Looking for funny aviation pranks.
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tlewis95
I drive planes
Hmm...
After someone gets in an airplane, tie the tail back down without them seeing you. Then once they start up, wave at them, and offer to untie it for them so that they don't have to get out. Repeat until they figure out that it was being tied back down after they un-did it.
You might need to get an actual FAA inspector in on this one in order to avoid the whole 'impersonating a government official' thing. But have an instructor ramp checked, and make it the worst one imaginable, telling them that they broke a presidential TFR in an un-airworthy aircraft, they can't prove that they are current/legal to fly/teach, etc. It could go on and on. Then have the inspector come in a few days later acting like a new student coming to the pranked CFI for an intro ride, at which point, the joke is up. That way he has a few days of being nervous and thinking about it. Haha
A short lasting more 'April Fools' one would be to tell your boss/school owner that you think your student (maybe 3 flights in) stole the airplane. Just make sure that they don't call the police or anything.
[yt]N3rFO-OChXU[/yt] This works well with non-pilot passengers
If I come up with/remember more I will let you know.
After someone gets in an airplane, tie the tail back down without them seeing you. Then once they start up, wave at them, and offer to untie it for them so that they don't have to get out. Repeat until they figure out that it was being tied back down after they un-did it.
You might need to get an actual FAA inspector in on this one in order to avoid the whole 'impersonating a government official' thing. But have an instructor ramp checked, and make it the worst one imaginable, telling them that they broke a presidential TFR in an un-airworthy aircraft, they can't prove that they are current/legal to fly/teach, etc. It could go on and on. Then have the inspector come in a few days later acting like a new student coming to the pranked CFI for an intro ride, at which point, the joke is up. That way he has a few days of being nervous and thinking about it. Haha
A short lasting more 'April Fools' one would be to tell your boss/school owner that you think your student (maybe 3 flights in) stole the airplane. Just make sure that they don't call the police or anything.
[yt]N3rFO-OChXU[/yt] This works well with non-pilot passengers
If I come up with/remember more I will let you know.
R
Roger, Roger
Guest
Sending students to the mechanics looking for a bucket of prop wash and a yard of flight line is always a good time.
A150K
Well-Known Member
Hmm...
After someone gets in an airplane, tie the tail back down without them seeing you. Then once they start up, wave at them, and offer to untie it for them so that they don't have to get out. Repeat until they figure out that it was being tied back down after they un-did it.
You might need to get an actual FAA inspector in on this one in order to avoid the whole 'impersonating a government official' thing. But have an instructor ramp checked, and make it the worst one imaginable, telling them that they broke a presidential TFR in an un-airworthy aircraft, they can't prove that they are current/legal to fly/teach, etc. It could go on and on. Then have the inspector come in a few days later acting like a new student coming to the pranked CFI for an intro ride, at which point, the joke is up. That way he has a few days of being nervous and thinking about it. Haha
A short lasting more 'April Fools' one would be to tell your boss/school owner that you think your student (maybe 3 flights in) stole the airplane. Just make sure that they don't call the police or anything.
[yt]N3rFO-OChXU[/yt] This works well with non-pilot passengers
If I come up with/remember more I will let you know.
That's just wrong. Sounds like something I would do
TwoTwoLeft
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Duckbutter on the earseals. Is that going too far???
You can't do this in an airplane, but when I was a wrench, I used to do it to guys all the time. Remove the spark pulg wires from the coils. Attach some wire to them(10/12 gauge), and run it inside the car, from the backside of the seat. Strip about 10 inches or so from the wire, and fan it out on the seat.
"Hey, come over here and crank this thing up for me would ya. I am trying to listen to something."
The car won't start because the person in the seat is now the spark plug.
"Hey, come over here and crank this thing up for me would ya. I am trying to listen to something."
The car won't start because the person in the seat is now the spark plug.
R
Roger, Roger
Guest
Here, hang onto these wires while I check this impulse coupling.
rframe
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If you're going to be around while they preflight, place a small plush stuffed animal (like a brown squirrel) or rubber snake behind the oil filler door. A lot of people pop the door and shove their face in there to have a peak.... having an interesting creature staring back can get the heart pumping. Only do this if you'll have visual on the aircraft the whole time, you wouldn't want someone starting the engine with something that could melt and burn in their engine compartment!
nocturnalaviator
AI Jedi
the airplane flies better if you stroke and blow the pitot tube.
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TwoTwoLeft
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Instead of teaching students to yell "CLEAR" before engine start. Have them yell "MIND THE AIR SCREW"! Everyone around will be WTF? Bonus points if you can get them to yell it with a British accent!
gotWXdagain
Polished Member
With a non-pilot friend, while you're in cruise slowly start trimming nose-down, holding the plane level with backpressure. Then find a random useless button/switch in the cockpit and say "What's that do? I've never seen that before?" and convince them to push it. When they do, relax the backpressure.
WildcatPilot
Well-Known Member
A friend of mine once programmed a bunch of nonsensical messages into the G1000 airplane I was about to take on a long XC. I remember there was a "PFD Overheat" message, something else, and then "Is it beer-thirty yet?" I was pretty thrown by the first one, but figured it out pretty quickly.
FlyingMoose
Well-Known Member
This is pretty common on our 430's. Some of the funny ones I have seen include ...
Out of Fuel
Call chief pilot ASAP
Change your tampon
Lesson unsat
Just remember you are only limited by your creativity and the number of characters you can fit on the screen.
N519AT
Ahh! This is how I change this!
Plenty of pranks in the line service world that I've heard of..
chocking people's cars.
locking up the FBO and moving our cars to make the guy doing an airline think that we all went home.
hiding in some random corner and popping out to scare someone walking by.
Using our portable radio to call in on the AIRINC and tell the CSR that there was a A380 super duper jumbo diverting and needed 25 lav dumps and a place to put 1200 pax. Sadly she believed it.
Telling new guys to go sweep the helipad and the ramp with a kitchen broom
ASpilot2be
Qbicle seat warmer
N519AT said:
Lol! Awesome.
Matt Atkinson
New Member
My favourite prank comes in the form of seeing if people actually follow the pre-start up checklist. Every time I shut down, I turn the fuel selector to OFF. There has been numerous times when I have done this, gone and got some lunch in the cafe next to the school, watched students AND CFIs try to start the bird. Some figured it out. Others chose the more panicked option of running over to maintenance. Good times.
web265
Well-Known Member
My favorite (and only prank)...If I had someone in he right seat who knew nothing about planes and was on one of their first rides, I would act like the yoke was how I was steering while taxiing.
Then I would ask them to take the yoke while i looked at a chart or checklist or something. Let it drift a little, take the yoke, correct, give them a dirty look..you get the idea.
Some folks you could do this to three or four time before they figured it out...
Then I would ask them to take the yoke while i looked at a chart or checklist or something. Let it drift a little, take the yoke, correct, give them a dirty look..you get the idea.
Some folks you could do this to three or four time before they figured it out...
As long as it's scrambled, it shouldn't be too hard for them to hold. Over easy though, it might be some trouble for them.