Things you don't want to hear your pilot say.

[Brian37]

I have a real life things you don't want to hear your fellow passenger say moment once.

I was on a Dublin-Cardiff flight, using a propeller short haul plane when the woman sat across the aisle from me, done up in her best business attire, said to the flight attendant: "Those things on the wings are very noisy.  Can they be turned off?"

After recovering from the shock (yes, she literally bsod'ed for about ten seconds on hearing that), the flight attendant said "Not really, no.  They kind of keep the plane in the air".

Cue a dejected "oh" from my fellow passenger.

Ha ha ha, love his response. It's like a, "Really?" Sure lady, if you want to die."

As embarrassed as I am, both trips to Australia, I really am not the passenger you want to sit next to. I am terrified of turbulence, and I get air sick very easy. I was either barfing, or rocking back in forth and clutching my arm rests. 

As a passenger I was like the old man in Friday The 13th , "You're doomed, you're all doomed."

But to be somewhat fair, I think B.A. might agree with her.