Dazzler
Well-Known Member
What was your most embarrassing moment in aviation?
Mine was when I had just soloed and I was in the pattern by myself at a busy towered airport, and therefore an audience including my instructor back at the FBO. I had just landed but locked up the brakes and went skidding off of the runway into the weeds.
The radio conversation then went something like this:
ME: "Tower, Cessna 564 has just skidded off the runway"
TOWER: "Do you need any assistance 564?"
ME: "Negative, I managed to miss all the runway lights. I can taxi off the runway from here"
A close second was when I nearly took out the windsock on final approach during my first ever attempted approach with my instructor.
Mine was when I had just soloed and I was in the pattern by myself at a busy towered airport, and therefore an audience including my instructor back at the FBO. I had just landed but locked up the brakes and went skidding off of the runway into the weeds.
The radio conversation then went something like this:
ME: "Tower, Cessna 564 has just skidded off the runway"
TOWER: "Do you need any assistance 564?"
ME: "Negative, I managed to miss all the runway lights. I can taxi off the runway from here"
A close second was when I nearly took out the windsock on final approach during my first ever attempted approach with my instructor.