$## **(&%^#$ #@!# it! Soon to be fired.

Hootie

Hootie

Old Skool
We'll I made my first f'ing huge boo boo today. Nothing to do with cracking up an airplane. But with my job we have alot of expensive, complicated aerial survey equipment in our planes and I f'd up huge in a split mili second honest to god accident today. Like my boss said when he hired me "it's not like a ten dollar burnt pizza were talking about thousand dollar mistakes." Aproximating in my head I'm guessing low at 10g but more than likely Im a worthless 15g mistake. What was that number for truckmasters?

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I know it was vague. And I'll explain more when it goes down. But like I said EXPENSIVE, COMPLICATED , NON-PILOT FRIENDLY, NON FLYING RELATED EQUIPMENT.
 
I would be surprised if they fire you over one accident. I suppose that all depends on the circumstance though. Hopefully you pull through it and live to fly another day.
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Good luck mate, its going to be a tough few weeks for you from what youve said!

Hope ya make it through!

Aussie
 
Hootie

Yeah, I am going to put my United Nations headphones on now so that I can get the translated version.
 
at my last job, I was in charge of designing / acquiring aerial surveys. I used to have to hire a aerial photo firm to do the actual work, I would get it and provide it to the client.

This is expensive stuff. And when anyone makes a mistake, every part in the chain is jumping on "I shouldnt have to pay for it" bandwagon.

Was your mistake related to being a pilot or related to operating the equipment/mission. If its a the latter, you might be ok describing this issue with your next aviation employer (and there will be one dont worry).
 
Without knowing the details of your accident, I'm sure there was nothing that really could have been done to change the outcome.

I would, however, talk to a good aviation lawyer and see what your options are at this point before talking to anyone. You can really dig yourself into a hole if you say the wrong thing to the wrong person.
 
Purdue
A little over reaction don't you think. I believe the boss would be more upset over that than the honest mistake. I'm not sure an aviation lawyer is neccessary, it is not an avition incident.
I am now going to bare my soul and offer a little sympathy to Hootie.
Last month I was tugging our airplane into the hangar after a late flight and I was in a hurry ... by myself and didn't recognize how close the wing tip was to the hangar corner ... and well you guess it I hit it. I shaved the wing tip position / strobe light and the static wick off. I felt absolutely sick ... sick I tell you, and extremely embarassed. I had to call out the mechanic and we were able to install a new light and static wick but because of the damage we had to take it to maintenance ... the bill ... $8500.
That didn't count the 2 hrs of flight time to and from maintenance and 3 round trip airline tickets. I am extremely fortunate to have wonderfull bosses, the CEO's reaction was ... "well if that's the worst thing that happens to you in aviation you'll do just fine." After all that's why we carry insurance. I know looking back the 50 mistakes I made but the reality is that man in fallable and we mess up, the important thing is to own up to our mistakes and learn from them so that we don't keep making them.
Hootie I hope you have equally understanding bosses and that they appreciate you as an employee and allow you this learning opportunity in life.

Jim
 
Kind of along those lines..... About a month ago, my next to last day working the line, I was towing a VERY nice Chieftain. I was putting it back in the hangar and WAS paying attention to how close the wing tips were to the walls.

What I WASN'T Paying attention to was the freakin' locker that the owner had in his hangar.

You guessed it: The vertical stablizer NAILED the locker, and in so doing, crushed not only the locker, but put a sizeable dent in the elevator. Being a control surface, it had to be completely replaced.

OH - and this was a corporate plane that was to go out at 6:45 a.m. the next morning.
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All that came of it was nothing. The FBO replaced the elevator and all was well and good.
 
Thanks guys and ESPECIALLY c650cpt and ready2fly. c650cpt, yup that sums up how I felt....sick....pure sick. Im glad you have a great boss. My boss is a little on the unreasonable side. After getting some much needed sleep I am much more reasonable today. But what sucks is this is going to come down to an ethics issue. Without going into details, (because Im paranoid) I was going through the process of disassembling some equipment. I had been given crap before for doing this same procedure, because I am slow and cautious (well probably cause Im new to this) and since I had already been on the clock for 12 hours that day was trying to finish this up so everyone else could leave. What is going to be weird is in the room when I did this there was three coworkers. It was seriously a split mili second flip of the wrong switch at the wrong time and I instantly caught it but nobody else did. So either late tommorow or sat. the supervisor is going to be how the *&%# did this happen and everyone will point to the new guy but when they think about it they will be like "it couldn't be the new guy because we were right there next to him the whole time ". So thats what is killing me, saying nothing and covering my own @ss over a dead honest could happen to anyone mistake, or say I did it. All I want to be in life is an AF pilot and a good officer and try to live life that standard , so I am planning on sucking it up and taking the second option. Just need to grow some BIG balls in the next 24 hours.
 
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"it couldn't be the new guy because we were right there next to him the whole time ". So thats what is killing me, saying nothing and covering my own @ss over a dead honest could happen to anyone mistake, or say I did it. All I want to be in life is an AF pilot and a good officer and try to live life that standard , so I am planning on sucking it up and taking the second option. Just need to grow some BIG balls in the next 24 hours.

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Sounds like it's time to "Man up" and admit the mistake before it's found out. Life will be much simpler and forgiveness easier to acquire.
 
yea it sucks man but you gotta fess up, you will feel better about it in the long run and it will reflect better upon your character to just admit your wrong doing. Best of luck!!
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Ryan
 
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