I have a funny story about Maiden. The drummer in one of my cover bands
( see him in action with my humble self here : Comfortably numb - Covered by Perfect Strangers - YouTube ; he also sing the verses on that song ), which is flight training captain at the local aviation company Air Mauritius, once met the full Maiden team at the bar in an hotel in England. At first he recognized one of them, asked him "hey I thought I've seen you somewhere", and the guy answered [insert big voice]
"yeah, I'm Nikko McBrain". He spent the whole evening chatting with all the band including Bruce, and told me afterwards :
"It was nice to meet all of them but also really frustrating : as Bruce is an air pilot like me, all they wanted to talk about was planes, and I wanted to talk about music. I felt almost at the office " Apparently when Bruce is flying Ed Force One, he sometimes allows the others band members to have fun with the commands for a couple of minutes