Airline coffee

Teller1900 said:
To the OP - you can now say you are familiar with the effects of hypoxia.
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It's funny, I'm a total coffee •. Not in quantity, but in quality. I drink about a cup a day, but I roast my own in a drum sample roaster. I tells ya, when it comes to coffee, I knows me stuff.

... And yet, somehow, when I'm traveling pax, nothing excites me more than getting a cup of airline coffee. ^.^ Maybe it's a vestige from the days when I was sucking down airport coffee (and popcorn) while getting my private pilot cert back at PFN in 1997. Maybe it's the altitude. Maybe it's the comfort of being so nicely ensconced within the lap of luxury (Or at least comfort. At my size, standard airline seats work nicely), with a laptop to write on and a nice hot beverage.

I dunno. But I loves it. ^.^ Even the decaf that's served like a teabag, or instant. In some ways, it doesn't even register as coffee to me.

Go figure. ^.^

~Foxy
(NB. I write this from my hammock, sipping a nice aeropress yirgacheffe roasted to city+. Oh misery~!)
 
Meh, I never worried much about the potable water tanks... figured it was good for the development of the immune system.

Also, some smaller planes don't have the ability to brew coffee onboard. Eagle's ATRs and EMBs did not have coffeemakers onboard. The coffee was brewed in station ops and put in insulated containers that plugged into the galley and were electrically warmed.

If you wanted a cup of coffee on an Eagle plane late in the day, you took your chances as to how long ago it had been made... :eek: It could possibly be 10+ hours old.
 
CRJDriver said:
Seconded.

I'm a coffee addict, but never drink coffee from an airplane.
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Yeah, me three.
Like Acrofox I roast my own also. But I've seen some of the stuff on airliners, and I don't think I could even pee in those pots. YUCK!
 
I always figure the "devil you know" rather than the "devil you don't".

I drink airplane coffee. I know the tanks are nasty. But I also eat airplane food too, except the fish. But the shrimp I do.
 
ctab5060X said:
I have seen the potable water system deferred because a potable water station used to fill the airplane tested positve for E. coli.
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I've had that MEL once as well as once had a note in the DRS about how the water was MELed because TWO WEEKS AGO one of our aircraft tanks tested positive for something so they were (TWO WEEKS LATER) just deferring the entire fleet to be safe.
 
I ate leftover airplane food... And drank from the tanks! Kids eat dirt, it helps build their immune systems, I figure the amount of germs I ingested in my airline years has made me immune to all sorts of fun random diseases.
 
Derg said:
I always figure the "devil you know" rather than the "devil you don't".

I drink airplane coffee. I know the tanks are nasty. But I also eat airplane food too, except the fish. But the shrimp I do.
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I never understood the other pilots who eat the fish. I guess they haven't seen "Airplane"? :)
 
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