Good luck Charms?

Cyper42

Cyper42

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I'm curious if anyone else carries a good luck charm/ and or conversation piece in their flight bag? I have a airline style barf bag with a hole in the bottom tucked in mine. At the very least I find that explaining my lucky bag's history (that I've never been airsick or bent metal with it on board) and telling them to find it and figure out why it's lucky is a good distraction from the light chop that spooked them in the first place.

Just curious what else people have tucked away for that kind of purpose.
 
I just have a necklace that I really never take off. Was given to me by my father. It's not that I think it gives me good luck, but I do feel a bit... Naked when I'm not wearing it since I've worn it for nearly 10 years now.
 
I did a short stint working for a company that did aircraft mod testing(winglets, new props, wing lockers etc). They always flew with a stuffed animal pilot in the back. At there remote bases they had Virgin Mary candles that they were convicted help them get good weather and a rotating Jesus lamp that was only to be plugged in when tests were going horrible and nothing was turning out right.
 
I always wear this one particular pair of socks to fly in... Never have any problems when I wear them. The one time I didn't, snap! Governor goes berserk and the prop stops spinning and I bring it in for a dead-stick........ I'm just kidding. I don't believe in luck.
 
I had a pair of boxers with four leaf clovers and quite literally said "My lucky boxers" on them. They were a part of my Private and Instrument check rides, but nothing after that. I have had a Livestrong bracelet on since 2004, but never considered it a lucky charm.
 
My wallet. I would be the most unlucky bastard when ramp checked without my credentials.
 
My mom gave me a St. Christopher medal back when I first started flying. I actually forgot that I had it stuffed deep in my side pocket of my flight bag until recently. I was going through my bag cleaning it out and came across it. Is not a lucky charm but I won't remove it from my flight case.
 
I have one of my Grandfathers name tags stuck inside my bag, also some weird green polished rock floating around in there too. Don't remember the significance but it is not coming out. Also have had a stupid livestrong bracelet on for about 10 years, wont be coming off either because I actually do feel it is a lucky charm.
 
I wear an Our Lady of Loretto medallion (patroness of aviators and air travelers) that my Uncle kept in his helmet when he flew a helicopter in Vietnam. He survived getting shot down twice! He gave it to his mother (my grandmother) when he came home. She wore it for her extensive travels.

My grandmother passed away in 1993. I went on to pursue a career in music. Got the music degree in 2000 and only then decided I was going to go back to school for aviation. My mother found the medallion in her nail kit - 19 years after her mother passed away - about a month before I graduated with the aviation degree and gave it to me as a graduation gift. It's very special to me, and I survived doing a lot of stupid crap in airplanes!
 
I throw away coins from my birth year.

And this keeps things running smoothly…

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I used to carry around my father's obituary as it was one of my goals to fly my father on a big Delta jet, but he died before I was able.

Kind of a reminder who life has a way of getting in the way of your plans.

But I don't carry anything around any more. It's been a few years.
 
I still carry around the same freaking kneeboard from when I was a student pilot. It's a decade old now.

Other than that, I do have a ritual of doing an "Oh check. Caps, props, cones, chocks. Being doing it since I was a student pilot. The one time I forgot to do it from being rushed, I felt like the oil and gas were spewing out and that I had just ran into every single cone on the planet! This is going to look rather silly when I fly something enormous. :D
 
UAL747400 said:
I still carry around the same freaking kneeboard from when I was a student pilot. It's a decade old now.

Other than that, I do have a ritual of doing an "Oh check. Caps, props, cones, chocks. Being doing it since I was a student pilot. The one time I forgot to do it from being rushed, I felt like the oil and gas were spewing out and that I had just ran into every single cone on the planet! This is going to look rather silly when I fly something enormous. :D
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Who uses a kneeboard to fly?
 
z987k said:
Who uses a kneeboard to fly?
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I still do apparently. It's not like it's in the way of anything. Good place for a note pad and pens. ;) Better than these GIANT clipboards/doc boxes I keep seeing guys carry around!

It's not out all the time anyways. Need it for note taking anyways with trainees mang.
 
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