Originally Posted by
IAH-OIL-TRASH
I would be more than happy if the PA system was down on all my flights. It seems every time I get comfortable and start my entertainment or am conversing, the %#$@* PA comes on.
My favorite flight ever in this regard was probably on a Air China 707 (open storage instead of bins!) in ~1991 Guangzhou to Beijing. The announcement was "Sit down NOW! We're taking off"
That reminds me of a recruiting trip that I went on to visit a school in the mid-90's. It was only my third or fourth flight ever and I was nervous as all heck as we boarded a very small private turbo prop (with 20 years of hindsight I now realize the plane probably belonged to a booster who was violating some NCAA recruiting rule by letting the school use it). There was not a flight attendant just a pilot who turned around and said, "we're going." The kid next to me had never been on a plane and as we accelerated he yelled, "whoa! this thing has more pick-up than my Jeep!"