............having a flight engineer. Sending him back with the fire axe.......
Not a F/Eng. but as a S.O./ Nav the Captain asked me to wear his hat and jacket and go back to sort out an obnoxious, but not so drunk, pax. as we were taxying out for take off. After a couple of words with the pax I heard the power being applied as the crew started the take off roll, and asked the pax if he would rather I was back there arguing with him, or up front flying the thing ?
Collapse of stout party.
( of course, I had to quickly take a cabin seat for take off, so was unable to perform my flight deck duty of "monitoring" the Captain and Co-pilot in their take-off duties - big deal ! - that's what the F/Eng was for !! )