Speaking of, “The dangers of Ouija”. One of those “games” all but cost us the business a few years back. We look back and laugh now. But then, it wasn't so funny.
We have a “prep room” that we do our preflight weather briefs, flight plans, etc. from.
It has two large tables, often covered with charts and sectionals in it and three computers with ADDS (Aviation Digital Data Services) for looking up route weather, plotting course/weather stuff and such on. All in all, a rather “mission control” looking place.
For some time, Darby and Shelby (and some of the other crew) thought that an Ouija board would make for a nice addition to the room. So, we had one set up off to the side on its own little stand. It was quite the conversation piece for many of the flight crews and clients that came through and checked out/used the room.
Clients that were also pilots, like Ford and Cruise, found it quite amusing and got quite a chuckle out of it. Some though, didn’t quite get it. We explained that it was for making flight decisions for us when conditions were marginal. Good for a laugh.
Then one day, we had our facilities inspection with the FAA. He was quite the AHole and with no sense of humor whatsoever. We didn’t think much about removing the “game” as everyone would know it was just a joke.
Not this guy. It took about three months, two lawyers and a dozen or so conference/hearings to get his report edited and his Ouija related statements off our records.
We're hoping the "spirits" catch up with and haunt that guy for sure.
