Most embarassing moment

[VNugget]

- Trying to taxi out with a chock still in, with a smoking hottie in the back.

- Trying to start with the mixture out, with my best flying friend in the back. (But the tables were turned when I had to take off his tiedown chains so he wouldn't have to shut down. Yeah I'm looking at you, TrafficInSight)

- Cessna Diamonds. I couldn't hit that wing harder if I'd tried to on purpose. I was in the process of standing up after tying my shoe, while starting to move toward the cockpit at the same time..... carrying maximum momentum.

 

[414Flyer]

This man speaks the truth. Been there, done that, picked the puke out of my hair. I had a brand new CFI certificate in my pocket, and another CFI was flying the airplane. After about an hour tossing around in the summer bumps, I tried to let fly out the window, and he, I, and the airplane all got to wear the vomit for the next hour to the destination. Somehow "I'm sorry" just doesn't cut it.

Happens that way on roller coasters too. I once covered everyone behind me in puke. I think I will forever have an image of this bald guy with glasses, and a fair amount of vomit on his glasses and head

 

[Sam Snead]

After an 0-dark-30 show, my FO pointed out that I was wearing 1 black shoe and 1 brown shoe. I had to hide in the cockpit all day! What a dork!

I had dressed wearily and in the dark.

After that I did a shoe-check if I left very early.

The FO told some of the other pilots and I got some static later but not much.

 

[m4j2t]

3rd day of ioe, 5th leg of the day, 30 minutes to make the turn--and the aircraft swap. post-flight, preflight, paperwork--got it all done, both of em spinning, "after start checklist complete" (reaching for my headset...which I left in the last aircraft...)

shutdown #1 run across the ramp with everybody watching (it was the evening rush) emerge from the other a/c with headset in hand and then had to stand there to hold the button to put the door back up :0... longest 8 seconds of my life. run back and listen to it on company...

 

[JimG]

In a hurry, told the (now) ex-wife and the kids to get the tie down chains as I was pre-flighting and packing bags.

Fired up and started out in a fast taxi....only to discover the left wing was still tied down, which meant a shut down, climb out over the ex, pull the wing down to take the slack out of the chain so she could unhook it.

She still brings it up occasionally that I'm a bad pilot b/c of that incident (which was her responsibility).

 

[PHX767]

The Royal Order of the Waffleheads

As nearly everyone who has any time in the KC-135 has found out the hard way, the crew entry chute safety grating does not always latch when it is flipped up. The cranium prevents this heavy steel grate from hurting itself as it falls.

I went charging smartly up the ladder one day hoping to impress the VIP's on board with my hustle - flipped the grate up without stopping my vertical progress and met that sucker coming back down at mach 2. As I hung on the ladder by one hand, moaning and seeing stars, I realized that I did impress them with what a dork I was.

 

[sky37d]

Anyone walk into the wing on a cessna?

Oh, man, tell me about that. I still have the diamond tatoo on my forehead. I was over at another airport, doing an oil change, checking somethings over. The EGT wasn't working on one engine, and upon examination, the wire was loose. Got an assortment of nuts from the mech's tool box, walked back to my plane, focused on the assortment in my hand, walked into the wing. Litterally knocked me off my feet, big tear down my forehead, blood everywhere. Tried calling my wife, no answer I don't understand why she carries a cell phone. No first aid kit, ended up taping my forehead and nose with duct tape, flew the plane back to the airport it was kept at, drove home to the emergency room, and I'm waiting for them to sew me up, when my wife calls "Did you need anything?" Not now.

 

[pilotmiketx]

One of those "once every 5 years" bit of toilet pollution that carries on the breeze like a squirt of VX nerve agent. The cabin is polluted to a degree that defies description, with the entire aircraft load staring at the unfolding drama in total, amazed silence.

Yet I still see airline pilots at the hotel drinking like fish and chomping on a giant grease-burger with extra warm mayo.

 

[gkrangers]

I think I mighta posted here already, but the dumbest thing I've done is walk into the trailing edge of the flaps on a 172. That hurt...

Granted, with 140 hours, there isn't too much I could do...I'm sure worse will happen.

 

[jafo20]

Calling on duty in my sleep was a nice one. I used to wake up on the phone thinking "Who am I talking to?". You know you need a break right around then.

 

[Hand Commander]

Worse than walking into the cessna diamonds? Feathered turbo prop blades (at least three times and counting). Witness to these. Challenger shows up with Ozzie Osbourne and clan at FBO I worked at. Crew requests lav service and I'm unfamiliar with it so the boss comes down to show me. Hooks it up to the plane and all is good. Boss unhooks the tube when its finished. Tube cavitates and blows the blue juice all over his face. The Captain is standing there shaking his head.
We had a King Air 90 in the hangar for mx. A total tool I worked with asks what the horn looking thing that hangs out on the bottom of the tail is for. My boss (before the blue juice incident) tells him its how the mechanic talks to the cockpit during mx. This guy says "Oh really?" as he mates his lips to it and starts "talking to the cockpit".

 

[jknight8907]

Anyone walk into the wing on a cessna?

Thankfully no; I did a little experiment the other day while I was waiting for my instructor, on a C175, my 'star' would range from upper throat to mid-lip....now that would hurt...

Yet another reason why I fly Beech and Piper...

 

[FlyChicaga]

Doing a preflight on the Saab 340, you had this little ring on the main gear door to pull so it would fall open. This way you could inspect the inside of the gear compartment and main gear. Well as I'm doing my preflight one day, the bus full of passengers pulls up, and I get somewhat distracted. Slide under the gear door, and pop the ring. Well it had rained overnight, and water had pooled in the door... the door fell open, and the water doused me right on my head and face. I fall back coughing and spitting out greasy water, with all the pax watching from the bus. I quickly finished my preflight and hid in the cockpit for the rest of the flight.