AHHH ok, why over a weeks period of time would I remeber call signs, unlike some of you nerds I don't sit there and think, oh, I can't wait to land and pull out my I phone so I can post on FI. It goes more like, great have 3 days off why not see whats up with aviation, oh yeah I remeber that crap airline having trouble, why not post about it. See ya tard have to log off and live a life.
After a week, you remember specific distances (I doubt you can accurately judge "about 3 feet" from your vantage point), specific taxiways and runways, and there was pilot and a woman involved. You also seem to remember that the 180 guy realized he messed up, so I'm led to believe you were on the same frequency and heard his radio transmissions.
Yet, you cant remember the callsign a surprised ground controller was using while trying to contact an aircraft doing an unauthorized 180 on an active taxiway? Usually there are multiple, loud calls using a full callsign by ground. Were you too busy doing something completely unrelated to the flight to know what was happening? If it got you irritated at our "crap" airline enough to post a week later, wouldn't it be logical to conclude that you were probably ecstatic when these events actually occured, probably had a few laughs at us and how stupid, clueless, and wreckless we are, and then patted yourself on the back for never making a mistake. Yet, you fail to identify the airplane models, get callsigns, see the "operated by" stickers, or provide any other clue that would allow us to place blame where blame is due.
In your first post, one of the offending aircraft was a 135. Then later it was a 135 or 145. Here's a quick lesson. Ones short (135), ones longer (145). Not too hard to identify from each other. Just remember, the bigger number is the bigger plane. That's how I do it. Plus, if you didn't know, most airlines have their own N numbers. Comairs is CA, right? Mesa/Freedom EMBs are mostly MJ. Chautauquas are mostly RP and SK.
"caused some pretty big headaches for the airport"?
Oh come on you drama queen! A missed taxiway, and some issues on the deice pad? Are you trying to tell me all this caused arrival and departure delays? Was it complete gridlock? Were they calling in extra ground controllers to assist? Holding? Diversions? What exactly were these "pretty big headaches"?
I'm guessing you're the FO that, right out of IOE, puts your hand on the gear and flap levers before the captain calls for them because that's when YOU think they should extended. Captain probably forgot right? And you're saving the day. Then went and bragged to all your new-hire buddies about your clueless captain and the gear-up landing you just prevented.
In making this post, I guess I'm making a pretty big assumption that you're a pilot and not a flight attendant. You have not provided any indication that you were in a position to know what was actually going on as these events occured, so I have to question this. If you're not sure, here's a quick test that will identify what you do. If you sit in the front (cockpit/flight deck), you're a pilot. If you sit in the back (cabin), where all the passengers (people who get on the airplane to travel somewhere) are, you're a flight attendant. Talk about no clue.
Well, thanks for posting. You just killed a portion of my long layover.
