Originally Posted by
CharlieLimaX-Ray
Old timer at Airlines of Tasmania, when they did night freight in Chieftains got pulled up on a ramp check at Tullamarine one night by the CAA.
Mr CAA man asks where the life jackets are and how he would use them.
Old timer takes a suck on his Winfield and says, “tonight if I ditch in Bass Strait I will stay in the aeroplane and die in comfort, any other questions?”
Met an old ferry pilot once, who said that if he ever had to ditch into the North Atlantic in winter, he would do it vertically.