Who has seen stupid stuff?

[NJANJIFLEXFLOP]

Here should be a good topic!!. Lets hear some input on some of the stuff we see on the ramp, hear on the radio, hear in the FBO,etc.... Try not to turn it into an Frac War!!!........However its ski season and I was in the Rockys and saw a Citation X try to taxi off with the guy still putting on fresh water.....boy those things are even fast on the ramp!!!! Dont they have a warning to check when a service door is open. Must have been ferrying home!!! Cheers

 

[Going2Baja]

I rode Mesa from CLD - PHX for a NJA interview and the ride sucked!! The pilot took the highspeed so fast that my hear hit the window. He then went hard brakes and that was scary as well. A second later it felt like he went to max power to get that beast DHC-8 moving and we were taxing at 30 kts at least. Again with the hard brakes as he pulled into the alley. We waited for 8 minutes for parking. As I got off I asked why all the crazy taxing and he looked at me like I was on glue. I shook my head and got my carry-on. When he saw you NWA crew tag he followed and tried to explain. Didn't make any sense and I just kept on walking....What a kook!!

2nd story - 1989 underqualified pilot flying right seat in a Saber at CRQ (her husband was a big time a/c broker) The capt asked her to taxi as he was checking the door for a light. She went hard power and the thrust threw a metal trashcan through the glass of what used to be Cinema Air - now JEt Source. CLASSIC!!! She held her head low for a while.

Baja.

 

[EJApilot]

Here should be a good topic!!. Lets hear some input on some of the stuff we see on the ramp, hear on the radio, hear in the FBO,etc.... Try not to turn it into an Frac War!!!........However its ski season and I was in the Rockys and saw a Citation X try to taxi off with the guy still putting on fresh water.....boy those things are even fast on the ramp!!!! Dont they have a warning to check when a service door is open. Must have been ferrying home!!! Cheers

I'm not sure what was being serviced, but every CE750 I have ever flown gets the fresh water serviced by the lineman, or woman, at least west of the Missisippi, by filling up the metal pots. And there are EICAS warnings for the service doors.

 

[NJANJIFLEXFLOP]

I'm not sure what was being serviced, but every CE750 I have ever flown gets the fresh water serviced by the lineman, or woman, at least west of the Missisippi, by filling up the metal pots. And there are EICAS warnings for the service doors.

Ejapilot,
Come on man....that wasnt a story....forget the particulars and give us a good story....hell make something up...thats fun. This freaking flightinfo thing is a soap opera now......we need some comedy!

Floppy

 

[cjdriver]

FBO Van Driver

It was a cold and wintry 5:00am show in Buffalo and the FBO van driver kid (18 at most) was running us out to the hangar to get the plane ready. 5 inches of snow on the ground, dark cold, early. We're half asleep in the back of the van. He passes the entrance to the hangar and puts it in reverse. Boom! He backs in to a 50 foot flag pole, bends the bumper into a V, leans the flag pole over about 5 degrees. Turns out this is the second bent bumber he's caused on the van in a week, and the flag pole is brand new. My back hurt for a week, but we laughed our A off.

 

[Correcting]

Saw a cargo LR-35 taxi away from the ramp pulling the power cart behind him. Line service was not out there to assist during the start. Made it all the way to the taxiway before he figured it out or ground control told him about it. Guess he either forgot about the cart or thought the cord would pull out on it's own once the plane moved.

 

[flexpilot]

Lear 31

I was in the Bombardier hangar at TEB about 4 years ago. There was a damaged Flexjet Lear 31 with the nose wheel and strut pulled forward about 10 degrees from normal. The skin on the nose area was wrinkled a bit.

Wow, what happened to this one I ask the lineman.

The story is a different lineman came to pull the aircraft off the line. The tug was acting up, every time the lineman stepped on the gas, the tug would die. The lineman thought that adding just a bit more gas wouold do the trick. He presses on the gas much more than neccesary. Yep, you guessed it, pilot left the brake on. whoops!

Not sure where they layed the blame on that one. It was probably pretty interesting discussion between Flejet and the responsible FBO. (Millionare I think)

 

[smellthejeta]

I seen a guy taxi off without his pax once, boy was that funny. Pax points and stammers "that's that's that's m m m my air plane leaving!" Call to the tower got the plane back.

 

[Lancair]

This just happend this weekend in TEB. Gusty winds were causing trouble for everyone up there especially for one G-IV FO. While Taxing in we watched him attempt to put his engine covers on, along came a gust of wind and blew his ladder away. No one was out there and he was stuck up on the wing. It sure looked funny.

 

[XShipRider]

NetJets vs FO

Does anyone remember when FO took NetJets' pax and vice versa?
It was a couple of years ago.

It was quite humorous. The pilots walked up to some pax and
announced where they were going and the guy says yep! Only after
getting airborne did they realize their pax was still at the FBO and
they had the other company's pax.

Fortunately both sets of pax were going to the same place.
Some phone calls were made and the situation was mitigated by
both companies cooperating and transporting the other's pax.

It makes you wonder if either company lost or gained a new owner
at that point.

Unfortunately, I don't remember the exact details of the event so
I'm not sure which company got the ball rolling on this one. It doesn't
matter in the end the pax were happy, that much I do remember.