Most embarassing moment

[Cardinal]

Those entry steps must be treated with respect. Beautiful clear winter day, and I'm in a good mood. I trot down the steps in full uniform, hands in my pockets, and leap off the last one onto the pavement below. Trouble being it's winter, and the ramp is covered in glycol. My foot has zero purchase, and I eat asphalt a quarter second later. My hands are encumbered, so my only defense is to dissipate some of that forward motion by a kind of tuck-and-roll maneuver down the slightly sloping ramp. I pick up my glycol covered self, look around to see who witnessed this, and see through the terminal windows all 19 of our passengers watching this performance, eyebrows raised.

 

[garf12]

Checking fuel on a 172 when I fall backwards off that tiny a$$ step on the side of the cowling. My pants caught the little air scoop thing for the vent and brought it with me. They told me dont worry about it, it was broken anyways and we were needing to fix it. I got a **CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED** bill from the FBO for $600 a few weeks later altough!

 

[Kream926]

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

i got another one involving taking a girl flying but thats for another thread

 

[CapnVegetto]

Anybody that's ever flown a LR-25 or 35 can relate to this one. One day (when I was new to the A/C), I managed to open the door to a LR-25 while sitting on the bottom of it.......fell right out of the plane. CA was laughing his a$$ off, line guy was laughing his a$$ off, and I was dusting asphalt off of my brand new jet pilot uniform looking like a complete dumba$$.

Another time, showed up for a trip in the CL-65, the really hot flight attendant waved to me, I waved back slipped off about the 3rd or 4th step, fell flat on my back along with my suitcase and flight case which managed to land right on top of my head. Flight attendant was all serious like "are you OK??" I just lay thinking, 'this is gonna be a long 4 days now." I don't want to know what she was really thinking at that moment, but there went any chance I had of getting her number.

 

[GravityHater]

Is it true that you only forget the gear when the woman sitting beside you is not your wife?

 

[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!!