Worst Lesson Ever!!!

[Stifler's Mom]

Mini,

Where did your avatar come from? Is there a story behind it as far as what Phil and Bill were doing? It cracks me up.

 

[minitour]

Mini,

Where did your avatar come from? Is there a story behind it as far as what Phil and Bill were doing? It cracks me up.

I believe it was from Doral...Phil missed a putt on 18 and the guy behind him was just a HUGE fan...just an unflattering angle for Phil and "Bill"

-mini

 

[Stifler's Mom]

I swore that guy was Bill Murray in the background. My mistake. Still a funny picture.

 

[Simon Says]

Unanswered,

You didn't have a bad day, you just had another day of training. What do you expect after 12 hours. I would much rather fly with a guy like you that can reconize mistakes and try to correct them. Than with a guy that tries to blame mistakes on other factors. Let third parties blame the mistakes on other factors.
Your instructor can take as much blame as you for blunders. His job is to correct those blunders in a professional manner and move on.

When you get hired at Mesaba look me up and we would have a blast punching holes in the sky on our 7 leg days.

 

[minitour]

I swore that guy was Bill Murray in the background. My mistake. Still a funny picture.

I kinda like "Bill" as a name for him...

"What will Phil and Bill do next?"

 

[LewisU_Pilot]

Wait until you start your Instrument training and you are being cleared for an approach. It is very over whelming at first. I remember many of times reading back the clearance with "UHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

 

[minitour]

"Cleared for the approach".

*funny story*
We had an instructor out at the flight school I attended that was in the twin. When he first got in there, he hadn't done much instrument training so he'd be making calls for the students and letting them fly the plane. At first it was an exact readback: "Four from SOONR turn right 360 maintain 3000 until established on the localizer, cleared for the LOC 3 approach".

After a few months it became: "360, 3000, cleared approach".

Well, his last few weeks of instructing, I was up doing some lazy eights and I heard him on the freq getting vectored for the approach. His last approach as an instructor (and I'll never forget the radio work) was like this.

Approach: Duchess 64M, you're __ from SOONR turn right heading 360 maintain 3000 til established on the LOC, cleared LOC 3 approach"

Him: *click* *clicK*

Approach: "Duchess 64M contact tower 118.0, so long"

Probably one of the funniest things I've heard on the radio...aside from his call to ground one day...but that's another story.

Just had to share that "overwhelming" radio feeling with the instrument stuff...probably not funny, but to me it is...

-mini

 

[LewisU_Pilot]

Mini thanks for the laugh. I was actually laughing out loud in my cubicle.

 

[minitour]

lol, thats pretty good.

I use the click click for little stuff...things that arent a direct instruction.

We used to joke that he had it down to a science to see just how little he could say.

*the other story*
I was taxiing out one day and noticed his landing/taxi lights flashing on/off pretty rapidly...turns out he had been told to hold short (on the other side) of the runway for "landing traffic" (the kind that landed about 7 planes ago) and was still sitting there a few minutes later...finally the chick on ground got the hint and chimed in:
Gnd: "64M, I see ya there, we didn't forget just hold short please"
him: "No problem, I'm easy like a 16 year old prom date"

...the other funniest thing I've ever heard on freq...

so...the lesson here is uh...oh yeah!

While it can be frustrating, have some fun with it!

-mini

 

[BD King]

And there are some days when the student and the flight instructor have bad days at the same time.

Forty years ago, or so, I was the low man on the list and got to do the teaching that no one else wanted. A young guy bought a Chief (like in Aeronca 11AC). I did not like Chiefs (still don't), but this really was a nice one. Freshly rebuilt, clean, new engine, and more important, a new tail wheel.

Anyhows, we meet early on a summer morning for his first lesson. We do the normal first flight BS and launch into a perfect summer sky. We do the standard first flight stuff: this control does this, this one does this, look at the bottom of the wing for this, blah blah.

About 35 or 40 minutes into the glassy smooth flight, he looks at me and says,"I think I am going to puke." Fear provokes many responses. In my case I frantically looked through the airplane for something that he could barf in. Nothing.

The old airplanes had sliding windows, so I suggested that he slide his window back, stick his head out and let it rip. Mistake number one. As he was about to stick his head out, I stopped him and told him to take his glasses off. Mistake number two was that the time delay meant that he did not quite get his head out the freaking window. Mistake number three was mine. I punched the WRONG rudder.

Projectile hurling is an understatement. Not once. Not twice, but three times. It's in my hair. In my eyes. This stuff looks and feels like chocolate pudding. I literally wiped a handful of it off my left arm and flung it on the floor.

It seems that, for breakfast, he ate not two, not three, but six chocolate donuts and washed them down with a quart of chocolate milk............Did ya have a lousy lesson? Nah. Did your flight instructor have a lousy day? Nah.

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[Fly_Chick]

The click-click? We would have quite a mouthfull from our controllers if we did that! It is not an acknowledgement or reply of any sort.

Every now and then someone does the click-click, and the usual response is "whomever is clicking the microphone, that is not an acknowledgement". Actually that previous statement is putting it nicely.

During my training I had a few instructors do the click-click, then I started teaching and observing and realized how much I would avoid it like the plague.

 

[comander]

I strongly advise to buy a scanner or a radio with an airband , go sit near your airport, tune the diferent frequencies and get a hang of it, soon you will know what to expect in any transmition. and never forget a freq .best teacher for me in atc comunications a yaesu vx-1 ill never forget him.