Stuck mic stories!

[Rally]

Well, I know we have them. Heres mine: ORL, orlando exec. Holding shorting 5 airplanes on final and 172 obviously giving a lesson. All you hear on the freq is: "ok, 65 knots keep the nose down a little power, ok lift the nose off, hold it off, ok retard the throttle etc etc" Touch down the mic comes unstuck, they clear and the tower says "**** thanks for the lesson" I was laughing so hard.

My other one was a ex airline captain/trainer in his a/c in a central florida airport. He's on ground the other guy he's talking about is on tower. (luckily) They are in the runup pad and he says "see that guy over there he's a ***hole, mic comes unstuck and ground says "well thanks for the heads up, contact tower". LOL

Any stories?

 

[EWRJ0225]

one day i was working the desk at an FBO in so. indiana, and then we heard a guy on the radio saying "ok just let it go, let it fall, down! down! keep her coming! keep coming! keep her coming! down! down! down! ok more collective! COLLECTIVE! COLLECTIVE! good job, that was MUCH BETTER!" then some smart ass said, jeeze, i think i could fly one of those helios after that. The CFI in the helicopter simply responded "yeah thats a good example of an "audio-rotation"" har har har. I hate helicopters, but another thing, Its always fun to here someone do a passenger briefing from start to finish on an operations frequency.

 

[wmuflyguy]

Its always fun to here someone do a passenger briefing from start to finish on an operations frequency.

Or JFK ground

 

[samballs]

One morning in PWK I was teaching my girlfriend to fly and I said Damn I got morningwood. Next thing I heard about a minute later was check your mike too late I already had a stuck mike.

 

[siucavflight]

Is your girlfriend the girl in your avatar? If so I am sure the controller heard.

 

[DX Rick]

Or JFK ground

I listen to someone eat a whole sandwich between CID and DPA

 

[zasca]

I missed 4 stuck mikes while instructing in Hyannis. Always on final. Always with the grumpy controller. Always during rush hour for the island commuters. Always a good remark waiting for me when I called for taxi to the ramp... Damn 32V!!!

 

[XPOO]

Does listening to pilots repeatedly try to turn on the PCL over tower freq. after hours and having to get on the freq. to tell them which freq. they should be using count?

 

[Occam's Razor]

USAirways flight still at the gate sticks the mic on DCA Ground.

5-minute soliloquy on Scheduling sending him to Chicago, having to install cabinets in his shop, and the crappy coffee he was drinking...along with other stuff.

He finally moves something away from the mic on the stick, and Ground yells at him about the stuck mic.

The best part:

In his most indignant voice, he responds, "We DID NOT have a stick mic on this aircraft!"

Ground comes back, "Have fun putting those cabinets up after your Chicago trip...and enjoy your lousy coffee."

 

[snap145]

this is a true story I swear it.....someone had a stuck mike on center a few years ago when I was flying King Airs, and proceeded to inform all of us on freq as opposed to just his fellow pilot that the breakfast burrito he had eaten a few hours prior was "tearing him up" and he was going to have the green apple splatters before long....this was followed by thirty seconds of sheer laughter on my end and a few minutes of silence when he finnally realized he was transmitting to all of indy center

 

[Checknsix]

Yesterday morning, at altitude, east of ORD. Sounds like half of a conversation between two controllers....

"Yea, I think we have them on all the right frequencies now. It's a clusterfvck. They are all whining and crying as they come in over the lake."

The FO and look at each other with that WTF look. I keyed the mike and said, " A cluster what?"

Another pilot says, " I like the whining and crying part."

Then you hear, "My apologies guys."

Then you hear a new controller. Kept us in laughter for another few minutes.

- Six

 

[GogglesPisano]

I listen to someone eat a whole sandwich between CID and DPA

:laugh:

 

[urflyingme?!]

Asked ORD departure what my gate was once... oops

 

[wmuflyguy]

Cleared the pax's for take-off a couple times.

Called for clearance on Operations.

Told Center we need a lav dump.

 

[yournextFO]

> Called for clearance on Operations.

That's standard procedure in ATL to get a response out of ops...they ignore you until you call them for a clearance and they almost instantly respond that you're on the wrong freq!

 

[BGSkyGuy]

A friend of mine was on final in a C-150 on his first solo x-c. He is bored as hell and starts singing the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang theme song all the way down final. Greases the landing and in his best Ace Ventura voice says to himself "Like A Glove!" Needless to say the guy at the FBO was laughing his @ss off.

Coming into EWN NC a few weeks ago and our local airshow pilot is taking up a friend of his in his S-31 two seater. The guy in the back must have his hand on the ptt. All I could hear on the tower freq. is the guy yelling "HOLY $HIT THIS IS F!#$ING AWESOME..." so on and so forth. It went on so long that tower switched to the ground freq.

 

[SuperPilot]

Early morning trying to get a clearance and all we can hear is a loud snoring on the freq. We try ground. Same thing. Then Tower. Same thing. One controller running all the freq's and he's asleep with a stuck mic. We call ops and tell them to call the tower and wake him up. Over the radio, we hear the phone ring, some grunting, and then "what? I, wha? Oh!" and then the freq goes quiet. Pretty funny.

 

[Citrus531]

> Called for clearance on Operations.

That's standard procedure in ATL to get a response out of ops...they ignore you until you call them for a clearance and they almost instantly respond that you're on the wrong freq!

I know at FL the inrange person is dealing with 500 phone calls from SOC or gate agents or ramp, trying to listen over the noise in the tower, and then respond to the radio...it's fun on an irop night! I think we're finally down to about 30-40% of the airplanes still calling in despite the ACARS now fully developed for us to receive messages.

Great stuck mic last week in ATL...ASA chick talking about her a wide variety of things for 10 minutes on Ramp 3..Ron loved it

 

[siucavflight]

Heard someone reading penthouse forum letters over EGL outbound OPS at ORD, have a feeling it was intentional though!

 

[Thermocouple]

Was on about 5 mile final to CLT, already cleared to land when Piedmont checks in behind us. We hear him read back "cleared to land" and then there is a brief pause and we hear "dude I just fu#$@ng tagged you." He then says "I just fu#*#ed you again, that's twice, once in the front hole and once in the back hole." This goes on until we land when all we hear is "clitoris, clitoris, clitoris, clitoris..." going on until we clear the runway and call ramp. Mic was still stuck when we called ramp and never figured out what ensued after the mic was unstuck. All true and there were about 15 airplanes waiting for takeoff on 36L that got to witness the event.
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