Things at the airport that make you go hmmmm....

jwp_145 said:
And I can only imagine the quality of floozie in question if she was so impressed with two flight school yahoos that she was bouncing back and forth between rentals like some kind of groupie.
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At twenty years old we weren't looking for marriage material, it was quantity not quality. The floozies were in Oklahoma (your state), it happened in Altus.
 
fholbert said:
At twenty years old we weren't looking for marriage material, it was quantity not quality. The floozies were in Oklahoma (your state), it happened in Altus.
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Ha, gross. I only know one girl from Altus, and she gets onto me every time I pronounce it wrong.
 
fholbert said:
At twenty years old we weren't looking for marriage material, it was quantity not quality. The floozies were in Oklahoma (your state), it happened in Altus.
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jwp_145 said:
Ha, gross. I only know one girl from Altus, and she gets onto me every time I pronounce it wrong.
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Good old Altus! I wonder if the airport is still staffed by work release employees from the women's correctional facility? :)
 
I once received a call from a gentleman asking if I was missing the fuel caps to my plane. Come to find out the person I let borrow my plane (former jc'er) forgot to put them back after self serve fueling.

The kind sir found them and looked at every plane tied down until he found one missing caps.

Glad it didn't rain.
 
desertdog71 said:
Stopped for fuel in Holbrook, AZ. Greeted by men in orange jumpsuits and one very round deputy with a shotgun. Turns out they were the FBO staff.
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Must be an Arizona thing? Got out to walk around at Gila Bend and sure enough there was a van, prison guard, and a whole bunch of dudes doing yard work or something like that. Thought to myself, "you're not in Nebraska anymore".
 
KLB said:
Good old Altus! I wonder if the airport is still staffed by work release employees from the women's correctional facility? :)
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Never saw that. I got my Commercial, Instrument and ME at Altus in '76 - '79. Also did a lot of Rent-a-Pilot work there. I stopped and spent the night there in 2012 and the airport had really improved. The terminal was gone and replaced with a new jet center.
 
ocdflyboy said:
I was at Winchester Regional in Virginia, KOKV, (nice airport). There was a C182 taxiing out, he had no idea that his cargo door was wide open. I had to run out to him and point to the door.

So much for the preflight.
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Those doors have a bad habit of coming open because the latching mechanism isn't really the greatest. I've had it happen before.
Actually the turbo commander was terrible about the baggage coming open. Not a problem though because it pretty much stays closed in the air.
 
Pilot Fighter said:
Gear and steering lock pins continue to fuel good stories.
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Oh, yeah. I think every Bitchjet pilot has blasted out of parking with the steering pin out at least once. Once is generally all it takes...nothing more confidence inspiring for your passengers!

"No, no don't worry, I'm pretty sure that's the only thing I forgot!"
 
Boris Badenov said:
Oh, yeah. I think every Bitchjet pilot has blasted out of parking with the steering pin out at least once. Once is generally all it takes...nothing more confidence inspiring for your passengers!

"No, no don't worry, I'm pretty sure that's the only thing I forgot!"
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Haven't done that yet. Have towed it with the pin in though.....
 
Back some winters ago, I was shutting down a Dash 8 on a very slippery ice skating rink of a ramp in New York. A ramper decided to ice skate towards the airplane. One was shut down already, and two was in feather. This fellow skating towards the airplane realized he couldn't stop and was now heading towards a big spinny-prop-death-of-doom. He fell to his knees and you could hear his fingers slide down the first few feet of the fuselage to slow him down. I shut down the engine and luckily he had nothing more than some embarrassment to hang on to for a while. I had a quick chat with him after letting him know how stupid that was, but he already knew that.
 
There are a lot of things out there that make you go hmmm. Especially this time of year. Landing today there were a bunch of people standing next to the runway. On roll out I realized they all had shotguns. Must be duck season!
 
ASpilot2be said:
There are a lot of things out there that make you go hmmm. Especially this time of year. Landing today there were a bunch of people standing next to the runway. On roll out I realized they all had shotguns. Must be duck season!
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Or you're flying Booz to a dry village.
 
jafra98 said:
What about the guy that takes off in an Arrow with the pitot tube cover still attached???
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I know of a guy who did that in a Hawker! (Not me, thank you. Ask @Derg, I'm too pretty for that!)
 
z987k said:
Those doors have a bad habit of coming open because the latching mechanism isn't really the greatest. I've had it happen before.
Actually the turbo commander was terrible about the baggage coming open. Not a problem though because it pretty much stays closed in the air.
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Actually, today I was on takeoff roll in a C182 and heard a quiet pop come from the back. I got to my destination to find the cargo door open. Stayed closed throughout the flight from the airstream but was flopping around while taxiing in. A lot of witnesses too... fortunately I had a student who was a perfect scapegoat.
 
z987k said:
Those doors have a bad habit of coming open because the latching mechanism isn't really the greatest. I've had it happen before.
Actually the turbo commander was terrible about the baggage coming open. Not a problem though because it pretty much stays closed in the air.
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Both sleds and Cherokees are prone to nose baggage doors popping open if the pilot isn't meticulous about latching them properly. Haven't had it on one of our sleds yet but on the Cherokee it dang near destroys the fiberglass door. Still not as bad as a chieftain nose bag coming open though.
 
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