r/CabinPressure

The Zurich double episode is full of references back to previous episodes.

Here are the ones I've noticed, some of them slightly tenuous:

• Edinburgh: Tiffy ("bossy pony club types with Alice bands and stupid names")
• Ipswich: "Drink us/him in"
• Limerick: Douglas hates flying into the sunset
• Newcastle: "There shall be buns for tea"
• Ottery St Mary: Carolyn telling Herc he's late
• Ottery St Mary: Yellow Car
• Ottery St Mary: Captain Loutre (French for otter) in Martin's flight deck
• Paris: "Terrapins tickle me if I lie"
• Qikiqtarjuaq: Code Red
• Qikiqtarjuaq: The Travelling Lemon
• Qikiqtarjuaq: Martin's French accent
• St Petersburg: Arthur's Australian accent
• St Petersburg: Arthur wants an ice cream van
• St Petersburg: "Get off My Jet Now / Our Jet Still"
• Uskerty: Martin doesn't want to get in the back of a van again
• Vaduz: Carolyn telling Herc she loves him
• Yverdon-les-Bains: Douglas doesn't want to be in the first officer's seat next to Herc again
• Yverdon-les-Bains: Arthur's strawberry allergy

What other references have I missed?

I thought I'd do a little flypast of her party on the way.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcGO8TSEu-o

Carolyn: Doctor Duncan, you see before you - the airline. Drink us in.
Dr. Duncan: There's four hundred of you?
Carolyn: Are there though? Count again.
Dr. Duncan: Not four hundred.
Carolyn: Four.
Dr. Duncan: Right. Well... that's unfortunate. I should probably speak to catering

The most underrated radio comedy EVER.

For u/oscarsowner and anyone else who hasn’t seen them…

Browsing Reddit and a Cabin Pressure post came up next to a r/parkrun post... and there's a perfect crossover opportunity!

So I checked: of the 26 places in CP, only 3 have parkruns with that actual name in that place. 8-(

5 have parkrun(s) in that place, but the parkrun(s) have different names to the town.

2 have differently named parkruns in that town, but there is a place with a parkrun with that town's name on another continent.

16 have no parkrun at all.

So it's not really a goer unfortunately!

If only this had come sooner. King Martin ?

This took place long ago on a military base in GA. I was a Huey helicopter crewchief at a small airfield with only a couple dozen, at best, in our detachment. I was readying to eat lunch alone in our small flight shack. Normally, the Tech Inspector sergeant would be with me, but his wife was having a baby. I had my day planned and was half way though pulling maintenance.

I heard a helicopter landing in the distance, identified it as another Huey and dismissed it, we didn't have any birds in the air.

A few minutes later, a captian carrying his helmet bag breezes in, tosses his helicopter log book on my desk and announces, "I'm going to get lunch and need my aircraft pre-flighted before get back.", not even slowing down to look at me. If he had, he might have noticed I had just started my own lunch.

I had never seen this guy before and his uniform patches identified him as a GA Army National Guard Captain. Who apparently felt a lowly enlisted E4 crewchief was beneath common curtesy. Oh, and he was most definitely not my boss.

O.K. Mr. Captain Arrogance, I'm going to give you the best maintenance pre-flight you have ever had. BTW: Pilots also always do their own, briefer, pre-flight too.

He was gone three hours. During that time I gave that aircraft the best inspection it ever had. Now, when we inspected an aircraft we wrote down every deficiency we found and next to it drew a black or red pencil mark noting how serious the deficiency was. A minor issue might get a slash mark. A serious deficiency earned a circle red X meaning the aircraft could only be flown under limited conditions, (e.g. daylight only) , and a simple red X meant the aircraft was grounded, period. Nonflyable.

Well, wouldnt you know, I found several minor issues, three serious, (circle Red X) issues and the mother of them all, a red X grounding item, the slippage mark, (a small stripe of fingenail polish going down the bolt and out to the mounting plate) on the transmission bolt housing was cracked. What this really meant that perhaps the bolt was slipping, or perhaps the fingernail polish/paint we use simply cracked, or perhaps somebody may have nicked the paint with their issued toolbox's utility knife's small blade, etc. Who knows?). I never wrote some many serious deficiencies on one aircraft in my career. His unit must have had poor maintenance.

Well, when the Captain returned, all in a hurry to take off, he was as mad as a hornet. He demanded I erase the red X mark. "Can't do that Captian, its in the regulations." That was true. Only a maintenance Tech can reinspect it, oversee the correction, and enter thier inspection notes clearing the aircraft for flight. By now, the Captain had stormed out to his aircraft to challenge my findings.

While the Captain was back at his aircraft, fuming, I called the Maintenance Tech at the hospital and explained the situation. He said, "Tell Captain Antsy Pants ll'l be there at 0800 tomorrow morning. I won't be available until then."

The Captain returns, now boiling rage. "So get the maintenance tech here now!", he demanded.

"Um, he's at the hospital, his wife is having a baby."

The next closest available Maintenance Tech was in Savannah, a short flight away, if you had a flyable helicopter.

So, our maintenance tech did finally show up, the next morning. He know exactly what I had done and why, and he justly defended evey deficiency I noted as absolutely correct. We had to get the big breaker bar to retorque the transmission bolt and it took about three hours to sort through the other deficiencies.

So Captain Antsy Pants got to spend an unexpected overnight stay at Camp Swampy because he was a jerk. Be nice to the little people who support you.