jerrywhite7
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Yeah, that I'm constipated!!!!
ATC AUDIO of me making an emergency landing
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Yeah, that I'm constipated!!!!
erice
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Thanks for sharing this story. I will put it in my SA bag of tricks, too.
I scared myself once with fuel when I was a student pilot on my long solo cross-country. Made it back OK, but I was so worried, that I had to "save" a landing that should have been a go-around. Maybe it wasn't really that bad, but the gauges were bouncing around toward E, and in my mind, I was running on fumes. I was too scared to dip the tanks once I landed, so I'll never know how close I really came!
To the OP, I always wonder in these stories--how did you get the airplane back to the airport after "landing out"? Did a tractor come pull it up to the road, and you flew it off the access road? Did you have to remove the wings and trailer it out?
I scared myself once with fuel when I was a student pilot on my long solo cross-country. Made it back OK, but I was so worried, that I had to "save" a landing that should have been a go-around. Maybe it wasn't really that bad, but the gauges were bouncing around toward E, and in my mind, I was running on fumes. I was too scared to dip the tanks once I landed, so I'll never know how close I really came!
To the OP, I always wonder in these stories--how did you get the airplane back to the airport after "landing out"? Did a tractor come pull it up to the road, and you flew it off the access road? Did you have to remove the wings and trailer it out?
CaptBill
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Every single one of us makes mistakes. The challenge is to accept that we are all vulnerable and adopt a double and triple check mentality to lessen our chances of getting bit with something like this. It took courage to share your unfortunate incident with us and after watching it, I thought to myself how it just as easily could have been me. You will be a safer pilot for having seen how easy it is to overlook something so simple. Your daughter will have stories as she gets older about the day she crashed with daddy....:laff:
Kudos for a good job in handling a very scary situation.
Kudos for a good job in handling a very scary situation.
elmetal
Ain't nobody got time for that
I often wonder the same thing...
jerrywhite7
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on this one, after about a month and a half (we had tons of rain, and the field was soaked) they got a flat bed trailer out to the plane. They loaded the plane on the trailer and then was able to take it to ABIA (KAUS) and the fueled it up, and flew it out of there.
I'm guessing that the entrances to the airport were pretty wide and they just got some sort of "over size load" sign and were able to get it there that way.
I was pretty surprised. Other than being very, very muddy and nasty the plane suffered no ill effects.
Area 5150
Model citizen, Zero discipline
Jerry, so damn glad everything worked out for you.
What I love about this thread is that you are very humble, honest and man enough to admit you made a mistake. So many times people's ego's will get in the way when a mistake is made.
I have flown with other paramedics and RN's that would NEVER admit to making a mistake, but when they do they wanna place blame on another person. People such as this have zero credibility with me and it makes me sick when they wanna, "Back track" to inflate their own egos. Flew with an RN who was having trouble starting another large gauge IV in a trauma pt we had from a MVA. We were getting knocked around a bit due to gusty winds, but since she was, "Gods Gift to Mankind", she began yelling at the pilot and placing blame on him because she couldn't get this IV started. So, I told her to let me try and asked her to get me another bag of fluids strung up. 3 attempts later, I was able to get it.
Once we got the pt to the ER and in the care of the ER Staff, she went on and on how she NEVER misses an IV and thought that the pilot's lack of experience in flying was the real issue and didn't see how any of this was her fault. I tried like hell to give her a lesson in humility, but it was pointless. Her ego wouldn't allow her to swallow her pride enough. Needless to say, eventually she washed out of the program and went back to being a RN in SICU.
It's just refreshing to see someone make a mistake and they don't mind pointing the finger at themselves. It's a rare thing to witness in this day and time.
Great Job again Jerry. Think we all learned something from this thread.
PS. The pilot in question in my story is no slacker. He's over 4000 hours in his Heli cert and was a crew ferry pilot for a oil platform in the gulf. The guy has mad skills.
Our RN on the other hand, shallow..........
What I love about this thread is that you are very humble, honest and man enough to admit you made a mistake. So many times people's ego's will get in the way when a mistake is made.
I have flown with other paramedics and RN's that would NEVER admit to making a mistake, but when they do they wanna place blame on another person. People such as this have zero credibility with me and it makes me sick when they wanna, "Back track" to inflate their own egos. Flew with an RN who was having trouble starting another large gauge IV in a trauma pt we had from a MVA. We were getting knocked around a bit due to gusty winds, but since she was, "Gods Gift to Mankind", she began yelling at the pilot and placing blame on him because she couldn't get this IV started. So, I told her to let me try and asked her to get me another bag of fluids strung up. 3 attempts later, I was able to get it.
Once we got the pt to the ER and in the care of the ER Staff, she went on and on how she NEVER misses an IV and thought that the pilot's lack of experience in flying was the real issue and didn't see how any of this was her fault. I tried like hell to give her a lesson in humility, but it was pointless. Her ego wouldn't allow her to swallow her pride enough. Needless to say, eventually she washed out of the program and went back to being a RN in SICU.
It's just refreshing to see someone make a mistake and they don't mind pointing the finger at themselves. It's a rare thing to witness in this day and time.
Great Job again Jerry. Think we all learned something from this thread.
PS. The pilot in question in my story is no slacker. He's over 4000 hours in his Heli cert and was a crew ferry pilot for a oil platform in the gulf. The guy has mad skills.
Our RN on the other hand, shallow..........
jerrywhite7
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area 51, thanks for the kind words. Something I have noticed in aviation especially is that folks are ALWAYS scared, or ashamed to say they messed up or at least it appears that way to me.
One would think, that with most accidents and incidents being investigated that come back with "cause-pilot error" or "pilot failed to . . ." that we would all own up to the fact that we are not super men/women.
It is like if we tell on ourselves around the FBO that we did fly the perfect flight then we are saying that we are less of men, or pilots or something. To me, it is the discussion of what happen and how can we "fix this" that makes us good pilots.
That is why I really love JC, it is one big giant pilot lounge at our local FBO were we can all swap storiies, share insight and make this a better "community" for ourselves and the folks we fly.
One would think, that with most accidents and incidents being investigated that come back with "cause-pilot error" or "pilot failed to . . ." that we would all own up to the fact that we are not super men/women.
It is like if we tell on ourselves around the FBO that we did fly the perfect flight then we are saying that we are less of men, or pilots or something. To me, it is the discussion of what happen and how can we "fix this" that makes us good pilots.
That is why I really love JC, it is one big giant pilot lounge at our local FBO were we can all swap storiies, share insight and make this a better "community" for ourselves and the folks we fly.
Area 5150
Model citizen, Zero discipline
Dead on bro!!!! :rawk: