This one came from a conversation with the chief pilot of one of the local fire departments here in the greater LA area. He had one of their helicopters at our ramp for some overhaul work and Nobu and him were standing around and catching up. I walked over and joked “Hey, there is an FAA guy here. I think he’s looking for you!” and he jokingly did the exact same thing we have Chuck do in this strip.
Good times were had and a new strip was born.
Dick Lemon’s book “You want to build and fly a WHAT?” he tells of getting a door prize at a WINGS meeting of a baseball cap with FAA on it, and he innocently wore it to the airport one day and it cleared the whole ramp of all the locals! I think there may have been tumbleweed involved