Whats the funniest thing you have ever heard over the radio??
03-29-2007 | 06:48 AM
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A good few years a go a friend of mine used to fly Andovers (Mil version of the HS748) for the Queens Flight over in the UK. After launching out of Northolt and heading SE to the channel area he was handed over to London Military freq, and checked in with...
'London Mil good morning this is Andy in his Andover on handover over Dover over.....'
Still makes me laugh today.....
'London Mil good morning this is Andy in his Andover on handover over Dover over.....'
Still makes me laugh today.....
03-29-2007 | 08:39 AM
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A good few years a go a friend of mine used to fly Andovers (Mil version of the HS748) for the Queens Flight over in the UK. After launching out of Northolt and heading SE to the channel area he was handed over to London Military freq, and checked in with...
'London Mil good morning this is Andy in his Andover on handover over Dover over.....'
Still makes me laugh today.....
'London Mil good morning this is Andy in his Andover on handover over Dover over.....'
Still makes me laugh today.....
04-02-2007 | 02:58 PM
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Only the #'s have changed to protect the innocent
Bonanza: "Bonanza n1234 turning downwind, 21"
Cessna: "Hey is that you Jay?"
Bonanza: "Yeah"
Cessna: "Jay Jones from the Gay Pilots Association? Hey buddy!! You gonna be at the next meeting?"
Dead silence. The Bonanza made no more calls and taxied to his hanger without a word. In case you were guessing, he wasnt gay.
Bonanza: "Bonanza n1234 turning downwind, 21"
Cessna: "Hey is that you Jay?"
Bonanza: "Yeah"
Cessna: "Jay Jones from the Gay Pilots Association? Hey buddy!! You gonna be at the next meeting?"
Dead silence. The Bonanza made no more calls and taxied to his hanger without a word. In case you were guessing, he wasnt gay.
04-02-2007 | 04:19 PM
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How about when the CFI is suprised with one. Today I had a guy that for some reason just couldn't do anything right today. We are climbing to do upper airwork and I tell him to level off at 4500 and maintain 90kts for steep turns. He climbs up then while I'm looking to clear the area I just hear the engine die. Instead of pulling the power he yanked out the mixture. The prop stopped which I had never seen before, I'm guessing slow airspeed with higher angle of attack. So I go through the restart procedure and for some reason the prop wouldn't turn. I don't know if you're required to turn the key to the "off" position before trying to restart or not. That isn't in the checklist. But I tried 3 or 4 times and no luck. So I just nosed her over and around 115kts the prop started windmilling again, pushed in the mixture, off we flew into the wild blue lol. Just eerie looking out the side then hearing the eninge go VVRRROOOOOOOMMMMMMmmmmmmm kaput lol.
Another instructor and I went up to exericise a plane and he decided to cut the engine(no prop turning) at 4000' above the field and had me fly the spiral to a dead stick landing. It was a good experience but I don't plan on doing that everyday.
04-02-2007 | 05:09 PM
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to the above post....I have no GA flight experience, but isn't dead sticking a plane with a known good engine a really bad idea? doesn't that kinda go along with the citation pilot doing aerobatic manuevers? "Exericising" a plane sounds like a test pilots job.
And here is the Monday morning quarterback question. What if you had mis- judged the flight profile and landed 50 ft short of the runway? I may be totally missing something here and if I am I apologize for calling you out like this
And here is the Monday morning quarterback question. What if you had mis- judged the flight profile and landed 50 ft short of the runway? I may be totally missing something here and if I am I apologize for calling you out like this
04-02-2007 | 05:42 PM
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to the above post....I have no GA flight experience, but isn't dead sticking a plane with a known good engine a really bad idea? doesn't that kinda go along with the citation pilot doing aerobatic manuevers? "Exericising" a plane sounds like a test pilots job.
And here is the Monday morning quarterback question. What if you had mis- judged the flight profile and landed 50 ft short of the runway? I may be totally missing something here and if I am I apologize for calling you out like this
And here is the Monday morning quarterback question. What if you had mis- judged the flight profile and landed 50 ft short of the runway? I may be totally missing something here and if I am I apologize for calling you out like this
The performance characteristics of a light ASEL at idle are very, very similar to a windmilling prop...the only really noticeable difference would be the noise (or lack thereof). The pyschological aspect doesn't really count because the student KNOWS the instructor could (probably) restart the engine.
To get the full benefit of this training manuever, the instructor would have to throw the key out the window too...
04-02-2007 | 06:00 PM
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04-02-2007 | 07:41 PM
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There was an old true story of a USAir F-100 at the #1 take off position at LGA however they were sitting a ways back from the hold short line. Behind them was an American MD80 who came on the tower frequency and said, "Tower is that USAir F100 #1 for take off?". Tower responded, "Yes". American said, "Well could you tell him to move up. He needs to move up to the hold short line". A few seconds later the F100 opened up it's rear air brake (on the rear tip of the empenage) and someone keyed the mike and made a long farting noise. A few moments later the rear air brake stowed. 
04-03-2007 | 04:23 AM
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From: B737 FO
to the above post....I have no GA flight experience, but isn't dead sticking a plane with a known good engine a really bad idea? doesn't that kinda go along with the citation pilot doing aerobatic manuevers? "Exericising" a plane sounds like a test pilots job.
And here is the Monday morning quarterback question. What if you had mis- judged the flight profile and landed 50 ft short of the runway? I may be totally missing something here and if I am I apologize for calling you out like this
And here is the Monday morning quarterback question. What if you had mis- judged the flight profile and landed 50 ft short of the runway? I may be totally missing something here and if I am I apologize for calling you out like this
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