Oops
A friend and I decided to accompany each other on PA-28R200 time building flights (a no-no per our 141 school at the time but FAA legal) so we could film the whole thing. We plugged the camera into the intercom system to include audio portion of the flight---i made announcements like an airliner and everything for the full effect.
We flew from Macon, GA to Milledgeville, GA and back. MLJ has a PA system on the ramp that broadcasts unicom on the ramp. My friend and I, being Yankees, were making fun of the people at the FBO as we taxiied by (we won the war, where is you confederate flag you hillbilly, are your mother and father brother and sister by chance, etc.) We saw this one guy waving at us to park, but we didn't as we had to get back to MAC. We took off, still making fun of our innocent victims on the ramp, and flew back to MAC, arriving just on time.
Our instructor was waiting for us, and she walked to the plane and informed us that we had a stuck mike for the entire flight, a byproduct of hooking the camera up to record everything...OOPS. All our comments in MLJ were broadcast accross the ramp for all to hear, and the guy waving was gonna let us park and beat the crap out of us...he called the school, whose name was emblazoned accross the tail. We both got grounded pending a meeting with management, had to pay for the flight again solo, and write letters of appology to every FBO that used the frequencies we had clogged along the route.
I did get to keep the tape that we hid from management, so we could go have some beer and watch it to get some good laughs.....I am gonna go watch it again now.
