I'm not sure whether this is poor boating, poor piloting, or both. Since I have neither a multi-engine, nor a seaplane rating I can't comment.
I have been told it is actually an edited clip. Fun to watch nevertheless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_53_pRsz0Es

It's the opening scene for the movie, "Always."

This one time, during a comp check in a Navajo while on finals to land, and for no apparent reason whatsoever, this pilot I know casually pulled both mixtures back to cut-off... The check and training guy in the right seat casually pushed them back to rich, they landed ok and they never spoke of it again.

I know this guy that on his first cross country almost landed at the air force base 5 miles away from the class D airport he was supposed to go to. The same guy while practicing tower take offs & landings took off with 40 degrees of flaps and called the tower concerned about the planes inability to climb or accelerate.

Crzyivan13 wrote:After watching an instructional video about making traffic calls in the Idaho backcountry with specific instructions on how to fly the traffic pattern at Johnson Creek a week prior, I was hustling to land while 5 badass Maule drivers waited for me to make my slow ass (and way too high) approach. One thing I wanted to do was arrive at JC with some class.

I called: "6SA 2 miles south Landing RWY 35"
Lead Maule Driver: "No Rush, we are just warming up"
I called: "6SA, 1 mile out entering left downwind RWY 35"
Then someone announced: "Supercub XXX taking off RWY 17....."
I got confused (forgot for a moment about opposite T/O and Landing direction) and then I called: "6SA upwind runway 17"
Lead Maule Driver: "6SA is that the same as downwind for RWY 35?"
I called: "Affirmative"

I felt like the biggest Jackass in the backcountry!

At JC you are requested to land 17 and takeoff 35. Sounds like you all were doing it backwards.

Geoffrey Thorpe wrote:For the record, I did NOT land at one class D airport while talking to the tower at a different class D airport.
(I figured out I was at the wrong place while I was on downwind.)

And I did not sit idly by and watch while an idiot Platoon Leader "led" our entire flight of 8 Army helicopters through a "control zone" while talking to the tower at the airport 50 miles further south along the same freeway that we were following... I figured it would be a much stronger lesson if he figured it out for himself... So I just switched one of my radios to the "real" tower freq and talked to them. Then, when we got to the "real" airport he had been talking to (nearly a 1/2 hour after he first told them we would be transitioning), he was still on that frequency and was "shocked" to hear them report they had him in sight.

I talked to him afterward (I was the instructor pilot for the unit), and he absolutely did NOT believe a word I told him, until we called both towers to discuss it with them. You'd think he's be apologetic, or at least sheepish about it, but no... Like I said - idiot Platoon Leader... I have no idea how he managed to graduate from flight school.

There's not enough space on Z's server to even start. [emoji12]

+1, and then some.....



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Crzyivan13 wrote:

Barnstormer wrote:

Bagarre wrote:How many people have announced pattern position on the unicorn frequency?
Admit it.

I'm unfamiliar with the unicorn frequency. Which frequency would that be?

Id say another victim of autocorrect.

My guess would be Unicom.

No autocorrect, we've had students flub their calls and unicom becomes Unicorn, Omnicom it's always good for a laugh.

onefitty wrote:This one time, during a comp check in a Navajo while on finals to land, and for no apparent reason whatsoever, this pilot I know casually pulled both mixtures back to cut-off... The check and training guy in the right seat casually pushed them back to rich, they landed ok and they never spoke of it again.

That's a great one.

Honest to God I wonder some times what's going on in there. The brain I mean. I know a guy who had about 10 hours in his new Mooney and took off out of Tahoe bound back to the bay area on a nice Summer afternoon. After clearing the summit on the West bound course he set up his down hill cruise for home first by pulling the mixture back to idle cutoff. That didn't seem right you know? So he pushed to prop full forward to see if that would help. His passenger, a non pilot says into the intercom, "WTF you doing". So he thought for a minute and said; "Just setting up for the cruise home", then pulled the prop all the way back and pushed the mixture to full rich. He eventually got home ok.

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If I had a dollar for every bone-headed thing I've said on the radio, I could probably afford a set of bushwheels. I swear the push-to-talk switch doubles as a shut-off switch for the left frontal lobe of my brain.

PP check ride, did preflight, Examiner and I climb in the plane, pre flight checklist, engine start check list , open window announce CLEAR in high pitched nervous voice, start engine, announce intentions to taxi, push throttle in, airplane doesn't move, push the throttle in again, plane doesn't move, look at landing gear and the wheels are firmly planted in the chocks. Look at examiner and asked if I failed, He said "no, you just look stupid". Shut down engine, exit cockpit, remove chocks, climb back in and start the whole thing over again. Passed the check ride on the first try.

this thread needs a meme with a cirrus and caption I forgot how to fly the plane

Oregon180 wrote:If I had a dollar for every bone-headed thing I've said on the radio, I could probably afford a set of bushwheels. I swear the push-to-talk switch doubles as a shut-off switch for the left frontal lobe of my brain.

When my CFI was teaching me how to talk to approach to get FF, she's tell me exactly what to say. I'd press the button, and presto... nothing. I would forget everything she said 10 seconds ago. Flying the plane, maintaining altitude and heading, checking the instruments.. and I had to talk on the radio too? Holy crap.

UngaWunga wrote:

Oregon180 wrote:If I had a dollar for every bone-headed thing I've said on the radio, I could probably afford a set of bushwheels. I swear the push-to-talk switch doubles as a shut-off switch for the left frontal lobe of my brain.

When my CFI was teaching me how to talk to approach to get FF, she's tell me exactly what to say. I'd press the button, and presto... nothing. I would forget everything she said 10 seconds ago. Flying the plane, maintaining altitude and heading, checking the instruments.. and I had to talk on the radio too? Holy crap.

Haha. That reminds me of my first night flight with my CFI. Not only was it my first night flight, it was also the first time flying with this instructor into controlled airspace. I was doing everything right, except for communicating with the tower...

It was exactly how you described. He'd tell me what to say, and I'd forget what to do the instant I hit the mic.

Lost count the amount of times i have called for take off clearance on ground frequency, or called for airways clearance on the ATIS frequency, but my worst one i can remember, similar to Obxbushpilot, landed about 1 minute after the NOTAM'd runway reopening, only to taxi off the runway to see the taxiway blocked by construction vehicles, i am assuming it was the work foreman who came over and asked what was i doing landing on a closed runway! i told him i didnt see any white X's, he then informed my it was closed and showed me the NOTAM, yep, runway was open about 1 minute before i landed. the guy still had the white X rolled up in the back of his truck.. had to wait for him to clear his equipment off the taxiway so i could get to the bowser. (of course i read the notams and planned to arrive at that time!)

"Turning final for runway X"

I've landed at a closed airport twice- same airport both times, "Jack Mears International" at Concrete WA.
First time, it was closed for an RC plane meet. We landed, taxi'd, & parked same as usual, but wondered why so many cars were on the airport & why we were getting all the dirty looks. Oops, sorry about that.
The second time, they were striping the recently topcoated runway, so we just took the grass and nobody even looked twice at us. Which was as it should be, as it was no big deal.

cstolaircraft wrote:this thread needs a meme with a cirrus and caption I forgot how to fly the plane

How about a video?

Geoffrey Thorpe wrote:

cstolaircraft wrote:this thread needs a meme with a cirrus and caption I forgot how to fly the plane

How about a video?

Hahaha I'm on a 24 mile final