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Pilots Are the Truck Drivers of the Sky
from Price Of Poison | The Tim Dillon Show #379 · #379
5 min
Tim riffs on how private pilots won't stop talking to passengers, recounts a pilot inviting his friends into the cockpit, and imagines a horrifying death caused by his own fat hitting a hydraulics button.
- Tim has been flying private with his jet broker Dirk and learning lessons about not engaging pilots in conversation.
- Pilots are the truck drivers of the sky—no one cares what they say until there's turbulence or an actual problem.
- One pilot got out of the seat for half an hour asking Tim what it's like to be a comedian while the other could have had a stroke in the cockpit.
- The pilot assumed Tim liked aviation because he asked a few questions, then offered to let him go up front.
- Tim's friends wanted to go up front and take photos; one of them sat in the co-pilot seat while pilots encouraged it.
- Tim refuses to sit in the cockpit seat because his fat could hit a button and kill everyone at 38,000 feet.
- Tim imagines the humiliation of dying in a death spiral because someone's gut shut off the hydraulics.
- Tim's new strategy: don't speak to pilots at all, maybe learn some Norwegian to avoid conversation.
- Passengers going up front to the cockpit can't actually be allowed, but the pilots keep offering it anyway.
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