Comments on: UPS Pilots & Mechanics

By: James

James — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:58:46 +0000

Haha a few of my friends work at Air NZ they will love this!

By: Failure Links | Schaefer's Blog

Failure Links | Schaefer's Blog — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:13:06 +0000

[...] finally, for all of you pilots out there, some hilarious examples of a failure in communication between pilot and maintenance, taken from [...]

By: Arcane

Arcane — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 06:56:21 +0000

Jay,
Have you ever considered the fact that maybe, just maybe, UPS has never had a crash is because the average age of their fleet is 12.1 years, less than half the national average for commercial aircraft? I’m an aircraft maintenance officer in the military and, having worked on a fleet of aircraft where the newest was 42 years old, I can assure you that age is absolutely key.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:17:53 +0000

LOL

By: Prepare to clean your monitors « Cadillac Tight

Prepare to clean your monitors « Cadillac Tight — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:43:31 +0000

[...] to clean your monitors Posted on July 12, 2008 by Joe Tobacco via Dave Schuler, this list of pilots complaints about UPS aircraft, and the accompanying maintenance crews responses is an instant classic. Keep [...]

By: jay

jay — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:11:09 +0000

Well, Arcane, good to know that UPS mechanics don’t have to fix the same problems over and over. Maybe that’s why they never crash! They fix it, it stays fixed.

By: Arcane

Arcane — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 05:02:10 +0000

This is one of many versions of this that has been going around for the past decade or so.

By: kende

kende — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 04:37:51 +0000

Wow. I literally laughed out loud at almost every one. Great find!

By: Dan tdaxp

Dan tdaxp — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 03:48:33 +0000

Very funny! :-)

By: Alfred Russel Wallace

Alfred Russel Wallace — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 01:47:34 +0000

It’s such innocent humour – I love it!!

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:30:50 +0000

I saw a similar sheet at work attributing these to Qantas. Ah, the joys of the internets . . .

By: Joe Jones

Joe Jones — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:30:47 +0000

Classic. The pilot-mechanic relationship is like this at every airline, I think. They’re the two best-trained employee groups and they naturally like to bounce their problems off of each other. My father is a retired aircraft mechanic and there was never any shortage of “stupid pilot stories” at the dinner table when I was growing up.

By: The Glittering Eye » Blog Archive » Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One (UPS Edition)

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:29:29 +0000

[...] list of UPS pilots’ problem reports posted at Coming Anarchy is the funniest thing I’ve read in a long [...]