THE WOKE SKIES

A regional “puddle-jump” airline was known for its meager accommodations and cut-rate prices. Unfortunately, they were also known for hiring pilots that weren’t top-notch either. Because of schedule rotations two rather incompetent aviators were scheduled to the same flight on this one day. As it happened both pilot and co-pilot were not readily familiar with the destination airport.
After take-off and gaining altitude the co-pilot was busily giving corrections to the pilot as to course and was double checking runway traffic rules, altitude of the airport,etc. for a trip 0f about 40 minutes.
As soon as the pilot had the airport in sight, he called the approach frequency at the tower. He was cleared to land.
The pilot slowed the aircraft and told the co-pilot to lower flaps the to 10 degrees and hit the gear down switch.
The co-pilot noticed that the pilot seemed a little anxious and when he looked out the side window he knew why. The pilot slowed a little more while trying to avoid a stall He told the co-pilot to “dump in all the flaps” immediately. The pilot induced a forward slip and got ready for touch-down. Both pilot and co-pilot were on full alert now. The co-pilot was ready to reverse thrust at the pilot’s command and had his feet resting slightly on the brakes as well.
The stall indicator was blaring loudly by now. With the characteristic “chirp-chirt” of the tires on the pavement the pilot had the yoke full aft and both had their feet pressed against the brakes and almost to the floor. The reverse thrust was blasting and sweat streamed from their brows.
As the plane came to rest at the bitter end of the runway, they held brakes and took a deep breath. The pilot exclaimed, “Man, that was a SHORT runway, really short!” The co-pilot said, “Yeah, but look how extraordinarily wide it is.”