Ever get your fingers caught in the ailerons?

[gkrangers]

I'm sure its happened to most at one time or another, but anyone get caught (like in a 172) and do some damage to their fingers?

 

[epic!]

nothing more than a loud explative

 

[gkrangers]

nothing more than a loud explative

Me too, but that ******************** hurt. I'm glad I had my other hand holding the aileron up (so that my fingers wouldn't get crushed; it softened the blow) but my friend flung the other one up on the other side without checking...

Ow....

 

[epic!]

slamming your friends finger in the door on the 172 can be fun. i swear some of them have to be slammed harder than a prom date

 

[Lazy8]

slamming your friends finger in the door on the 172 can be fun. i swear some of them have to be slammed harder than a prom date

If you ever happen to get into the newer Cessna aircraft don't slam them. The door pin will snap like a twig. All you have to do is pull the inside door latch all the back and gentle pull the door toward you.

 

[avbug]

That's what you should be doing with the older Cessna doors, too.

 

[Lazy8]

Good point.

Which reminds me. They're not doors, they're hatches and the mechanisms inside aren't built to be abused by constant slamming. Just treat it like it was your own.

 

[nosehair]

slammed harder than a prom date

Eh,...I think he just wanted to use that line...

 

[MauleSkinner]

Eh,...I think he just wanted to use that line...

Well, the title of the thread just sounds dirty to start with

 

[gkrangers]

Well, the title of the thread just sounds dirty to start with

You spend too much time around airplanes.

 

[fastback]

I'm sure its happened to most at one time or another, but anyone get caught (like in a 172) and do some damage to their fingers?

No, but I fell off the jetbridge again at work today.

 

[LR60BOY]

I've never gotten a finger caught however, I have had that nice Cessna aileron trailing edge diamond pattern tattooed on my forehead more than once.

 

[transampilot]

At my old school there was a guy who was doing a run around, instead of a walk around on a 172. He checked the tire and came up real fast, smashed his noggin on the lowered flap edge. He had to be taken to the emergency room for stitches, and they had to fix the flap.

 

[Fedora]

Some words of advice. Don't ever "slam" flight controls around. If that was a good idea, we wouldn't need gust locks. Most pilot's worst nightmares are loss of control or in flight fire. Please don't tease the tiger.

 

[pgcfii2002]

No, but I've gotten soaked with water when checking under the ailerons on a damp, dewey morning.

 

[wmudriver]

Same thing happened to me...it left a nasty gash in my finger.

Me too, but that ******************** hurt. I'm glad I had my other hand holding the aileron up (so that my fingers wouldn't get crushed; it softened the blow) but my friend flung the other one up on the other side without checking...

Ow....

 

[Sunking]

I no sheet had a student that during his walk around ran into the aileron so hard it knocked him out! Sadly it was during his FED ride, Fed let him retry the following week. He learned to duck I guess because he passed. Still to this day he has a small diamond shaped scar on his forehead.

 

[kneeshoe]

Bumped my head on the wing spar of a 172 once during a pre-flight. Probably doesn't hurt as much as getting your finger caught in the aileron, but definitely had its impact on me.

 

[gkrangers]

I walked into the trailing edge of the flaps once too...

 

[Alin10123]

I slammed my head while sticking my head inside the door of a 172 to flip on the master switch and all of the lights. Many Q#@$(*&@# were screamed out and it HURT like @#%*#&$. It didn't swell up or anything. But it start bleeding. Luckily it was right on the hairline to the scar isn't noticeable even when i look for it. I went into the FBO to get a bandaid and some stuff for it and the FBO dude laughed at me. LOL, said he'd done it before too.

 

[IFIxUmUBrakeUm]

nothing hurts more than walking into the cockpit of a saab or crj and removing about an inch long patch of skin and hair off the top of your head with on of those overhead switches. It will make a grown man cry!!!!!