Craig's retirement announcement goes public
21 views • 4/3/2025
A scene around many of the divisions upon learning of DCW's pending retirement.
00:00 - 00:03 | First we will fly to Chicago. |
00:04 - 00:05 | After Chicago, back to Pasco. |
00:05 - 00:07 | From Pasco we go to Afton. |
00:08 - 00:12 | We have stickers and pencils to hand out up in Saskatoon, |
00:12 - 00:15 | Then down to Grand Forks for lunch. |
00:17 - 00:19 | I have only one request, and that is... |
00:19 - 00:21 | that Craig is our Captain. |
00:24 - 00:26 | Sir... |
00:27 - 00:28 | Craig... |
00:31 - 00:33 | Craig is retiring on May 1st. |
00:34 - 00:36 | He will be entirely unavailable for this trip. |
00:53 - 00:58 | Everybody who wants Craig to stick around and not retire, step outside. |
01:13 - 01:15 | WHO APPROVED THIS NONSENSE?! |
01:15 - 01:17 | Doesn't HR know he's our best pilot?! |
01:18 - 01:23 | All the rest of those pilots are knuckledragging window lickers! |
01:25 - 01:28 | Everybody else just puts the autopilot on at 200 feet!! |
01:29 - 01:31 | Craig actually flies the airplane!! |
01:31 - 01:34 | I'd rather fly on Spirit Airlines if Craig won't be here! |
01:34 - 01:37 | I can't believe you idiots planned this whole trip |
01:37 - 01:40 | knowing that Craig was going to be sipping Pina Coladas in Mexico!! |
01:40 - 01:42 | Sir, the other pilots are very good. They attend FlightSafety every year! |
01:42 - 01:46 | FlightSafety?! That big video game?!?! Next you're gonna tell me they take a written test! |
01:46 - 01:48 | Sir! That written test can be very difficult! |
01:48 - 01:52 | Everybody knows it's group effort!! |
01:53 - 01:54 | They call it "CRM" |
01:56 - 01:57 | and make sure everybody passes! |
01:57 - 02:00 | Maybe that's not entirely true. But come on... |
02:00 - 02:03 | if Wayne can pass it, then surely anybody can! |
02:04 - 02:08 | Craig wrote the whole Ops manual for that aviation unit! |
02:08 - 02:13 | Half of the pilots can't be trusted with a dull crayon, |
02:14 - 02:16 | and the other half still need help tying their shoes! |
02:17 - 02:21 | Have you seen how many of them wear slipons?!? |
02:27 - 02:29 | What about the airplane snacks? |
02:30 - 02:34 | Next thing you're going to tell me is that we have to start bringing our own snacks. |
02:34 - 02:36 | If that's the case, I can't handle it today. |
02:41 - 02:43 | I've been flying with Craig since we had King Airs, |
02:43 - 02:47 | Do you know how many decades ago that was?!? |
02:48 - 02:53 | We had to dodge thunderstorms and lightning!! |
02:54 - 02:56 | and it took us three days to go to Houston. |
02:56 - 02:59 | Can you imagine spending three days in a King Air |
03:00 - 03:02 | just to go as far as we do in three hours now?! |
03:04 - 03:07 | It's ok, Trina. The other pilots aren't that bad. |
03:14 - 03:17 | I'm not even sure the other pilots can spell "NDB", |
03:19 - 03:23 | let alone know how to fly that type of approach. |
03:25 - 03:28 | It's all magenta lines now. |
03:31 - 03:33 | Maybe I should retire, too. |
03:40 - 03:46 | Pina Coladas in Mexico sounds pretty good, come to think of it. |
03:46 - 03:49 | But only the ones with little pink umbrellas. |
03:53 - 03:56 | I've always liked pink umbrellas. |
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