Ray Charles would have seen this coming.
As soon as I saw that ridiculous and blatantly irresponsible tv ad Apple put out where a “pilot” tells an empowering story of how he used his wonderful little iPhone to overthrow the bureaucratic and oppressive thugs that run air traffic control by checking his weather widget and schooling them on when it is and isn’t safe to fly, I knew it wouldn’t be long before some jackass with more disposable income than common sense and a corporately sponsored sense of superiority and entitlement decided to take the reckless hint dropped by Apple and decide to involve themselves in matters reserved for trained individuals.
Luckily, some people do not suffer fools gladly.
After an iPhone-wielding douchebag decided that plane he was on did not need to be rerouted due to bad weather and made his misguided opinions loudly known. The pilot responded as such:
“If the passenger with the IPhone would be kind enough to use it to check the weather at our alternate, calculate our fuel burn due to being rerouted around the storms, call the dispatcher to arrange our release, and then make a phone call to the nearest Air Traffic Control center to arrange our timely departure amongst the other aircraft carrying passengers with IPhones, then we will be more than happy to depart. Please ring your call button to advise the Flight Attendant and your fellow passengers when you deem it ready and responsible for this multi-million dollar aircraft and its passengers to safely leave.”
Read the whole story here:
PlaneBuzz: We Knew This Was Going To Happen: iPhone Equipped Passenger Takes On Flight Crew Over Weather
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