Most embarassing moment

[JetSpeed219]

Taking a friend and his girlfriend up for a little scenic flight in the seminole and forgot the tail tie down, took me a few seconds to figure out why we weren't moving. Had to shut down, get out and un-hook it. The next day my flight instructor comes up to me and says "so I heard you tried to taxi with the tail still hooked to the tie down" DOH!!!!!

 

[User546]

...forgetting to pull chocks after loading up 8 pax, closing the door, sitting down, and about to call ground for taxi.

Been there, done that! I found though that a few extra pounds of thrust from the engines will usually remedy that problem, and that way you get to save face, and passengers are none the wiser!

 

[Ill Mitch]

Hahaha...you walked into a sliding glass door once, the DJ, well...he's a DJ. What's his excuse? Hahaha...

Yea...but he probably went home with that girl that night.

Another time, while playing baseball, I was running from 3rd base to home to score the winning run...all the moms and dads were screaming in support of our pending victory (this was little league), and as I crossed home plate basking in the glory, I slipped and fell right on my back with a big *WHOMP*. Very smooth.

 

[Ultraman]

A LONG time ago, while flying a Turbo Commander for a company, a friend of mine invited me to make a trip with him in his companies Citation. Coming back to the home base empty, he let me fly left seat. Upon landing, he said, "go into reverse", so I felt for something that would put the plane in reverse. I found two little things that felt like the things I used to go into reverse on the Commander, so I pulled those two little things up and then brought the power levers into "reverse". Things suddenly got very quiet and it occurred to me that I probably shouldn't have touched those two things! Anyway, we rolled to the end of the runway and started the engines again. My friend was rolling with laughter! Needless to say, I soon found out where the piggybacks were.

 

[Kream926]

^^^^^ that seems to be more of a saftey issue more that an embarassment

 

[Captain4242]

I did my initial training at ERAU in Datyona Beach, FL. My instructor always said "Let the plane accelerate past 95 before reducing the power".
On my 1st flight, Ray Bans on, I started doing the 4 fundamentals. Straight and level, turns, decends: I was the Czar of aviating skills, I thought. Then the climb: OK.
Level off, "Let plane accelerate past 95", I rememebered.
I leveled off; the airspeed increased.
"What are you going to do"? asked the CFI.
I recited his rule for him.
"Well, what's our speed"? he asked.
It was around the 110 mark.
"Well"? he asked again.
"'Well' what"? I snapped back.
I thought he was talking about the interstate!
I'll bet he's still laughing today!

 

[CapnVegetto]

^^^^^ that seems to be more of a saftey issue more that an embarassment

Not in a Citation. Brakes work fine with no engines, and all landing charts are based on no TR's. Empty, with probably not that much fuel, based on my #'s, he probably needed a little over 2,000 feet of runway to get down and stopped. I would've been laughing my a$$ off too!!

Dude, go have a beer and lighten up!!!

 

[urflyingme?!]

Took my dad and two of his buddies out for a $100 hamburger. The last time I had flown with the old man was two days after my private in the mighty 172. I went to another school and was flying Bonanza's for about 6 months. The whole preflight and car ride there he's telling these guys how great my landings were. That is, until I bounced it 6 times.......

 

[Kream926]

Not in a Citation. Brakes work fine with no engines, and all landing charts are based on no TR's. Empty, with probably not that much fuel, based on my #'s, he probably needed a little over 2,000 feet of runway to get down and stopped. I would've been laughing my a$$ off too!!

Dude, go have a beer and lighten up!!!

sorry, wasnt sure. i never flown anything but props.

and i am drinkin one right now, just for you, and ailerongirl.

 

[CapnVegetto]

Cheers dude! I'll have one too, then!!

 

[Kream926]

Cheers dude! I'll have one too, then!!

saaaaaaaweeeeeeeeeeet im up to 4. can anyone tell???

 

[Ihaveflown]

Bouncing off my head on the last step of the clam shell door of a Lear 35.

Back when I was just starting to learn how to fly a jet I had an experience that is only funny when looking back. I was warned to have a good braced hold when opening the door of a Lear 35. What can happen is that the struts that are suppose to keep the door from flying open and pulling you out with it do not always work. Along for my learning experience was my chief pilot, boss (owner of the plane) and six members of his two companies. I had usually sat on the lav seat to keep the door from pulling me out with it. On this day the lav seat was occupied and I was.....on my own and the entertainment was about to begin. You lear guys see what's coming. I opened the top half of the door. Then I unlatched the bottom door. I pulled the cable to keep the door from swinging too wildly. Then...here it comes...I lifted up the securing "sharks teeth." I was already in an awkward position. The weight and momentum of the door pulled me out of the plane. I landed first on my head on the bottom step and second I flipped over and landed on my feet just as the lineman laid out the carpet. I was stunned for a split second and was trying to look cool as all lear pilots should. Without hesitation I flung out both arms and yelled "Ta Daa!" My boss said all he saw of me were the yellow Vibrum name on the soles of my feet. The line guys thought I did it on purpose. So every time we went to that FBO I was always asked to "do that trick you did again." I was sore for a week after that.

 

[Ultraman]

Kream926,

Keep on drinkin' them brewskies and you might have your most embarassing moment right here on flightinfo!

Have about two or three more and I'll teach you how to get a Citation into reverse (for future reference)!

Ultraman

 

[C425Driver]

I had been flying charters in Barons for some time and now I was to get checked out in Navajos so I flew right seat for a few flights to get used to the plane. On one of these right seat trips, we were waiting in the back of the plane for our pax to arrive. I forget why I got out of my seat but when I sat down again, my back pocket got caught on the armrest and tore the a$$ out of my slacks. The only thing that we could find to put my a$$ back together was a roll of duct tape. There was no way to hide this so we decided that I would just wait in the right seat when the pax arrived and the other pilot would help load the bags and unload them at the destination. It looked a little odd that the 29 year-old guy was just waiting in the cockpit while the 65 year-old guy was throwing the bags. We flew the pax to their destination (I never got out of my seat) and then we returned to our home base. Somehow, the pilot called ahead with the details of the incident without me finding out about it so when we pulled up to the hangar, everyone that worked there (pilots, mechanics, dispatchers, CP, Pres, etc..) was outside waiting for me to do my walk of shame. I was the "butt" of a lot of wise "cracks" for a while after that one!


C425Driver

 

[Yellow Snow]

Not really embarrasing but still funny: I Did most of my flight training at an airport with a skydive center. Got to know the pilot and most of the people at the jump zone and hung around there more than flight school cause the pilot liked me and let me fly a lot of jump runs with him. One night after the last jump we were hanging out and a party kind of got started. After a couple of hours it got sort of wild and some of the girls started to get topless. We thought it would be pretty cool to take a picture of the group so we all started to pile into the rear door of the grand caravan jump plane. Any body that knows grand caravans knows once we had about eleven or twelve people crammed in that door the whole plane tipped up on its a$$. The funniest part was trying to figure out how to get it back down without screwing up the nose strut.

 

[Kream926]

how many are guilty of leaving one of the tie towns tied?

i left the tail and my wing tied today

 

[Way2Broke]

^^^^^ that seems to be more of a saftey issue more that an embarassment

What do you know about safety in a Jet or Turbo-prop with 350 hours? Come on relax man!

 

[British_AN-225]

lol

Hey people, i am a newbie to the forums.

My most embarrasing moment was, like i suppose all of you line training captains out there, showing a young FO the ropes, bigging yourself up on final approach, gear down, runway in sight, clearance to touchdown, and then BANG the roughest landing you have ever had, and that was a young FO who i quite fancied.

 

[wiggsfly]

First solo, landings went well. I was coming back into the ramp at MDH and I guess I forgot I had wings next thing I know I hear a nice scraping metal sound as my wing scrapes over that of another 152 (fortunately no damage). Of course this was right in front of a tour of about 50 people. For the next few years every time I came into the ramp somebody would make some sort of comment on that one.

There is a town called Wear in Southern Illinois. For SIU we would give position reports all the time and there is nothing quite like saying "XXXX over Wear at 4000 ft manuevering" on a crowded frequency....

 

[flyboy]

i ate an orange road cone that had been placed in front of the mooney i was flying. it shot at least 150 feet and almost took out a 421 that was taxiing by. those guys had quite the laugh.