hit two deer in upstate new york with a citation550. had a centering switch go to he11 in a cit.650 and the gear wouldn't come up

 

Check out this story:

http://gallagher.com/ejection_seat/index.htm

 

Before I was flying 121 I was offshore in helos in the GOM and was about 100 miles offshore on a Natural Gas platform. I was on the helideck passing the time when the two bozos working below broke a 600 gallon container of Nitro Methonal (drag fuel) open which dropped through the grate and landed on a glycol evaporator. It of course exploded and shot flames all over the place Since I was on the helideck I was shielded by the fire and blast and the other two guys had the sense to run as well. We did a hasty evacuation and of course the wind was blowing the flame over the top of the helo so I had to take off down wind which of course resulted in a pretty damn good over torque. As I kept thinking we're alive we're alive the further we got. Then I noticed my door was open and the seat belt was hanging out the door and I was sitting on my lifevest. But we were alive. When you are on a 10,000psi NG bomb you would tend to think that. We were lucky the safety system clicked in and shut in the well.

121, Two flap failures in a day, yawn.

135, among all the numerous boring electrical failures and system failures that were too numerous to list and are not notable, one I had I like to share for all pilots. Sitting on top of a hospital roof pad I lost all radios. I was inside the class D under the approach at BFL. Not the place to take off from and scare the tower etc. Not having the tower hot line with me I called 800 wx brief and got the briefer to look up the number for me which he gladly did. I called the tower on my cell phone and was cleared right in. While not really interesting stick it in your memory locker it might come in handy.

 

Did the same thing when I lost everything on my flight. I was below the Washington Class B, on a vector towards terrain, and didn't want to climb into the arrival/downwind traffic to IAD. FSS really helped out!

Of course these days, you're likely to wait on hold for 15 minutes and then end up with a Lockheed Martin briefer 1300 miles away...

 

There was the story at my airline of the FO who left the wash windshield sign on her side of the airplane during a break, then left to get a bite to eat. The windshield washer climbed up her ladder and got a view of a flight attendent... ahhh... getting a bite to eat with the captain.

 

Great Job working through all those EP's. What did you do to get cursed?

 

well, if you're familiar with KBTL (Battle Creek, MI), its the home of Western Michigan University's flight school. One day during the start of my commercial training the pattern was extremely full. Two aircraft on right traffic for 23 and two in left traffic (I was in left traffic). The tower controller was new but was handling the busy traffic fairly well. Then it got a little busier, two more aircraft came inbound from the east gate and there was one on approach (ILS 23) with a few aircraft in line waiting to depart. The controller was trying to get the aircraft waiting, out and started to get mixed up with all the Western call signs. Finally, it reached the point were the controller got so confused that all of us in the pattern were told to sequence ourselves. Somehow it worked out but needless to say, my instructor and I decided to land instead of doing another touch and go.

 

I had a controller turn us base leg and as we turned we noticed that we came head to head with another aircraft who was also cleared for a base leg turn. Turns out she cleared us both and we came nose to nose. So we pealed away and got resquenced. All she could say was "Oops my bad" LOL couldn't believe it.

 

wrong post. sorry

 

Just wanted to fire his up again. Would love to hear your stories