You're on GUARD!!!

[chimichanga]

A guy in a big fuzzy red hat that never flinches, but that's not important right now.

You called?

 

[Iflewjetz]

who is "Flagship"?

They are Pinnacle out of MEM/DTW and I guess MSP or Northwest Airlink, or the old Express Airlines I.

 

[DrewBlows]

How dare someone interrupt my staring blindly into space by calling ops on the wrong frequency!

I thought "on guard" meant the offending pilot had to fight the challenger in a fencing match on the ramp. Is this wrong?

 

[Captain X]

How dare someone interrupt my staring blindly into space by calling ops on the wrong frequency!

I thought "on guard" meant the offending pilot had to fight the challenger in a fencing match on the ramp. Is this wrong?

Actually, I think you're correct because one day I heard some guy whine "On Guard" on 121.5 and the response he got was "Touche'."

 

[Super Monkey]

My favorite Guard story was flying out of ATL one morning.

"ACY123, ATL, we've had reports of an ELT, could you monitor guard and see if you pick it up?"

"ACY123, sure, what freq?"


I'm not speechless too often, but I was that time.

Classic....here's a similar one..

Denver Center Controller, "Cessna Tango Uniform, can you check an ELT?"

....long pause...followed by a confused response...

Cessna Pilot, "Uuuuh, I cant reach it from here. It's in the back of the airplane."

@#$@#$! You've got to be crapping me! I was rolling for days!!!!!

 

[Jonny Sacko]

I heard a guy actually say "Dude, your on guard".

I was like, cha, I mean, cha!

******************************!

 

[roughneck]

If you would spend more time on company freq you might be able to coordinate a 15 or 20 minute turn and actually make some money.

 

[Vastly Underemp]

My response was:

Thanks for the guard, Guard. You'll make a fine assistant chief pilot someday. How's the "hat police" gig going?

 

[SteelerMan]

Yesterday, on guard AA says "Fort Worth Center American XXX...blah blah blah"

Unknown voice, "YOU'RE ON GUARD"

AA says "Yes we know, we're trying to get ahold of Fort Worth Center"

Same voice "BUT YOU'RE ON GUARD!!!!!!"

AA says "Yes we are, trying to get Fort Worth we're over -----"

Same voice "Check your freq, your on guard, not gonna get Fort Worth here!!!!"

Next voice, "AA go ahead,, Fort Worth center here??"

It was pretty funny. Yikes.

 

[Wesb737fo]

A couple of years ago ATC asked us to switch over to guard in an attempt contact a CAL flight, of course some dork goes "you're on guard".

Ignoring, I repeated my transmission (including the statement that ATC was looking for CAL). The same dork (only louder) "you're on guard!". I finally said, "I know...now shut up...I'm trying to talk to CAL". geez....