I’ve had this tradition after a good flight I get myself a fountain soda. I’ve done it since I was doing my instrument at an airport 80 mi from my house. I’d stop at a gas station and get a soda for the ride home. It turned into a tradition, but if I had a bad flight, (ie Boffed an approach or something) I’d have to settle for ice tea. That has carried on to after each flight I now stop and get a soda for the 30 mi drive back home. This is along with my lucky flying St.Louis Blues ball cap.
Do you have any pre / post flight rituals or supersitions? Pilots, or passengers.
After we drop off the big guys into their limo we usually dip into the linquer cabinet while we’re tucking the AC away for a few days outside of her hangar.
I’m not a very religious person but I do cross myself and say a prayer before takeoff every time (sometimes I sneak it in so nobody sees me ). It always works. It never occurs to me before landing, the most dangerous phase of flight.
At one of the airlines I worked at, we had a Captain who would say a prayer, after the paperwork was handed out, and before engine start. Some of the rampers who didn’t know what he was doing, were curious what was taking so long. He did it every flight.
When I fly the airlines, a prayer before every take off and landing. When I am pointing the metal I have not done the same. Hmmmm…I never thought about it before. I think I will start doing that now. I’ll take God in the cockpit any ole time…Herman.
let’s just say the ritual is a continuation of the orderlyness of cockpit resource management.
). It always works. It never occurs to me before landing, the most dangerous phase of flight.
