stupid things i see at the airport

[Av8trxx]

If they don't like you saying the word "traffic" in your BLIND AIM RECOMENDED call outs...

WrightAvia-It isn't AIM recommended to be redundant:

"Strawn traffic Apache Two Two Five Zulu clear of runway one seven Strawn traffic."

It should be:

"Strawn traffic Apache Two Two Five Zulu clear of runway one seven Strawn."

Not a single one of the examples from the AIM have the word Traffic at the END.

 

[SquirrelDog]

Real airports have towers!

What was the topic of this thread anyway. Oh, it must have been the one that always ends in...and lets get into a stupid argument over ridiculous stuff that no one really cares about.

Squirreldog

Living the Dream

 

[El Bucho]

On CLNC DEL from a Part 121 operator in a jet....
Callsign 123, IFR to XYZ, with alpha....

IFR? Really? cool.

And the time I saw a lady try to put her baby who was asleep in a carseat through the xray machine because the seat had to be xrayed and she didn't want to wake her baby to take it out. That was funny.

 

[FL000]

Real airports have towers!

I disagree. Real airports have no buildings, but a lot of grass.
(click here for an example)

 

[A Squared]

El Bucho,

Call the friendly folks who write the AIM, that's exacly how the call is phrased there. And yeah there is a reason for it. It's so they know whether you're looking for an IFR clearence or you're going to be departing VFR. Most airports big enough to have clearence delivery would kinda like VFR traffic to call clearence so they can issue a squawk and tell approach what to expect. Saves then playing 20 questions OK where are you going? Are you going IFR or VFR? ,and so on. And before you launch into your inevitable diatribe that it's all IFR .... it's not. I fly big planes, ones with 4 engines, for a 121 carrier, from an airport big enough to have all that cool clearence delivery and approach stuff, and guess what? we fly a fair amount of VFR operations, so when I call for a clearence, I tell them whether it's gonna be IFR of VFR today, saves that 20 questions thing. Dont criticize what you don't understand.

FL100, nice looking airport

 

[Typhoon1244]

And the time I saw a lady try to put her baby who was asleep in a carseat through the xray machine because the seat had to be xrayed and she didn't want to wake her baby to take it out. That was funny.

Do you have any children? Believe me, it would be tempting!


(Attention Child Protective Services: I'm just kidding!)

 

[El Bucho]

El Bucho,
Dont criticize what you don't understand.

Easy dude...Our ops specs do not allow us to depart VFR. So it's just funny to hear one of our guys at one of our hubs where everybody knows it's IFR to request it like we would be doing anything but that.

 

[TXCAP4228]

there is a guy at an airport in either Michigan or Indiana that works as janitorial staff or some other capacity at a county managed field and he gets on unicom and clears you to land at the non towered airport.

There's an old guy in Bonham, TX who used to do the thing. WTF?

 

[JimNtexas]

It's a nice Saturday morning at the Georgetown Texas airport, one of the few surviving GA airports in the central Texas area. Two runways, no tower.

The several flight schools have the pattern full of students, squadrons of homebuilts are coming and going, and the odd biz jet shows up from time to time.

A Kitfox ( a tiny single engine taildragger) flies a bomber pattern, and then touches down on the numbers, rolls about 20 feet, and then begins a very slow taxi to the first intersection, 3000 feet beyond his touchdown point!. Several airplanes had to go around because this pilot didn't have the courtesy to land a little long. Grrrrrrrrrrr.

 

[Clownpilot]

Re: Re: Really???

SSgt. Lonnie Wilbanks. When I arrived, they were just transitioning from UH-1H's to UH-60A's.

Now do you have anything else for me, a$$hole? [/B]

Yes, I have one more question for you. Maybe 2.

Did you drill a hole through your bellybutton to see out or were you required to have a tracheotomy to get a gander of the scenery?

Also do you require a colostomy bag since your head is in the way or have they come up with a better system now?

Lets just say while your story may have some basis in truth it was deeply embelished to add to your cool factor... and nobody respects that.

Sounds like maybe the Army was the best place for you.

Consider going back.

 

[Clownpilot]

HMNMMMMMM

BTW

What did you call me (a$$hole??) Gomer Pile?

Don't they teach you anything in G I Jane school these days?

Hey, don't take it so hard. It isn't my fault you ended up where you are.

Being mad at the world ain't gonna help you Gomer.

You'll get ulcers.

 

[105viking]

good looking aztruck smacks down hard on the runway, so hard that it struck both props. pilot walks into the mtc dept and asks if anybody here can dress down his props real quick, he is in a hurry on his way to xyz. guy was gonna fly a plane full of people and stuff after he had just STRUCK the props w/o out proper inspection and repair!

good looking P baron stalls on final and falls flat, 30' to the rwy. bends both spars, put a 30 degree bend in the right main trunion, bent the airframe severely, and curled up the right prop. nobody hurt. i don't understand how people do it, but this proves that inadvertent stalls do happen. a/c probably totalled.

rv-6? takes off with the stick secured under the passenger seat belt. a crash ensued. use your imagination on the maneuver that this thing made as it went airborne.

all of these happened within the last few weeks. not gonna bring up the fatal one.

 

[Typhoon1244]

Re: Re: Re: Really???

Lets just say while your story may have some basis in truth it was deeply embelished to add to your cool factor... and nobody respects that.

Landing a Seven-Five with forty knots of wind on the tail doesn't need embelishment. It's stupid enough on its own.

(I take it from your deep offense that you fly 757/767's at American. I don't suppose that was you out there that day, was it?)

In a way, I'm flattered. I pissed off the unshakable Clownpilot! Go ahead, flame away. I don't mind. I warm myself with the knowledge that you'd never have made it in the Army.

 

[ProLine4]

I ran into this the other day in a slightly different form at JHW. It's uncontrolled, yet there is an ATIS freq and you are requested to "advise on initial contact..." in controlled-field style. Some AOPA-hat-wearer tool on the ground was playing ATC and was attempting to sequence traffic...."Yes, Jamestown is currently using runway 31, you'll be number 2 for the airport..." What the he11 ?!?!

There's an old guy in Bonham, TX who used to do the thing. WTF?