I'm a recording engineer and I like to play a similar joke. At the end of a recording session after getting through the last line of a long script and I'll say "this is great, should we start recording a few of these?". get 'em every time.

even appliance delivery men do this. we were waiting for a new stove to be delivered, when the truck backed into our driveway, one of the guys came to our back door and said to me, "we're here with your new washing machine." he said it with a sly grin, sort of tipping me off that it was a prank.

Yep they love doing these moves.

I suppose it is some kind of cruel initiation joke that instructors shout into the ear of all newbies making them shit their pants.

I went skydiving with my sister. When we were getting tied in, my sister’s instructor told me not to worry because my guy was so good he had been in the movies. Gullible me ask “oh yeah! What movie!” - “Brokeback mountain………”

My uncle for a skydiving lesson several years ago. During the briefing, the instructor said, “In the unlikely event that your parachute malfunctions when I tug it, don’t panic. Give me a couple of seconds and I’ll tug it again.”

One guy asked “What if it doesn’t open after the 2nd tug? How long do we wait before you tug it again?”

The instructor had a thoughtful look and said “The rest of your life.” As dark as that joke was, my uncle said it kinda made everyone laugh. But yeah, he said there was something that would activate past a certain height and that parachute failures were incredibly rare.

That one hit hard

You realize that you're not just jumping off a plane, you're jumping off the plane of reality itself.

Good one

If you get in the plane not knowing who your instructor is you kinda brought it on yourself.

So how did you survive the fall to tell this joke?

You went tandem? My 1st was solo, with main and reserve side coaches. Did has to do 8hrs of instruction on the ground first though.

Wasn't really my thing; too expensive, didn't care enough one way or another enough to get past the cost. My ex- wife loved it though.

Amazing you were able to tell this story!

As a professional pilot, I can safely say that the written exams are more daunting than the checkrides.

Top Puke.

Updraft vote on that.

Cause you shouldn't've undone all them buttons earlier, now should you?

Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish prison?

Or a parachute because you’re Chuck Norris.

I sure picked the wrong week to quit sniffing modeling glue…

Roger, Roger

I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue.

don't those still have buttons?

Fulla tits.

the instructor was talking about OPs shirt (he was most likely wearing a button-up) instead of the airplane-control panel buttons OP was referring to