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After many hours of highway driving one night, I hit a fog bank. very smoothly transitioned to instruments and concentrated on my scan... it took me a few seconds to realise that was not the correct procedure for car-imc afterall. saved by a straight road and no traffic....

glad to be here
 
Microclimates said:
After many hours of highway driving one night, I hit a fog bank. very smoothly transitioned to instruments and concentrated on my scan... it took me a few seconds to realise that was not the correct procedure for car-imc afterall. saved by a straight road and no traffic....

glad to be here
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Been there, done that. I don't think we're the only ones.

I forgot about not putting the gear down when flying 135. I figured it out when the airplane didn't slow down after I pulled the power off in the flare. Got the power back and went around. I don't know exactly how close I was to scraping the airplane up, but I was wide awake and wired for the second attempt after that.
 
PunchTheClown said:
Anyone ever read back the total at a drive through?
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YES

Here's something non-aviation related but it still makes me a dumba$$. A few friends and I were on a trip down south to tour a well known business jet maker back in September. About halfway through the drive down I passed out in the back of the van and woke up when we stopped off for gas. Since I was still groggy from sleeping I went into the convenience store and picked up a 40 of Smirnoff ice or something cheap to pregame on the way down to the hotel. You should have seen the looks on everyone's face when I walked out to the van. One of my buds asked me "What are you doing with that?" My reply... "Nah, dont worry about it man, im just gonne drink it in the ca....oh...d@mn..."

It may be one of those "You had to be there" things...

:)
 
Man, this thread is refreshing. I've gone through life thinking that I'm a total retard, now I realize that it's just normal - well, at least normal among all the freakshows here on FI...
 
Another non-aviation but...

On a road trip with some friends we pulled off to get some gas as we were near empty. I pumped the gas while everyone else went in to the store. After they came back out we sat there while it was pumping and complained how we weren't making very good time and should be able to make it the rest of the way without stopping again for gas. So I payed at the pump and off we went. Once back on the main road I look down and the saw the low fuel light go off. Confused on how that could be I thought it was error with the guage. I pulled out the receipt and it read $1.50. I'm still embarassed to think how long I stood out there with no gas being pumped into the car. Needless to say this didn't help our ontime performance.
 
Grabbed my airport badge (opens doors when in proximity of a reader) and thrust it at my Ford. Oddly, the doors didn't unlock.
 
Microclimates said:
After many hours of highway driving one night, I hit a fog bank. very smoothly transitioned to instruments and concentrated on my scan... it took me a few seconds to realise that was not the correct procedure for car-imc afterall. saved by a straight road and no traffic....

glad to be here
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find myself doing this all the time, especially in heavy rain on the interstate
 
Damn, I transition from flying to not flying the second my feet hit Lot 3. Of course, I don't get to excited about much when I'm flying either......


The day I park my car and reach up to turn the generators off is the day I'll go sell insurance for a living.
 
Never lift your hand palm out towards your wife and tell her to "standby for one" while you're changing tracks on the cd. I think we we're having some sort of important conversation; topic changed quite a bit after that.

Best thread in a long time.
 
Meiguy said:
Another non-aviation but...

On a road trip with some friends we pulled off to get some gas as we were near empty. I pumped the gas while everyone else went in to the store. After they came back out we sat there while it was pumping and complained how we weren't making very good time and should be able to make it the rest of the way without stopping again for gas. So I payed at the pump and off we went. Once back on the main road I look down and the saw the low fuel light go off. Confused on how that could be I thought it was error with the guage. I pulled out the receipt and it read $1.50. I'm still embarassed to think how long I stood out there with no gas being pumped into the car. Needless to say this didn't help our ontime performance.
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Once in college, After filling up the tank with gas, I hopped in the car and drove away from the pump. I heard a loud bang!! looked in the rear view mirror to see the pump handle and hose dangling from my cars gas-hole. (did I mention I was about 20 feet from the pump now) DOH!

Well, luckly the girl behind the counter came out and told me to just go-ahead and leave, this happened every "so-often".
 
wmuflyguy said:
Once in college, After filling up the tank with gas, I hopped in the car and drove away from the pump. I heard a loud bang!! looked in the rear view mirror to see the pump handle and hose dangling from my cars gas-hole. (did I mention I was about 20 feet from the pump now) DOH!

Well, luckly the girl behind the counter came out and told me to just go-ahead and leave, this happened every "so-often".
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Did the same thing in uniform after a four day. I was new, beat, and had started to come down sick late that afternoon and was now driving 185 miles home. It must have really been an inspiration to go flying to the few people around the pumps at the time.
 
On a 2 lane road, I was driving on the center of the line that divides the 2 lanes. I was using small corrections to stay on the center line until my brain said W T F are doing?
 
How about not checking the alarm clock in the hotel...waking up...shaving, showering getting dressed and waiting in the lobby for 30 minutes before I realized it was actually 120am. Of course that was for a 5am show on day 1 of 5. Needless to say, I was pi$$ed.
 
FlySacto said:
Did the same thing in uniform after a four day. I was new, beat, and had started to come down sick late that afternoon and was now driving 185 miles home. It must have really been an inspiration to go flying to the few people around the pumps at the time.
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Done that one also. I made it out on to the road though. Funny thing was that I was late for work that day and just threw the hose in my trunk and went to work. After work and a car that smelled like gasoline I returned the hose to the gas station. It was wierd walking up to the counter with their gas hose in your hands and ask where he wanted me to put it. Guy had no idea what to tell me so I just layed it down next to the broken pump and went on my way.
Glad to hear I'm not the only one.
 

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