there had been doing it for all the pilots, and as a matter of fact, one of them seemed to like it..lmao. Said he had had it too. Now medic is really freaking out. "no fucking way am I taking pilots temperatures rectally!!! no fucking way!!!" Told by head office that he has to....., then calls yts and told my ame that everyone had been lining up the day before for the medic there to do it.
anyway, had him going ALL DAY about this.
Too damn funny.

Airtids · Post by **Airtids** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 9:37 am

We placed an elstic band around the sprayer nozzle on the sink, and had it pointed right at where the operator would be standing. This wasn't the best part, however: We put a little bowl of water over the door, in a location we knew would miss, and called one of our buddies over. He shows up, opens the door and misses getting hit with the water. We all feign disappointment, and tell him that so-and-so is on their way over too, so he should refill the bowl and replace it on the door. Well, he goes to the kitchen, turns on the tap and BLAMMO!! Absolutely soaked! All the rest of us are pissing ourselves with laughter, and the victim is so fired up that they get on the phone himself to call someone else over. This went on all day, and by dinner we probably had forty people in the house for a BBQ, and the beers were flowing. Best April Fools ever!!

ZLIN 142C · Post by **ZLIN 142C** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 9:57 am

When I was working the ramp at YQL a couple of CMA pilots and I came up with a good idea. Since the aircraft sits in plain view of the passengers in the departure lounge, we figured on April 1st myself and one of the other rampies would wheel the captain out to the aircraft in a wheelchair, then carry him on board and strap him into his seat. This performance would be followed a few moments later by the FO, making his way slowly out to the aircraft wearing dark glasses and using a white cane.

Perhaps it's just as well that on April 1st I find myself far from the Lethbridge ramp. I consoled myself this year by submitting to my current employer an expense sheet that lists $2400 worth of "entertainment" expenses, including booze, massages, lap dances, and prostitutes. I'm expecting a phone call any day now.

TTail · Post by **TTail** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 10:39 am

Here's my April Fool's for today, MSY to TLH...

Miss Mae · Post by **Miss Mae** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 3:38 pm

Here's a good April Fools joke.....

Call a flight school and tell them that you are a visually impaired pilot looking for a braille flight training manual

co-joe · Post by **co-joe** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 4:09 pm

Not on april fools, but a while back at my old job, the engineers wired my brake petal to the horn on my truck. Messed me righ up fo about an hour. He wired it right into the fuse box.

Nobody ever owned up to it either...

Cat Driver · Post by **Cat Driver** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 4:30 pm

Back in the early dawn of flying we had a real pus.y hound flying with us and he was using the services of one of the little sweethearts in Povungnituk so one day when I was overnighting in POV I got talking to this hound and said, hey xxx I'll be dammed, one the nurses just told me they are flying xxxx ( the little sweetheart that xxx was servicing ) out to Montreal on my flight in the morning because they can't cure a dose of clap she just picked up.

Well that poor bastard was married of course and it was truly awsome to watch the emotions his face was displaying as his mind tried to digest the story I had just told him..

...anyhow he somehow arranged for dispatch to send him up to Resolute or some other point I can't quite recall, but eventually we told him it was an April fool joke....

....the poor bastard was so releived he wasen't even capable of anger.

Cat

flyinhigh · Post by **flyinhigh** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 8:12 pm

well, here is the one that we never did.
we were going to jack the front of someones car up just enough so that the tires were about 1/2 inch off the ground, just enought that they would not notice it. when they get in to go the tires would just spin, and they would be late for work. the next day one of the other guys I was with would call said person and freak on them for beng late for work...
However we figured that at 11:00 at night this would be pretty hard to accomplish. so instead..
we made fake licence plates for this particular car that said

Ontario
FEL-8-IO
your to discover

said person drove around for the day before realizing it.
we also made a fake plate for a cop car saying homo

peeelot · Post by **peeelot** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 8:36 pm

What you need to do is if you have a student that will taxi too fast and you are at a busy airport. Get a blank official letter head from the airport and write a letter to the student that his taxi speed has been noticed and if he dosen't slow down they will be forced to pay a fine. They will shake

Canus Chinookus · Post by **Canus Chinookus** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 9:03 pm

Today I got my neighbour as we both bought some booze at the local beer store. I went first, and while he was still deciding, I whispered to the cashier to 'decline' his card... sure enough she did it, and there was a line up too... man did his face go red!