What is your "oh Sh*t" moment?

[Flic1]

Well, I haven't been able read all these posts but after seeing HawkerRider's post, I had to put down my 'near' bowel movement experience.

I was on the returning leg of a solo X-Country in a C-152 on one of those days where I had about a 35kt headwind. Halfway back I got the sudden 'urge' but figured I could hold it for the remainder of the trip. I was looking down watching cars pass me on the highway I was flying parallel too and knew it was going to take much longer than I was able to hold it. The sad part is that I was sitting there trying to figure out how I could stick my as* out the window to relieve myself while still flying the airplane. After some consideration I decided that it might be hard to explain to the FBO owners and my instructor why there was sh*t strewn down the side of the airplane. I wound up diverting to another field and barely made it inside. My as* muscles hurt for days from that clenching....

 

[Kaman]

Lets see,
Being at 300' AGL, sitting in the TSO seat of an SH-60F and realizing that we are out of turns and saying to myself..."This is going to hurt". And, it did...

Regards,

ex-Navy Rotorhead

 

[Hawker rider]

some of these things are darn funny though!

time for my "oh sh*t moment"

We were flying home empty in the lear 24, I was a co-pilot. There were some thunderstorms arounr our airoprt, but we came in on the runway that didn't have an instrument approach published, besides Circle from an approach on the opposite runway. We were being vctored for the ILS and dodging around clouds. After getting below the clouds we saw the runway, an being very familiar with this area we requested a visual from that point. Well we got cleared for the visual. We saw that there was activity a few miles down the runway, but the runway itself was dry, and no activity really close, so we thought. we figured to put the plane on the ground and after shutdown the rain might have reached the airport.

Upon touchdown, no problem, so we Aero-brake with the nose up, and all of the sudden we HIT this huge wall of water. We are not able to see out of the windshield anymore. we have had some rain but this was the mother of all of them!! Captain Firewalls the throttles and I quickly hit the flaps up one notch and turn Air ignition on. We are away from the concrete ( or grass we can't see anymore...) in just a second. Positive rate...gear comes up w climb out with V2+10 max power on the engines, and we get about 1000'/min climb out of the good old lear.

Now this might sound like no problem for some of you propdrivers, but with our fuelload and being empty we should see at least the IVSI max out!!!! my captain yells "check if there is something wrong here!!" I run through the cockpit and don't notice anything that shouldn't be... so we keep climbing and get out of the cell around 2500' talk to approach quickly and we circle around for the cell to dissapear, which it didn't quickly enough so we diverted to the next big airport and hung around there for a while.

We must have been caught in a downdraft coming from the cell, the fact that we would have seen about 8000'/min with this configuration easily, and only got 1000 means that the downdrat must have been about 7000'/min

NOW that was one lucky thing that day, ANY other airplane and we would have been slammed against the ground.

Don't mess around with nature's fury!!!


p.s. As I was writing this i just realized that my current co-pilot lived through a tornado that took away his whole house, while he was sleeping on his couch. Thashed his whole neighbourhood and made him have I don't know how many stitches and staples in his head.......... I hope he hasn't used up all his luck yet in his lifetime!! better be carefull

M

 

[350DRIVER]

You're killin' me. I thought I was the only on confused by her odd posts.

I am always in that state while reading her posts, I think "odd" would be somewhat of huge understatement- I can't even imagine the "how" "why" or even the logic behind most of her posts- I dunno anti-> possibly "we" are the ones that are thinking "off the wall"

Just seems a tad "unreal" and possibly that word doesn't even do proper justice-

anyways- I am getting just a tad uneasy reading some of these stories. I think a few may have had St. Peter onboard or looking over the flight and outcome..

c h e e r s

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[bigD]

Being at 300' AGL, sitting in the TSO seat of an SH-60F and realizing that we are out of turns and saying to myself..."This is going to hurt". And, it did...

Can someone please translate this into fixed wing speak, please?

 

[350DRIVER]

On how much a Private Cert. costs at her flight school:

The Chief CFI's time, 90 hours, aircraft rental of 60 hours, checkride; and pilot supplies including books, headset, flight bag, case, charts, and so on:
90 hours * $100 = $9000 (50 hours flight time, 40 hours ground instruction)
60 hours * $85 = $5100 (60 hours aircraft rental, less if flies more often, or $600 less in other aircraft)
$300 for checkride
$600 for the pilot supplies.
Total = $15,000
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I would only hope that this is a complete "joke"? You have really got to be kidding me, I have seen some off the wall stuff but this surely takes the cake.... I have never laughed so hard in my life after reading this, sad thing is that it probably is not a "joke"

Holy smokes just when it couldn't get any funnier-

chief CFI at 700+ - come one, she would get laughed out of the eastern region if she pulled this junk around here-

t o o f u n n y -

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am I the only one that is getting many laughs from these posts.?

 

[Geronimo]

Is she HOT

Has anyone ever seen JediNein?

I would really like to see what she looks like.

 

[172driver]

Good question. My gut feeling is no but I'm curious too. OK, back to what I was going to say...

$100/hr for instruction!!!!! For ground instruction????? 50 hrs DUAL flight for private??? 40 hrs ground???? LMAO. Even the big academies aren't close to that kind of reaming.

Can I get some Astroglide with that or does it cost extra?

 

[Geronimo]

$100/hr for instruction!!!!! For ground instruction????? 50 hrs DUAL flight for private??? 40 hrs ground???? LMAO. Even the big academies aren't close to that kind of reaming.

Can I get some Astroglide with that or does it cost extra?

And I thought I was doing good getting $30 bucks an hour. I definately have to track this chick down and beg for a job. If I could fly 100 hours a month; THATS 10 GRAND!!!

Where do I sign up????

 

[Snakum]

Can someone please translate this into fixed wing speak, please?

He was auto-rotating (gliding ... for us fixed-wing geeks) after a dual shutdown?

Minh
(R22 Meister)

 

[ibaflyer]

This is more of an "aw sh*t" moment. I had completed my IFR rating and checkride without any problems but to my suprise after being rated for about 6 weeks, I get a letter from a FSDO stating that the DE who gave me a checkride was under investigation by the FAA.

They ( FAA & DE) were apparently having some kind of p*ssing match about things so the DE resigns, and ALL of the pilots from the last 15 checkrides that he gave had to re-schedule ANOTHER ride with someone from the FSDO to "make sure that the DE had complied with ALL the necessary requirements." I took the ride for the second time and I have been rated and FED free for 17 months now.

 

[350DRIVER]

Good question. My gut feeling is no but I'm curious too. OK, back to what I was going to say...

I would tend to agree with the majority as well on this one. They must have some pretty "good" kool aid at her flight school that they are giving to students for someone to buy into such stupidity if in fact those prices are for real... I cannot say I have seen anything like that, not to mention that she seems to take pride in posting about being the "chief"... come on- What is the name of this flight school.??

Back to laughing,- ps > I think it is a fair assumption to make that she is back in hiding?


c h e e r s

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[Skaz]

Hawker Rider youre right about the a/c type. A very well known aviation personality and some pax were killed in a c210 last year in Johannesburg area due thunderstorm o/h airfield.

I do a lot of medevac in C402 and C208 in Namibia, we have "Oh Sh*t" moments on many flights.
Landing a C402 (day VFR)on 300metres of dirt road, uphill, between a bend in the road and a ditch, in the mountains.....produces many colourfull metaphors, 10 minutes of adrenalin induced shaking hands and squeezing the black juice outta the yoke.

Black hole approaches are done a lot, because there are only 4 airfields in Namibia with lighting, we use min 3 cars to set up lighting for medevacs on remote airstrips or dirt roads.

A black hole approach like that is difficult enough on its own, throw in cattle looming in the landing lights, or 1/2nm 300'agl on radar alitimeter and Rwy and cars suddenly obscured by THICK fog rolling in off the ocean....no 'accidents' yet, but have had a paramedic ( co-pilot too) p1ss their pants. No joke.
Africa's a tough country

 

[avbug]

Hawkerrider,

Let me get this straight...you're already on the runway and rolling out and hit a solid downdraft with precip, and decide that it's safer to be back in the air dealing with it?

 

[Geronimo]

Hawkerrider,

Let me get this straight...you're already on the runway and rolling out and hit a solid downdraft with precip, and decide that it's safer to be back in the air dealing with it?

That was my same question Avbug. Why in the world would you leave the safety of the ground to fly right into the storm?

 

[dmspilot00]

Hawkerrider,

Let me get this straight...you're already on the runway and rolling out and hit a solid downdraft with precip, and decide that it's safer to be back in the air dealing with it?

I was wondering precisely the same thing. What a bizarre thing to do. Didn't want to say anything though since I'm only a private pilot--but if someone as experienced as avbug thinks it too, well...

 

[Skaz]

heres a few different moments.....first job was flyuing a BN2 in Sabi Sands Game reserve. One day after last flight, pax been picked up and I'm standing at pilot's door, bag on seat, packing gear away, waiting for ride to come and fetch me. Its 5km to lodge and I'm not gonna walk!. Movement cathces my eye and I look up to see a Lioness creeping over the apron, about 15 metres away, stalking me......jumped in cockpit and slammed door shut! felt kinda faint after that. nothing like knowing youre not at the top of the food chain anymore, to put things into perspective for you! ride came along few minutes later.

different day, ride to lodge delayed, so jump on roof of a/c , shirt off just soaking up the sun. Look down to see huge male lion strolling over apron, walks right underneath right hand wing, over apron, crosses rwy and saunteres off into the bush. Man did I nearly cr*p my pants that day!

 

[bugchaser]

Some of these are pretty good. I have certainly had my share of Oh sh*t! moments. Try to keep them to a minimum these days. One of the more memorable was the time that I forgot about a highline wire that happened to run across the field that I was spraying. Never saw the wire until I was in it. One wire took a chunk out of the prop and then removed the leading edge from a five foot section of the wing down to the spar. The other wire hit the airplane about eye level on the wire cutter. This wire was stubborn and broke the wire deflector and then proceeded to remove most of the verticle stabilizer and almost all of the rudder. In the blink of an eye my cessna was severely modified. There was no convenient place to land, so I was determined to get the airplane back 30 miles to the airport. Luckily there was not much wind so the landing was pretty uneventful. Never really was scared until I got out and took a look at all the damage. Made me a little wire shy for some time. Had the airplane back in the air with a complete new verticle and rudder in 2 days.

There have been numerous other broken cylinders, busted oil pans, electrical fires, lost mags, and even a broken throttle cable or two. Those all just kind of become part of the job. What really is scary to me are the almost incidents the occur because of pilot error or misjudgement.

 

[Typhoon1244]

Here's a real "oh s__t!" moment: this was my first flight from DFW to DEN. The temperature in Colorado was 3-degrees celsius and supposed to go lower. My F/O had not brought a jacket that day since it was warn and sunny in Dallas, and I ribbed him about it a little. Then, in my "welcome aboard" P/A, I told the passengers I hope they'd all brought sweaters for our arrival in Denver.

Then, sixty seconds into the pushback, guess which of my belongings I realized was still draped over the back of a chair in the crew lounge.

Isn't it funny the ideas you'll come up with in a moment of desperation? "Maybe we can just stop the push long enough for me to run inside and grab it..." Uh huh. Right.

Like we said in the Army, "suck it up...."

 

[Hawker rider]

Well I feel like I have to answer to your guys' question about my aw....sh*t moment.

When youare doing about 90 knots in a lear 24, you're right at Vmc and it is a lot easier to get the plane in the air again then to get it stoppen without seeing the runway. It was not so much that we noticed the downdraft, we just hit bad rain and couldn't see anymore, at Homebase there is a artificial pond on the left and buildings after a small taxiway on the right.

We might have not made a very smart decision looking back at it, but in that split second we did IT. Being a little above Vmmu we could have accelerated enough to get the plane of the ground and then climb out of it, instead of taking our chances and hoping that we go straight, I've bounced off a taxiway since the accident, and I am glad we did the right thing that day.

It's one of those things, if we would have gone off the runway with 90 knots we would have been in a lot more trouble without power then make a tailstrike and get the plane wobbling int othe air.

Avbug, you have experience in the older lears, you know the deceleration of them is virtually nonexisten with 2 engines in idle.

not too brag, maybe someday somebody will delay a flight because of Weather and then i'll be proud.

M