Air Namibia pilot tels pax to set watch back 20 yrs upon arrival!
 

This guy will probably be severely chastised if not worse. It was probably a joke gone awfully awry....

Read what he said...

Doctor Bob
AirlineRumor.com :eek: :eek:

Never been in Nambia, but some of the places I have flown to in Africa could set the clocks back a few thousand years and still be on local time... :rolleyes:

Nice to know there are some places in this world still left untouched by the ravages of modern time. :cool:

He'd obviously heard about the (ex)Manx pilot who said much the same thing a while ago!

I've been tempted to say something similar (300 years, though) going into Belfast during the marching season.....

Flying towards the state of Minnesota (US) several years ago, a pilot reminded passengers to set their watches back about 100 years or so.

When I fly there, due to so many there having little sense of humor, I'm always tempted to pull out my passport, since it is so much like a foreign country.

JR/FO
It the comments are true it should be
dealt with severely. Alot of North Americans,
Europeans and Aussies use Africa and the
Caribbean to gain flight time. They have no
love for the people and places the come
in contact with. Can you imagine if the
situation were reversed.
Fly safe

V3,

Humour, makes this boring, politically correct heap of Crap we call our modern world worth living in, any pilot who can fly you and other pax thousands of miles, find the place and land, is, in my book allowed to say what the hell he wants, its the Namby pamby pratts of this world that are very quickly F**KING it all up

I've been to Namibia :stunning country - extra terrestrial landscapes & lovely people,very 1950's germanic architecture in Windhoek & Swakopmund - (I seem to remember it was "German" until 1990)Witty pilots should be applauded - seems like a harmless statement to me & anyway I feel the same way about Harare, certain parts of NZ & the Cook Islands & thats why I love them - now if only I could globally roam in a DC3! :D

Wouldn't it be nice if we could set the clock back in the UK - to, oh I don't know, say the 1930's?

Any other favourite time destinations?

I seem to remember that when i left Saudi in 1999 (normal time) it was the year 1418ish (local), maybe his comments would have gone down better there. Hmmm.... maybe not.

It's a joke thats been around for a long time...everyone heard of the AirUk Capt. who's arrival pa at Norwich was "where the local time is 1974"!!

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It sound like he was a shade too conservative to me, maybe that's why they were upset, better luck next time matey!

Was often a favourite going into the Falkalnd Islands, much to the displeasure of the local hierarchy. In a similar vein, on the way back: "all the girls who are returning from your six month detachment........you are now officially ugly again!"

(Obviously this never happened, and is added merely as witty badinage - should anyone be checking!!)

:D

Im with VFRPILOTPB all the way could not have put it better.

15/15

er.. I think it did you know?

I was in the mess at MPA one night when someone had been bollocked for said 'ugly' announcement. Thought it was hilarious and got a round in !

(Bit like the night the crew of the F4 were had for snagging somebodys long wire antenna overflying port howard..but thats another story!)

whats wrong with a bit of humour on the PA.. its shows the guys up front are awake :D

[ 25 August 2001: Message edited by: The Bluesmobile ]

Humour on the PA is ok, but maybe black humour (pun intended) might be too sensitive for some :D

Humour is just that, humour.
If you cannot laugh at yourself, then who can you laugh at? :D

Hey V3,

Do you think the Pilot of the Airbus Glider should be taken to task for cracking any jokes at his arrival on a lump of Rock in the middle of the Atlantic!!

Some Saudia pilots have been known to announce: "Welcome to Jeddah Airport where the local time is 15:15, and the year is 14XX" coz the arabic calendar is still year 14XX... and the reverse upon arriving somewhere else...

Mandala499