Things I wish someone had told me before my first flight, add one line each
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#1 In training, wings in two weeks. One line each please, the thing you wish you knew before your first flight.
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#2 Pack your own food. The crew meal is not guaranteed and it is not good.
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#3 Say your cross checks out loud even when nobody is watching. It becomes reflex and one day it saves you.
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#4 Learn every colleague's name at the briefing. Use it. It changes the whole flight.
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#5 The purser is your boss, your teacher and your reference. Be kind.
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#6 Passengers are not angry at you. They are angry at the delay and you are the only one in front of them.
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#7 Bring a hair tie, a spare hair tie, and a spare for the spare.
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#8 Smile before you speak on the interphone. They can hear it.
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#9 Never, ever say 'quiet flight' in the briefing.
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#10 Comfortable shoes are not optional. Buy the good ones now.
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#11 Write down what you learned after every flight for the first month. You will forget otherwise.
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#12 Fifteen years: it is still a good job. Enjoy the first one, it only happens once.
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#13 Screenshot taken, printed, on my mirror. Thank you all.