First VIP in the L-049

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First VIP in the L-049

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Jimmy Stewart.... Wow I bet he's working on a new Movie!! I hope he doesn't pick my flying apart (he's a pilot too).
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hehehe how'd you get on with the VIP flight?

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He must fly alot because he is now on my London to Munich flight as part of my around the world trip!
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Lewis - A2A wrote:hehehe how'd you get on with the VIP flight?

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Let's just say my nerves got the best of me at touchdown and could have been smoother. I think he carried Betty off the plane.
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Had one today, but I could not understand his name!
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Hi all,

Third flight in the Connie and I too got a VIP passenger...........Jackie Gleason..............the sheriff from Smokey and the Bandit! Thing is I was flying Bahamas to Azores, 7 hrs 30 mins, with only 10 passengers.............Supposed to be a ferry flight with only staff on!
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Third flight, first VIP too! Bette Davis was on our short hop between EBLG (Liège, Belgium) and LSGS (Sion, Switzerland). The flight was quite uneventful, the descent in the valley was more interesting, lots of turbulences. Greased the landing and got a round of applause. Dang, I'm a happy flyer, thanks A2A!

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On my first LAX-JFK flight Betty got all excited because Marlin Brando was on board :)
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First there was a BBC reporter, two flights later I got Paul Newman on board. And that was in the middle of Africa.
I think, this boosted my career. Aced the landing and reputation changed from average to doing a pretty good job.
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Impressive work Gulredrel.

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Had my first VIP today... did not catch who though. More irritating though is I had an OOM just as I reached my destination and was trying to find a way through the cloud in the mountains so I never got to complete the flight. :(

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I also had my first VIP yesterday on my second career flight from Friedrichshafen EDNY at the Lake of Constance in Germany to Marseille. Betty was all excited when she saw that Cay Grant was on the passenger list :D
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Last night I had a really cool flight boys.... guess who boarded the plane?












































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Well then after takeoff we decided to make this an *Extended* flight as myself and the other passengers didn't mind one bit :P :twisted: 8)
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Having a company executive and his family on board. During my second climb phase to avoid further turbulence I noticed a ppfftt sound. I forgot to adjust cabin pressure and the differential pressure got to high. While playing at the controls I accidently hit the cabin pressure dump switch for a short time :oops: Will see how this effects my career...

edit after landing: See log here http://a2asimulations.com/forum/viewtop ... 30#p448030
No negative effect, lunch without turbulence, applause on landing.
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