I’ve trained pilots who have Judge Judy for a regular charter-passenger. They say she’s as crusty in-person as on the tele.
One of my clients Captains airplanes for a charter operator who contracts out to Hollywood celebrities and said he had just opened a pack of chewing gum and popped it in his mouth when the cockpit speaker broadcast “Clearance when read—to-copy”.... so he tossed the gum-wrapper in the little trash-can/receptacle in the passenger-cabin and dashed to the cockpit to receive the clearance. He remained in the cockpit a few minutes when she made her “arrival” and stormed up the air-stairs and into the cabin, tossing her overcoat to the steward.
As she sat down she bitched about the cabin not being clean....”There’s TRASH in this basket! Don’t you guys ever clean this place up for your customers?” (The cabin was spotless otherwise with flowers and catering trays of food on the galley.)
My client/Captain left the cockpit and peered into the trash-basket...saw his single gum-wrapper in it... and apologized to her thusly: “Sorry, Ma’am... that‘s my gum wrapper... I had to dash to the cockpit to grab our clearance.... No problem.... I’ll take care of it.”
He then walked to the cockpit, cancelled the clearance, grabbed the trash-basket and personally walked it all the way across the ramp to the fence, emptied it into the public garbage-can and returned it to the passenger-cabin,.... and informed her there’d be a twenty-minute delay while he re-files a flight plan and awaits a new clearance.
He said he never was requested again as her flight crew and he’s so much more enjoying flying courteous and pleasant people like Will Smith, George Clooney, and Trevor Noah...
One of my clients Captains airplanes for a charter operator who contracts out to Hollywood celebrities and said he had just opened a pack of chewing gum and popped it in his mouth when the cockpit speaker broadcast “Clearance when read—to-copy”.... so he tossed the gum-wrapper in the little trash-can/receptacle in the passenger-cabin and dashed to the cockpit to receive the clearance. He remained in the cockpit a few minutes when she made her “arrival” and stormed up the air-stairs and into the cabin, tossing her overcoat to the steward.
As she sat down she bitched about the cabin not being clean....”There’s TRASH in this basket! Don’t you guys ever clean this place up for your customers?” (The cabin was spotless otherwise with flowers and catering trays of food on the galley.)
My client/Captain left the cockpit and peered into the trash-basket...saw his single gum-wrapper in it... and apologized to her thusly: “Sorry, Ma’am... that‘s my gum wrapper... I had to dash to the cockpit to grab our clearance.... No problem.... I’ll take care of it.”
He then walked to the cockpit, cancelled the clearance, grabbed the trash-basket and personally walked it all the way across the ramp to the fence, emptied it into the public garbage-can and returned it to the passenger-cabin,.... and informed her there’d be a twenty-minute delay while he re-files a flight plan and awaits a new clearance.
He said he never was requested again as her flight crew and he’s so much more enjoying flying courteous and pleasant people like Will Smith, George Clooney, and Trevor Noah...
