I was solo in a T-38 when this happened...
I was lucky enough to get a solo as an IP. After a touch and go to head out to the acrobatic areas, I noticed that nobody was responding to my calls. I tried departure, SOF, Guard (243.0), manual freqs...nothing!
By the time I had finished all that, I was well into the departure, and our NORDO procedures have us fly out to 46 DME, arc, then come back. I did all that, making the appropriate calls on the appropriate freqs (in the blind of course), 7600 on the transponder, rocking my wings up initial, looking for the green light, etc.
Well that all goes fine, so I taxi in uneventfully, shut down, inform MX, and go back inside to tell the supervisor I was NORDO.
Lt Col type: "You weren't NORDO"
Young, steely eyed IP(me) : "What?"
Lt Col type: "You were hot mike, the WHOLE time. They have you on tape."
Crestfallen IP (me): "Ah *(&%^%#!"
I had jammed up departure, arrival, tower, and ground with my breathing (through a oxygen mask no less). And of course, they got to hear all my comments to myself such as:
"What's wrong with this (*^%*&* thing!?!"
"I gotta fly all of this procedure?"
"Down, 3 green, flaps fulls, 2 good hydros..."
I should've caught a clue after I'd cleared the runway.
I had been a waiting for a while for the green light from tower to taxi to the chocks...
Talking to myself: "Come on guys, give me a green light"
1 sec later: (PING!) Nice shiny green light!
I'm glad I only THOUGHT that it was a great Jedi mind trick...
For future reference, if you think you're NORDO, shut the hell up!
Fly Safe!
FastCargo