Stuck Mic ............UH OH..!!!!!!!!!!!

[kilroy]

Whats the funniest thing you have ever heard or said over a stuck mic......

Flying an older ce500 a few years ago thru Atlanta I was having trouble with the intercom. The only way to get it to work was to push the jacks to one side. So as I'm holding the jacks and proceed to coment on our maintanance and equipment. And I can still remember exactly what I said " Those ratsh!t donkey loving backward a$$ sheep chasing homo mechanics never fixing a f()cking thing I write up etc etc etc............... But I went on for almost 2 minutes with every slur you could possibly think of all on center.. When I realized what was going on I yanked out both jacks went to over head speaker and hand mike hoping they wouldn,t regonize my voice. Complete silence for almost 30 seconds then it started. First Atlanta 'Please say again"........

 

[siucavflight]

While flying over RFD on line with RFD approach a girl had a stuck mic in a Piper of some sort. She kept on calling saying Rockford piperxxx with request. Of course with a stcuk mic she got no response from RFD. Then she proceded to say how RFD dosent give a flying f*** about light aircraft and they only care about UPS there. Then she went on to say how the controllers were not responding because they were probably sucking each others d***'s. After about two minutes the mic problem solved itself, and an exec jet picked up after a few seconds and said "just for the record we think you guys are great and take care of all of the planes there fairly." RFD said thanks and just for your record we dont do the before mentioned in this tower. Then they tried getting ahold of the Piper, but they would not answer the radio.

 

[Illini Pilot]

knew two guys flying in a 152 that had an PTT button that stuck a lot...they are out flying @ about 1500' talking to each other about the trailer parks and crap they were looking at below. then they start talking about how approach is quiet...then realize they have a problem and start with all these crazy diagnostics like "maybe theres a short in the wire" blah blah...then the mic is unstuck as one says "CRAP ITS THE BUTTON"

 

[ISaidRightTurns]

I had a student hold the PTT down trying to tell tower we would make Charlie when I commented that his landing Fing sucked. Tower agreed.

 

[CaravanMan]

Those are all priceless! Oh man, I'm cracking up!!

 

[mattpilot]

I had a stuck mic once..... yea.

 

[FN FAL]

Whats the funniest thing you have ever heard or said over a stuck mic?

Two detectives talking about their wives for a half hour.

 

[hydroflyer]

I've had a few myself, although fortunately I don't recall saying anything really stupid. Of course now if it seems a little too quiet and I suspect there could be a stuck mic, I do the best thing for myself and SHUT UP! Otherwise something said could end up on this thread.

It does get annoying listening to someone speak with a stuck mic. Rather than trying to figure out what is stuck and clogging the frequency for minutes, I've found it is easiest to turn off comm 2 and then place the transmit selector switch to comm 2. Make sure you have comm 1 audio set so you can listen, and then anytime you need to make a transmission, just flip the transmitter to comm 1 and speak.

 

[futurama08]

Why isnt there an alert that tells you when the mic has been keyed for X seconds, ie 40 seconds. just a panel light that goes on, at least it would prevent a lot of these things and it seems like a fairly easy solution.

Patent Pending.

 

[fr0g]

... actually most modern radios do have that function. In fact, they will usually stop transmitting after about 30 sec or 1 minute - and something will flash on the display. The only way to transmit for longer than that it to release the PTT button and press it again.

 

[421Driver]

The radios in the 04 C182's have that feature. I think it's 30 secs. I was flying with a student filing a flight plan with the FSS when it cut out. Bendix King, don't remember the model #.

 

[futurama08]

Welp.............................im back to being poor.

 

[FlyJordan]

Yeah, I think I heard Garmins were like that, but the 430's and 530's that I use change the sound while you are talking, makes your voice seem really quite, so you know you are talking, when you release the volume goes back to normal. And the Comm1/Comm2 light on the Garmin GMA-340 audio panels flash while you are transmitting, and their is a TX that comes up next to the active frequency on the 430/530's while you are transmitting. But I guess you could miss all that too.

I hope this guy is not on the bored, on LOU ground one day I heard someone do their entire run-up. They read every item on the checklist and said "check" to everything, then talked to themselves about their flight and alot of other useless crap. I tried to save him about half way through, after I finished my run-up I taxied up and stopped in front of him and tried to get his attention, and was like waving and pointing to my mic button and to him, but he was a rather dense fellow and didnt have a clue what this idiot in from of him was doing. So I just said screw it and went on to the runway and contacted tower (who was by now doing both jobs).

 

[rchcfi]

A few years back I was working line service for a major FBO. I was getting "tug" qualified with a trainer riding with me to watch.

We were towing a Citation and I had to call ground to get to another ramp. I called up and asked permission to relocate. The female controller told me to hold short. I put down the mic and then I told the trainer the female controller has a hot voice. Then he proceeds to tell me about her showing her boobs at last years Christmas party. That is when 2 other line guys come bolting out of the "shack" at full speed right towards us. I was wondering what got under their skin. One of them got to me and told me that I had a stuck mic and that they could hear everything! OOOOPS!

The response from the female controller was "Can you please repeat, I didn't get that." Some smart arse pilot taxiing his Bonanza said "I'll tell you what they said, if you really want to know." And you know what her response was? "OK, drinks later than? You can tell me then."

Red face for a week.....And she did show up to the next Christmas party never knowing who that was who was talking about her anatomy.

 

[Z28_Pilot]

I managed to tell all the passengers today " roger, left on foxtrot, right on golf, hold short of 8 right and contact tower when ready ".....then the capatain (who knew the whole time) leaned over and said "good.....now try telling ground control"....glad everyone got a good laugh (including the flight attendant and jumpseater!).............