‘Spicy Flight Attendant’ Cierra Misst once claimed that more than one group of passengers, and a ‘rookie pilot’ joined the mile high club on what appeared to have been:

• a short flight between New York and Nashville
  
• on a regional jet
  
• where they hadn’t even known each other prior to takeoff.

This pilot was supposed to have come out of the cockpit long enough to get to know their counterparty, decide to go down this path and fully execute? It was a viral story from a woman trying to promote her OnlyFans account, not a plausible claim about reality.

The ex-Republic Airways crewmember whose real name is Cierra Huffman, whom American Airlines had to distance themselves from, is back with a new claim: “Here’s how pilots and flight attendants join the mile high club while they’re on the clock and you’re in the passenger seats”

So, there’s at least two pilots in the flight deck, and there has to be at least two people in the flight deck at all times on the flight.

If a pilot is hungry or has to pee, he has to come out of the flight deck, but a flight attendant has to go in there to replace him. And that’s how plans of initiation to join the mile high club is activated.

She says the plane is on autopilot anyway, so the pilots and flight attendants coordinate when it isn’t bumpy to get this done.

@cierra_mistt

since i switched from commercial to charter flight attendant, i can finally spill ALL the tea

♬ original sound – Cierra Mistt

First of all, a little bit of background on there needing to be two people in the cockpit even when the pilot goes to the lav. The ‘rule of two’ in the cockpit is not actually a federal requirement in the United States, except that airline rules related to security are filed with the TSA and they are required to enforce that security plan.

In Europe it is similarly an airline rule rather than an EU Aviation Safety Agency rule (though a safety bulletin for this was published in 2015, it was withdrawn in 2016). Canada issued an emergency order in 2015 but rescinded it in 2018. These former mandates came following Germanwings Flight 9525 where a pilot at the Lufthansa-owned carrier locked the captain out and crashed the Airbus A320 in the French Alps.

Let’s evaluate how likely this claim is, though:

• Geometry. Usable floor width in the cockpit of an Embraer E-175 is about 4 feet 7 inches. Two adults can’t stand side-by-side without one of them straddling the center console. One person would have to be seated and the other sitting on their lap, but full intercourse seems like a genuine stretch of geometry.

• Audio recording. Don’t forget the cockpit voice recorder! They’re going to have to do it very early in a long flight, to ensure any discussion or sounds gets written over by the end of the trip. And how long can the other pilot plausibly stay in the lav, 3 to 4 minutes?

• The sex would be bad. So you slide one pilot’s seat fully aft to make room for strictly limited positions, hope nobody needs the cockpit voice recorded because of a hard landing even, and you bet on a quiet cruise with autopilot engaged and no air traffic control communication, you could probably technically do it but it wouldn’t likely be enjoyable for either party.

#Embraer 175 #cockpit #airport #RampLife pic.twitter.com/wh3DjFC149

— Kevin (@KevinBobo_) January 23, 2021

People have been joining the ‘Mile High Club’ since 1916 when Lawrence Burst Sperry, inventor of the autopilot, took a Curtis C-2 Flying Boat off the coast of Long Island and spent time with a woman whose husband was off in World War I. They crashed the plane into the bay and were rescued – naked – by duck hunters. If they could manage the feat then anything is possible.

However it is simply not the case that one of the two flight attendants on the planes that Ms. Misst was flying was regularly entering the cockpit of the regional jet, having sex with the lone remaining pilot while the other one waited in the lavatory, and doing it all on a short Republic Airways flight. It’s much more likely happening back at the layover hotel. A Las Vegas charter outfit does sell access to Mile High Club adventures though.

And once the 25-hour cockpit voice recording mandate is fully in effect, any chances of it ever happening will be pretty much over.