Delta Connection Pax Brief on Guard...

[F16TJ]

Anybody else hear the awesome pax brief delivered by the Delta Connection CA today (Wed, 8 Dec) on Guard at 1805Z in the mid-Atlantic region?

 

[chperplt]

Delta Connection flights don't generally have guard up... I believe they all monitor Atlanta Radio.

You sure it wasn't someone playing around?

 

[sweptback]

What carrier?

 

[TriStar_drvr]

I made a really nice announcement on Indianapolis Center a few years ago. I know it was really good because several pilots from competing airlines who were on the frequency complimented me on it.

 

[EagleRJ]

It's always funny when that happens, and the controller doesn't even get his frequency back when the pilot is done, because everyone has to get their smart-a$$ comments in first.

 

[atrdriver]

It's not a question of if you are going to do it sometime, it's WHEN you're going to do it. If you're lucky you won't have a voice that is too distinctive or you won't mention your flight number.

 

[garf12]

I was on a series of flights last week going on vacation and I was wondering if that ever happened, cause we had a really chatty pilot. I guess just the flick of a switch controls what you are talking on?

 

[minitour]

...I guess just the flick of a switch controls what you are talking on?

ouch...new FO's watch out if your CA is a joker..."hazing in the airline industry: tonight at 11"

Anyone ever do that to a new, nervous FO? how bout chirping in to talk just as the FA is about to give their safety briefing? Any funny stories?

-mini

 

[atrdriver]

I was on a series of flights last week going on vacation and I was wondering if that ever happened, cause we had a really chatty pilot. I guess just the flick of a switch controls what you are talking on?

Yep, there is an audio panel that either has switches, push buttons, or a knob to select what you will "transmit" on when you hit the mic. Personally, since I did my PA to ATL departure I hold the PA button down the entire time I'm talking on the PA. And I look at the audio panel a lot, cause I say lots of stuff that don't need to be on the frequencies OR the PA...

 

[GravityHater]

I thought you were supposed to take both hands to your face, pull your eyelids down with forefingers, corners of your mouth with thumbs, flare your nostrils with pinkies while facing the 'announcer' and making short snorting noises. Either that, or reaching over just grabbing him in the ribs as he starts to talk.

 

[Daveman]

Yep, there is an audio panel that either has switches, push buttons, or a knob to select what you will "transmit" on when you hit the mic. Personally, since I did my PA to ATL departure I hold the PA button down the entire time I'm talking on the PA. And I look at the audio panel a lot, cause I say lots of stuff that don't need to be on the frequencies OR the PA...

Hats off to the ATR drivers at ASA. Got me home many + times. Thanks!

 

[shamrock]

I've answered a few radio calls over the PA, but that's about the worst I've done publicly up to this point.

I had a wise@ss captain who would wait until I did a PA then key the #1 radio just as I began. He would then gesture emphatically to the #1 radio head as I spoke, which would be showing "TX", making me think I was doing the PA over Center freq. Ever since then, I check my audio panel pretty much every time I key the mic, so I'll never have to worry about making another mistake.

 

[FracCapt]

It's not a question of if you are going to do it sometime, it's WHEN you're going to do it. If you're lucky you won't have a voice that is too distinctive or you won't mention your flight number.

I don't know about you...but I always look at the RTU's to see which(if any) shows "TX" when I hit the PTT. Of course, at my low time, I may be paranoid...and after time, I will get more relaxed and not pay as much attention. Who knows. Then again, maybe I'm one of the few that screwed up so much early on(on this exact thing) that I learned from it..

 

[FN FAL]

I don't know about you...but I always look at the RTU's to see which(if any) shows "TX" when I hit the PTT. Of course, at my low time, I may be paranoid...and after time, I will get more relaxed and not pay as much attention. Who knows. Then again, maybe I'm one of the few that screwed up so much early on(on this exact thing) that I learned from it..

I'm usually pretty good about watching what radio I'm chatting on...hate to give center a free show and I really hate to see one of my coworkers aknowledge a request for a different altitude.

 

[FlyChicaga]

Flying the Saab, coming into the hub I had just switched to #2 to give the in-range report when we get a RA. Small GA plane, could see it, getting close. I keyed up to advice ATC of our deviation from altitude to follow the RA and avoid the other aircraft. Get an increase climb (must have been doing a chandelle or something) so we keep going up, and I say something again. Then level out, start returning to altitude. Call again to advise. The entire time, I'm getting no response. Then I look... and realize I was on company frequency. You'd think someone... operations, dispatch, maintenance, another aircraft, the captain... would have told me I was a moron. But no. Confessed to ATC that we followed an RA but were transmitting on another radio, and luckily their response: "Yeah, we figured. Anyways, turn left to 290, descend and maintain....."

 

[Typhoon1244]

You'd think someone...operations, dispatch, maintenance, another aircraft, the captain...would have told me I was a moron. But no...

From what Al tells me, you're lucky if your ops people answer you at all.

 

[mmmdonut]

"Whats the inflight movie?"

"I need more peanuts!"

 

[enigma]

I love the Diesel 9. Just pick up the telephone to brief the pax. No buttons to confuse.

Now when I get to the bus, I'll probably brief center about once a day

enigma

 

[FN FAL]

I love the Diesel 9. Just pick up the telephone to brief the pax. No buttons to confuse.

Now when I get to the bus, I'll probably brief center about once a day

enigma

Two of Jill Clayburgh's lines from the movie "Silver Streak" come to mind...

"I know what goes where, and why."

"I give great phone!"

 

[Skyliner]

FN FAL posted
Two of Jill Clayburgh's lines from the movie "Silver Streak" come to mind...

"I know what goes where, and why."

"I give great phone!"

Ohh, great movie, and it's finally coming out on DVD! My favorite line, from the biplane scene, as they're about to buzz sheep:

"They talk about the joy of sex, but it don't last like the fun of flying!"


I think my biggest faux pas (had to call a professor to figure out what word to use there) on the radio was asking the passenger cabin for our clearance to O'Hare. The door was still open, when I looked back I got some quizzical looks from the passengers.

One instructor told me about a smart alec who used to work the ops radio in Dallas. When a pilot would accidentally transmit to ATC over the company freq, the guy would respond with something like, "Roger 123, you're cleared to join the JACKASS arrival, fly the DUMBASS transition."

Hey, FAL, do you have one of your namesakes? I've got a DSA one in 308, and man is it fun.

 

[tk855]

I made a PA once on DCA ground, got some responses. The best I heard was at the beginning of this month with KC center going into Okla. City. The frequency was quiet when all of a sudden a mike keyed up and someone was in the middle of a story about shooting at something. He ended the story by explaining how they were "just havin some good ole redneck fun." He must have realized he was keyed up and the story was over. The controller scolded a little, but the barrage of sh!t from other pilots that followed was the funniest.

tk