Booty Calls, ATC and "You know, it's all recorded"

[uncreative]

Does anyone know what the 2 buttons with the icon of the yoke on the yoke do? Is it like to activate the yoke functionality of the yoke? Does it deploy a starboard or port side backup yoke? Did xzibit design this particular yoke?

 

[gotWXdagain]

Does anyone know what the 2 buttons with the icon of the yoke on the yoke do? Is it like to activate the yoke functionality of the yoke? Does it deploy a starboard or port side backup yoke? Did xzibit design this particular yoke?

Control Wheel Steering?

 

[DPApilot]

Wow. Just… Wow. Ok.

I share one thing and you post it all over the interwebs...

 

[DPApilot]

Sometimes my mouth is loaded and I can't control what comes out of it. I might have said the same thing.

ATC has NO REASON to ask why you're changing your destination and it's really none of their business unless you declare.

I was VFR at 17,500 in my Viking and I must have had too much fiber the day before. I was never going to make Plainview Texas non stop from Chino. My hands were shaking the pressure was so great.

Me: Center 01B is diverting to (somewhere) NM out of 17,500.
Center: 01B say reason for diverting. <Come-on, I'm VFR!>
Me: I'm hoping that airport has a bush.
Center: Say again.
Me: I hoping that airport has a bush, a really big bush.
Center: Say again.
Me: <Kind of annoyed> I need to use their crapper.
Center: Oh, roger.

When I got to the FBO the men's room was occupied so I used the woman's room much to the horror of the young girl at the desk. After what I did in there I'll NEVER return to that airport again. They may have issued a NOTAM for the next few days.

Except, after 9/11 ATC has every reason to ask the nature of a diversion.

 

[DPApilot]

Just curious. I fly out of LGB. Every clearance starts with fly runway heading to 1500ft, left turn 270 or 180. About 4-500ft we get switched to SoCal. Every time we get the request to ident. For last few years or so, once we get the hand off to SoCal we switch freq's and ident at the same time. We make contact and they come back with Lear NXXX radar contact, climb and maintain X,XXX. No one has ever said a word. If we do forget to ident, we'll get asked to. Do the controllers really hate that? It seems to lessen their workload in some pretty busy airspace as there's one less radio call they have to make.

I do the same flying out of EYW. Every time you're handed of to Navy Departure they ask for an ident. I check in with an ident and am thanked most times.

 

[BEEF SUPREME]

Does anyone know what the 2 buttons with the icon of the yoke on the yoke do? Is it like to activate the yoke functionality of the yoke? Does it deploy a starboard or port side backup yoke? Did xzibit design this particular yoke?

 

[z987k]

Except, after 9/11 ATC has every reason to ask the nature of a diversion.

Both of these seems like unlikely scenarios in real life. "Oh ya we've been hijacked" or "We want to crash into X and we're terrorists"

 

[JordanD]

Yo dawg I heard you like flight controls...

 

[Jetfreq]

Both of these seems like unlikely scenarios in real life. "Oh ya we've been hijacked" or "We want to crash into X and we're terrorists"

We are required to ask. We have to report every IFR change of destination. Just cancel before you go be gross.

 

[BEEF SUPREME]

Yo dawg I heard you like flight controls...

So I put a yoke in your yoke,

 

[Tworotor7]

"Ident" button when intending "mic" button is better than "manual flares" when intending "map light." Inside the wire.

I've done that..once

 

[High_Alpha]

I've done that..once

It wasn't me, but I "know a guy..."