Most embarassing moment

[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.

 

[V2plus25]

in a hurry to get the freight run started in the Metro... run up the stairs, catch that little flap at the top, and do a face plant right on the chart case. Legs dangling on the stairs and face in charts, I hear all the DHL guys laughing their a$$ off.

Still trying to live that one down.

 

[Kream926]

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

thats already been established. read back a few pages

 

[Doug Parker]

Being so tired after a flip-flop, walked out of the forward lav with my Sausage and Eggs hanging out and getting a date from the FA!

 

[Nolife]

Face plant

I was at a job interview with the chief pilot. We're walking across the ramp to his office and I rolled my ankle on an invisible boulder and did a face plant in front of 4 people and the chief pilot.



He must have felt bad for me cause he offered me the job. I think he's still waiting for me to come tumbling out of the plane one of these days.



Embarrassing for a buddy instructor several years ago: my student and I are in the pattern following my friend and his student doing T&G's. Only our two planes in the pattern. We hear my friends voice over tower freq, "That's not a scab... it's a booger." We were laughing so hard we forgot to turn base for a few miles.

 

[ArcticFlier]

in a hurry to get the freight run started in the Metro... run up the stairs, catch that little flap at the top, and do a face plant right on the chart case. Legs dangling on the stairs and face in charts, I hear all the DHL guys laughing their a$$ off.

Still trying to live that one down.

Well...........you and I have something in common. Read my post on the first page.


AF

 

[mattfish42]

Here I sit, typing with a broken wrist, yet another casualty of the Lear 35 bottom door. All my coworkers think it's hilarious.
Everywhere I go now, people see the cast on my arm and ask, "What happened?"
They never believe me when I answer, "I fell out of an airplane."

 

[LJ45]

funny

I order 300 gallons of Jet Negative Piss instead of saying Prist on the Unicom.
When I walked in FBO, the Girl behind the counter couldn't stop laughing..she new me!

I also told a female controller after she asked "how is your ride?" ...I said "we have just a little nipple up here" The other pilot about died, starting laughing hard, I started laughing she kept saying "say again" "say again" we could not talk on the radio for ten minutes until we stopped laughing like fools.

Yes, I am the king of faux pas!

 

[jimpilot]

Asked a charter passenger when she was due - she wasn't pregnant!

 

[Flyforyou]

Just about ran down the battery on a 172 trying to start it when I finally looked down to see the fuel was in the off position! It looked like both to me when I looked at it... oh well.


Fly

 

[FlyJordan]

Tried to taxi without removing chocks, had to shut down, get out and get them and start up again. I dont think anyone out side saw, it was a really small airport, but it sure made a good impression on the girl on the inside.

Flew one of what seems like the only 172's in the world with no fueling steps and who needs a ladder? Fuel hose in one hand, pulling myself up with the other, foot slips off the back of the strut and down I go, then nozzle hits me in the face. I felt like the worlds largest retard. Thankfully I didnt hurt myself tobadly, bruises, scrapes, and a few sore muscles.

Yeah and I would not try any 100LL in the face either, tastes about like it smells.

oh yeah, I said yes sir or something to a female controller one time, I was thinking about something else while talking on the radio (bad idea), then after I said it I tried to appoligize and that just made me seems like a bigger idiot, thankfully she didnt seem to pissed.

 

[Mr. Irrelevant]

Tried to taxi with cocks

Far more information than we need to know.....

Mr. I.

 

[FlyJordan]

better?

 

[jetexas]

I almost knocked myself out running up the conveyor belt to get in the cargo bay of the ATR after a preflight. I raised my head too soon and hit the door, which was hanging down. My hat went flying down to the ground and I literally saw stars. I went down and picked up my hat with a bleeding forehead (from that d*mn emblem stem above the bill). The passengers were all boarding into the back of the plane. I'm sure they all saw me but I didn't dare look.

 

[Z28_Pilot]

Tried to taxi without removing cocks

I bet that was painful!!!!

 

[El Cóndor]

Big mess

How about throwing up on a PPL checkride. I had not eaten lunch (test started at 1300) and after a grueling unusual attitude recovery portion I started feeling kind of nauseous. I open the 172 window and take deep breaths . . . no dice. I tell the examiner that the stuff is coming out soon so I lean out . . . he says not a good idea 'cause I'll be all over the airplane. I ask for suggestions (there is no plastic bag) and he says put it under your t-shirt, so I pull the collar above my nose and let it loose. He took control of the airplane for a few minutes, and I thought maybe he'll end it there, but nonetheless he let me continue the checkride (there was only one maneuver left) and land the airplane. Of course he didn't spend too much time in the plane after shut down ha ha as he hastily walked off to the school to type up my temporary license. I spend most of the post-flight trying to come up with an excuse for the big stain in my shirt that my instructor and the people at the school would surely notice (not to mention the smell), but as I was walking off the ramp I remember that I had put my gym bag in the trunk of my car so I was able to grab a clean shirt and sneak to the bathroom to change shirts. It was all to no avail as the examiner had told a few people and they had that "special" grin in their faces when they congratulated me. You can take it for granted that neither my examiner or I will EVER forget that checkride!

 

[FlyJordan]

I might have put it all over the plane rather than my shirt, just take a hose to the plane and it will be good as new, but either way that just sucks. I have never had that problem but I always carry a few sick sacks in my flight bag in case passengers get sick.

 

[EatSleepFly]

oh yeah, I said yes sir or something to a female controller one time,

Haha, I said, "thank you sir" to a female Canadian Customs agent on the phone a couple months back. Whoooops.

She acted like she didn't hear it, but she must've. I felt like a douche. It was too early in the morning or somethin', cause she sure didn't sound like a man.

 

[charlie2]

About 25 years ago I was teaching a private ground school class and was on weather stuff. The class had a few women in it intently hanging on every word I said of course. When I was trying to say "cold front" I accidently said very clearly "fold cun_" I corrected myself very quickly but as I was looking at the class of about 20 or so, based on their wide grins, I could see that no one missed what I said. Just thinking of that incident still makes me turn beet red! I have 40 more very embarressing stories just to do with flying and ten times as many outside flying. It sucks being me!

 

[bluesky421]

I was Fueling a C-185 on day and i slipped off the ladder. I ended up on the ramp with the fuel nozzel on my chest. What made it worse was the when i fell, i pulled the grounding wire off the airplane. It then proceeded to smack me squarly in the face, as it automatically retracted back to the fuel truck. All of this in front of the owners daughter, who was about my age. Smooth....real smooth.

 

[bluesky421]

Anyone walk into the wing on a cessna?