Ummm . . . was that piece of the wing important?

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I had an old crusty UPS Captain get in the jumpseat one day(in the CRJ) - he apparently didn't do much offline traveling - he had never been on a CRJ let alone in the jumpseat - on the final because of the height of the jumpseat and the nose down pitch attitude all he could see was grass - he never said anything to us but you could tell by his body language that he was very, very nervous - kind of funny to watch.

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I know how he felt. I jumpseated on a ATR42 or 72 many years ago and I saw my life flash before me as I thought the crew had gone mad and were about to pile drive us into the ground nose first. The Capt flared just as I thought my life were about to end and simply rolled it on.
 
Worst I did was when I was commuting home to MCO after an all-nighter back from LAS to ATL. I fell asleep on the 757 jumpseat shortly before push because I was dead tired. As we're crossing the marker on approach into MCO, I was dreaming about mountainbiking and in my dream, I was going over a cliff just as I was starting to lean over in the jumpseat.

Anyone knows that if you're 5'8 on a 757 jumpseat, your feet kind of dangle there midair so my dream had an extra sense of realism. I scream "Ahh! Oh crap! Holy sh*t!!" and I stun myself awake.

I remember the FO springing to action in his seat, some papers hurriedly shuffle (he knocked over his Jepp binder) and the captain says "Son? What'chya see?"

Talk about embarassing!
 
Has anybody fallen asleep in a sim? My old Chief Pilot was in the right seat of the KA 350 sim - I was in the left - we had a middle of the night sim and he had fallen asleep - they guy iin the right seat didn't really do anything anyway as we were doing single pilot types - I lost an engine right after lift off and the sim 'swayed' just enough to wake him up - he started screaming and yelling and grabbing for things. I ended up crashing the sim from laughing so hard.

Jason
 
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